Lots of career advice going around for young academics. Here is mine: kindness should not be conditional, just be nice to everyone since science and life are team games. And, once you “make it” never forget that status confers the privilege, and duty, to help others.

1/ 🤔Ever wondered if pairing socially isolated students with popular peers helps or hurts their outcomes? My job market paper explores this through a large-scale RCT across Indian schools. Thread below 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket #JMP

Hello! Excited to share my job market paper with #econtwitter I study how barriers to social assistance disproportionately screen out people with poor mental health—despite their high need. Summary below Paper: 🔗(canishknaik.github.io/pdf/MHSA_CN_JM…) Welcome Economists!

this promises to be a great conference for PhD students working in this area. a scientific committee of faculty will be selecting the best papers and every presentation will have a local discussant. apply!

New paper w/ S Jäger Simon Jäger & S Naidu @snaidunl An attempt at an account of how unions/collective bargaining work and shape wages, across various international settings. In prep for Handbook of Labor => We'd welcome any feedback-pls email us! PDF: eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/scho…

It’s an extremely tough year for candidates on the economics job market. For those of you who want to carry on doing academic research in a rich policy environment, apply to our position below. I can guarantee a lot of productive projects that have policy impact. #econtwitter

As this year's Munich Security Conference demonstrated, we need more voices on security matters based in Europe, and in Germany. I am delighted that the Hertie School is advertising a new Full Professorship in Military Strategy and Technology. More here: apply.interfolio.com/163523

Macron just grabbed Trump’s arm and fact-checked him to his face in real time. More of this please.

In partnership with Schmidt Sciences, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and I are seeking funding proposals from early career researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest are due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-propo…

Un americano che non è mai stato in Ucraina e un presidente che, oggi, non sa dire in quale anno sia cominciata l’invasione russa spiegano a Zelensky la guerra nel suo paese dandogli sulla voce per cinque minuti senza interruzioni

📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich TU München, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier Ulrike Malmendier (Berkeley Economics & German Council of Economic Experts) & Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

There’s absolutely no excuse for the colossal incompetence displayed by Walz, Hegseth, Vance, Gabbard, et al. And the mental gymnastics involved in trying to explain this away is pretty astounding. Let’s discuss, shall we? 🧵

Oh for God's sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.

Confirmed, chatgpt... exactly what the dumbest kid in the class would do, without edits

Institutions such as Harvard, the administration’s most recent target, have vast financial resources, great prestige and broad networks of influential alumni. If they do not or cannot resist the arbitrary application of government power, who else can? Without acts of resistance,

The project "How to Make the Case for Democracy" has been funded by DFG public | @[email protected]! 🎉 This grant supports two positions for exploring innovative strategies to bolster citizen support for democracy in established democracies. (1/6)

The effect of social media deactivation on users' emotional state before the 2020 US election, from @huntallcott, Sameer Nair-Desai, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, et al. nber.org/papers/w33697

Looking for a full-time post-doctoral researcher to work in my project on the role of complexity and narratives in decision-making. For more information: forms.gle/URZMpafgVXogmo… Spread the word please! :)

📣📣📣 I am looking for a Research Associate (Predoc) to work on exciting projects in the economics of media and political economy. Please share and apply! For more info: tinyurl.com/hertie-applied…. Deadline: June 31. #econra #econ_ra Econ RA Listings