Hi #EconTwitter! Looking for a nice course on 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 at the master/PhD level? 📚🔬 Check out this insightful one by @MC_Knaus (Universität Tübingen) where the focus is on program evaluation. R code/notebooks included! Don't miss out! 👀

In case you are interested in a non-technical introduction into Causal Machine Learning for Economists, SJES just published my paper (sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…). It's open-access and based on a keynote I gave at the meeting of the German Economic Association recently.

Happy to see this paper out! Together with janvanours and Thomas Peeters I investigate how the output, productivity and working time of workers in a team changes when a teammate is absent and has to be replaced. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨Job opportunity! 🚨 Are you planning an Econ PhD but want research experience first? Are you interested in growth & econ history? I'm looking for one bright and motivated pre-doc starting from next fall. Here's the call: feel free to 🩷 + RT! brunocaprettini.com/wp-content/upl…

REUS Workshop Research in Economics using Sports Data, 28–29 Sept 2023 | CEU Vienna, Central European University Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel). Great program: reus-workshop.org/program/ Discrimination, Polarization, Learning from peers, Contests and more. Welcome to attend: sign up here forms.gle/z7UnP38FyN596p…

Fantastic finish for the first day with talks on superstar wages, learning from coworkers, effort, and attention!

We’re seeking a research assistant to work with Guy Michaels & Stephan Maurer on investigating the long-run effects of how growing up in a Victorian-era slum in Britain affected children later in life. Econ RA Listings Closing: 4 Dec More info: ow.ly/Z3lo50Q8qbW

Can economics be green? Come figure out at Universität St.Gallen (HSG)! Sabrina (Sabrina Eisenbarth) is looking for one smart and motivated PhD to help with her cutting-edge research in environmental economics. Feel free to ❤️/🔁! jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stellen…

Leading House Forscher Daniel Goller (Daniel Goller) erklärt im Interview, warum der Gewinn einer Goldmedaille an einer Berufsweltmeisterschaft einen positiven Einfluss auf die Suchanfragen nach Lehrstellen und die abgeschlossenen Lehrverträge hat. Weiter führt er aus,… (1/2)

Fantastic news! The 8th cohort of the Leading House course program for PhDs in the economics of education successfully kicked off successfully in March 2024 🚀 with the first course on “Econometric Methods in Economics of Education” by Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt (Universität Konstanz).

New working paper out! Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen Oliver Schlenker and I use a novel 🇩🇪 dataset that links firm and worker questionnaires with social security data and allows us to document how the latest wave of technological progress has changed the workplace and worker health

Bildung: Wem der soziale Aufstieg gelingt Dominik Sachs Sebastian Findeisen Paul Schüle faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc…

🚨 New Working Paper 🆕 Discussions about new disruptive technologies often have a tone of inevitability. For example, it is popular to attempt to estimate the number of jobs which will be automated in the future, because technology is expected to advance at a certain rate. 1/

Standard survey questions can overstate women's desire to avoid becoming pregnant, with important implications for targeting limited FP resources A new PNASNews paper with Wen Qiang Toh, Inuwa Jalingo, Aurelia Lepine, Aureo de Paula and Grant Miller growkudos.com/publications/1…

Introducing an incentivized method for eliciting thresholds used to study support for affirmative action in a large, stratified sample of the US population, from Moritz Janas, Nikos Nikiforakis, and Simon Siegenthaler nber.org/papers/w32847

Manual workers exposed to a more rapidly digitalising workplace report a higher number of sick days. Melanie Arntz Sebastian Findeisen Stephan Maurer Oliver Schlenker CentrePiece magazine cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

✋🚨✋🚨 Post Doc vacancy at @iab_news in the department of Education, Training and Employment over the Lifecourse Silke Anger Tenure option and great research environment! Application deadline 16.Dec. recruiting.arbeitsagentur.de/ba-karriere/st…

WorldSkills Medaillen bestätigen Exzellenz Schweizer Berufsbildung📢 Leading House Co-Direktor, Stefan Wolter, sprach mit Berufsbildung über den Wandel der Berufsbildung in der Schweiz.

We are pleased, that so many Swiss Leading House VPET-ECON researchers contribute topics in VET, especially on the formation of human capital & team composition, to this year’s program at the Colloquium on Personnel Economics: -Claudio Schilter with “How Selectivity Shapes Selection” (1/3) ...

"It is not a question of what economics can do for sports, but what sports can do for economics."