Here you can read what I've done on tracking: sites.google.com/view/woessmann… Short version: "When aiming for equality of opportunity, school systems should thus abstain from the practice of early tracking."

🔥📢🗞️Hot off the Press 📌❗️ 🔥 Unsere neue Studie mit Andreas Peichl & Maximilian Blömer vom ifo Institut zu Fehlanreizen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Valentina Consiglio Bertelsmann Stiftung 👇👇 Hier die wichtigsten Ergebnisse im Thread:

"Peer Personality and Academic Achievement" is now available ahead of print at JPE journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/0/ja Our paper highlights that the personality of your college peers has a causal impact on human capital.

📺Klasse Beitrag zu den Langzeitkonsequenzen von Schulschließungen heute in nano auf 3sat (Die Treppe in unserem Center kommt auch drin vor...😂) 👇 Weniger Lebenseinkommen durch Schulausfall 3sat.de/wissen/nano/20…

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Diess ist, denke ich, eine riesige Fehleinschätzung. Angesichts der geringen Kosten wurde *dramatisch* gegeizt. Die EU zahlt ca. EUR 12 pro Dosis Pfizer/BioNTech. Israel zahlte deutlich mehr ($62) und hat nun in absoluten Zahlen und erst recht per capita einen riesigen Vorsprung.

Loneliness is a profoundly painful experience, something almost everyone has felt at some point, and that is bad for psychological and physical health. If loneliness becomes widespread, due to the way we collectively organize our lives, it becomes a public health question.

Hiring in applied econ (labor, public…)? Get to know the great 👉Benjamin Arold benjamin-arold.mystrikingly.com JMP: US state reforms of science education standards➡️teaching evolution vs creationism affects students’ evolution knowledge, adult attitudes & even working in life sciences

Useful to remind oneself from time to time of Germany's surprisingly bad record on social mobility.

Is there a gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies? Yes there is, I find with @LukasMergele and larissa_zierow ifo Education in our new ifo WP. ifo.de/publikationen/…  (1/5)

📢Very excited to share that my paper “Pathways to progress: The complementarity of bicycles and road infrastructure for girls’ education” is finally published in the Economics of Education Review Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hzsS%7E1QC4… (1/3)

📢Just out in the Journal of Development Economics: “Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development” w/ Sarah Gust & Eric Hanushek 👉At least ⅔ of the world’s youth do not reach even basic skill levels😢 🔗authors.elsevier.com/a/1i7UZ_6wyKpd… 🧵1/7