The bureaucracy of grant management at my university (eg, how slow everything moves, if it moves at all, and how many check-ins and follow up emails one has to write) is literally killing me.

A review in Nature, by @candice_odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.

Do we hold others responsible for their choices even when these choices have been shaped by unfair unequal circumstances? Yes, we do, suggests "Shallow Meritocracy" from Peter Andre (Peter Andre), recently accepted at REStud. restud.com/shallow-merito…

This is a very cool paper.

What in the hell is happening in this country?

Ab Herbst hat das WZB eine neue Präsidentin: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln folgt zum 1. September auf Jutta Allmendinger (Jutta Allmendinger). Goethe-Universität Bildungsmisererepublik Deutschland - BRDigung DFG public | @[email protected] Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

🔔CfP deadline approaching: Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics. Keynote by Prof. Muriel Niederle (Stanford University). We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!!!🥳 Deadline: June 15th, 2024. wzb.eu/system/files/d… Maja Adena

I hope to see many exciting papers there, think of applying, should be fun!!

I am thrilled to announce that I will soon be joining emlyon business school as an assistant Professor 🥳 I'm really excited to finally come back to Lyon after 8 years! Thank you Economics Ghent University for enabling me to grow, not only as an academic but also as a person, for the past 3 years.

🌟 Join our team as an Associate Director of Research at J-PAL Africa! 🌟 Lead impactful research projects fighting poverty in Cape Town/Johannesburg. 📍 Contract: 3-Year Fixed Term 💼 CoE: R1,015,197 - R1,194,348. Apply by 7 Sept 2024: j-p.al/assoc_director… #ResearchJobs

Trending in #Economics: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Alcohol, Violence & Injury-Induced Mortality (The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)) 2) When beer is safer than water: Beer availability & mortality from waterborne illnesses 3) Children’s Sleep & Human Capital Production 4) Language Training &

Using data from South Africa, this The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) paper shows that the unprecedented nationwide alcohol sales ban in July 2020 led to a 14% reduction in mortality in men. The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) v:👇 direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1… Free WP v:👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… More on paper:👇

Stunning decline in rape (along with other crimes) driven by alcohol sales ban in South Africa - along with a large reduction in mortality (almost solely driven by men)! Kai Barron Charles Parry direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1…

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

Alcohol is shown to be causally responsible for over 14% of violent crime and injury mortality. In the July issue, by Kai Barron (Kai Barron), Charles D.H. Parry (Charles Parry) Debbie Bradshaw Rob Dorrington Pam Groenewald Ria Laubscher Richard Matzopoulos zurl.co/PfSj

Do you want to visit sunny summer Cape Town? Are you doing innovative Economics research? Come present at the SALDRU December Workshop! While the first full workshop will start next year, we are also holding an ad-hoc version this year, *12-13 December 2024*. Details below:

Our research group (Inequality, social mobiliy and growth) at WZB is hiring a postdoc! Field: quantitative macroeconomics (especially heterogeneous agent models) with research related to labor, inequality, intergenerational mobility, gender 📈 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/resea…

We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our research on #alcohol and #violence in South Africa on VoxDev. Link below.

🚨New Working Paper w/ Martí Mestieri & Johanna Schauer Why is 🇿🇦 still one of the most unequal countries in the world—30 years after Apartheid? We build a dynamic spatial GE model to understand why inequality persists—and why it's increasingly within the Black population 🧵1/8