In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing. [thread]

✨A little update: Goodbye DIW Berlin and hello TU Dresden! 👋 Today marks my first full day as a postdoc at TU Dresden. After four years at DIW Berlin and defending my PhD in July, I’m curious about what’s ahead. See you around in Berlin and/or Dresden!

Was für die nächste Methodenvorlesung.

🚨My new paper: 📰Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital docs.iza.org/dp17395.pdf reviews the somewhat scattered literatures📚on the labor market relevance of various skill dimensions. I suggest that a perspective of multidimensional skills… 1/8

I understand the academic impetus to move to a new platform. But I think it is bad for the commons if all the academics disappear and only talk to each other. We need your good ideas to be shared widely as much we ever did.

I love research because it combines my two favorite things: sitting and anxiety

📢 I am on the academic job market 🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelmen… In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions. JMP thread below👇

Great piece in the Financial Times about how the Democrats became radicalized after 2016 and alienated many moderate voters. ft.com/content/73a183…

How tuition fees can improve university funding without compromising educational attainment – insights based on joint work with @JBietenbeck, Jan Marcus, and Felix Weinhardt. Details: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Always wanted to visit Dresden but never had a good enough excuse? Here it is:🤓join us & our fantastic keynote speaker Charlotte Bartels (UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG) for the 14th Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy. Looking forward! Deadline for submissions: Feb 15, 2025.👇

Surveying the economics literature on capital relocations, purpose-built capitals, and public agency decentralization programs, synthesizing their effects on population, employment, and GDP, from Dimitria Freitas nber.org/papers/w33432

Last week was full of great events at our Faculty🤩TU Dresden (1/4) Andreas Leibing & I welcomed Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto University), our new Distinguished Research Fellow cipriandomnisoru.net 👏Looking forward to hosting him in Oct! tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/…

Me every week.