So happy to see our paper published in Journal of Public Economics. It has been a challenging but beautiful journey with my great colleagues Gabriel Facchini, Nacho González and Julio Cáceres, that started long ago, with vivid discussions in the rooms of European University Institute and the squares of Florence. A thread:

Bro science 101 Lecture: The normal distribution

Our teleworking paper (w Omar Bamieh) is now available open-access. We use Austrian vacancy data to show that employers are increasingly willing to offer remote work options to new hires as a result of the Covid pandemic. 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻 doi.org/10.1016/j.labe…

Mandatory wage posting does not avoid women sorting into low-pay jobs! Great evidence from a sharp change in wage posting in Austria, by Omar Bamieh and Lennart Ziegler iza.org/pub/qNrtbI1p IZA Reducing demand-driven discrimination is key to fight the gender wage gap

My very first research idea has found a home on J Econ Behav & Organization! Because political polarization harms crucial economic aspects, I study whether primary elections promote more/less polarized politicians than those chosen by party leaders. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today in Broadstreet, @JCBuggle and Stephanos Vlachos explore the impact of local campaign visits on election outcomes, using data from William J. Bryan's populist campaign in 1896. broadstreet.blog/2022/07/15/do-…

We wrote up a non-technical summary of our study on wage transparency and gender sorting for IZA World of Labor. You can find it here:

📢📢New WP out!📢📢 with the great coauthor Andrea Riganti we study the impact that legal restrictions on pharmacy licenses have on hospitalizations. Check it out! bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/…

Hey #econtwitter, we just updated our working paper on the gender pay gap! In 2018, the UK introduced legislation that makes firms disclose their gender pay gaps. Unusually, information is made public rather than just being shared with employees’ reps. So what happened?

New research from Austria argues that flexibility matters more than financial incentives to engage more fathers to take parental leave iza.org/publications/d…

What matters for paternity leave? Lennart Ziegler and Omar Bamieh answer this question with Austrian data and show that higher flexibility is more effective than stronger financial compensation. iza.org/publications/d…

We just published our paper on the child penalty in 🇮🇹 in Journal_PopEcon Springer Nature Below Alessandra Casarico summarizes in a 🧵 our main findings👇 #EconTwitter

Excellent summary of our study on paternity leave provided by #ChatGPT: "Looks like dads are still stuck in the Stone Age when it comes to parental leave. You'd think they'd be eager to get away from their 9-to-5 grind and dive into the world of dirty diapers [..] (1/4)

We mourn the loss of a wonderful colleague and incredible human being, Mario Pagliero. Mario was a fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto and a professor at Economics UniTO, working in labor and IO. carloalberto.org/person/mario-p…

When fathers take parental leave: The role of financial incentives and flexibility dlvr.it/Spz8L9

Competition and pass-through: Lessons from the Greek islands dlvr.it/Sr3mVC

Good intentions do not always pay off. A labor market reform in Italy aimed at increasing job stability backfired and increased firings of low-skilled workers while reducing hirings with temporary contracts, without increasing hirings of permanent workers iza.org/publications/d…

Are you an applied microeconomist who is looking for a two-year postdoc opportunity? Come and work with us on a project on 'Parental Leave and Career Trajectories' at Central European University in Vienna! ➡️ Link to job ad: ceu.edu/job/postdoctor…

Super cool paper on female earnings and marriage. Adding more evidence to why is best to keep it casual 😁

Our new paper together with Michele Belot and Madina Kurmangaliyeva shows striking differences in success of Econ job market candidates depending on gender and field: Women are faring better than men when they specialize in male fields: Paper also available here docs.iza.org/dp16631.pdf