VfS Annual Meeting 2024: Join us for the keynote by Christian Dustmann on "The Effects of Immigration – from Economics to Politics". The keynote starts on 16/09 at 01.45pm. TU Berlin UCL The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin #VfS_conference2024 #EconTwitter #Labour_Market

#FactOfTheDay 🇩🇪 Did you know that East German industrial espionage during the Cold War raised productivity growth in the GDR? The flow of information provided by East German informants in the West over the period 1970-1989 led to a significant narrowing of sectoral TFP gaps

In just one week, we will welcome Nobel Prize laureate in Economics, David Card, for his lecture on "Migration and the Minimum Wage - Causes and Effects on the Labor Market". Registration is open: form.typeform.com/to/n8ctZKVO

Beautiful days EALE NHH Department of Economics NHH Norwegian School of Economics where I’ll be presenting joint work with Maria Waldinger (ifo Institut) on long-term effects of air pollution exposure today. The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin

📢 #PublicationAlert "Religion and Growth", by Project Leader Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann has been published in the latest issue of AEA Journals Journal of Economic Literature: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10… In this paper, the authors provide a framework for

🆕 VoxEU column: "Religion matters for economic growth through various channels", by Project Leader Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… "This column argues that religion is a ubiquitous social phenomena that can spur or impair economic growth by

🗓️ In just three days, we will welcome Nobel Prize laureate in Economics, David Card, for the 1st RFBerlin Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Registration is open: form.typeform.com/to/n8ctZKVO

Project Leader Jérôme Adda has participated in the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) Seminar presenting "Health beliefs and the long run effects of medical information".