The joy and honor of celebrating my dissertation defense with the two best advisors I could have wished for, @SimonWiederhold and @gerardrolanducb, will always hold a special place in my heart. :)
Using data from PIAAC, the world's largest international survey of adult skills, the authors show that people from more individualistic cultures develop stronger cognitive skills, invest more in education, earn higher wages, and face lower unemployment. #Econtwitter
📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @TU_Muenchen, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier @umalmend (@berkeleyecon & @GCEE_en) & Noam Yuchtman (@UniofOxford) 🫶🏻
Submission deadline 15 May 🚨
Gérard Roland (Berkeley) "Successes and Failures in Development" Keynote lecture at Arthir Lewis conference at University of Manchester. https://t.co/rLLt9lb8DC via @YouTube
🚨🚨 I’m thrilled to support four outstanding students on the Economics Job Market this year!
Here’s a brief thread about their Job Market Papers. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 How has the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 affected sentiments in Russia 🇷🇺? In a new WP with @ElinderMikael and Oscar Erixson, we study the effects of the invasion and two other war events on the support for Putin and other sentiments in Russia. 🧵👇
I have been asked why I am so enthusiastic about the Nobel prize given to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (AJR) for their seminal work on the fundamental role of institutions in development while my own research with @ygorodnichenko has shown the role of culture, ..1/
Great news of the Nobel prize to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson. I have been teaching their research for many years. Very well deserved. This is a crowning prize for the research on the role of institutions in explaining success and failure in economic development. A big Nobel!
Check out the paper & a video presentation here: https://t.co/EUA3qxUKyS I will also present this paper at #AMCIS2024 in the SIG-HCI session at 2pm today (08/16, Hermitage room). Don’t forget to subscribe!! 😁
📯Happy to share a new paper: “Nuisance Letters? Email Newsletters, Privacy, and the Market for Data” - joint with Emmanuel Syrmoudis, Alexander Wolfram, Maximilian J. Frank & Jens Grossklags 🧵 #AMCIS2024
Participants then use an interactive tool to check the privacy invasiveness of real-world newsletters - with great interest! Emotional reactions emphasize surprise - or a lack thereof. 43% of participants with an active subscription intend to unsubscribe after the check.