Patrick Nuess (Nüß)

PostDoc @IWH_Halle.
Previously @KielUni @IMKFlash. #FirstGen
Likes: #Experimental #Labor #Economics #Unions

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

🎉Thrilled to announce that I've successfully defended my dissertation, Essays on Management Opposition and Unionization! Huge thanks to my amazing committee - Menusch Khadjavi,@JRuhose, and @friedr_j, as well as @natewilmers for the external evaluation. #PhDone

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Before AI, the standard teaching approach worked reasonably well for both motivated and demotivated students.

Now you kind of have to choose.

You can teach them to learn with AI and they'll be superpowered, but doing so makes assessment / grading near impossible. 1/

[Simon Jäger @simon_jaeger]

Flexibilitätsprämie: Beschäftigte sollen künftig selbst wählen können – Kündigungsschutz behalten oder gegen Kompensation flexibler arbeiten. Mehr Wahlfreiheit statt weniger Schutz. Unser Gastbeitrag mit @MarkusEconomist und @Schoefer_B heute im @handelsblatt 👇

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@BachmannRudi Also, the questionable choice of Dube et al., was not questionable for the authors of the new paper, until it confirmed the old feud between Dube and Neumark.
https://t.co/YXtpMDlITy

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@BachmannRudi Framing that as questionable choice is questionable itself.
https://t.co/wrNdIlVIpb

[Jonathan Roth @jondr44]

A few thoughts on this interesting new minimum wage paper by @NeumarkEcon and @4ntonioR renalyzing the QJE paper by @arindube-@attilalindner-@benzipperer, which relates to one of my favorite topics: event-studies and parallel trends! 1/

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Econ twitter is back.

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@KhoaVuUmn I do not trust any econ classificattion, that does not have a Top 5.

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@KhoaVuUmn Probably? Just ask ChatGPT and you know.

[Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers]

But economists are 2x that; sociologists are half that.

Adoption is concentrated among early career researchers and researchers at high status universities. Men are adopting at twice the rate of women.

[Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers]

How are coding agents changing how we study the economy, society and politics?

New results from a baseline survey with Tom Lyttelton and Maxim Massenkoff, about who is using AI coding agents and what they're doing with them.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

A survey of 2600 Ph.D. students, postdocs, and other researchers in 65 countries found that top three complaints were that supervisors:

1) used dismissive or disrespectful communication,
2) provided little or no feedback on performance, and
3) ignored team members’ personal lives and well-being

The main thing they wanted was empathy:

"If a supervisor is empathetic, this supervisor will understand personal situations of the early-career researchers in their group. They will understand that they have to be supportive, not treat people like production units of papers, but instead like colleagues who are at a different stage of their career. This shouldn’t be shocking. But it seems like sometimes we need to remind people that they need to be empathetic towards those working in their groups." https://t.co/JMbBECZwQs

Unfortunately, most academic units don't reward good mentorship, select for good mentorship during hiring, or offer mentorship training. This means that mentorship ability varies wildly, even within a program--from world class mentors to people who endlessly burn through students.

This is why there needs to be more training and a higher value placed on mentorship. I used to write a career advice and mentorship column to try and communicate these lessons. Far more needs to be done and it should be structural to ensure it sticks. But fostering empathy is a critical place to begin.

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@MichelFHa @BachmannRudi @alexander_jorde Es ist halt schwierig aus jedem Tweet einen Kurs zu Wachstum und Konjunktur zu machen.

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@YanndeMey @KhoaVuUmn

[Luca Fumarco 🇪🇺☮️ @LFumarco]

#EconTwitter #EconJobMarket
What abt Brno, Czech Rep, for a postdoc in econ? The market is tight, but it might lead you to new places that will surprise you! https://t.co/ODPAkeBkNK

[Monika Schnitzer🇺🇦🇪🇺 @MonikaSchnitzer]

Der wissenschaftliche Stab des Sachverständigenrats Wirtschaft sucht zwei engagierte Ökonominnen oder Ökonomen für unseren Standort in Berlin: eine/n Mikroökonomen und eine/n Makroökonomen mit dem Schwerpunkt Öffentliche Finanzen.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!

[Patrick Mokre @patrickmokre]

#YEC2026 Updates:

📆 Submission Deadline Extended to May 24, 2026
🎤Keynote Speakers Cecilia Rikap and Izsakun Zuazu!
🧳Travel Stipends for Selected Participants by the Young Scholars Initiative (more information soon!)

Don't miss the it, submit today: https://t.co/ncQSwhIOuf

[Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers]

LLM social science papers are often either boring or riddled with basic analytical problems. Per Engzell and I tried to come up with a workflow that would take a human-prompted idea, and actually run with it:

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

@randomnameexamp @BachmannRudi @Koala7de7Bil @SchmittJunior @neuezwanziger Ich gebe ungefragt einfach mal eine Empfehlung ab. Das beste populärwissenschaftliche Makro Buch das ich je gelesen habe war Tim Harford's "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run - Or Ruin - An Economy"

[Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin]

I’ve found it! The single most implausible example of “every intervention raises test scores by 0.1 SDs”!

Intensive year long program customizing instruction to student skill levels? 0.11 SDs

Sit in a different chair in the exam room? 0.089 SDs

[Julia F. Engel 🦆♟️ @Julia_F_Engel]

A rare treat for any researcher: being asked to talk about their work 🙂

It was a real honor to be interviewed by the Chess Equity Project about my job market paper: How Men and Women Respond to Failure: Evidence from Chess Tournaments.

🎥https://t.co/s8vWAsQEwK

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

My personal highlight: One of my rubberducks has a guest appearance.

[Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @PatrickNuess]

In case you are interested in Julia's work on chess data, I highly recommend watching her interview with Scott Walsh @ChessEquityProj.

[Julia F. Engel 🦆♟️ @Julia_F_Engel]

A rare treat for any researcher: being asked to talk about their work 🙂

It was a real honor to be interviewed by the Chess Equity Project about my job market paper: How Men and Women Respond to Failure: Evidence from Chess Tournaments.

🎥https://t.co/s8vWAsQEwK