Daniel Kamhöfer

Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics @rptu_kl_ld. Affiliated with @iza_bonn, @CESifoNetwork, formerly @DICEHHU. Education, skills, and prosperity.

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New Year's Resolutions:

Leaving Twitter: ✅

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Joining Bluesky (@kamhoefer.bsky.social)
Joining LinkedIn (https://t.co/rZ6t2afN5S)

Go to hell, @elonmusk

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@henninghermes Fantastic, congrats!

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🚨Job Opening🚨

I'm looking for a PhD student or Postdoc (full-time, 100% TV-L 13) to join my team at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau @rptu_kl_ld 👇

*applied micro research
*fair teaching load
*fantastic team
*remote work options

Spread the word!

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@rabe_b @EJ_RES Thank you, Birgitta!

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Check out our new paper: Surveillance and Self-Control @EJ_RES 🥳 1/🧵

Nearly 30 years after Reunification, former communist East German residence have significantly higher self-control than their West German counterparts, despite of the length they lived in East Germany 👇

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9/ If you want to know more about the positive association between self-control and life outcomes, have a look at this paper:
https://t.co/jE5MJZdix6

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7/ Get the paper under: https://t.co/fQ7rLmyJ0c

Thank you, my fantastic coauthors Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

@Sydney_Uni @MelbInstUOM @DICEHHU @HHU_de @iza_bonn @lifecourseAust @rptu_kl_ld @CESifoNetwork

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8/ We benefitted from the reports of five (!!) reviewers – thank you @steffenhuck @EJ_RES for your guidance throughout the process🙏

A summary of the paper can be found here:
https://t.co/iRgR4Js6D5

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6/ We find evidence that the local level of government surveillance (measured by the regional density of unofficial informers of the Stasi – East Germany’s infamous Ministry for State Security) is positively associated with the self-control of people who lived in East Germany:

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5/ Unlike previous evidence for childhood and adolescence, we find no gender gap in self-control in adulthood.

There is also difference in self-control along parental education:

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4/ This difference in self-control between East and West Germans corresponds to the same effect as being 15 years older:

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3/ Contrary to the pattern found for many economic and social outcomes, having lived in East Germany is associated with a 0.25 standard deviations higher self-control (that, in turn, is associated with more positive life outcomes):

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2/ We provide novel quasi-experimental evidence on institutional determinants of self-control.

Trait self-control is measured using the 13-item Brief Self-Control Scale – well-established in psychology and for the first time implemented in a representative 🇩🇪 survey @DIW_Berlin

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@ben_elsner @MichaelMDowling It truly is a great time to be alive😉

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@_ToFeWe Let students present their term papers, even in 5 min you will know whether they understand what they/GPT have written.

Also: purely GPT-written papers are usually quite bad (superficial, repetitive, words humans don't use), so the risk of grading students too high is manageable

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@cpeukert @j_haese @KaiserFraenzi @Staub_a_lex fyi @_ToFeWe

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Schooling and Self-Control | Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
#EconTwitter
https://t.co/vlMwxjYZdk

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@schmal_w Für knapp 700 Euro im Monat scheint so einiges zu gehen...

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@econ_lessmann Auch schön (da keine Zeitreihe):

https://t.co/XRn7UoTAoe

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@econ_lessmann Ich habe ein paar Beispiele für Korrelation≠Kausalität:

https://t.co/HNOLJSw3DQ

Mein Highlight:
https://t.co/4LwiN1YS5l