Renke Schmacker

Postdoc in Behavioral/Public Economics @DIW_Berlin @WZB_Berlin @BSE_Berlin

[Vincent Meisner @VincentMeisner]

Exciting news for PhD students: Visit Berlin for our 1st Berlin Micro Theory and Behavioral Economics PhD Conference, July 7-9, 2025! Apply before January 20. More details here: https://t.co/skdzaYWnBG

[Urania Berlin @UraniaBerlin]

Zucker ist in aller Munde. Keine Party ohne süße Versuchung, kaum ein Lebensmittel ohne. Doch Zucker steht im Verdacht, krank und sogar süchtig zu machen.
Müssen wir konsequenter verzichten? Und wer entscheidet das? Wir selbst oder die Politik?

Tickets https://t.co/IeGpufgHKa

[Jonas Jessen @jonasjessen]

Our research group (Inequality, social mobiliy and growth) at @WZB_Berlin is hiring a postdoc!

Field: quantitative macroeconomics (especially heterogeneous agent models) with research related to labor, inequality, intergenerational mobility, gender 📈

https://t.co/WLdsnu9WoU

[Johannes Geyer @jgeyer.bsky.social @diw_jgeyer]

📢!!!JOB ALERT!!!

Public Economics Department at @DIW_Berlin is looking for a Research Assistant (10h/week; topics: empirical work on income distribution, pensions, taxation, long-term care... Come work with us!
https://t.co/TZzARHDOg4

[Marcel Fratzscher @MFratzscher]

Zuviel Zucker schadet. UK macht es vor: Nicht die Konsumenten, sondern die Produzenten von zuckerhaltigen Getränken sollten besteuert werden. Das ist am effektivsten, wie DIW-Verhaltensökonom @r_renke zeigt.

Unser neuer @DIW_Berlin Wochenbericht:

https://t.co/IxruUxt9zs

[Armando Meier @meier_armando]

Please share:

I have an open position for a PhD student in economics working on health economics and related topics

Detailed description:
https://t.co/AeqhebmYI4

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

Great opportunity to work in our Public Economics department @DIW_Berlin on the socio-ecological transformation and its distributional implications

[Johannes Geyer @jgeyer.bsky.social @diw_jgeyer]

📣Job Alert @DIW_Berlin: research at the intersection of climate policy and social policy, including distributional effects of climate change and climate policy, causal evaluation of climate policy and structural estimation of household behavior. https://t.co/aMLhToZqRp

[Market Design Community @econD47]

⌛️The submission deadline for the 18th Matching in Practice workshop is at the end of the week: March 10.⌛️The workshop will take place May 15-16 in Lausanne🇨🇭. All info: https://t.co/dNmNnhk1aH
https://t.co/j3kTxC15kY

[Marius Brülhart @Marius_Brulhart]

Funded PhD positions in economics at HEC Lausanne 🇨🇭 (@heclausanne @unil): apply now! 👇
https://t.co/NTQvRvXHfI

[Max Steinhardt @steinhardt_max]

Great presentations by @r_renke @Holger1380 @Geraldes_Diogo and #Catalina_Franco at the fifth session of the #BerlinGenderEcon22 workshop!

#EconTwitter @BSE_Berlin @JFKI_Econ

[Next Generation Economics @EconNextGen]

#NGE is back again! We warmly invite you all to our online lunch seminar series in July. Excellent young economists, current research topics & you'll be able to eat your lunch in the meantime.. what do you want more? 🥳 @DrSnowtree, @r_renke & Anna Kerkhof @UniHohenheim

[Dorothea Kübler @DorotheaKuebler]

After years of work with Julien Grenet and #YingHuaHe, our paper on university admissions was accepted at #JPE - a few days before I caught #Covid_19. Now the paper is out, and I still have #LongCovid.😞

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

@EspinosaRomain Very interesting, what paper is this?

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

Happy to see our paper 👇 in print at the European Economic Review. Open access link: https://t.co/aIYzehXE8y

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

📢Protecting the Ego: Motivated Information Selection and Updating (w/ @alecastagnetti)📢

How can people maintain #overconfident beliefs about their ability? Our results suggest that feedback selection can play a crucial role.
https://t.co/rLsijr8blK
#motivatedbeliefs

[Camille Terrier @CamilleTerrier1]

📢 PhD / Pre-doc / RA position

We are looking for a PhD / Pre-Doc / RA to help on a cool project on the dynamic allocation of teachers to schools.

- Great research team (see below👇)
- Position based in Paris
- Link to the job add: https://t.co/z1UXG8OBPF

Please apply!

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

@SBachTax @BaldwinRE @ReinhBispinck @BaraPraetorius Auch interessant: in dem Kasino waren später Queen‘s Mountain Studios untergebracht, heute ist dort ein Queen Museum

[Camille Terrier @CamilleTerrier1]

Hi everyone!

We have 3 positions in Lausanne this year (in development, environment, and macro).

You still have time to apply: Deadline Dec 16th

I joined the department 3 years ago, and I highly recommend it.

Read my 4 reasons to apply below 👇🤗

[Renke Schmacker @r_renke]

@EspinosaRomain Wouldn’t have expected, but good to know

[NBER @nberpubs]

Only 10% of households pay 80% of sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco. A small segment (2.5%) of households consumes sin goods from several categories and pays more than 2% of income in these taxes, from @conlon_chris, @@nirupama_rao, and Yinan Wang https://t.co/5l0nwHEKlM