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My paper "The Political-Economic Risks of AI" is now up: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3… Bottom line: AI has the potential to drastically concentrate the global economy, break democratic institutions, and tear the social fabric, causing a collapse in human productivity. Here is a video

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Data Science and Law 8/5-8/6, New York City🚨 Have a work in progress at the intersection of data science and law? Join us at Fordham Law this summer! See submission details here: …ence-on-datascience-and-law.github.io

Thanks so much Cäcilia Lipowski for having me at the Big Data Seminar ifo Institut. Great to be back and meet old and new friends! CESifo ifo Education

The beautiful walk to DIW Berlin from my hotel. Thanks so much Peter Haan for the kind invitation to present at the Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, and Lavinia Kinne and @MoritzLubczyk for the perfect organisation! DIW Econ

„Versetzungsgefährdet: Deutschland in der Bildungskrise“ Wirklich sehenswerte Doku 📺 in Das Erste jetzt in der #ARDMediathek Mein Part 1⃣: über Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum (ab min 9:06) ardmediathek.de/video/story/ve… #ARDStory ifo Bildung

🚨Just published in the Annual Review of Economics Annual Reviews: 👉Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital👈 annualreviews.org/content/journa… My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings 1/9

1/6 Can AI-powered “enforcement bots” substitute for class actions? It turns out yes likely leading to major disruptions in the legal system.

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ David Dorn, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa K. Simon ifo.de/sites/default/… 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

"Bildungsleistung durch Verbindlichkeit" Das neue Gutachten des Aktionsrat Bildung aktionsrat-bildung.de/fileadmin/Bild… (S+) Neues Gutachten des Aktionsrats Bildung: Fachleute fordern neuen Pisa-Vergleich der Bundesländer spiegel.de/panorama/bildu… via DER SPIEGEL

Great paper on differences and similarities of school textbooks used in state vs religious schools 👇

Thanks to Institute for Fiscal Studies for hosting me this week for their Annual Lecture. Check out: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation, featuring new work with Chuan-han Cheng CamEcon, Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute, and Lu Han Bank of Canada youtu.be/EPIATYktrRM

Thanks so much Natalie Irmert for inviting me to the Applied Micro Seminar Department of Economics, Lund, it was great fun!

Looking forward!

We're hiring! I'm looking for a PhD student in Economics (75%, E13) to join my team at TUM Campus Heilbronn starting Oct 2025. Work on field & survey experiments in applied micro, behavioral econ & econ of education. Deadline: June 30. Please share! Call: tinyurl.com/msdsrhv6

The New Global Economy: Trade Wars and De-dollarisation? Submission deadline: 1 July 2025 Conference: 27-28 September 2025 Location: Cambridge, UK With Keynotes by Oleg Itskhoki and Sylvana Tenreyro LSE Department of Economics

📢New paper in the Economic Journal The Economic Journal: 👉Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience academic.oup.com/ej/advance-art… A🧵 1/9

Friends, I'm thrilled to launch the Sustainable Education Research Initiative! SustainableED 🎓+🌍 Join us for our first #SustainableED webinar aimed at building a network to advance research on climate-smart schools. Tues 7/15 @ 1 pm ET buff.ly/xbcXnIF Please share!

Looking for a university to visit next year? We have two positions for visiting prof in economics at Cambridge to cover teaching in macro and finance. Details here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51797/ and jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51790/ Last few days to apply! CamEcon

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek nber.org/papers/w33984 A🧵1/12

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