The #EU ban on Russian state-led news outlets after the invasion of #Ukraine reduced the pro-Russian slant on social media, though the effects were short-lived. M Caesmann & J Goldzycher University of Zurich, M Grigoletto Universität Bern Wyss Academy for Nature, L Gschwent Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social ow.ly/NA8Z50SMXiC

Culture clash: What 14 million images tell us about times a-changin’ Joachim Voth University of Zurich Economics at Zurich, D. Yanagizawa-Drott University of Zurich Economics at Zurich ow.ly/NunA50SXugs

Zurich PhD student Guohui Jiang (gjiang-economics.github.io) is on the market (yay!) and has a kick-ass JMP. He shows that fairness REALLY matters for voluntary, costly actions. Using data from the WW2 draft, he first shows that Americans thought conscription was implemented

Hiring this season? Don’t miss Jeffrey Yusof profile. Jeff is an outstanding researcher tackling fundamental questions around inequality, redistributive policy, and political attitudes. Learn more: sites.google.com/view/jeffreyyu…

Jeffrey Yusof: Behavioral Economist presenting important evidence on why, despite the large role of “market luck,” there remains resistance to income redistribution. Website: sites.google.com/view/jeffreyyu… JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1vVwBe6… (5/5)

What is the meaning of life? What would you remember as bringing satisfaction, meaning, and purpose to your life? These are the modest questions that David Lagakos, Stelios Michalopoulos and I try to answer by "interviewing" over 1,400 Americans. We don't get to talk to them

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics presents the SSES Young Economist Award 2025 to UBS Center Scholarship holder Marcel Caesmann (Universität Zürich) and his co-authors Janis Goldzycher (Universität Zürich), Matteo Grigoletto (Universität Bern) and Lorenz Gschwent (Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social) for their paper 'Censorship in

My PhD advisee Marcel Caesmann (mcaesmann.github.io) is on the market! He has a terrific JMP on "Getting Religion". We take identity markers for granted -- call my son Wilhelm, and he is probably not Spanish. But how do people learn to coordinate to meaningful markers?

5/ Marcel also has a beautiful paper on censorship and its effects online, and a cond accepted paper with David Yanagizawa, Bruno Caprettini, and me, on Nazi marches in Hamburg and how their effect spread through neigborhood networks. #econtwitter

Excited to be on the #EconJobMarket! I study a classic trade-off: exploiting information vs. preserving secrecy. The setting: the Allied breaking of Nazi Enigma codes in WW2. Curious? Thread below. 👇