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📣 Final reminder: Please submit to our annual conference at ifo Institut Fürth, March 27+28, 2025! 3 amazing keynote speakers: Michele Belot, Massimo Morelli & Johanna Rickne 🚀🚀🚀 ⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW, December 31! Organized by Sarah Necker, Sebastian Blesse & myself 🙂

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Das ist der Status Quo👇🏻 eine Mindest-Investitionsquote von 10% bedeutet keine Zusätzlichkeit. Clemens Fuest Jens Südekum Michael Hüther Moritz Schularick Veronika Grimm Wolf Heinrich Reuter Lars P Feld

‼️We are hiring‼️ 🧑‍🎓PhD position at ifo Center for Economics of Education ➡️Research on education, labor & behavioral econ ➡️Focus on field experiments & RCTs ➡ PhD program Universität München Economics LMU Munich & MGSE ➡️Starting Oct 1, 2025 or earlier ⏰Apply by Apr 20, 2025 (link below)

The #ifoFürth Annual Conference 2025 is now in full swing🚀! We dive deep into #SocialMarketEconomy and evidence-based policy-making. We're particularly excited for keynotes by Massimo Morelli (Università Bocconi), Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University) & Michele Belot (Cornell University).

Fantastic keynote covering lots of interesting projects on political minorities & underrepresentation by Johanna Rickne 🤩💪🏻🚀

Heute ist ein sehr trauriger Tag für alle Aktiven, Ehemaligen und Freunde der ifo Niederlassung Dresden. Mit Unverständnis sehe ich die Kürzungen des Freistaats in der Wissenschaft. Die VWL-Standort an der TU Dresden schrumpft damit weiter. 1/ tagesschau.de/inland/regiona….

Great conference! Many interesting and high quality papers today!

Kicking of day 2 with keynote number THREE: Michele Belot talks about „When parents work from home“ (and recommends the gorge-ous campus at Cornell University 😉😍)

It's a wrap! 2 days of stimulating discussions at the #ifoFuerth Annual Conference 25, focussed on Social Market Economy & Evidence-Based Policy. Thanks to all speakers & participants for your contributions. Here’s a snapshot from our closing moments. Grateful. 🙌

Thanks for a great conference Sarah Necker Henning Hermes, and Sebastian Blesse! Highlights included many interesting talks and seeing Michele Belot in person! 🌸🌸

Thank you as well for the wonderful conference: intellectually very stimulating and fun! @sarahnecker Henning Hermes Sebastian Blesse; and indeed really nice to meet Johanna Rickne in person :-)!

What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳 Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli (Università Bocconi), Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University) & Michele Belot (Cornell University) as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session🚀

📢We are hiring! 📢 Post doc in Public/labor/behavioral economics 2yr position at ifo Institut in Fürth We study people’s understanding of economics, and design of taxes, pensions, subsidies… Deadline: April 10 Please RT ifo.de/stellenangebot…

🔈 Call for Papers 🔈 Join us for the first NU-DE Workshop on Applied Microeconomics 📍Nuremberg | 🗓️ Oct 1–2, 2025 For more information, see the call for papers. Interested? Submit your paper! We are looking forward to seeing you in October! #econtwitter Economics Conferences

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Join our Workshop on Funding the #GreenTransition: Subsidies, Grants & Transfers on Sept 25–26, 2025 at #ifoFuerth.🌱💶 Keynotes by Robert Metcalfe (Columbia University) & Kenneth Gillingham (Yale School of the Environment) We welcome submissions by June 1. 👉ifo.de/en/workshop-fu…

REMINDER: I am looking for two PhD students to work with me on super exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education, joining an extremely vibrant environment in Munich, ifo Education, ifo Institut & Economics LMU Munich 🤩🚀 Deadline in 11 days ⏰ Please share widely 🙂🙏

🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%. How did children become the biggest factor?🧵 🧑‍🤝‍🧑w/Hansen,Dominik Sachs & Lüthen

🚨 New IZA Working Paper out now! "Local Policy Misperceptions and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers“ by Sebastian Blesse, Florian Buhlmann, Philipp Heil , and Davud Rostam-Afschar. A thread 🧵:

Heute bei BTO: Hätte Deutschland 2015 einen umfassenden #Bürokratieabbau durchgeführt, wäre #BIP pro Kopf 2022 um 2.449 Euro höher ausgefallen, insgesamt 146 Milliarden Euro. Was tun? Dazu im Gespräch: Sarah Necker think-beyondtheobvious.com/bleibt-nur-die…