
Simon Wiederhold
@simonwiederhold
Professor of Labor Economics @UniHalle; Senior Research Advisor @IWH_Halle, Structural Change and Productivity; @ifo_institut, @CESifoNetwork, @iza_bonn
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Erklär mir die Welt: Dieser Podcast ist eine Tour de Force durch meine bildungsökonomische Forschung. "Je gebildeter, desto reicher" Vielen Dank, Andreas Sator, dass Du Dir so viel Zeit dafür genommen hast (+ so tief vorbereitet warst). Nur schlappe 2 Std 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=wWDqna…



Eine bessere #Kitaqualität ist nicht nur wichtig für Kinder, sondern sie kann auch mit dazu beitragen, dass Mütter ihr #Erwerbsvolumen ausdehnen. Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) 👇

📣 We’re hiring! 📣 Join Ludger Woessmann and my team at ifo Education as a PhD student to conduct super-exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education 🤩🚀 Reach out if you have any questions! 💪🏻🙏🏻 ifo Institut CESifo

🚨New Working Paper: The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining w/ Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod & @snaidunl We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights. 👉 nber.org/papers/w33605 🧵1/7


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).



Excited to be spending the month of April at Stanford University, hosted by Eric Hanushek at Hoover Institution. Many thanks for the warm hospitality and the opportunity to engage with such a vibrant academic community. If you’re around campus, drop me a line—always happy to chat!


📢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…


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




Less than a month left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 👏 💪 🚀 Please help us spread the word and submit your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇

🚨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

