
Thomas Buser
@thomasbuser
Professor of Behavioral Applied Microeconomics at the University of Amsterdam
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http://sites.google.com/site/thomasbuser/ 24-10-2009 11:29:19
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Paper out: Teenagers have improved well-being, conscientiousness, and emotional stability if their mothers had longer paid parental leave, which likely delayed children’s entry into formal care. With Mikkel Aagaard Houmark @idalykkekr @ceciliemarieloechte 🧵1/6 tinyurl.com/5xp4vnux


I've been incredibly lucky to have met inspiring role models throughout my career. Now, I am excited to share our working paper exploring the impact of role models, co-authored with Pietro Biroli, Amalia Di Girolamo, and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Check it out below!



and in my paper with Ricardo Perez-Truglia, we study people's attitudes toward taxing billionaires. x.com/yusof_jeff/sta… [14/14]

cool study by E Plug FAIR-The Choice Lab questioning the idea that child penalties explain the labor market gender gap by using IVF success as an IV- cool & important work If I hear one more time that we don’t have to study gender gaps cause it’s all children I’m gonna show this! 🥳🤝




Lina Lozano studies labor market disparities using lab and online experiments. Lina's JMP shows how gender differences in workers' attribution of credit for their team's success/failure contribute to hiring disparities, particularly when gender is unknown. sites.google.com/view/linamaria…



Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and Bruno Ferman is now forthcoming in the 😀😀 American Economic Review Insights (AEA Journals) 😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…


University peers shape personality development with lasting effects on conscientiousness and competitiveness. Just Accepted new paper by Xiaoyue Shan (Xiaoyue Shan) and Ulf Zölitz (Ulf Zölitz) zurl.co/wJHG2


📢Call for papers:📢 CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Eric Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: Raffaella Sadun 👉cesifo.org/en/event/2025-… Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessmann…


🚨Thrilled that our🆕paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in Science Advances 💡Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage science.org/doi/full/10.11… 🧵A thread 1/7




🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John B. Holbein alerted me, Olle Folke, and Joop Adema (Joop Adema) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵