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On the #EconJobMarket ! 🚨 JMP Alert 🚨 Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse? In my #JMP, I show: NO! Because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise. 🧵[/10]

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Misperceived effectiveness and the demand for psychotherapy" By Christopher Roth, Peter Schwardmann, & Egon Tripodi. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Beautiful important paper. But no shattering to no core in my view! Economics is not built on the (silly, because obviously wrong) presumption of neutrality. It is instead built on the (I believe correct) presumption that its adoption of analytical and statistical analysis i)

6 tips for evaluators on reporting null results 3ieimpact.org/blogs/how-comm… from 3ie's Sebastian Martinez (Not the same but relatedly, I wrote a piece on how to publish statistically significant results in economics. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…)

Not to beat the dead horse, because I already tweeted about it (see below), but the funniest thing about this tweet and comments is how many people think that the paper showing priors having fairly minor effects think it confirms their prior that it's a big effect

Sehe ich anders. Wir haben als SVR zwischen 2013 immer wieder regelmäßig Reformen angemahnt. Sie Presseclub . Weiss jeder der sich mit den Jahresgutachten 2013 bis 2019 beschäftigt hat. 2013 Titel: Gegen eine rückwärtsgewandte Wirtschaftspolitik. Es war klar, dass ...

Public acceptance of nuclear blackmail makes nuclear war more likely.

My fabulous student Priyoma Mustafi is on the job market. Her excellent JMP demonstrates that failed HH information pooling is not due to reluctance to learn from one’s spouse. A domain with common knowledge of expertise shows successful pooling and directed communication.

Thrilled to see “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out in the Journal of Economic Literature AEA Journals, joint with U. Kornek, Jasper Meya & L. Sager Environmental loss & economic inequality are two key challenges of our time, but how do both relate & interact?

The feeling that economic inequality leads to social unrest is mounting. Here is a brief overview of the current academic evidence.

This is a very consistent result in behavioral economics. More (unfair) inequality leads to more anti-social outcomes. Fehr et al (2018) shows that more unfair inequality leads to more money-burning in a controlled setting.

Kausalitäten verstehen soooo wichtig. 👇This is not.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur (Supreet Kaur), Mullainathan (𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧), Oh (Suanna Oh), and Schilbach (@FrankSchilbach): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

"These findings suggest that couples’ relocation decisions are driven by traditional gender norms rather than efforts to maximize household income." "Couples are also more likely to relocate when a man is laid off than after a woman is."

What deeply affects us, is largely invisible, but is right before our very eyes? Our socio-economic backgrounds. As a trucker's son, I have felt this but having some evidence is always useful. And, a fabulous new study from a superstar group of scholars estimates such

🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨 New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results: 📄👇 #economics

Who are the hyper privileged rich academics? Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues

Job market students, consider doing an awesome postdoc with us at Dartmouth! Because we don't have a PhD program, you can get a lot of time with faculty here. Also it's in New Hampshire ⛷️🚵‍♂️🏔️🛶 The deadline is in 2 weeks, please share!

📢 Exciting news! Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, and Benjamin Enke have their paper featured in the American Economic Review's first issue of the year! 📰✨ Read their work, "Universalism: Global Evidence," here: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… NHH Department of Economics NHH Norwegian School of Economics

🚨 Updated working paper Ever wondered how financial aid—grants vs. loans—impacts students' college major choices? In a thoroughly revised version of our paper, Adriano De Falco and I provide answers using rich administrative data from Chile. Here is a short summary: