@simonwiederhold
Professor of Labor Economics at Halle University & Senior Research Advisor at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) affiliated w/ ifo, CESifo, IZA & ROA Website: https://sites.google.com/view/simonwiederhold
I spent the past two days at the Annual Meeting of the Education Economics Committee (@vfsecon.bsky.social)
at @bibb.de in Bonn๐ค๐
Inspiring discussions on #AIinEducation โ from mentoring & skills to digital education. Fantastic keynote by @susanna-loeb.bsky.social! ๐ช
#EducationEconomics
Good post by @joshgans.bsky.social on why the scientific publishing system will not collapse from the rise of AI-supported research. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
Two days of fun and great discussions at the Workshop on Microeconomics @leuphana.bsky.social ๐ค
I presented our ongoing work โPaternalism across the Worldโ, with B. Bartling, A. W. Cappelen, A. Moorthy, M. Skivenes & B. Tungodden
Thanks so much for organizing B. Hirsch, J. Lohse & M. Mechtel ๐ฅณ
submission page
Did you know submitting authors are welcome to suggest a particular Coeditor best suited to handle their manuscript? Add it to your cover letter.
Submit at: jhr.msubmit.net
JHR Editorial Board: jhr.uwpress.org/content/edit...
Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year โค๏ธ
Friends, I have created a Starter Pack of economics journals (and working paper series) active on Bluesky. Hope this is useful for academic, policy, and industry economists alike. #Econsky Please let me know if there are any that I missed!
"Von ganz unten an die Spitze ยท Ist sozialer Aufstieg mรถglich?"
๐บ Spannende Doku im BR
www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...
Auch mit kurzen Statements von mir (ab Min 10:00, 16:30, 24:30 und 27:15)
Interesting and impressive
amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Ge...
๐ข Very excited to be selected for a Kickstart Fund (50 TEUR) by the Joachim Herz Stiftung (@jherzstiftung.bsky.social) ๐
With this support, my team and I will further develop a digital mentoring platform ๐๐
#TechForGood #EducationalInnovation #Mentoring
@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019โ2023...
๐ KICK-OFF ๐
Over the next five years, Iโll be working jointly with ROCK YOUR LIFE on a large randomized-controlled trial with disadvantaged adolescents to generate robust, policy-relevant evidence on how mentoring can be effectively scaled. [1/2]
๐จ Now out in the Economic Journal:
โPatience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital:
Regional Analysis with Facebook Interestsโ
w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social โช& Sancassani
๐ก Patience accounts for ยพ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, โ
US
๐ doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!
#CallForPapers: IWH economist @simonwiederhold.bsky.social belongs to the team of scientific organizers of the 5th Workshop on #FieldExperiments in #Economics and #Business.
โถ๏ธ All details below and here: www.field-experiments.eu
#Conference #Research
๐ฃ Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn.
Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) ๐ซถ๐ป
Submission deadline May 15, 2026 ๐จ
#EconSky
๐ขnow forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...๐งต
๐ข Call for papers:
CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)
๐๏ธ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich
๐งโ๐ซ Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social
๐ www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
โฐ Deadline: 11 May 2026
๐ผ๏ธ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...
One week to go to submit to what I promise will be an outstanding and fun conference.
@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social, and I look forward to reading your paper!
๐๐ผ with a very German, yet beautiful, expression: โFรผr Kurzentschlosseneโ
The application deadline was yesterday but surely my colleagues allow a weekend application.
(โFor people who decide swiftly (to make a change)โ)
University of Nottingham Campus
Call for papers, available at this link: https://tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a
Participants to the 2nd edition of the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop, June 2025
Good news against January blues: ๐น the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! ๐น
Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper!
๐ฃ๏ธ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT)
๐
1-2 June 2026
๐ University of Nottingham
Apply by March 1st! โก๏ธ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a
๐จTwo weeks left to apply for the Essen Health Conference 2026!
Submit your work in the fields of health, labour or education by ๐๏ธ 31 January!
Further information about the conference at: udue.de/ehc26
Some news: Iโve started a Substack, largely focused on AI, tech, and economics more broadly.
I've always loved the essay format. It helps me explore ideas more formally w/o the 5 year publishing gauntlet.
Consider subscribing:
open.substack.com/pub/aleximas...
Links to all posts below:
Love this review of @aefpweb.bsky.social's Live Handbook (@aefplivehandbook.bsky.social), a terrific resource for those wanting a quick take on many ed policy/practice topics, the connections between them, & where you can go to get more info: livehandbook.org
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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๐จ Deadline this Sunday (11 Jan 2026)!
๐ข Call for Papers โ 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education
PhD students & early postdocs: donโt miss this opportunity, apply now! ๐
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๐จ Deadline on Sunday:
๐ 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education ๐คฉ
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๐ฃSAVE-THE-DATE ๐ฃ
Our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business celebrates its 5th anniversary with FANTASTIC keynote speakers: @peterbergman.bsky.social (UT Austin) and Esther Duflo (MIT) ๐๐
๐ Sept 7โ8, 2026 at TUM Campus Heilbronn (pre-workshop get-together Sept 6).
๐ ECONM Advent Calendar โ Day 20! ๐
๐Today, weโre highlighting article โCan Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospectsโ by ๐ฆ. ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ป๐ท๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ธ๐ถ๐ท, ๐. ๐ฅ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social, @woessmann.bsky.social &
@katharinawedel.bsky.social
๐จ Unsere neue Studie zeigt:
๐ Das Erreichen der Ziele โBessere Bildung 2035โ wรผrde rund 21 Billionen Euro an zusรคtzlicher Wirtschaftsleistung bringen
"Volkswirtschaftliche Ertrรคge besserer Bildung"
mit Katia Werkmeister fรผr die @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
www.ifo.de/publikatione...
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Between 1979โ2019, top pay (90th pct.) climbed 53%, middle only 23%, bottom (10th pct.) even lower 7%. (Productivity per hour climbed much more at 73%.)
But since 2019, fast gains at the bottom have already reversed about 1/3 of the rise in pay inequality.
A ๐งต about my book: The Wage Standard.