David Schindler

Thank you, everyone, for your trust! Excited to be serving the association!

First, @economist.com interviews Elon Musk without pushing back much on his outrageous claims; now they're giving Alice Weidel a platform. For an outlet that supposedly cares about facts, I find it very hard to tolerate this reality distortion, e.g., that "our crime rate has been skyrocketing".

🚨🚨 We are hiring !!!! 🚨🚨 A bit late to the game, but super excited that we (i.e., the Economics department @tilburg-university.bsky.social) will be on the market with one position this year! We are looking for exciting new colleagues, so make sure to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

To all @eeanews.bsky.social members: This is your last week to vote for one of these fantastic candidates! Please make sure to use your voice and help shape the future of our profession in Europe. Go vote: eeassoc.org/eea-election...

Dutch policy makers: listen carefully!

This is about publishing in economics journals but I found it fascinating and probably applicable in other fields/areas- about why/how two papers asking the same question with the same answer might have very different landing spots in terms of a journal jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

🚨 To all @eeanews.bsky.social members: Annual voting for association officers is underway again. 🥳 There are a bunch of great candidates on the ballot sheet (I wish I could vote for them all), and then there's also me! I'd be thrilled to receive your vote! Vote here: eeassoc.org/eea-election...

Congratulations to 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗺, 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲, @david-schindler.de & @simeonschudy.bsky.social on receiving the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 for their paper, “The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment”👏🎉 📄 lmy.de/sGglU

Very excited to be traveling to @insead.bsky.social today for the 2026 SIOE Conference. While looking forward to the academic exchanges, I look with concern at the wildfires in the area that destroy nature and threaten people's livelihoods. Grateful to everyone who put their lives at risk.

So incredibly proud of my new colleague, Carmela Accettura, for winning the Best Paper Award on Gender Economics from the Unicredit Foundation. Her job market paper is really great, it's fully deserved! Congratulazioni, Carmela! www.unicreditfoundation.org/en/news-and-...

Since we might be hiring this fall... This is today's walk to my office...

One of our job market candidates at Tilburg University had an offer withdrawn very late by the institution's rector because Tilburg is not ranked in the top 200 in the QS ranking. All of this after they assured our candidate that the rector's approval would be a formality... This is frustrating...

The second 2026 Bristol Applied Economics Meeting is on the Economics of Migration. We have an amazing program ahead of us. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk. Program: www.baem.info/Program_MIG_...

Welcome to day 2! @david-schindler.de shows that sexual violence committed by Moroccan soldiers in Italy during WWII triggered a far-right shift after the recent arrival of immigrants from Syria/MENA. Mechanism: selective recall of collective memory. Paper: david-schindler.de/workingpaper...

What a lovely and sunny Spring day to visit @wzb.bsky.social and present joint work with @rghidoni.bsky.social. Very excited for the day!

I guess it was just a question of time until someone created a grant writing bot. Unsure how I feel about this.

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

In 2019 Trump’s former Russia adviser Fiona Hill testified to the intelligence committee that there had been moves towards a secret agreement where Trump would take Venezuelan and in exchange Russia would be given free reign to take Ukraine impeachmentpapers.dp.la/Text/body13_...

Good luck to all the candidates and recruiters this week!

Devastating news from Brown University. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. The fact that this was an economics class makes it feel closer to home.

I had temporarily suspended all US travel after news emerged of how some fellow Germans and fellow academics were treated at the US border. If this passes, I won't travel to the United States before it is repealed. This saddens me as I miss out on meeting friends and colleagues...

Quick and decisive action by the AEA. Commendable!

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

This data matches my observations regarding ads posted on EconJobMarket.org. The market this year will be very difficult for many candidates.

I had great fun presenting some recent work with @rghidoni.bsky.social here at @tudresden.bsky.social! Amazing room filled with amazing people and great feedback!

🗣️(self) nominations for editorship of JEEA now open. Fields of expertise sort in this search include: Labour Economics, Economics of Gender, Family economics & Health Economics. Candidates should be available to start receiving manuscripts from early 2026. ℹ️ www.eeassoc.org/news/nominat...

Join us to learn everything about the signaling mechanism! Important for both candidates and recruiting committees!

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

A long way to go for 🇪🇺 in academia - but worth it. Informative PBS clip on the situation in the US👇🏼

It's Election Day and polling stations are set up on campus. I hope that sanity prevails this time in this insane world and the Netherlands gets a government the country deserves: one that invests in education and innovation.

Congrats to Elias Papaioannou on being elected by EEA members Vice President 2026 Congrats also @florinbilbiie.bsky.social Julia Cagé, Pierre Dubois, Patricia Funk, Luis Garicano, Libertad González, Dorothea Kübler, Jan Stuhler & Séverine Toussaert on being elected to Council. .

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

I just received an email informing us about safety measures to take when traveling. Five years ago, I would not have imagined seeing these countries named together: "Countries classified as high risk in terms of knowledge security are: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the United States."

The socks helped! So grateful for this opportunity to invest time (and money!) in some exciting research projects over the next five years! www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...

Super excited to have been awarded a Vidi Grant by the Dutch Research Council for the next five years! Very much looking forward to working on these research projects! But today is time to celebrate! 🎉 www.nwo.nl/nieuws/149-v...

Across Europe, mainstream politicians are watching their power cede to far-right, populist forces. Europe's leaders are hoping the European Council today will show that the EU cares about issues that have left voters feeling disaffected. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/firs...