Raphael Brade

New WP! We study whether telling first-year students about the earnings they forgo by delaying graduation changes their choices. Framing salaries as opportunity costs does not speed up progress but increases early dropout among students who are likely to exit eventually. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Herzliche Einladung: "Unter Druck: (Rechts-)Extremismus als Bedrohung für die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre" Dienstag, 29.9. um 14 Uhr in Düsseldorf Neben den beiden Panels freue ich mich besonders auf die gemeinsame Herausarbeitung konkreter Lösungsansätze! www.awk.nrw/news/jk/nach...

Interested in spending up to a year in Heilbronn and experiencing our emerging AI ecosystem first-hand? Our new AI Fellowship is now open (link below)! If you have a strong PhD from a leading university and work closely on causal AI, get in touch. I’d be happy to explore hosting you at TUM.

The Society of Labor Economists is piloting a new mentoring program intended to provide small group mentoring, providing advice on how to improve research and navigate the publishing process. We are seeking both mentors and mentees--apply here! www.sole-jole.org/sole-mentoring

⏳ Only a few days left to submit! 📢 CfP: 16th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics 📅 Sept 8-9, 2026 | 📍 Dresden 🇩🇪 Topics: regional structural change, development econ, public econ & more. Deadline: 5 June 2026 23:59 CET/CEST www.ifo.de/veranstaltun...

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

🚨 New piece in @nathumbehav.nature.com: We show that socioeconomic gaps in childcare access across the OECD are not mainly about lower demand. Many disadvantaged families want childcare but face barriers such as scarcity, costs, and complex procedures. Main takeaway: make access easier 📣

📆 One week left to apply! We are still looking for excellent PhD students and postdocs to join us at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC).

🚨 FINAL REMINDER: THREE more days to submit, deadline 15th of May 🚨 We're looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🙏 All infos 👇 #FieldExperiments

Simon Johnson and I are hiring a postdoc at MIT to research the history, social implications, and future of technology. The job description and application link are available here: shapingwork.mit.edu/careers/jame...

REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch

Helft mir bitte diese Studie zu verbreiten! Katherina Reiche will sie in der Schublade verstecken. @sven-giegold.de @ckemfert.bsky.social @beyond-ideology.bsky.social @felixbanaszak.bsky.social @franziskabrantner.de www.t-online.de/finanzen/ene...

📢 Call for Papers! Join us for the MPI / ECONtribute Workshop on Human Capital & Education. 📍 Bonn, Germany | 📅 Oct 1–2, 2026 ⏳ Deadline: May 31, 2026 🔗 Submit: forms.gle/D1K3ewLMJZpJ... More info in the attached CfP! #EconTwitter @econtribute.bsky.social

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

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4. As Jevin West and I have been saying for several years now, because a seemingly credible message no longer implies a human sender, LLMs will push us toward more emphasis on reputation and status — and as such serve as an anti-egalitarian force in all aspects of society, science included.

Friedrich Merz hat erst vor 6 Tagen gesagt: «Wir werden mit dieser Partei nicht zusammenarbeiten.» Nun kommt raus, dass sein Parteifreund Manfred Weber im Europaparlament gezielt mit der AfD & anderen Rechtsextremen zusammen arbeitet. Hat Merz noch die Macht in der Union - oder wusste er Bescheid?

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

🚀 Come work with us: 7 PhD positions in #InequalityResearch at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, @uni-konstanz.de Fully funded (TV-L E13, 75%, 4 years) Start: 1 Oct 2026 Application deadline: 15 Apr 2026 ℹ️ t1p.de/j3vk5, apply here: t1p.de/h5mz9

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈 I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Der SVR Wirtschaft sucht für den neuen Standort Berlin eine Ökonomin oder einen Ökonomen mit einem großen Interesse an Wirtschaftspolitik - Schwerpunkt „Öffentliche Finanzen“. 👉 Reposts willkommen! Hier die Stellenausschreibung: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/karriere.html

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

📢 Very happy to see our paper "Child penalties in labour market skills" (w/ @jonasjessen.bsky.social & @michelebattisti.bsky.social) out in the special issue on "Education, Health, and Gender: A Family Perspective" of the European Economic Review. Link (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... More ⤵️

📣SAVE-THE-DATE 📣 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) 🎉🙌 📍 Sept 7–8, 2026 at TUM Campus Heilbronn (pre-workshop get-together Sept 6).

⏰ Reminder! Submissions for the EAYE 2026 Annual Meeting, hosted by @ehu.eus, are open for just a few more days! Deadline: 28 December 2025 See the CfP for details 🔗 www.eaye.info/eayeam/2026-...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

🎅🎁Our last newsletter of 2025 is out! ✨What Facebook data reveal about patience & educational achievement ✨Religious education has long-term effects ✨Good schools help disadvantaged children ...& more! 👉 sendlx.com/display.php?M=111332033&C=ff6ce63f422bb23d840c4ce5648c1c70&S=201333&L=1198&N=111605

I'm very happy that this paper has found a home and has been published just in time for the holidays. Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mI6Bc24bB...

Our dept is hiring an associate professor in microeconomics / competition theory. It is a wonderful department - do get in touch. The job ad is in German but we teach more and more in English, so we‘re flexible. www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...

🚨 Unsere neue Studie zeigt: 👉 Das Erreichen der Ziele „Bessere Bildung 2035“ würde rund 21 Billionen Euro an zusätzlicher Wirtschaftsleistung bringen "Volkswirtschaftliche Erträge besserer Bildung" mit Katia Werkmeister für die @bertelsmannst.bsky.social www.ifo.de/publikatione... 1/3

‼️We are hiring!‼️ 👉Postdoctoral Researcher in Behavioral / Experimental Economics (Log In required) 👉Postdoctoral Empirical Microeconomics (IO and trade) (Log In required) www.dice.hhu.de/das-dice/ueb...

📣 Call for Papers Join us for the 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics on July 6-8, 2026. 🗓 July 6-8, 2026 ⏰ Application deadline: 25 January 2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/event-detail... @wzb.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social #phdconference

🎉 I feel very honored to have received the Best Paper Award at the European Winter Meeting of @econometric.bsky.social in Nicosia, Cyprus, for my paper with @vsondergeld.bsky.social titled "Meet my family: women in leadership and gender stereotypes in the media". More info on the paper below ⤵️

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Very excited to organize one of the 2026 CESifo Venice summer institutes on “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲” jointly with 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 (MIT) and 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗹𝘂𝗺 (U Chicago) will join us as keynote speakers. Submit your papers by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟴: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Jinju Rhee, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: How information shapes price competition 🔍Research topics: Applied microeconomic theory, Industrial organization, Organizational economics, Regulation 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/jinjurh...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Marcel Quint, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: The Interaction of Memory Imperfections 🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory 🌐 Website: www.marcelquint.com

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Carla Mirabella, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: What Women Want: Marriage Market Misperceptions 🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Political Economy, Gender Economics 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/carlami...

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Kevin Kloiber, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: The Cost of Complexity: How Communication Frictions Affect Patient Mortality 🔍Research topics: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics 🌐 Website: www.kevin-kloiber.com

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Elena Herold, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Joint Taxation and Household Inequality: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples 🔍Research topics: Public Economics, Labour Economics, Gender Economics, Household Decision-Making 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/elenahe...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Friederike Fourné, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Identifying macroeconomic shocks using firm-level data: Material shortages in the German manufacturing sector 🔍Research topics: Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Forecasting, Financial Stability