Max Steinhardt

Delighted to see our work with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social on overcrowding in Germany published open access in @houspoldebate.bsky.social Crowding among families and migrants, empty rooms elsewhere: a story of unequal space. doi.org/10.1080/105114

Thanks to @bsoeberlin.bsky.social for featuring our research, and to Marie-W. Konrad for producing the video! Our study in @jpube.bsky.social examines how interracial contact at school shapes residential choices decades later. 🎥 Watch: drive.google.com/file/d/1e5GH... Open access: lnkd.in/eSJD878S

Join us for the 2027 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! 💥 Economics of Crime, Violence, and Conflict, 4-5 May Keynotes: @emilynix100.bsky.social & Paolo Pinotti 🌍 Development Economics, 6-7 May Keynotes: Benjamin Marx & @dianavanpatten.bsky.social Call for papers👉 baem.info

At @jcre.bsky.social and other diamond open access journals, we’re always happy to have potential reviewers sign up! More info: replicationnetwork.com/2026/09/22/p...

How to make a difference 10 (!) professorships after a generous private donation

Expertisedienst zu den Midterm-Wahlen in den Vereinigten Staaten Folgende Wissenschaftler*innen stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zur Verfügung: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/exper...

Wie haben wirtschaftliche Sorgen und Migration die Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt geprägt? Und welche Wirtschaftspolitik wäre von einer AfD-Regierung zu erwarten? Dazu ein kurzes Interview.

“reliant on attracting international students and highly qualified researchers” Joint declaration by many leading research organisation in 🇩🇪 www.berliner-forschungsnetzwerk.de

Join us! 🤓🎓 (Full professorship in int't econ, together with Kiel Institute, application deadline 15 Oct)

🚨🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨🚨 We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family. Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13

brb, adding these figures to my first day of class slides

🗓️ Thursday, July 16: We are very happy to welcome @cyganrehm.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „The Long Shadow: The Health Effects of Lost In-School Instruction Across the Life Cycle“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky

Having attended the Applied Microeconomics Conference and seen the work behind the scenes, I'd like to thank @larsfelder.bsky.social , @amageh.bsky.social, Alexander Grawe, Dilasa Karakaya, Iván Pérez, and @maxischaller.bsky.social for organizing such a fantastic event! Truly impressive work!

Can‘t praise the ~12 conference organizers enough, all of them PhD students Such a great initiative 👇🏼 to invite their top-level peers to Berlin, creating a network of youngsters and enjoying three days of research together

2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics: Jointly organized by PhD students from the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social, @diw.de, and @wzb.bsky.social. Great line up and speakers! sites.google.com/view/berlin-...

This is not just another summer workshop in Berlin, but actually TWO conferences! The 2nd Berlin PhD Conference consists of an Applied Micro part and a part on micro theory and behavioral economics: sites.google.com/vie... Keynotes by Esmée Zwiers, Simon Jäger, Jeanne Hagenbach, and Botond Köszegi.

🗓️Thursday, July 9 We are very happy to welcome @simonvoss.bsky.social from our department to the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. He will present his work on "Do Homeless Shelters Increase Local Crime? Evidence from Los Angeles". For more information: sites.google.com/view/simonvo...

Looking forward to having @jrgptrs.bsky.social in our research seminar this Thursday! Feel free to join. 12.15 Boltzmannstraße 20.

🗓️Thursday, July 2 We are very happy to welcome @freya-rubel.bsky.social from our department to the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. She will present her work on "Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl". For more info: sites.google.com/view/freyaru...

📢 Correction: We apologize for the confusion, the venue and date have changed. The event will now take place tomorrow, June 24, at the Institute of Sociology, @tuberlin.bsky.social. 📍 Frauenhoferstraße 33–38, 10587 Berlin, room FH 804/805 We look forward to seeing you there!

🗓️Thursday, May 25.06. We are very happy to welcome @shayobrien.bsky.social (@mitpress.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. Presenting her work on: "Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence".

🗓️Thursday, May 18.06. We are very happy to welcome @juliazimmermann.bsky.social (@uc3m.es) at the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. Presenting her work on: "Institutional Reform and Revolutionary Mobilization: Evidence from Late Imperial Russia". For more info: www.juliazimmermann.net

Es hat mir viel Spaß gemacht meine Erfahrungen mit der Co-Organisation der Berlin Replication Games 2025 im Podcast von @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social mit #DoreenSiegfried zu teilen. Replication Games zeigen, wie wertvoll gemeinsames Arbeiten an Replikationen und Reproduktionen sein kann!

🗓️ Thursday, June 18: We are very happy to have Jordan Norris at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Bounding High Dimensional Comparative Statics“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky

🎉 Excited to share that our team member @freya-rubel.bsky.social will present her work on "Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl" at the Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop 2026, hosted by @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social on June 12, 2026.

🗓️Thursday, May 11.06. We are very happy to welcome @olivierjacques.bsky.social (@umontreal-en.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. Presenting his work on: "The Political Economy of Health Care: The Role of Individual Preferences". csdc-cecd.ca/en/chercheur...

A great workshop with excellent presentations and lots of exciting research. Applied Micro at @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social is thriving! 👏👏 Thanks to @m-santos-silva.bsky.social and his team who were the local organizers this year.

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🗓️Thursday, May 04.06. We are very happy to welcome @isabelamares.bsky.social (@ispsyale.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at FU Berlin. Presenting her work on: "How Mainstream Parties Fight Back Against Extremists: Explaining the Choice among Strategies of Democratic Defense".

🗓️Thursday, May 28.05. We are very happy to welcome @norawaitkus.bsky.social (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. She will present her work on: “Housing Wealth Regimes". For more info: www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschung...

🗓️Thursday, May 07 We are very happy to welcome Sven Hartmann (@unitrier.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. He will present his work on: “Mixed Signals from the West: Cultural Disruption and Human Capital in East Germany” sites.google.com/view/sven-ha...

🗓️ Thursday, May 7: We are very happy to have Sylvia Klosin at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Dynamic Biases of Static Panel Data Estimators“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, April 30: We are very happy to welcome Ruediger Bachmann (@bachmannrudi.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Housing Channel of Labor Market Turnover“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, April 23 We are very happy to welcome Taylan Alpkaya (University of Mannheim) at the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. He will present his work on: “Legacy of Servitude: Long-Run Intergenerational Mobility in the US” sites.google.com/view/taylana...

At our institute, @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @steinhardt.bsky.social are organizing an interdisciplinary public lecture series this summer term, featuring speakers from economics, sociology, and more. Feel free to drop by Thursdays 16:15–17:45! @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Happy start to the new term! Wishing all our students and colleagues an inspiring and successful semester at the @jfki-econ.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social.

🎉 Excited to share that our team member @freya-rubel.bsky.social will present a poster on “Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl” at the Annual Conference of the @echistsoc.bsky.social at the London School of Economics, April 10–12, 2026.

Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de. Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social.

📢 Research Colloquium Our team member & PhD candidate @simonvoss.bsky.social (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) presents: Crowding (at) the Margins: Investigating the Unequal Distribution of Housing Space in Germany 🗓️ March 31, 14:30 📍 @hwwi-economics.bsky.social, Hamburg

📢 We are hiring a PhD student @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Join the team of @steinhardt.bsky.social and contribute to research in labor economics, migration, political economy & gender economics. 🗓️ Deadline: 13 April Details in the call www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

🎉Great news for Berlin’s research community. Proud to be part of Berlin’s vibrant research landscape and the next seven years of excellence with @berlinualliance.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social.

Upcoming presentation 🎓 @steinhardt.bsky.social presents Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl (with @freya-rubel.bsky.social & @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social) at the Economic History Seminar of the @uc3m.es. Hosted locally by @juliazimmermann.bsky.social 📅 Feb 19

🗓️ Thursday, February 12: We are very happy to welcome Maik T. Schneider at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Can Democracy Cope with Extreme Views“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn) Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team. www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/phd-...

We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin