@lukasmergele.bsky.social
Policy consultant @ BSS Economic Consultants, Basel | Economist: Public Sector, Labor Markets, Education | Dad of 3 | German-Swiss musings | trains.
@mcopelov.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialWhatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists.
@cfcamerer.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialEconomics Nobel hunches for tomorrow Ernst Fehr. Just turned 70yo. Had a festschrift with many luminaries (and me) and you could see the scope of his influence in understanding norms and social preferences, in contracting, labor, neuro. Chuck Manski for major econometrics ideas on peers etc
@jagolinzer.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialStanford financial economist Anat Admati @admati.bsky.social just joined here.
She’s a leading voice on systemic risk in banks, corporate governance, and finance.
I highly recommend following her here and reading her book The Bankers’ New Clothes.
@vheddesheimer.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialGermany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵
@nber.orgReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialAs Japan shrinks and ages, young people and births cluster in big cities, leaving rural areas older, emptier, and costlier to sustain, from Elisa Giannone, Yuhei Miyauchi, Nuno Paixao, Xinle Pang, and Yuta Suzuki www.nber.org/papers/w35852
@marome1.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialNew in the JDE: Joan Martínez follows 1.6M Peruvian students from age 12 to 22 to study how teachers' gender bias in grading affects outcomes. Some math teachers' grades favor boys more. A year with such a teacher widens the gender gap in formal jobs and pay🧵
@lukasmergele.bsky.socialSwiss experiment 🇨🇭 Algorithm recommends regions where refugee is most likely to find employment ⬇️ Migration officers still in charge, makes decision on initial place ⬇️ Share of months employed during the first three years +2.2 percentage points, effect growing over time.
@shimminykricket.blacksky.appReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think
@ilkokowalczuk.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialDas also ist für die Faschisten drängend - die Unterstützung des BSW ist den Typen gewiss: Sie wollen die Ukraine ihren Faschistenfreunden im Kreml zur Vernichtung ausliefern
@bakerdphd.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialFinally a proper working paper for this study that produced one of the most astounding figures I've ever seen. Basically economics is different from every other field, empirically. This paper looks at the concentration of university affiliations for award winners.
@bsky.appReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialCongratulations to Nobel Prize winner @deisseroth.bsky.social! Follow along with the prize announcements all week via @nobelprize.org
@lukasmergele.bsky.socialHappy to see a paper on this topic! Educational findings go against my priors but wondering whether you could distinguish younger vs older children? (Immersive language learning improves integrated education outcomes for young kids?)
@woessmann.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.social📢New working paper:🚨 “Integrated vs. Separated Schooling for Refugee Children: Long-Term Effects on Education and Assimilation” w/ @caterinapavese.bsky.social and @meulensimon.bsky.social 👉 Does direct integration into native schools or temporary placement in separate schools … 1/5
@paulgp.comReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialDid a (very scientific, much unbiased) poll of the audience at the <<Empirical Methods in the Age of AI>> conference I just attended. Here were the results!
@vaw-glaciology.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialSwitzerland's glacier report 2026 is out.
Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating.
Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
@essobecker.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialAnnual reminder on German Unification Day that West and East differed already before 1945
@tderyugina.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialFirst they came for our two-way fixed effects.
Now they're coming for time fixed effects! #EconSky
@heimbergecon.bsky.socialReposted by @lukasmergele.bsky.socialVery interesting project: Living Science uses an AI agent to reproduce key findings from seminal papers in economics, document what holds up and extend the analysis with newer data. It's like a follow-up paper with robustness checks and extensions. New paper every week.
@lukasmergele.bsky.socialIn der Psychatrie ist es auch sehr eng: Funktioniert nur noch einigermassen, weil 70-80% der neu zugelassenen aus dem Ausland kommen: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/fachkraeftem...
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