Mock up ZEW-Jahresbericht (Titel und aufgeschlagenes Vorowort)
Unser #Jahresbericht ist da! 2024 war geprägt von Stagnation, Krisen und Konflikten. Wir am #ZEW haben diese Entwicklungen mit Analysen begleitet und Orientierung geboten. Daher widmen wir unseren Jahresbericht dem Thema KRAFT. Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre! www.zew.de/WS372/?twt=1
„Eine stärkere #Mindestlohnerhöhung wäre in der Boomphase wahrscheinlich kein Problem. Allerdings ist das in der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage eventuell gefährlich“, kommentiert #ZEW-Ökonom @eduardbruell.bsky.social die laufende Debatte (ab Min. 6:00).
www.ardmediathek.de/video/plusmi...
Git was 20 years old this week. Written by the creator of Linux as a tool to streamline his workflow - it shows the importance of making tools. If you have a better way of doing something, write and share it. It's possible that few others understand the problem, let alone have the solution you do!
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Traditional search is literal. If the wording doesn’t match, you miss good papers.
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Screenshot of the "Semantic Paper Search" app. An abstract about competition in German primary care is entered on the left. On the right, the app returns highly similar papers from RePEc, including titles, authors, journals, years, abstracts, and similarity scores. Download links and a bibtex-export function are also available.
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New paper out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We study (using DiD) effects of 1968 Poor People's Campaign on election outcomes. Overall these peaceful protests had no effects on elections (contrasting prior civil rights era findings) but they hurt Ds in the South and helped them in the West.
🚭 Publication alert!
Are smoking bans effective in shaping smoking behavior?
New paper w/ @paulapereda.bsky.social in the Journal of Development Economics explores Brazil’s experience with smoke-free policies, uncovering key mechanisms.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...
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Figure 3 from the linked paper showing that wages and labor share fall in response to a new CEO with a business degree
A screenshot of the title page of the linked paper, which reads as follows: Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark Daron Acemoglu, Alex Xi He, Daniel le Maire March 2022 Abstract This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager retirements and deaths and an IV strategy based on the diffusion of the practice of appointing business managers within industry, region and size quartile cells, we provide additional evidence that these are causal effects. We establish that the proximate cause of these (relative) wage effects are changes in rent-sharing practices following the appointment of business managers. Exploiting exogenous export demand shocks, we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not. But consistent with our first set of results, these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities. Finally, we use the influence of role models on college major choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to causal effects of practices and values acquired in business education—rather than the differential selection into business education of individuals unlikely to share rents with workers.
relatedly, there's a nice paper showing that when a company changes from a CEO without a business degree to a new CEO with a business degree, sales stay the same but wages fall
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! About TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages. We're going to bring manufacturing BACK to your codebase by making foreign imports more EXPENSIVE! Installation pip install tariff Usage import tariff # Set your tariff rates (package_name: percentage) tariff.set({| "numpy": 50, "pandas": 200, "requests": 150 # 50% tariff on numpy # 200% tariff on pandas # 150% tariff on requests # Now when you import these packages, they'll be TARIFFED! import numpy # This will be 50% slower import pandas # This will be 200% slower
Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.
Good lesson:
Holy crap this sucks
“According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”
Oh come on it can’t be that big of a drop in WHOA.
The Kiel Institute is on fire – they modelled the impact of Trump’s trade war.
Check out the chart. The numbers come with the usual uncertainty, but they give a good sense of the eye-popping inflation the US is now facing.
Via @davideoneglia.bsky.social
Paper here: www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/kiel-...
💻 Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten nutzt #KI – allerdings überwiegend informell. Für was sie genutzt wird und welche Auswirkungen das hat, zeigt die Studie von u.a. den #ZEW-Ökonomen @schlenkeroli.bsky.social und @eduardbruell.bsky.social. www.zew.de/PM9398/?twt=1
This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden
EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome!
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Since the release of Claude Code a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimenting with using the tool to develop R packages. Some notes on what that's been like on my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-03...
You can write a whole econometrics textbook with this meme
🚀 Call for Papers – Deadline Near! 🚀
TASKS VII Conference on AI & Work on Sept 11-12, 2025 @liser.lu in Luxembourg!
📌 Deadline: March 1, 2025
🎤 Keynotes: David Autor (MIT), Lindsey Raymond (Harvard), Thijs Bol (Amsterdam)
📩 Submit: tasks@liser.lu
🔗 More info: www.liser.lu/Call-for-Pap...
Wie gut war unsere zweistimme.org Vorhersage der Bundestagswahl 2025?
Zweitstimme: 0.78 Prozentpunkte im Mittel daneben.
Erststimme: 270/299 Wahlkreise korrekt vorhergesagt.
Unseren Blog-Post dazu:
zweitstimme.org/posts/blog/e...
Screenshot of the title and abstract to the linked study "Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs", by Manasi Deshpande and Yue Li. The abstract reads: "We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the number of disability recipients in surrounding areas, with the largest effects for applicants with moderately severe conditions and low education levels. Disability applications fall by only 10 percent, implying that the closings reduce targeting efficiency based on current eligibility standards. Increased congestion at neighboring offices appears more important as a channel than higher travel or information costs."
For the full study www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Playfair's (1796) first bar chart, showing imports and exports for Scotland with other countries. He made a bar chart because he did not have time series data for Scotland
An 1805 pie chart by Playfair showing the sizes of states and territories of the US
There is no known portrait of William Playfair, so this is here to counter the false portrait that is sometimes shown
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Feb 11, 1823 William Playfair died in London, England 🇬🇧
He created The Big Bang in data graphics --
1786: Invented the bar chart, line graphs of economic data
1801: Invented the pie chart, and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations
Sigh. #censusdata
Photo of a mug showing a generative art piece printed on one side
Photo of the other side of the mug with code used to create the generative art on the other side
Taking being an #RStats nerd to the next level... (AKA when generative art 🎨 makes it out of the laptop and into the kitchen! ☕)
#Rtistry #ggplot2
A pile of research shows that huge SUVs/pickups are a menace to public health.
Oversized cars pulverize smaller ones in a crash, while their height enlarges blind spots and leads to pedestrians being struck in their head or torso rather than their legs. (US ped deaths recently hit a 40-year high.)
