Melanie Luhrmann

📢 Call for Applications | IZA@LISER Summer School in Labor Economics 2026 #IZALISER2026

📅 1–3 June 2026 in #Luxembourg

🗣️ W/ featured lecturers @alanmanning4.bsky.social & Kristiina Huttunen

⏳ Deadline: 5 March 2026

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#LaborEconomics #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Call for Papers: Economics of Health & Human Capital
Organised by EcHo Royal Holloway

🗓️ May 14–15, 2026 | Stewart House, London
⏰ Deadline: March 20, 2026
Keynote: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Martin Karlsson
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#HealthEconomics #EconSky #CallforPapers #rhulecon

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society <em>Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society</em> Journal publishes research furthering understanding of employment relations, labour markets, & the organization & future of work globally.

New call for papers for a special issue on the gender wage gap

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🚨Two weeks left to apply for the Essen Health Conference 2026!

Submit your work in the fields of health, labour or education by 🗓️ 31 January!

Further information about the conference at: udue.de/ehc26

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Fabulous news!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Essen Health Conference 2026 will take place on 3-5 June 2026 in Essen, Germany. We accept papers on topics of Health, Education and Labour. We only accept full paper submissions. Please submit before the deadline of 31st January 2026, at the following link - https://bit.ly/submit-ehc26

The Call for Papers for Essen Health Conference 2026 is out now, with an excellent line-up of keynote speakers Melanie Wasserman @uclaanderson.bsky.social and Stephanie Von Hinke @bristoluni.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline for paper submissions is 31 January 2026 🚨
Details here - udue.de/ehc26

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Professional Practice) Full-Time or Part-Time, PermanentSalary is £49,325 to £58,345 per annum including London Allowance (Pro-rata if offered on a part-time basis). A Clinical Lecturer supplement of £8,588 (Pro-rata if par...

📢 We are recruiting Clinical Psychologists to join the Royal Holloway Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as Lecturers (Professional Practice).
📍 Egham | £49,325–£58,345 + £8,588 supplement | PT or FT | Permanent. Apply by 2 Sept 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

The 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) happens from Oct 22-24 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

We are excited to receive papers that focus on understanding and analyzing labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes. Both empirical research and structural work is highly welcome!

A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Sanitation Infrastructure: VoxDevLit Launch Event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Sanitation infrastructure plays a critical role in improving public health and wellbeing, yet nearly one in five people globally still lack access to basic services. At this VoxDevLit launch event, B...

📢 Sanitation Infrastructure

On Thursday July 10th, Britta Augsburg @theifs.bsky.social, Molly Lipscomb ‪@uvabatten.bsky.social‬ & ‪@afosterri.org‬ will outline key takeaways for policy from their forthcoming #VoxDevLit at our launch event.

Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Jetzt anmelden zum Vortrag der deutschen «Wirtschaftsweisen» @monika-schnitzer.com an der Universität Zürich. Sie ist Vorsitzende des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social und Professorin an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social.

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#EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS
@econ.uzh.ch

New paper out!
We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet products by local businesses and the household demand for toilets in rural Nigeria. More here: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

NEW PODCAST: The policy that changed childhood in the UK

@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social is joined by @ckfarquharson.bsky.social and @officialedballs.bsky.social to explore the impact and legacy of Sure Start.

🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/pol...

The Case Against Using SNAP to Subsidize Soda Arianna Huffington makes a case against using SNAP benefits to subsidize soda.

CHIBE researchers Christina Roberto and Alyssa Moran are cited in a TIME essay by Arianna Huffington advocating that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps not allow the purchase of sugary drinks or soda. time.com/7297603/snap...

Having a great time at ESPE2025- inspiring programme! #espe2025

My co-author Grigory Aleksin presenting our work (with Arnaud Chevalier) showing that small community youth projects cause short-run reductions in crime, especially anti- social behaviour. #espe2025 #econ #rhul

Using instrumental variables to establish causality Even with observational data, causality can be recovered with the help of instrumental variables estimation

Nearly a decade ago, IZA World of Labor ("bridges the gap between research and policy") asked me to write a short intro to Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation. Now teamed up with the great Grigory Aleksin (RHUL) for an update. Enjoyed the team work a lot!

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📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz!

Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ.

Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor

Please help us spread the word and RT.

We just released our paper using a field experiment to reveal indoor air pollution (IAP) in London: It’s worse than you think!

🧵with six main results👇

With @sjroth.bsky.social.

Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay A phone-based intervention in Uruguay, which included access to an AI chatbot, demonstrates how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices and improve early childhood development at scale.

🆕 Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay

Today on VoxDev, Juanita Bloomfield (Universidad de Montevideo), Ana Balsa, Alejandro Cid & Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) demonstrate how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment.

Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon

🔈 Call for Papers 🔈

Join us for the first

NU-DE Workshop on Applied Microeconomics

📍Nuremberg | 🗓️ Oct 1–2, 2025

For more information, see the call for papers.

Interested? Submit your paper!

We are looking forward to seeing you in October!

#econsky #healtheconomics

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

75% of US scientists who answered @nature.com poll consider leaving.
More than 1,600 readers answered their poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No pressure then!

Helen Miller appointed as new Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies | Institute for Fiscal Studies The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

Fabulous news!
ifs.org.uk/news/helen-m...

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/...

@jabaluck.bsky.social

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down.

Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here:

data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

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