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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨

Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!

Dedicated time for your own research.

Reach out to hear more!

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Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11

👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

In the second half of the paper, we develop a model with a new mechanism to explain firms’ lack of wage posting. Firms do not include pay information as bargaining offers an insurance mechanism against not being able to hire profitably at the posted pay.

Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

Why? Not because they don’t know which skills firms want. Rather, because job seekers in this context and other contexts have limited information about their own skills (two of my working papers provide evidence on this in Ethiopia and South Africa: docs.iza.org/dp17761.pdf, tinyurl.com/3wsydrv6).

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

2. Pay information does not increase sorting by skills as high wage salaries do not receive higher-quality applicants. So firms’ worries about under-qualified applicants do not bear out. However, there is also no positive assortative matching of applicants and vacancies.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

1. Pay information increase the wage elasticity of application numbers. That is, relatively high-wage postings attract more applicants, while low-wage postings attract fewer. . ➡️ Job seekers use pay information to decide where to direct their applications.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

We recruit a diverse set of 314 firms with a total of 447 vacancies who agree for us to randomize whether they job adverts include salary information. We then track all applications and screen applicants before forwarding applications to our partner firms. Key findings below:

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

This project was motivated by a stark fact: only !4%! of job adverts in Addis Ababa had any information about the provided pay. We ask firms why: 68% say want to avoid attracting under-qualified applicants and 41% want to negotiate salaries. Can we support this empirically?

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0...
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10d

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Grace @gracekind.net · Sep 6

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · Sep 2

My 10-years old son is walking home from school alone for the first time. Kidnappers, drug dealers, strangers? Not worried. Other parents driving SUVs is what I am terrified of.

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · Aug 25

Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social ‬Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.

Isabela Manelici @imanelici.bsky.social · Aug 14

📥 PEDL will hold a 1-day workshop for young researchers on Oct 23, 2025, as part of the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference on Oct 24-25. All events will take place in person @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. More details: www.theigc.org/call-papers-...

Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop

Learn more about the Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop for the IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development 2025

www.theigc.org

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 15

From June 2025 -

Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h

- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth

#OpenAccess

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is a great opportunity for any researcher based in Africa. Please share widely.

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Jul 1

Are you an African national interested in presenting your #economics research at the CSAE Conference?

We have funding available for African presenters to attend #OxCSAE2026 & a pre-conference workshop in Addis Ababa (Dec 2025).

⏰Apply by 03 August

Find out more👇
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

CSAE Conference Funding

CSAE Conference 2026 Funding Information

www.csae.ox.ac.uk

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · Jul 1

Read our VoxDev piece on how telling jobseekers about their comparative advantage in skills shapes their search decisions and earnings. The underlying paper just received an R&R at AEJ:Applied and an updated version will come out in a couple of months.

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jul 1

🆕 Helping jobseekers understand their skills boosted earnings in South Africa

Today on VoxDev w/ Andrea Kiss (@stanford.edu), Robert Garlick (Duke University), Kate Orkin (@ox.ac.uk) & @lukashenselecon.bsky.social (@pku1898.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/labour...

Helping jobseekers understand their skills boosted earnings in South Africa

Short, low-cost workshops helped young South African jobseekers to learn about their skills, search for better-matched vacancies, and raise their earnings by 25%.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 30

Fascinating post about a new painkiller that targets a specific sodium channel in the damaged tissue (rather than the brain). Wouldn't it be amazing if we eventually could treat pain without the risk of addiction?

The Works in Progress Newsletter @worksinprogress.blogsky.venki.dev · Jun 26

The first non-opioid painkiller

Journavx was approved this year. Why did it take so long to develop?

www.worksinprogress.news

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Jun 27

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

🚨Please share widely!

#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am so happy that this is finally out! It was long process, but it feels great to also get null results published! Thank you to all the editors and referees involved.

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Jun 27

NEW -

Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h

- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract for a research study, discussing the effectiveness of political activists and their motivations, using Bayesian analysis to evaluate the impact on voter behavior and career paths.

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · Jun 20

🚨🚨 Vacancy alert 🚨🚨

Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈?

Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836

Job opening: PhD Position in Economics at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (22836)

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Paul Raschky @raschky.bsky.social · Jun 10

We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions.

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Prof. Kai Gehring @kaigehring.bsky.social · Jun 1

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · May 24

Was, glaube ich, immer noch nicht richtig verstanden wird bei den #Zoellen von #Trump : Es geht hier gar nicht um Höhe, unfaire Handelspraktiken, etc. Es geht einzig und allein um einen weiteren Versuch (nach der Ukraine), Europa zu schwächen.

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