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Per Engzell

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Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13m

The true academic method: overthink, underdeliver, cite yourself.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks!

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

Which economics are we talking about here?

German sentence: "Die Volkswirtschaftslehre (auch Nationalökonomie, Wirtschaftliche Staatswissenschaften oder Sozialokonomie, kurz VWL), ist ein Teilgebiet der Wirtschaftswissenschaft."

English translation (by Google): "The economics of economics (including economics, economics, economics, economics, economics, economics) is a part of economics."

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

Thankyouuu. Seems like I was on the right track

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

More looking for theory/big pic, but here's what I found so far

De la Croix, David, Matthias Doepke, and Joel Mokyr. “Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 1 (2018): 1–70.
Kautz, Tim, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel, and Lex Borghans. Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success. NBER Working Paper No. 20749. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2014.
Mokyr, Joel. “The Economics of Apprenticeship.” In Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe, edited by Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis, 20–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Wolter, Stefan C., and Paul Ryan. “Apprenticeship.” In Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, edited by Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin, and Ludger Woessmann, 521–576. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

More looking for theory/big pic, but here's what I found so far

De la Croix, David, Matthias Doepke, and Joel Mokyr. “Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 1 (2018): 1–70.
Kautz, Tim, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel, and Lex Borghans. Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success. NBER Working Paper No. 20749. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2014.
Mokyr, Joel. “The Economics of Apprenticeship.” In Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe, edited by Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis, 20–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Wolter, Stefan C., and Paul Ryan. “Apprenticeship.” In Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, edited by Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin, and Ludger Woessmann, 521–576. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

Beneath the snark, I’m actually looking for economics research on apprenticeships and informal knowledge transfer. Pointers anyone?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

In the great series of economists reinventing psychology, I bring you today's episode: Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

"Moving the Goalposts" by Jeffrey C. Ely and Martin Szydlowski. We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard framework. An agent works on a task of uncertain difficulty, modeled as the duration of required effort. The principal knows the task difficulty and provides information over time. The optimal mechanism features moving goalposts: an initial disclosure makes the agent sufficiently optimistic that the task is easy. If the task is indeed difficult, the agent is told this only after working long enough to put the difficult task within reach. The agent then completes the difficult task even though he never would have chosen to at the outset.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

In the great series of economists reinventing psychology, I bring you today's episode: Vygotsky's zone of proximal development

"Moving the Goalposts" by Jeffrey C. Ely and Martin Szydlowski. We study information as an incentive device in a dynamic moral hazard framework. An agent works on a task of uncertain difficulty, modeled as the duration of required effort. The principal knows the task difficulty and provides information over time. The optimal mechanism features moving goalposts: an initial disclosure makes the agent sufficiently optimistic that the task is easy. If the task is indeed difficult, the agent is told this only after working long enough to put the difficult task within reach. The agent then completes the difficult task even though he never would have chosen to at the outset.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

Sweden wants a word

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

. @montonenjerry.bsky.social is great and he's on the job market!

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

My favorite academic genre is "paper I would’ve written if I’d had the time"

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 6h

sure send it over

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Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434...

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management @repec-nep-hrm.bsky.social · 1d

Worker Beliefs About Firm Training: Hanna Brosch; Philipp Lergetporer; Florian Schoner

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CJ Libassi @clibassi.bsky.social · 21h

🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 17h

#academic question: looking for a good starting point on the social psych literature on stereotypes. Thank you!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science

School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

datascience.virginia.edu

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15h

I can imagine about a gazillion uses for this in the classroom

Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 18h

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information

Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

robindenz1.github.io

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 18h

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 22h

sometimes i do think that my greatest educational contribution is doggedly insisting that every youth in every one of my classes learns what a directory is

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21h

With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21h

What's going on at the JPE lol

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22h

I somehow remember it as even higher... I might have been thinking of QJE specifically?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22h

There we go. Thanks!

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22h

The main transferable skill from academia is explaining complicated things to people who have already left the room