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Lorenz Goette
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Professor of Economics at National University of Singapore. Behavioral, experimental, environmental. Research Fellow at @cepr.org, @cesifo.org. Invited researcher at J-PAL. Previously at University of Bonn and University of Lausanne.

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lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Fantastic news, for @xshan.bsky.social and for @cesifo.org !
cesifo.org CESifo @cesifo.org · 9d
Welcome @xshan.bsky.social! 🎉
We’re excited to introduce her as a new network member. She studies topics related to gender disparities, discrimination, social interactions, and skill development. 👩‍💼🌍

🏠 www.xiaoyueshan.com
ℹ️ www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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cesifo.org
New Paper 📝📢
"The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida"
✍️ David N. Figlio @uozek.bsky.social

The study highlights that cellphone bans have a greater effect in middle and high schools, where smartphone ownership is more common.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Come visit us in Singapore 🇸🇬
www.asiaone.com/singapore/ul...
September 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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direkt-magazin.ch
Für Ökonom Marius Brülhart ist klar: Vom Systemwechsel bei den Liegenschaftssteuern profitieren vor allem reiche Eigentümer:innen. Zudem erklärt er im Interview, wieso der Eigenmietwert eine gerechtfertigte Steuer ist.
Ökonom zum Systemwechsel Liegenschaftssteuern: «Steuerausfall entspricht 500 Franken pro Haushalt»
Für Ökonom Marius Brülhart ist klar: Vom Systemwechsel der Wohneigentumsbesteuerung profitieren vor allem reiche Eigentümer:innen.
direkt-magazin.ch
September 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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xshan.bsky.social
Does gender diversity in peer groups benefit performance?

I ran a 7-year field experiment with 3,000+ students to find out.

Key findings: As gender diversity increases
– Course grades in short & longer run ⬆️
– Dropout rates ⬇️
– Performance inequality in groups ⬇️

Details below🧵
August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Switzerland Is Stunned by 39% U.S. Tariff, Among the Highest in the World. And the announcement comes on our national holiday 🇨🇭… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
Switzerland Is Stunned by 39% U.S. Tariff, Among the Highest in the World
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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upanizza.bsky.social
A must-read open letter from Fields Medalists working in Switzerland.

Cutting annual budgets for education and research is always a short-sighted mistake. Even a bigger mistake now when there is a unique opportunity to attract top global talent from the US.

science-under-threat.com
Swiss Science Under Threat
science-under-threat.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
Y’all, I wrote a book!

www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...
June 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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johanneshaushofer.com
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
May 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid.

@mediaitenews.bsky.social
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May 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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econ.uzh.ch
📢 @profdaviddorn.bsky.social ’s research on the China Shock is making waves!

Featured in @nytimes.com & more news outlets, the study (with @davidautor.bsky.social & Gordon Hanson) shows how China’s rise disrupted U.S. labor markets.

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/mr3rtsxx

#UZHeconomics #TradeShock
April 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Facts and good advice matter! Thank you SVGS and especially @kurtschmidheiny.bsky.social and @markschelker.bsky.social for this public service.
mariusbrulhart.bsky.social Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · Apr 8
Für evidenzbasierte Politik, gegen Obskurantismus ✊

@markschelker.bsky.social & @kurtschmidheiny.bsky.social haben dem Ständerat gestern im Namen unserer Fachgesellschaft erklärt, wie die 🇨🇭 von einer neuen Dateninfrastruktur profitieren würde.

Technisch aber wichtig!

👉 www.sgvs.ch/files/2025-0...
April 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dinapomeranz.bsky.social
Nächste Woche! Es hat noch Platz. See you there?
April 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mariusbrulhart.bsky.social
Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen.
Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)?
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
www.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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juerg-grossen.bsky.social
Solaranlagen produzieren entgegen den Behauptungen auch im Winterhalbjahr ordentlich! Im Q1 2025 hat PV schon 8% zur CH-Stromproduktion beigetragen, bis Ende 2025 erwarten wir, dass #Solarstrom 14% des CH-Stromverbrauches decken wird. @swissolar.bsky.social energiedashboard.admin.ch/strom/produk...
March 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#EconSky
tedmiguel.bsky.social Ted Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social · Mar 28
Well - I deactivated my account on Twitter so I’m all in, folks :)
March 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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neurograce.bsky.social
I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.
Data-for-good rapid response team
I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...
docs.google.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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hatethegamebook.com
Only 23 more days until Hate The Game is released. Did you pre-order yours yet? 📖✨
March 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
This is extremely concerning.
mushfiq-econ.bsky.social Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social · Mar 17
Shared by the Yale chapter of AAUP
March 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Well deserved promotion!Congrats, Dina 🤗 Since @dinapomeranz.bsky.social promotes causes rather than herself, I thought I’d jump in to spread the good news 🎉🎈
March 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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yanarodgers.bsky.social
The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
The title of tweet of the day goes, again, to @khoavuumn.bsky.social 🙈 (I’m Snowy in this picture)
January 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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dominic-rohner.bsky.social
How to make #democracies less vulnerable against dismantling by #populists and would-be autocrats? See my article in the Austrian newspaper Die Presse: www.diepresse.com/19246221/int...
Intakte Feuerlöscher für die anfälligen Demokratien
Ziel müssen widerstandsfähige Institutionen sein, damit undemokratische Politiker möglichst wenig Schaden anrichten.
www.diepresse.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
lorenzgoette.bsky.social
Come work with us at the National University of Singapore. Every year, we have a fantastic group of pre-docs working with us! #econ_ra

fass.nus.edu.sg/ecs/pre-doc-...
fass.nus.edu.sg
January 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM