Peter Eibich
peibich.bsky.social
Peter Eibich
@peibich.bsky.social
Health economist with an interest in aging, retirement and preventive care. Professor of Economics, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, IZA & GLO
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My paper with Emma Zai on the health consequences of caring for grandchildren has been selected for the Kuznets Prize for the best paper published in 2024 in the Journal of Population Economics! Let me use this opportunity for a short introduction. 🧵 1/12 #econsky

link.springer.com/journal/148/...
Journal of Population Economics
link.springer.com
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www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.
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www.uni-hamburg.de
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Cheers, Karl Popper's crying now. Nice one.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🚀 We’re hiring!
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
Doctoral Researcher (2 positions) in Health Economics
The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is seeking, for the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the Essen campus, a
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Interested in Economics at Maynooth?

The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate courses to choose from:
BSc Economics (MH415)
BA International Economics (MH416)
BA Economics (single major, double major, and minor) through BA Arts (MH101)

Join us 28th and 29th of Nov #OpenDay
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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For all the search/hiring committees, my made from scratch jalapeño and cheddar cornbread. I can also make a killer burnt basque cheesecake…
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Causal inference issues aside, I am confused by a lot of things here. Maybe here are machine learning/aging experts that can help me understand how this makes sense: As I understand the paper, they trained a model to predict age based on health factors and "protective" factors (1/3)
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.

If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.

I can tell you what I think of that for free.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We condemn the arson attack on a mosque in Deir Istiya in the #Westbank. The recent surge in violence by extremist settlers is deeply concerning. This violence must be halted, incidents must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible held accountable.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Has anyone seen a paper using regularization to manage noise in event studies? I’ve got an idea that I’ve been toying with that should reduce the point to point noise in event studies (and may yield more precise honest bounds on did estimates)
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The market will be tough this year. For our senior position, we had about 50% more applications than last year. While the number is still not massive (two digits), the quality of the shortlist is impressive (and I am glad not to be on the market!)
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Life expectancy has increased at all ages
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇

Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
#Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇

Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
#Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.
that the upfront costs to come and do scientific research in the UK are too high is a well known terrible fact.

perhaps more surprising is that scientific excellence has persisted despite all these hurdles, but this limping cannot go on forever. Soon this fun immigration experiment will break.
Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society
Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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When I bring up the fact that most replications are uninformative and unjustifiable by design, hence we should instead do better research, I always get the same argument back and I'd like to think through this reasoning carefully.

It goes like this:
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"I see you're trying to conduct a war. Can I help you with that?"
a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .
ALT: a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
October 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application?

The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers.

For prof job, just give them published articles?
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

🧵
October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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If anybody (in the UK) would like a signed and personalised first edition Everything Will Swallow hardback for cover price plus p&p, please drop me an email at [email protected].

My mum, Jo, has very kindly designed, printed and cut some beautiful bookmarks to go with each purchase (for free).
October 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM