René Böheim
@rboheim.bsky.social
Economist at JKU Linz and WIFO Vienna
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"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory.
Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position.
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🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory.
Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position.
👇
June 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory.
Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position.
👇
🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory.
Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position.
👇
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A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
n.pr
June 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.
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Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university
on.ft.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students
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Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social
Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job…
Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social
Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...
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📢 Come and work with us!
The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.
Apply by June 18, 2025.
Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Please share with your network!
#Econsky #Academicjobs
The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.
Apply by June 18, 2025.
Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Please share with your network!
#Econsky #Academicjobs
May 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Come and work with us!
The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.
Apply by June 18, 2025.
Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Please share with your network!
#Econsky #Academicjobs
The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.
Apply by June 18, 2025.
Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Please share with your network!
#Econsky #Academicjobs
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More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...
docs.google.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality
(May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...
www.aeaweb.org
April 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen
papers.ssrn.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"
By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"
By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"
By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"
By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
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#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP
March 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP
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Time to buy some Neil Young music.
Neil Young to Play Free Concert in Ukraine Ahead of European Tour
Neil Young will play a free show in Ukraine with the Chrome Hearts before kicking off his European summer tour.
www.rollingstone.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Time to buy some Neil Young music.
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Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow.
He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.
#EconSky #Germany
@kfzimmermann.bsky.social
He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.
#EconSky #Germany
@kfzimmermann.bsky.social
a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle
media.tenor.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow.
He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.
#EconSky #Germany
@kfzimmermann.bsky.social
He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.
#EconSky #Germany
@kfzimmermann.bsky.social
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It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦
If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
foundation.kse.ua/en
If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
foundation.kse.ua/en
Home - KSE Charitable Foundation
foundation.kse.ua
March 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦
If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
foundation.kse.ua/en
If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
foundation.kse.ua/en
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
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Decent people thank Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket
Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...
promarket.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.
„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
FPÖ-Chef Kickl will Einigung zu Bankenabgabe
Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield
www.derstandard.at
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...
We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...
arxiv.org
March 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?
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📢 Job opening:
Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load.
Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics.
Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky
Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load.
Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics.
Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky
Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
Graduate Teaching Assistant (must hold a Diploma/Master's degree)
karriere.jku.at
December 12, 2024 at 3:52 PM
📢 Job opening:
Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load.
Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics.
Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky
Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load.
Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics.
Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky
Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...
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The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!
AGEW 2025
6–7 February 2025
University of Wollongong
t.ly
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!