🎉 Teaching Milestone 🎉
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.

Die UZH bietet dieses Jahr erneut das Modul «Mentoring für die nächste Generation» an. 54 Studierende begleiten ein Jahr lang je ein Primarschulkind als Mentor*in, nehmen an interdisziplinären Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung teil und setzen Theorie in die Praxis um.

Why does online instruction disproportionally harm women? Survey & zoom attendance data show that women more strongly prefer in-person lectures. When assigned more online lectures, they perceive the course as less enjoyable, less comprehensible, and instructors as less engaging.

For the first paper documenting a gender gap in the impact of online instruction, we must worry about the possibility of a false positive. It’s not! The gap remains highly precise after multiple-testing corrections (Bonferroni p=0.0036).

More online instruction significantly lowers women’s performance, while leaving men’s unaffected. A 10 ppt shift toward online instruction decreases women’s exam score by 0.038 SD (p<0.001).

🚨 New working paper! 🚨
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉

with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

When cleaning up I found this old business card of mine. During the 3 years I worked at IZA/briq as a postdoc I had an incredible productive time and terrific colleagues.

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development.

📅 Deadline: TOMORROW!

Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...