Olga Balakina

👩‍💼Personal contact makes a difference when it comes to loan repayments. A phone call with bank employees can positively influence the behavior of defaulting borrowers, shows a study by researchers at SAFE and @UWFosterSchool 👉safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/al… #loans

Professional and personal announcement: I am very happy to say that Olga (@CoolKina) and I are moving to Frankfurt in the fall to start positions at @SAFE_Frankfurt! Looking forward to living in a non-Scandinavian country for once

!Deadline: April 30! We are looking forward to your submissions for the 7th @SAFE_Frankfurt Household Finance Workshop (July 13&14) with Florian Zimmermann as a keynote speaker! Excited to see you all at our nice conference venue in an old monastery! safe-frankfurt.de/news-media/eve…

(1/3) Please RT: @FelixChopra, @Ingar30, @cp_roth, @SettSonja and I are organizing 3-day PhD course on "Subjective Beliefs, Attention and Economic Behavior" on March 15th-17th, 2023, at @CEBI_UCPH @Economics_UCPH in Copenhagen. Detailed info: drive.google.com/file/d/1nverIQ…

Quick @Stata tip (ICYMI): use "getcensus" to pull variables from the American Community Survey (ACS). ssc install getcensus *replace XYZ w/ your key global censuskey XYZ *get population by county getcensus B01003, year(2015) sample(5) geography(county) clear (Graph code below)

Are you looking for free publicly available datasets? @AnthonyLeeZhang has this great repository of rich datasets that would greatly aid in your research journey docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Today’s mood:

I've heard/read allegations against *at least* two dozen separate men in econ over the past few days. At least. I have lost count, tbh. Feeling very motivated by the strength and determination and anger of the women who are coming forward.

1/ The first annual Conference on Social and Behavioral Finance was held yesterday and today, hosted by USC/Marshall and coorganized by Cary Frydman & myself. Fantastic set of papers for the inaugural meeting to promote this new field. sites.google.com/usc.edu/uscfbe… Day 1 Program:

@tobinbridge Do you want to see more of him on other social media too? 😊

why do i only see things about Harry Styles on twitter? I do not even know who this is.

``Administrative data from Italy show that lengthening the careers of older workers blocks promotions and limits wage growth of younger coworkers, but only in nongrowing firms.'' From @BianchiEcon, Bovini, Li, @MatteoParadisi and @convexify: restud.com/paper/career-s…

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income. In the September 2022 issue, by Nicolas L. Bottan and Picardo Perez-Truglia. zcu.io/rY4C

I herewith offer free code review for social scientists (R, Python and SQL) - I am serious! Why? 1/6

Great idea! For every student and everyone who wants to try their hand in household finance and more.

A striking fact motivates my recent op-ed: First time buyers represented **52** percent of all homebuyers in Denmark in 2020. First-time buyers are very likely competing with themselves for housing, and giving them more money will likely raise prices! finans.dk/debat/ECE14399…

‘The No Club’ made it to @borsendk. A more equal distribution of non-promotable work will help women and their organizations reach their potential. @Linda_C_Babcock @BrendaPeyser @LRWeingart @thenoclub

Thanks to @DFE_Duke for featuring our paper! I will present the paper on Thursday at 2 pm at @EEANews EEA-ESEM conference, please come by if you want to know more!

Our paper 'Good Peers, Good Apples?' was featured on @DFE_Duke's The FinReg Blog: sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/… Paper available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… @ClaesBackman @CoolKina @SAFE_Frankfurt

A quick write up of our paper on peer effects in portfolio choice. Friends can provide good advice on investment decisions!

New paper out! Did you ever wonder if your friends give you good or bad financial advice? We show that that social networks can actually provide good advice in settings where individuals are personally connected. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…