Daniel Kamhöfer

New Year's Resolutions: Leaving Twitter: ✅ Follow me on Joining Bluesky (@kamhoefer.bsky.social) Joining LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/daniel-kamh…) Go to hell, @elonmusk

@henninghermes Fantastic, congrats!

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨  Our paper on the impact of working memory training is now online and forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy! 🎉 Joint work w/ Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel 🙏🏻 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1086/732884 Thread below 👇🏻

🚨Job Opening🚨 I'm looking for a PhD student or Postdoc (full-time, 100% TV-L 13) to join my team at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau @rptu_kl_ld 👇 *applied micro research *fair teaching load *fantastic team *remote work options Spread the word! jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/9f4…

@rabe_b @EJ_RES Thank you, Birgitta!

@DanielKamhoefer @EJ_RES Congrats, interesting paper Daniel!

Check out our new paper: Surveillance and Self-Control @EJ_RES 🥳 1/🧵 Nearly 30 years after Reunification, former communist East German residence have significantly higher self-control than their West German counterparts, despite of the length they lived in East Germany 👇

9/ If you want to know more about the positive association between self-control and life outcomes, have a look at this paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo…

8/ We benefitted from the reports of five (!!) reviewers – thank you @steffenhuck @EJ_RES for your guidance throughout the process🙏 A summary of the paper can be found here: fbe.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/media…

7/ Get the paper under: doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Thank you, my fantastic coauthors Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch @Sydney_Uni @MelbInstUOM @DICEHHU @HHU_de @iza_bonn @lifecourseAust @rptu_kl_ld @CESifoNetwork

6/ We find evidence that the local level of government surveillance (measured by the regional density of unofficial informers of the Stasi – East Germany’s infamous Ministry for State Security) is positively associated with the self-control of people who lived in East Germany:

5/ Unlike previous evidence for childhood and adolescence, we find no gender gap in self-control in adulthood. There is also difference in self-control along parental education:

4/ This difference in self-control between East and West Germans corresponds to the same effect as being 15 years older:

3/ Contrary to the pattern found for many economic and social outcomes, having lived in East Germany is associated with a 0.25 standard deviations higher self-control (that, in turn, is associated with more positive life outcomes):

2/ We provide novel quasi-experimental evidence on institutional determinants of self-control. Trait self-control is measured using the 13-item Brief Self-Control Scale – well-established in psychology and for the first time implemented in a representative 🇩🇪 survey @DIW_Berlin

@ben_elsner @MichaelMDowling It truly is a great time to be alive😉

@MichaelMDowling May I (ze German) introduce you to the next level: Der Pfandring. People who don't want to return their bottles can leave them there for others to return them... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfandring…

@_ToFeWe Let students present their term papers, even in 5 min you will know whether they understand what they/GPT have written. Also: purely GPT-written papers are usually quite bad (superficial, repetitive, words humans don't use), so the risk of grading students too high is manageable

How do others deal with this? GPT detectors are flawed and are not hard evidence. The term papers (yes, plural) have no obvious other GPT problems like hallucinated citations, etc.

@cpeukert @j_haese @KaiserFraenzi @Staub_a_lex fyi @_ToFeWe

New paper: “Strategic Behavior and AI Training Data” (in short : 👩‍🎨 vs 🤖). We provide evidence on the tension between rightsholders (#Copyright) and #AI developers. With Florian Abeillon, @j_haese, @KaiserFraenzi and @Staub_a_lex.

Schooling and Self-Control | Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

@schmal_w Für knapp 700 Euro im Monat scheint so einiges zu gehen...

Kann man auch ohne "wissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt" promovieren?

@econ_lessmann Auch schön (da keine Zeitreihe): nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

@econ_lessmann Ich habe ein paar Beispiele für Korrelation≠Kausalität: medium.com/swlh/a-visuali… Mein Highlight: cnbc.com/2017/10/26/hei…