Florian Muench

Excited @EconThatMatters shares our RCT/my JMP: Female entrepreneur consortia in Tunisia boost exports & sales. Cooperation cuts costs of searching for clients abroad, expands networks, & builds confidence.econthatmatters.com/2024/12/shared…

Presenting the GABRIEL software package, which uses GPT to quantify attributes in qualitative data, from Hemanth Asirvatham, Elliott Mokski, and Andrei Shleifer nber.org/papers/w34834

🆕📢Ahead-of-print in #REEP📢 "Causal Inference for Biodiversity Conservation" by Kathy Baylis, Alberto Garcia, and Robert Heilmayr (@econ_servation). 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/b2a199a

Abolish ICE.

The French are not lazy. They just enjoy leisure more than most (no irony here) And this is perfectly fine: . As productivity increases, it is perfectly reasonable to take it partly as more leisure (fewer hours per week, earlier retirement age), and only partly in income.

He was just protecting a woman.

"The US is strong, Europe is weak" You hear it everywhere: in the US national defense strategy, in speeches by Trump, Bessent, Lutnick, etc., in Davos this week. You hear it everywhere but it's a myth. The US has not grown faster than Europe since 2010, not by one iota. 🧵

Der Aufstieg Chinas als Wissenschaftsnation ist atemberaubend. Bei den Top 5% Journalen dominiert China mittlerweile, US und Europa fallen zurück. Wenn wir unser Bildungssystem und die Forschung nicht besser organisieren und finanzieren werden wir arm sein nber.org/papers/w34694

📢 Job vacancy: Research Assistant, Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE Work with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, diffusion & productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs 📈💡 Apply by 16 Feb 2026

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents were filmed assaulting U.S. citizens outside a HIGH SCHOOL in Minneapolis, pepper-spraying students as agents swarmed the school entrance. Let that sink in. School administrators and staff desperately tried to get agents off school property, while ushering students away from armed federal agents. Chaos. Panic. Children running for safety. And yes… agents pepper-sprayed STUDENTS. This didn’t happen by accident. This happened because the Trump administration stripped schools of their “sensitive location” protections, opening the door for ICE and Border Patrol to operate on school grounds. In plain terms: The federal government intentionally removed protections that once kept armed agents away from children, and now we are watching the predictable result… kids being assaulted with chemical weapons at school. Outside a high school. In broad daylight. On U.S. soil. This is not “border security.” This is state violence. And it’s being unleashed on children.

It’s official and it’s shameful: US multinationals will be exempt from the global minimum tax 🧵

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025: scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-brea…

My favourite paper of the year — LLMs are already having a large impact on the number of scientific papers produced!!

A few months ago, I said that a higher minimum wage can lead to creative destruction. Today, a new QJE paper shows exactly that: a higher MW yields "fewer but more productive firms". High wages often improve economic efficiency! It's a crucial part of the Nordic model.

Inviting contributions for G&D's November 2026 issue on 'Rise of the global right, its implications on social justice and the push back by feminist resistances'! Deadline: 25 January 2026, 11:59pm UTC Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Call here: genderanddevelopment.org/call-for-contr…

How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act Last month on VoxDev, Ben Milner @UofA_Econ showed how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

🚨 Our paper forthcoming in @EJ_RES. Using a field experiment in Lahore, we show: 1. Residents in developing cities demand air quality forecasts; 2. Training helps residents forecast pollution more accurately; 3. When residents receive forecasts, they adapt behavior. 🧵 👇🏽

"The China Shock destroyed millions of American manufacturing jobs." At least that's a claim. But prices connect everyone. When you shock one part of the market, the "control" group moves. Today we have 3,000 words on "The Missing Intercept" problem. economicforces.xyz/p/the-invisibl…

Being in nature reduces fatigue and boosts attention. 34 experiments: After walking, playing, and learning in parks, forests, or water, kids & teens show better focus and self-control. Not all outdoor time is equal. Green and blue spaces are more refreshing than urban settings.