Joachim Winter

Handed in my thesis two weeks ago and finally have time for fun again. So I built two small games about AI vs. real economics writing. Can you tell a real top-5 journal abstract from an AI-generated fake? Three lives, no hints, leaderboard. kevin-kloiber.com/ai-or-real.html #EconTwitter

Our paper "When Does Mandatory Price Disclosure Lower Prices?" is out in the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics! When does price transparency lower prices -- and when doesn't it? Paper: doi.org/10.1086/734145 Summary: promarket.org/2024/07/23/whe…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Financial Advice" by Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Koenen, and Christine Laudenbach. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

"Look at what happened to ChatGPT usage when college ended for the year" @awealthofcs

What holds back Germany? It is not high energy prices. It's real challenges are aging, underinvestment, and too much red tape. Read more here: imf.org/en/News/Articl…

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

Why is Management So Male? @HaegeleIngrid has a fascinating new paper on a German firm: Women (compared to men) are 27% less likely to apply for early-career promotions. Is this due to their aversion to team leadership? ggd.world/p/why-is-manag… 🇩🇪

My survey on causal discovery (learning causality in a system of variables in a data-driven manner) is now available on ArXiv, as pointed out by @CavaliereGiu: arxiv.org/abs/2407.08602

🎉 Very happy to see this paper officially published!! 🙏 I have been blessed and learnt so much working with this amazing team @bblockwood @DTaubinsky 🧵 Thread on the paper will follow soon!

Hi EconTwitter! 📈 Interested in the #econometrics of identification and its relation to statistical decision theory? Check out👇this Econometric Theory (forthcoming) paper by Charles Manski (@NorthwesternU)! A very interesting insight about how identification can play an key role in statistical decision theory. Very cool stuff - don't miss out! ⭐️ Links: - ET: cambridge.org/core/journals/… - WP version: arxiv.org/abs/2204.11318

Excited to share that our paper "Provider effects in antibiotic prescribing: Evidence from physician exits" with @hannes_ullrich is available in @J_HumanResource, open access! 📝doi.org/10.3368/jhr.05… Key findings ⬇️

"Nicht mit den Low Hanging Fruits zufriedengeben" Warum ein #Forschungsdatengesetz so, wie das @BMBF_Bund es bislang plant, für die Wissenschaft kaum Fortschritte bringen würde: ein Interview mit Regina Riphahn und Rüdiger Bachmann. Im Blog: jmwiarda.de/2024/05/10/nic…

I'm late on promoting this JBES paper with my terrific coauthors, @TymonSloczynski and @sderyauysal. We study different versions of IPW LATE estimators. Normalization is crucial for ensuring translation invariance and scale invariance when using logs. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@simongerman600 Fantastic

One of my all time favourite Austrian maps. Phonetic Austrian city names for English speakers.

🚨 Promotionsstelle in empirischer Makro 🚨 Zum 1.10. suche ich eine neue Doktorandin/einen neuen Doktoranden für mein Team @FAUWiSo @UniFAU. Idealerweise mit Interesse an einem Projekt zur empirischen Analyse makroökonomischer Erwartungen. Alle Infos: statistik.rw.fau.de/files/2024/05/…

Looking forward to your submissions! Workshop on the Economics of Childhood Nutrition Dates: June 26-27 Keynote speaker: Prof. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach 👉🏼 Call for paper: tinyurl.com/2s3njuzj Deadline: May 1 📷#EconTwitter #Research #nutrition @RoyalHolloway @TheIFS

@DVorgrimler Wenn in München, dann melden!

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@fcinnio @GalorOded @HornungErik @RevEconStudies Congratulations! Very happy for you!

Very happy that our paper with Q. Ashraf, @GalorOded, B. Gershman and @HornungErik is forthcoming at @RevEconStudies. We propose the complementarity between physical capital and effective labor as a mechanism to explain the decline of coercive labor institutions.