Oliver Wach

🚨Working Paper Alert 🚨 DO STREET NAMES INFLUENCE PEOPLE? In a recent paper, we investigate through an in-person survey whether street names affect people’s knowledge, opinions and attitudes. Here is what we do and what we find:👇 [1/10]

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

For new PhD students in social science (and some old professors - I sure needed this a few years ago!): prepared some notes on what the "2024 PhD Tech Stack" should look like. Goal: your research is replicable, accessible, and efficient. 1/9

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” #NobelPrize

Thrilled and honored to be visiting @warwickecon! Huge thanks to @essobecker for the invite and for hosting. I'll be here until next weekend—let me know if someone would like to catch up before I leave!

In a new paper, Markevich, Naumenko, and Qian estimate that 77% of deaths in the 1933 Soviet famine can be explained by bias against ethnic Ukrainians. restud.com/the-causes-of-…

Honored to present my paper at the Applied Micro Lunch Seminar at @PSEinfo in Paris! A huge thanks to @PikettyWIL for hosting and to everyone for their valuable feedback and new ideas. Excited to finally enjoy that 'lunch' sandwich afterward!

📢The 3rd Berlin Workshop on Gender Economics takes place at @WZB_Berlin on Sept 26-27, hosted by @majaadena. Great speaker lineup! Keynote: @MurielNiederle from @Stanford wzb.eu/de/node/81243 #BerlinGenderEcon24 #EconTwitter

Hoy finaliza el Taller del programa de Doctorado en Historia Económica de la @ubeconomics, @uc3m y @ehvalencia. Gracias a participantes y agradecid@s por el apoyo de la Fundació de @CaixaEnginyers. Nos vemos a las 10 hs. Aula 2021 @ubfacecoiempres

🔔CfP deadline approaching: Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Gender Economics. Keynote by Prof. Muriel Niederle (Stanford University). We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!!!🥳 Deadline: June 15th, 2024. wzb.eu/system/files/d… @majaadena

What a great time! I just left Madrid and @uc3m, where I spent three months at the at the Figuerola Institute and the Social Science Department. Thank you for everyone who made this time so enjoyable, productive, and inspiring! I will definitely come back to this city.

Wrapping up a great workshop in economic history in Uppsala with lots of exciting presentations! Thanks to all participants and @JeanetBentzen for an excellent keynote on the Causes and Consequences of Religiosity.

TOMORROW (15 May): AYEW Economic History Workshop! Join us for our final workshop of Season 8 at 11:00am BST to listen to @EnguehardJoseph (@ENSdeLyon), Matteo Sestito (@amseaixmars) and @ob_wach (@FU_Berlin) Sign up for Zoom details: monash.edu/business/impac…

Working on Eastern Europe? Got a new project to discuss? Make Dublin your destination! Don't miss the WEAST workshop with keynote @essobecker. Deadline approaching fast!

DAAD Scholarships for the Winter Semester 2024: Tashkent!!! @OEI_econ @oei_news wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/studium-lehre/…

@GaspardTissand1 @SorbonneParis1 Congrats!! Well deserved :)

Women have become more liberal over the past decade. Men... not so much. Great piece by @jburnmurdoch, feat. @_alice_evans ft.com/content/29fd9b…

@Stata Some good old instruments!

Beat the winter cold with some Stata coziness. Join our #StataGiveaway to win a brand new beanie and pullover. To enter… ◆ Comment how you’ll be using Stata in 2024 ◆ Click the ❤️ below ◆ Be sure you’re following us We’ll announce the winner on 21 December at 10:00 a.m.

scenes from the Warsaw movie theater where they were livestreaming, from the parliament, the end of the PiS government

I am very happy and honoured to receive the Joachim Herz Foundation Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics. For the next two years, they'll support my research with local historical data in Poland from the last 100 years!