Sunčica Vujić

📢 Call for papers: AEC 2026 📅 Belgrade, Sept 10–11 Co-organised with @laralebedinski & @IEN_Beograd 👤 @ImranRasul3, Sarah Smith, @EbmerWinter Boutique format (30–40) → real discussion & collaboration 👉 tinyurl.com/57yzpctj #Econ #AppliedEconomics #CallForPapers

Advice for PhD students in economics about using AI, from the brilliant Isaiah Andrews. This should probably be circulated to all PhD cohorts economics.mit.edu/sites/default/…

This is H.E. Ambassador of Kingdom of Belgium arriving ystdy to meet Rector of Uni of Belgrade. The rule that Uni is free & independent is no longer valid in 🇷🇸. Ambassador was stopped by police who occupied rector's office on the basis of a flimsy order from the prosecutor.

🧑‍🏫Keynotes: @femonomics & @ImranRasul3

EALE 2026 in Barcelona! Deadline February 1, submit here: ub.edu/eale2026/

2026 IEA World Congress - Call for Papers Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November. Submit your paper: ieawc2026.org/submission/

📣ESPE members have elected David Jaeger as the next ESPE President-Elect in 2026 (President in 2027). @elisabettadecao, @roby_nistico, and Nuria Rodriguez-Planas will join the ESPE Council for a term of 3 years starting in 2026. 👏Congrats to all!

📢Call for Papers #ESPE2026 🇫🇮Helsinki, June 11-13, 2026 📆 Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 🧑‍🏫Keynotes: @sulealan_econ & @ImranRasul3 👩‍🏫President: @ADelavande 👨‍🏫President-Elect: David Jaeger 👐 Local organisers: @KristiinaHuttu2 et al. ℹ️Info: espe2026.org Please share!🙏

Economics Journals as Tennis Tournaments 🧵(for an extremely niche audience) Quarterly Journal of Economics = Wimbledon The oldest and most influential event, but also clubby, snobby, and elitist. To win it you must train on a very particular surface/ZIP code.

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be in Denver May 1-2--you can now submit! Deadline for submissions is October 31--it should be a great conference! mailchi.mp/sole-jole/sole…

📢Call for papers: 🚀4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: @michelacarlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! ifo.de/en/cesifo/even… Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 Co-organizers @CaterinaPavese1 @mtotarelli

Causal returns to education - new review paper w/ Psacharopoulos: Across 182 estimates from 55 countries, causal (IV) methods show that the payoff to schooling is 38% higher than traditional estimates ➡️Each additional year of education raises earnings by ~10% on average ➡️Returns are highest in developing countries ➡️Benefits are especially strong for disadvantaged groups Bottom line: Education remains one of the best investments—for individuals and society. 🔗 shorturl.at/sr2jZ #Education #Economics #HumanCapital #Policy

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data" by Daniel Kopp journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… @ChicagoJournals @SOLE_Labor_Econ #EconTwitter

New in #REHO: Fertility and upward mobility: First-in-family graduate women in the UK show significantly higher rates of childlessness than their peers.\by @adameczanna, Anna Lovász & @SuncicaVujic using @CLScohorts BCS data @ucl editor was @mguldi buff.ly/j3QMtPz

The fertility gap between graduate and non-graduate women becomes statistically insignificant when accounting for first-in-family (FiF) status. FiF graduates have fewer children than both non-FiF graduates and non-graduates, who exhibit similar fertility patterns. A great new paper just out! link.springer.com/article/10.100… #demography #fertility #population #UK

First in the family, last in the family? 📢 New in REHO @econoflove With Anna Lovász and @SuncicaVujic, we show that first-in-family graduate women are more likely to be childless at age 46 than other grads & non-grads. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) will deliver a plenary lecture at the 21st World Congress of the IEA. 📍 Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia 🗓️ 22 June 2026 | 🕥 10:30–11:30 More about the IEA 2026 World Congress: ieawc2026.org

Twenty-first World Congress of the IEA Paper submission is open! Details here: ieawc2026.org/submission/

👋Check out my new website, including the latest research, PhD students, and media appearances: suncicavujic.com As a bonus, it also has a pronunciation of my name. All background photos are my own. Thanks to Stefan from mariokovdesign.com

A message from the President Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and President of IEA, and Eric Maskin, Harvard University, President-elect and Programme Chair.

Submissions for the 21st IEA World Congress in Belgrade, June 22-26, 2026, are open: ieawc2026.org. Announced plenary speakers are Esther Duflo, Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Jean Tirole, and Hélène Rey.