📢Calling PhD students & early post-docs in #healtheconomics📢 Join the 1st CINCH-dggö Academy in Health Economics! When? Aug 28 - Sep 1, 2023 Where? CINCH, University of Duisburg-Essen Theme: "The Economics of Pandemics and Risky Health Behaviours." #EconTwitter

📰💡 Our paper on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa (w/ Jan Bietenbeck & Mohammad H. Sepahvand) featured in The Conversation Africa, check it out!👇🏻

🗓️ This Thursday, October 26: We very are happy to welcome Jan Bietenbeck (Lund University ) at the #RseFUBerlin to present his work on "Peer Motivation and Educational Success". More on the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität: wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/vera…

Autonomous schools, achievement and segregation By Natalie Irmert Jan Bietenbeck Linn Mattisson and Felix Weinhardt Read: ow.ly/U6wm50Qk4os

Our new paper on the effect of autonomous schools on achievement and segregation is out!!! We find that autonomous schools widen inequalities in achievement and increase segregation by SES and immigrant status. A more detailed thread follows after 🎄🎅

📢 Autonomous schools (UK: academies , US: charter schools; Sweden: free schools) Do they really improve education? 📚 Natalie Irmert Jan Bietenbeck Linn Mattisson Felix Weinhardt Centre for Economic Performance see greater inequality and no educational improvement buff.ly/3uTxaK4

We are pleased to announce that the 8th Swedish Conference in Economics will be held in Lund, Sweden, on 15-16 November, 2024. The event is arranged by the Swedish Economic Association together with the Department of Economics at Lund University. sites.google.com/view/8th-swedi…

I was so honored to attend this last year for the inaugural program. Daniel Kühnle makes this program so awesome, and everyone should attend! I’ll be very jealous of everyone in Essen in August 🤓