11 days left to submit to the 3rd Zurich AI+Econ workshop!

I'm interested in the ways that families use private resources to supplement or substitute for public schooling. So I'm thrilled that our (cleverly titled?) paper "Kumon In: The Recent, Rapid Rise of Private Tutoring Centers" has been conditionally accepted by Education Finance & Policy.

Today in The Economist: Special report on Schooling’s stagnation "A mass of research shows that developing brainiacs is the most reliable and lasting way to stoke economic growth." economist.com/special-report… "Schools in rich countries … need to get back to basics"

Excited that “Religion and Growth” will be out in the next issue of JEL! (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) Two threads on our survey: x.com/woessmann/stat… x.com/jaredcrubin/st…

Studying the text of collective bargaining agreements — Elliot Ash, Bentley Macleod, Dr Suresh Naidu, Ben arold. Very creative way of measuring job amenities!

Travelling back from my first NBER Summer Institute. So many great papers and researchers, what a treat! I'll work hard to be allowed to come again 😉 🤞

Learned so much when writing this survey (on a tragic topic) with the amazing Andy Ferrara

🚨New working paper!🚨We study the effects of five paternity leave extensions in Spain on early child development, with our own survey data and an RD-DiD approach: bse.eu/research/worki…

¿Cómo medir si un adolescente cree que su inteligencia está fija o puede crecer? Lo hacen para país en vías de desarrollo por primera vez. Validan machine learning que interpreta SMS. Elliott Ash Benjamin Arold Jairo F. Gudiño-Rosero Ana Trindade Ribeiro en J Res Adolesc pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39166447/

🎆 Job alert 🚨 I offer a 3 years PhD position (75%) at TH Nürnberg founded by a DFG project on labormarket outcomes of disabled/disadvantaged youths. - Close connection with IAB - No teaching obligation - More details below Application deadline 15.Sep Please spread😊🙏

Ich beobachte das seit Jahren: Nach Anschlägen formulieren Politiker steile Forderungen und wecken riesige Erwartungen, die schnell enttäuscht werden und das Vertrauen in die Politik letztlich weiter untergraben. 1/

Today is my last day as postdoc ETH Zürich. Thanks a ton to Elliott Ash and all team members of the ETH Center for Law & Economics for two fantastic years. I could not have had a better postdoc experience! Next step: Cambridge University

This should be amazing as always … Submit your papers by November 1!!

The market for text-as-data papers is thickening!! Come check out the latest and greatest on zoom, Sept 16-17:

Our VoxEU column summarizing our (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) recent JEL piece “Religion and Growth” cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…