Alexander Ahammer
@AhammerAlex
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Assistant Professor @jku_econ , health/labor/risky behavior
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Friends, I want to tell you about new work with
@FahnMatthias
and
@florastiftinger
I am very excited about. The paper is called
"Outside options and worker motivation"
A short-ish 🧵
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I can fund a PhD student for two years (30h/week, no teaching obligations). If you want to work with me and use cool admin data please apply:
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TFW your Covid paper is rejected 6 months after submission because "it feels like it was written in Summer 2020 and not very much revised since then"
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Our paper on the intergenerational correlation of opioid dependence found a great home at Health Economics. Here's the final version: (w/
@HallaMartin
)
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Yes, we –
@HallaMartin
, Mario Lackner, and me – also wrote a
#COVID19
paper. Ever wondered how much mass gatherings actually contributed to early spread of the virus? We look at county-level variation in NBA and NHL games, which comes exclusively from the leagues' schedules. /1
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So they let me teach a class I called „The Economics of Sex, Drugs, and Crime“
@jku_econ
. Has anybody taught something similar? Any syllabi for econ of risky behavior courses around?
#EconTwitter
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Friends, I would like to tell you about a new paper with
@DGrubl
and
@EbmerWinter
I am really proud of. It's called
"The health externalities of downsizing"
🧵
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My
#zeroresult
paper with Nicole Schneeweis and
@HallaMartin
on the effects of maternity leave on child outcomes just got accepted at
@JHealthEcon
! This is the WP version:
#NullEffectsMatter
#TeamPreciseNulls
@JohnHolbein1
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very proud of this paper, excited it found such a great home at RESTAT
Downsizing affects the health of workers who remain in the firm. Just Accepted new paper, "The Health Effects of Downsizing Survival" by Alexander Ahammer
@AhammerAlex
, Dominik Grübl, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
@EbmerWinter
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Wenn Universitäten keine Bildungseinrichtungen sind, was sind sie dann?
wrong answers only
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we celebrate
@analisapackham
tonight. thanks for visiting us and becoming a part of the
@jku_econ
family, we hope to see you again soon!
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Data management slides are now online for my
@Stata
#programming
course, module D on fully automated table and graph production will follow soon (). Hope
@scottimberman
doesn‘t mind me quoting him.
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Happy to see our minimum drinking age paper in press. Using admin and survey data from Austria, we find that a low MLDA doesn't necessarily help teens to ease into drinking (w/ amazing coauthors
@SBauernschuster
@HallaMartin
and Hannah Lachenmaier)-Cheers!
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I’m visiting
@VanderbiltEcon
for the fall semester, let me know if you would like to meet up!
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To combat the
#OpioidCrisis
, we need a better understanding of the determinants of
#addiction
. In new work with
@HallaMartin
we test for the intergenerational transmission of prescription opioid usage and heroin abuse. Using linked administrative data from Austria, (1/4)
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Alcohol consumption and smoking rates in Austria, spaghetti are other OECD countries
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Austria now has two top-5 publishing economists in the highest levels of government
Very appropriately, the new Austrian minister of labor
@MagratheanTimes
, a world-class economist and great colleague, will be sworn in by
@econometricsoc
ECMA author (Austrian president)
@vanderbellen
on Monday. Congratulations!
Tu felix Austria!
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It's official. I'm happy to announce that I decided to stay at
@jkulinz
to be an Assistant Professor beginning October '19.
@jku_econ
is a thriving young department offering ideal conditions to do research in applied micro. I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity to stay here!
@jku_econ
has finished expansion program with six tenure-track positions: we are extremely happy with strong economists from Edinburgh, Linz, Munich and Vienna:
@FahnMatthias
,
@AhammerAlex
,
@WFrimmel
, Daniel Schäfer, Michael Irlacher and Dieter Pennerstorfer.
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I got a 50 day free access link for our maternity leave paper from Elsevier, so why not share it:
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New work with the awesome
@analisapackham
on health effects of UI:
I know it's been tough all-around lately. But since pandemic UI is about to run out, I want to tell you about a new paper I am super proud of (with
@AhammerAlex
) that can inform this debate:
“Dying to Work: Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Health”
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Very excited to present new work with
@analisapackham
and
@jonisaacsmith
today at
@VanderbiltEcon
. Thanks for hosting me!
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Does sentencing become more fair if we use algorithmic risk scores in court rooms? Depends on how they are implemented. Very interesting stuff!
My slides on algorithms & fairness are here:
Punchline: details of the algorithms matter, but how they affect human behavior is equally important & often tough to predict.
Other presenters' slides will be posted online as well. (cc:
@m_sendhil
@achould
)
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It's official! I'm beyond excited to have Analisa in Linz this summer
European friends! This seems as good of a time as any to announce:
I will be visiting
@jku_econ
in Linz, Austria from July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023.
Let’s hang!
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Ich durfte in der
@DiePressecom
was zu Drogenpolitik schreiben. Wer mich kennt, weiß ja, dass ich Entkriminalisierung unterstütze—hier ein paar Argumente warum das sinnvoll sein kann
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While the world is going to shit, I‘m happy to announce that I learned how to make pizza dough myself
#EconCookingTwitter
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@florianklenk
Es sendet halt ein richtig schlechtes Signal an meine Studentinnen und Studenten, die sich monatelang mit sehr viel Herzblut reinhängen um wirklich herausragende Abschlussarbeiten zu schreiben.
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Finally published!
✨New Article✨
How did mass gatherings contribute to early COVID-19 mortality? This article studies the ban of mass gatherings and finds each additional mass gathering increased the cumulative number of COVID-19 deaths by 10.3%.
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No more Fucking in Austria. Today, we mourn the loss of Fucking, a village of 106 in beautiful Upper Austria that changed its name to "Fugging" h/t
@monikaturyna
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Der
@ASzigetvari
hat was zu unserem Mass Layoff Paper im
@derStandardat
geschrieben
@EbmerWinter
@DGrubl
Spannende Arbeit: Wie wirkt sich ein großer Personalabbau gesundheitlich auf Mitarbeiter aus, die ihr Stelle behalten? Eine Studie hat das auf Basis von Versicherungsdaten in OÖ untersucht.Spitalsaufenthalte& Medikamente steigen.
@AhammerAlex
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I'm having so much fun preparing and teaching this class it's ridiculous
So they let me teach a class I called „The Economics of Sex, Drugs, and Crime“
@jku_econ
. Has anybody taught something similar? Any syllabi for econ of risky behavior courses around?
#EconTwitter
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Lieber
@derStandardat
, ich versteh schon; if it bleeds it leads, aber können wir bitte nicht vergessen, dass Korrelation != Kausalität? Nur weil zwei Faktoren in der selben Population auftreten, heißt das nicht, dass der eine den anderen beeinflusst. /1
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Join Michele Belot,
@Osea82
,
@mslater_johnson
,
@ZoeMcLaren
, Joy Tong, Sheryll Namingit, and me for session F03 "Health and Labor Economics" at
#LABECON2020
. I'm presenting new work on intra-firm health spillovers of job loss.
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Online teaching over at HBS
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We have incorporated all your feedback and will post a new version of this paper soon. We do a lot more now in terms of sensitivity and falsification tests, and the results do seem to be robust.
Research by
@AhammerAlex
,
@HallaMartin
& Mario Lackner (
@jku_econ
) finds that 1 additional mass gathering at
#NBA
&
#NHL
games increased the cumulative number of
#COVID19
deaths in affected counties by 13%, demonstrating the effectiveness of cancellation:
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Super interesting keynote by
@HallaMartin
at
#NOeG2020
on trends in the usage of administrative data in econ.
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What a place to finally read the
@agoodmanbacon
DD paper (I know, I‘m a bit late to the party)
#homeoffice
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fire up your DD models people
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This started 2015 as a fun little side project during my PhD, excited to finally see it published.
New publication: "Exploring Variations in Healthcare Expenditures — What is the Role of Practice Styles?" by
@AhammerAlex
and Thomas Schober is accepted at Health Economics. Find the working paper here:
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Und jetzt alle mitsingen:
@monikaturyna
@AhammerAlex
@chr_mich
@arminfidler
@MichiWagner4
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I would actually love to present our teenage binge drinking paper at a geriatrics conference in Amsterdam
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@florianederer
On the positive side, she seems to have a semi-decent command of Google Translate
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A lot of p-hacking in IV and DID models, less in RDDs and RCTs. Also, much less p-hacking in econ than in other disciplines. Check out this figure:
Forthcoming in the AER: "Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics" by Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, and Anthony Heyes.
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Arbeitslosigkeit macht krank, go ahead
@derStandardat
Forum...
“Arbeitslosigkeit macht krank”. Gastspiel vom
@AhammerAlex
@jku_econ
im heutigen
@WU_econ
#Ökonomieblog
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This semester I established a course in
@Stata
#programming
with focus on econometrics for our
@jku_econ
students. Anyone interested can find my slides and other material linked in the syllabus (which is continuously updated):
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We need drastic measures to contain the
#OpioidEpidemic
. In a new working paper I evaluate a supply-side intervention Austria implemented 2012 to (successfully) combat polydrug abuse in opioid addicts: - comments are highly welcome!
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was mach ma liebe regierung?
South Africa halts administration of AstraZeneca vaccine after early trial shows it’s ineffective against B1351 variant. Many African countries had planned on using AstraZeneca, which will now modify its vaccine. Modification will take at least 8 months
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These were determined long before the first case became public, and play was suspended suddenly, which mitigates endogeneity concerns. We find that an additional game increased COVID deaths in counties hosting or neighboring venues by 16 per million pop or 11%, cases increased /2
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@florianklenk
Wenn das ein ghost writer geschrieben hat dann war das der unfähigste ghost writer in der Geschichte des ghostwritings. Kann ich mir beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen.
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Ich freue mich wirklich sehr über das Gramatneusiedl-Projekt und bin schon gespannt was rauskommt, aber solche Formulierungen finde ich problematisch
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New paper on teenage binge drinking and minimum drinking age regulation
We formed an Austrian-Bavarian combo to study the “Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking” in Austria (MLDA of 16 as in many European countries), with
@ahammeralex
@hallamartin
& Hannah Lachenmaier.
#econtwitter
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Die
@DiePressecom
hat was zu unserem minimum drinking age paper geschrieben: (mit
@SBauernschuster
, Hannah Lachenmaier und
@HallaMartin
)
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das Ergebnis kann also rein durch Zufall rausgekommen sein. Das geben die Autoren auch selbst zu. Im Wissenschaftsteil darf man schon erwarten, dass solche Fragen ernst genommen werden. /N
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So we're closing schools and kindergardens again. No mandatory masks, and of course brothels are still open too. Sounds like a travesty? A brief look into the literature would suffice to identify more efficient and economically reasonable measures.
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Another week, another amazing speaker in our research seminar.
We are very happy to welcome Michele Belot (
@CornellEcon
and
@EuropeanUni
) to our ONLINE research seminar this Wednesday. Please register here:
#EconTwitter
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Very happy that our paper on outside options and worker motivation is part of the program
@florastiftinger
@FahnMatthias
The program of the next NBER Organizational Economics Working Group meeting is up!
Sessions will be live streamed on Youtube.
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Ja klar, reduzieren wir die Öffnungszeiten um so viele Leute wie möglich in kürzerer Zeit in Innenräume zu quetschen... WAS MACHEN WIR BITTE?
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Nicole presenting new work on the risky behavior effects of birth order
#ESPE2022
Does your birth order matter whether you engage in risky behaviours? Nicole Schneeweis finds it matters for accidents, injuries & alcohol poisoning not for teen pregnancy
@AhammerAlex
&
@mrszed78
at
#ESPE2022
check this
@USydneyEcon
@CINCHessen
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Excited to have
@smilleralert
in our seminar today!
Next week Wednesday, October 7, in our ONLINE research seminar: Sarah Miller (
@UMichiganNews
) presenting the paper "Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion". Register here:
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Very interesting and comprehensive paper linking mass layoffs and changes to unemployment benefit schemes to crime in Denmark. Forthcoming in JEEA:
Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms
Myself+
@amine_ouazad
Our new discussion paper asks whether individual job loss impacts crime and assesses the importance of the unemployment insurance system
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Das Papier scheint mehr Leute zu interessieren als meine ganze restliche Forschung zusammen
Die
@nachrichten_at
berichten heute über die aktuelle Studie von
@AhammerAlex
,
@HallaMartin
& Mario Lackner zu dem Effekt von Großveranstaltungen auf die Ausbreitung von
#COVID19
.
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Zum Thema Websites um eine halbe Million Euro. Mich beschleicht das Gefühl, dass es ein bisl billiger auch gegangen wär.
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@mistrass
@MartinThuer
@Lesart_
Am Ende ist sich halt doch jeder selbst der Nächste
#Solidarit
ät
#WieWir
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Austria is becoming famous again
6) My sources tell me, Austria 🇦🇹 ministry of health had refused to close the border to Tyrol region... and guess why? Because Tyrol’s hotel lobbying organization has threatens to REOPEN ALL HOTELS if Austria’s Ministry of Health closes the border to Tyrol. 🔥
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Wow, thank y‘all so much for the response on this. Still enjoying life at the beach right now, but will go through all your suggestions as soon as I‘m back.
#EconTwitter
is amazing.
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Ich geh dann mal Mehl und Scheißhäuslpapier kaufen
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Great to see so many familiar faces at
#EssenHealth2021
but man do I miss in-person conferences
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Thanks again for hosting me
@KatrinHuber17
@shushmargaryan
et al, it was a blast!
Super interesting talk in our PRSE yesterday! Thanks again
@AhammerAlex
for traveling to Berli n for the presentation and for meeting researchers from our department! So great to be back to in-person seminars and real networking sessions! 🎉
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@EbmerWinter
Man soll halt an Sachen arbeiten zu denen man einen persönlichen Bezug hat, siehe etwa
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