Who we are. A short thread on #ourHistory 1/8 Our story goes back to 1927 when @TilburgU was founded as Roman Catholic University of Commerce. Right from the start, the study program of the commercial school focused on topics of concrete ‘#economic reality’. #econTwitter

Jonna Olsson of @NHHEcon was on campus last week Jonna talked about the relationship between productivity and work hours, and how it crucially depends on the extent of insurance available across households https://t.co/FkKPtDVN90

The 3rd Dutch Health Econometrics workshop is under way at Radboud University in Nijmegen today https://t.co/MTnET4dJWL

Matthias Doepke @mdoepke of @LSEEcon was on campus this week Matthias talked about historical laws that suppressed women's rights in the labor market, and how to interpret them through a dynamic politico-economic model https://t.co/6R97CWGWYo

Our colleagues at Tilburg Economics and Tilburg Finance also have their own great lineup of speakers, here are their seminars Economics: https://t.co/HwgHKZiSOQ Finance: https://t.co/N2yHfr8rOE

Phillip Heiler of Aarhus University @AarhusUni_int was our second speaker, with a talk onHeterogeneity Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatments https://t.co/k3J7zVJFn9

Nadja van't Hoff of the University of Amsterdam @UvA_EB was our first speaker this week, with a talk on Shapley Instruments https://t.co/LrS7yZUiSy

The seminar season has started and here is our lineup of speakers this semester! Tilburg Econometrics seminar:

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20393 Environmental Impacts of Banning Vehicle Advertising Christoph Walsh @TilburgEOR @TilburgU, Jiekai Zhang @jiekai_zhang @HelsinkiGSE @Hanken_fi https://t.co/SNox1oSJKn #CEPR_IO #CEPR_CCE #EconTwitter

Bo Honoré of @PrincetonEcon was at @TilburgU earlier this week to give a talk on recent advances in the estimation of nonlinear panel data models. https://t.co/tQfIQ3AZqv Bo ends the seminar season for us this semester — more to come in the fall!

Since some have asked, here's a link to the slides and Stata files: https://t.co/YyCY3JbKrj

This was a terrific visit for me! Tilburg has a long history of excellence in econometrics. Lots of fun interactions with econometricians and empirical researchers. It’s a place I’ve wanted to visit for some time.

Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge was @TilburgU last week to talk about a unified approach to regression-based Diff-in-Diff with staggered entry All recent DiD estimators are special cases of one flexible estimating equation This seminar was incredible, thank you Jeff!

Lukas Mahler of @LeuvenEconomics was at @TilburgU for a seminar on the aggregate and long-run consequences of school tracking == the practice of allocating students to different types of schools https://t.co/GIam3UT5BD

Two great researchers gave talks in our Econometrics seminar over the past few weeks: ➡️Liyang Sun @EconUCL on policy learning in the presence of estimation uncertainty ➡️Ao Wang @warwickecon on vertical bargaining with wholesale and retail price setting

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Edoardo Ciscato of @LeuvenEconomics was on campus last week to talk about matching on gender and sexual orientation Data from the US & Germany reveal that same-sex couples, in particular between men, experience lower gains from live-in relationships

Workshop on Economic Governance of Social Media, organised by @TilburgU @TILEC1, in September 2025 Social media have created a range of well-documented benefits, but the list of negative effects for democracy, individuals, society is growing Call for papers is open:

Susan Athey @StanfordGSB is @TilburgU today to give the 4th #Koopmans seminar Welcome to Tilburg, @Susan_Athey! https://t.co/OnreXhFBaM

Deadline approaching!

Hendrik Schmitz of @RWI_Leibniz_en was on campus this week to talk about retirement & health. Using a German reform, Hendrik documents that retirement affects cognition negatively but improves mental health. https://t.co/PZY2nABUxl