Our paper on human capital depreciation is finally forthcoming in the American Economic Review (joint work with
@mikedinerstein
and Constantine Yannelis). We show that human capital depreciates when skills are unused using data from teachers in Greece.
Excited our paper with
@sofoklis_goulas
and
@SilviaG27358156
is forthcoming at JEBO. We study the impact of an innovative policy that relaxed higher- performing (targeted) students’ attendance requirements, while lower-performing students' attendance rules remained unchanged.
Just ACCEPTER at AEJ: Applied
@AEAjournals
is our paper with Victor Lavy.
How do teacher gender biases (TGB) affect students’ outcomes?
We show that TGB substantially affect student outcomes, with girls being more responsive to them.
A short thread 🧵
—>I am so grateful to
@EconomicsUQ
for the last 6.5 very productive years. I couldn’t have wished for a better place to launch my career, develop my skills and boost my productivity. —>So excited that I joining
@MonashUni
this month as an Assoc. Prof. in the Dep. of Economics!
Our paper on the effects of forced migration on crime using data from the Greek islands is now published at the European Economic Review. Joint work with
@ValantisVasila1
.
Link to the paper is here:
In Sydney catching up with amazing colleagues. Today I presented at
@E61Institute
work with Victor Lavy on Teacher Effectiveness and tomorrow I am presenting exciting work on female judges at Uni Sydney. Such a productive visit!
@SilviaGriseld
@SPelinAkyol
Fascinating seminar by
@essobecker
today about the relationship between shallow Christianity and the rise of Hitler at the 9th Workshop on Natural Experiments at Deakin University.
Here is a summary of our forthcoming AEJ: Applied paper, which is joint work with Victor Lavy:
Women are underrepresented in STEM degrees and careers, exacerbating the overall gender pay gap.
I don’t complain anymore about paper rejections….but I really don’t know what to infer from this feedback tab that says that my investigator capability for a DECRA is on the bottom 25 percent… ARC I am just speechless…
We have a new WP with Yi Zhang (PhD students at UQ) on the effects and mechanisms of ranks in education. Unlike most papers in the literature, we focus on the highly competitive educ system in China in which ranks are indeed salient to students and parents:
Our new WP with
@sofoklis_goulas
and Yi Zhang on gender peer effects is out!
Key points: Focus on disadvantaged students, novel admin & primary collected data, exploit a randomized natural experiment, offer a mechanism & policy discussion.
Paper:
I have been around for 6 months at
@MonashUni
, Dep. of Econ and I couldn't agree more. This is A great place with many many resources. The group is exceptional and there is a balanced combination btw seniors and juniors. Low teaching loads, flexibility, & a lovely city!
Monash Economics is hiring 👇
"Monash is located in metropolitan Melbourne, a vibrant multi-cultural city of 5 million people. Melbourne is consistently rated by The Economist as among the world's most liveable cities."
Researchers from different fields have different views on things… But this goes too far… On my DECRA proposal on “Women in STEM: The Role of Teachers” I got the following comment “I don’t see evidence of research conducted by the applicant in the area of the proposed study” 1/3
The WEAI conference hosted by the University of Melbourne just began with a keynote by David Card on imperfect competition in the labor markets. High attendance and a great venue.
Great to see this paper of ours published at the JHR. Women perform better than men in STEM, but are less like to enroll in STEM tracks and university degrees. Why? Well…Comparative advantage matters! with
@SilviaG27358156
and
@sofoklis_goulas
Women enroll in
#STEM
less than men, even though they perform as well or better in the field. Why?
@sofoklis_goulas
,
@SilviaG27358156
, & Rigissa Megalokonomou propose that perceived skill relative to peers, rather than abosolute skill, affects the choice:
Will be visiting Europe from the end of May until the end of July. I have already scheduled a couple of seminars (Helsinki GSE and University of Padova). Super exciting! Looking forward to meeting researchers based in Europe.
Fascinating speech by Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown) about the impact of refugees from Anatolia on the Greek economy and polity in beautiful Naxos at the 21st Conf. on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics organised by
@AUEB
! I am really impressed by the data collection.
Among many others, also the usual discussion about lead authors and second authors “limited publication records of her as the lead author” (in a field in which authors in most cases appear in an alphabetical order) 2/3
It was a lovely day visiting the University of Sydney. Met with so many people and had lovely discussions with many people including
@gregor_pfeifer
,
@StefanieSchurer
, Rebecca McKibbin, Deborah etc etc. What a beautiful campus is this and a wonderful crowd!!
Some days are more productive than others. Today, I presented a paper we are super excited about at
@IWAEE
, submitted a new paper to a journal, a grant application and a revision. Next stop tomorrow is Zurich and Germany for a seminar at the University of Konstanz
@UniKonstanz
!
Had a very productive evening (despite the weather) talking about how to encourage girls in STEM at the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) function in Kelvin Club in Melbourne. Thank you very much for the invitation, nice comments & interesting inputs!
#economics
#impact
#policy
Working hard and until late here at
@MonashBusiness
with my great colleagues
@essobecker
and
@rdahis
to find our amazing to be new junior colleagues!
8.15pm in our Caulfield campus in Melbourne!
At the airport waiting to board to my flight to Perth. It will be the first time at the University of Western Australia and my talk tomorrow will be about judges. Thank you for the invitation
@SimonChangUWA
.
Looking forward to also catching up with coauthor
@PSotirakopoulos
!
It was indeed a lovely gathering! Following up on my previous tweets, I need to say that there are so many nice people in this (as in every) profession with positive energy and vibes and we need to find ways to quickly overcome negative & focus on positive experiences 🤗🙏💪
Melbourne-wide applied micro drinks another great success! So glad to have such a great group of colleagues nearby. Shout out to
@stef_fischer
for organising. And welcome to Melbourne
@rmegal
!
Acts have consequences….how do they think people will react to these news after everything that became public lately? At the minimum, I guess several people to drop their IZA affiliation.
#EconMeToo
#EconTwitter
Job Market Candidates: Several positions are open at Monash University! It’s a great department and a great city! I am moving myself to Monash Economics in February 2023!
Thank you
@FacultiNet
for featuring this research work & having me! It was a pleasure. In this work, we find that human capital depreciates when skills are unutilized using administrative data on teachers’ assignments to schools and students’ standardized test scores in Greece.
Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging. Rigissa Megalokonomou
@rmegal
@MonashUni
discusses new administrative data on teachers' assignments and their students' outcomes from the teacher assignment process in
Had a very constructive time at the Women’s Mentoring Event organised by
@Lpuzzell
at
@MonashBusiness
. Enjoyed the interactions and discussions with our great senior colleagues from
@MonashBusiness
&
@anusha_chari
on important topics: promotion, networking, work-life balance etc.
What a fantastic recruiting year we had! Monash Economics welcomes Lisa Botbol (Toulouse), Alexander Haas
@ahaas_econ
(Oxford), Santiago Hermo (Brown), and Kate Huang (Caltech) as our newest members. Great people and great economists all.
JMCs: We have reached out to most of our shortlisted candidates and we have scheduled most interviews. Next weeks will be very busy for us! Exciting times ahead! We wish we had more slots. There are so many people working on exciting topics out there.
#EconTwitter
#econjobmarket
@GalorOded
receives a honorary award today by the Athens University of Economics and Business
@AUEB
and delivers a keynote about the Journey of Humanity.
@EDioikitopoulos
summarised the research journey of Prof. Galor in a very concrete way. Great initiative by
@AUEB
!
We have a new WP with Sofoklis Goulas, Ph.D. and Yi Zhang. We examine the impact of gender composition in the neighborhood on various outcomes. We exploit cohort-to-cohort randomness in gender composition of local cohorts at birth. Link to the paper:
The Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Claudia Goldin for her work on understanding women’s labor market outcomes. Amazing news, and so well deserved! Her work has inspired an entire field. 😊
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
My European trip for summer 2023 comes to an end. I would like to thank all those fantastic colleagues who invited or/and hosted me for research talks in more than 10 countries and so many different institutions. Coming from a bit far (Australia), I feel blessed for having strong
I will attend the public speech, honorary ceremony, and book presentation by
@GalorOded
at the National Hellenic Research Foundation organised by the Athens University of Economics and Business
@AUEB
on the 6th of July in Athens. Fellow Greek economists, see you there!
Super excited to be part of the 2023
@iwaee
conference once again. Day 1 today at this beautiful resort in Calabria and
@Woessmann
delivers the first keynote on the relationship between patience and student achievement.
Heading to Melbourne next week to present my role model education paper at the Natural Experiments Workshop organised by
@Deakin
Econ and my female judges in supreme courts paper at the Norms, Gender & Economics Workshop organised by
@BusEcoNews
. Amazing coordinated events in 🇦🇺
#EconTwitter
#econjobmarket
Job market candidates: Please triple-check the differences in time zones. It breaks my heart when a candidate is confused with the time differences and they show up late. First impressions matter a lot!
The 9th Annual Workshop on Natural Experiments organised by Deakin University will take place next week. Can’t wait to catch up with the Melbourne research group and meet with speakers from around Australia and international speakers!
The 2023
@ESPE
meeting has started in beautiful (but rainy) Belgrade! First keynote by Libertad Gonzalez on why should economists study fertility, child development and gender inequalities.
Had a super productive day at Erasmus University Rotterdam
@erasmusuni
presenting my paper on the longer-term effects of teachers using TVA and teacher data in Greece. Met with great people and received constructive feedback. Next stop is Prato for the
@MonashUni
CDES conference!
I’m very happy to share that I’ll be joining Monash University (
@MonashBusiness
) this fall as an AP! I’m very grateful for a fantastic few years
@OxfordEconDept
and owe a special thanks to
@APFerrero
(who has been the perfect advisor),
@MCMahonEcon
, and Oliver de Groot!🇦🇺
Heading to Naxos tomorrow for the 31st
@AUEB
conference. Our session is on Wednesday evening following a session to honour the work of Miltos Makris, and the Wedn keynote by Stelios Michalopoulos. It’s great that I will get the change to finally meet in person coauthor
@AspasiaB
!
Such a pleasure to be invited to present a paper from our role model research agenda at 2022 STEP UP. Amazing evolution on the economics of education research in Australia since 2016 that I moved down under 🥳 🦾Thank you Isa and Alberto for organising!
@UNSWEcon
@EconomicsUQ
It was such a lovely WEAI conference and a great opportunity to meet with colleagues, friends and mentors. Well organized sessions, nice people, important discussions about economic policy and data, and spectacular venues. Really nice experience!
@evachalioti
@marinambgg
+++
Getting ready to welcome the new year from the town of Lorne 2 hours drive from Melbourne.
It’s not a proper summer weather-wise, but still nice to be near the beach 🏖️
Best wishes for a fantastic 2024!!
It was a fantastic
@IWAEE
conference once again. Everything was better than expected and so many high quality papers were presented. Thank you so much
@ColinPGreen2
and
@gimiug
for organising such an amazing gathering.
Such a pleasure to catch up with
@K_Maragkou
😍
Good friend Tasos Karantounias from Surrey Uni gave a seminar at Monash yesterday (but I was in Perth for a seminar). But we managed to meet at Melbourne airport for a quick ☕️ So nice to meet with friends from Europe on this side of the 🌎!
AGEW is a great conference for any kind of research work related to gender! A great annual initiative by the Women in Economics Network (WEN). Next year at
@UTS_Economics
! Highly recommended!
@WomenEconAU
Event Alert! Come and join us at the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) Event in Melbourne on the 8th of November! I will talk about how to encourage more girls to move to STEM and reduce the gender pay gap!
Link:
I am super proud of
@SilviaG27358156
for everything she has achieved so far. She is very talented. She has a bright future ahead and Australia is lucky she is returning. Congratulations, Silvia!
Of course, I would not be where I am without the help and support of
@rmegal
. She has been a guide throughout my Ph.D. and post-doc. Now time to work hard and be ready for a new adventure.
To ESA and WEN followers: One day left for the Women in Economics Network event on the impact of gender in determining outcomes in education and the family. Join us in these important discussions.
Lots of graduation ceremonies these days at the beautiful St Lucia campus at the University of Queensland! Super grateful and lucky to have my mother around those days in Brisbane :)
It has been an amazing workshop organised at
@MonashBusiness
. Met with great people in the field and had many fruitful discussions. I also presented my paper on teacher value added and got great feedback. Thanks to
@stef_fischer
for organising such a high-impact event!
“How Gender Impacts Outcomes in Education and in Family: An International Perspective?” I will present a paper from my role model research agenda on the 30th of Nov at this Women in Economics Network event:
.
Register if you would like to virtually attend.
Delighted to have given a research seminar today on role models in education in the Econ dep. at
@AucklandUni
. Great feedback and a lovely group to interact with. Thank you very much
@zhan_charlotte
for the invitation.
This is an open letter from 436 IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation and the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA.
@essobecker
@MonashBusiness
@warwickecon
Thank you Sascha for the warm welcome. I am very very excited about this new opportunity! I am going to miss a lot my amazing colleagues, friends and mentors at UQ.
@Alicia
Rambaldi and
@BegoDominguezM
are doing an amazing job at UQ and I will always be grateful to both of them.
Great talk by
@marinambgg
(University of Melbourne) on the unintended consequences of
#MeToo
using evidence from research collaborations in academic at the Norms, Gender, and Economics workshop organised by the University of Melbourne!
I have an outstanding education/labor/urban econ student on the market: Jian Zou
@jian_tt
from the Uni of Illinois.
Check his website:
His JMP studies the effects of school spending on student achievement in the context of financial deregulation (1/8)
Had such a lovely time visiting the University of Konstanz
@UniKonstanz
and meeting all these very ambitious and interesting people! I received great comments on my paper. I am also really impressed with the city…
Thank you very much for the invitation
@ViolaAsri
.
Next, in our Economics Seminar series, Rigissa Megalokonomou
@rmegal
from
@MonashUni
will be sharing her paper "Same-Gender Peer Role Models in Education".
🗓️May 30 at 1.00 pm CEST
Venue: Seminar room & live streaming
More information and Zoom link:
#EconTwitter
: My department is hiring at the Advanced Assistant level. Open field. We just posted the job.
Apply at the below link:
If you have questions, feel free to reach out!
I am very glad to be hosting
@SartoriTommaso
, who is a PhD student at the University of Essex in the UK. Tommaso works on topics in the economics of education and does fascinating research on the effects of ranks, and nudges, among others!
@MonashBusiness
@MonashUni
@iseressex
Second great keynote speech for today is given by Muriel Niederle (Stanford) about gender differences in competitiveness at the University of Melbourne!
Looking forward to this. Great lineup of speakers
@DeakinEconomics
!
Will talk about the impact of having more female judges using judges’ random allocation of cases & new novel data on cases digitised for the first time!
We invite you to attend the 14th Annual Australasian Public Choice Conference (APCC) on 5th and 6th Dec 2023. Check out the excellent lineup of speakers 👇🏽
More details here:
@DeakinBusiness
@deakinresearch
@deakinmedia
We find that
—Targeted students perform better in high-stakes exams when they are allowed to, and thus miss more classes (possibly allowing for more self-study) and
— Targeted students in academically diverse classrooms miss more classes and benefit more.
Best part of the day (in an attempt to forget about ARC) was that I spent a very productive day presenting my ongoing work on role models at
@Hitotsubashi_U
and met all these very nice and ambitious researchers. Thank you very much
@meradeet
for organising!
#EconTwitter
#econjobmarket
JMCs: The Monash hiring committee met today. We discussed the recommendations submitted by our colleagues. Many great candidates out there who do really exiting work. Had to make some hard decisions. Shortlisted candidates will hear from us soon!
It was an excellent first day at the Public Choice Conference organised by
@DeakinEconomics
. Nice people & great presentations. Glad that
@grattonecon
forgave
@PaulRaschky
and myself who can’t attend his keynote tomorrow, since we have our Christmas gathering at
@MonashBusiness
🤪
If you are looking for a great junior scholar who works on field and lab experiments, you should have a look at
@MalloryAvery16
’s profile. She is really great and on the job market!
I'm on the job market! I use field & lab experiments and analysis of existing data sets to study diversity and inclusion along many fronts - gender, race, mental illness, and more - including why these groups are disadvantaged and how we can make things better for all. JMP Below!
Looking forward to this exciting workshop in the Economics of Education (I am a regular!) which will take place in Catanzaro (Italy). See many of you there!
Heading to the European Society of Population Economics
@espe2023
meeting in Belgrade. Looking forward to meeting with colleagues and friends, and a great conference!
The 3rd STEP UP What works in Education workshop started today. It’s a blessing when you meet with dear friends at work, and so you are productive and have fun at the same time. Thank you Isa and Alberto for organising!
I am very glad to be hosting
@SartoriTommaso
, who is a PhD student at the University of Essex in the UK. Tommaso works on topics in the economics of education and does fascinating research on the effects of ranks, and nudges, among others!
@MonashBusiness
@MonashUni
@iseressex
#EconTwitter
Reviewed a great pool of JM candidates for the tenure-track Lecturer/Assistant Prof. positions at Monash Economics
@MonashBusiness
.
The committee will meet this week to make decisions about next steps (i.e., interviews). JMCs, stay positive and tuned!