Felix Rusche
PhD Candidate in Economics at Uni Mannheim | Labor, Development, Political Economy | felixrusche.github.io
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- Reposted by Felix RuscheThe performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is because of 2 main factors: journalists tend to focus on major events, and the daily performance of indices is negatively skewed. Antonio Ciccone, @felixrusche.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
- Do the media focus on the negative? If so, why? We study this in the context of stock market reporting and identify and quantify an overlooked bias. A thread:
- Reposted by Felix RuscheOnce again, I must stress that there is a pretty obvious answer to this madness, which is to have a big, fat tariff on US oligarchs and their multinationals! gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/americas-o...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThis is absolutely horrifying. Turkish graduate at Tufts student is picked up and removed to undisclosed destination by ICE, apparently because she wrote a pro-Palestinian oped.
- Reposted by Felix Rusche"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThe world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheMore high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheEconomists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547
- Reposted by Felix RuscheNEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheBarring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵
- This is massive
- Reposted by Felix RuscheIt has been weirdly quiet on social media ever since the Institute4Replication dropped its first two of 15 reports about the questionable research practices of Asad Islam-GDRI and scores of his collaborators. Here is my take on what we know and need to know. a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheIf you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.
- Reposted by Felix RuscheNew data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel nber.org/papers/w33480
- Reposted by Felix Rusche🚨CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25 Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social) Deadline: 17 Mar '25
- Reposted by Felix RuscheIf you're looking to break from doomscrolling at end of week - check out this fascinating new special issue in @FeministEcon edited by @BilgeErten @DuvvuryN @bilgeerten.bsky.social + Ramnarain on perspectives on conflict, disaster + violence against women #econtwitter #econsky
- Reposted by Felix Rusche🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
- Reposted by Felix Rusche🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Reposted by Felix RuscheHoly forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
- Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheMy book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Felix Rusche#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Wow.. this is concerning.
- Reposted by Felix RuscheMergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255
- Reposted by Felix RuscheWe've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheJMP about community radio in India by @felixrusche.bsky.social highlights the “potential of community media as a scalable and cost-effective policy instrument to promote women empowerment” www.econthatmatters.com/2024/12/tuni...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheFantastic job market paper on the impact of radio on women's empowerment in India
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThis looks like a great paper. Wow.
- Reposted by Felix RuscheSuper cool JMP and given its results one can only imagine what Internet access does to women's empowerment.
- Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky
- Reposted by Felix RuscheJust published in the Journal of Public Economics: "Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones" By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #economics
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThis is a remarkable paper. Substantively, it convincingly argues that what looks like weak state capacity is often *captured* capacity. Methodologically, it’s a triumph of mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheJust published in Journal of Public Economics: "From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy" By @elliottash.bsky.social, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna, & Christopher S. Warshaw. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Felix Rusche🚨Finally online: Our paper on barriers to child care enrollment is now available @jeeanews.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩 I'm over the moon 😁 Thanks to the most amazing team, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social – what a ride! 🫶 doi.org/10.1093/jeea... #EconSky
- Reposted by Felix Rusche“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
- Recently accepted by #QJE, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution,” by Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser (@bsprungkeyser.bsky.social), and Stuart: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThere has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges in the United States over the last century. However, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. www.nber.org/papers/w33164
- Reposted by Felix RuscheHoly crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheFox News has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Felix Rusche🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇
- Reposted by Felix RuscheThis paper, joint with @felixrusche.bsky.social and @econmill.bsky.social, began as a project in one of the PhD courses, and has been recently accepted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics!
- Recently accepted by #QJE, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheVery happy to see the paper out in the QJE. It was really a risky project but was totally worth it.
- Recently accepted by #QJE, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheRailroad network expansion in Germany increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas from cities connected by railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average. www.caterinachiopris.com/_files/ugd/b...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheShort 🧵on a fascinating new paper by Ieda Matavelli (on the JMP!), Baranov, Grosjean + de Haas. . . tl;dr adherence to dominance masculinity norms varies across + within countries, predicting economic, political, health outcomes
- Reposted by Felix RuscheApp usage is - contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%) - detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%) App restriction policy would boost wages! nber.org/papers/w33054
- Reposted by Felix Rusche#QJE Nov 2024, #3, “The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships,” by Adams, Huttunen, Nix (@emilynix100.bsky.social), and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Anyone aware of a precise dataset of the urban/rural definition in India’s 2011 population census? I only found this one at 1km resolution: sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ind... #econsky #devdatalab
- Reposted by Felix RuscheA method to limit disinformation spread on social media by ex-ante content moderation using network characteristics of news initiators to swiftly detect disinformation, from Adrian Casillas, Maryam Farboodi, Layla Hashemi, Maryam Saeedi, and Steven Wilson nber.org/papers/w32896
- Want to use large language models in your research? I wrote a short introduction to using ChatGPT and Llama in #R paulcbauer.github.io/apis_for_soc...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheDie FAZ berichtet in einem tollen Artikel (danke Michel Krasenbrink und @neuscheler.bsky.social !) über unsere Forschung, die zeigt, dass verheirate Frauen aufgrund des deutschen Steuerklassensystems weniger arbeiten. #Steuerklasse #GenderGap #EconSky @lenardsimon.bsky.social, Tim Bayer
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- Reposted by Felix RuscheA few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.
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- Reposted by Felix RuscheNestle’s marketing of infant formula in lower and middle income countries resulted in “about 212,000 excess deaths per year at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981” www.nber.org/papers/w24452
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- Does war cause people to become more religious? @econmill.bsky.social and coauthors show that it does using a novel method that combines the Vietnam lottery with gravestone images
- Hey you! Check out this cool new paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased U.S. Americans. People who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Felix RuscheEver wondered how discrimination affects job networks? In our two-stage experiment on LinkedIn, we provide insights into the question, causally studying the effect of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks in the U.S.
