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mdoepke.bsky.social
Family economics and macroeconomics at the London School of Economics. Coauthor of "Love, Money, and Parenting" http://bit.ly/lovemoneyparenting
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You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I am opening a postdoc position connected to the FamilyMacro research project at the LSE. This is a one-year position that could be extended for two more years. If interested, please contact me! #EconSky @cfmuk.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This Draghi piece is a quiet indictment on the @EUCommission's failure on its core Treaty mandate: "establishing the internal market" & ensuring "free movement of goods, persons, services and capital." His facts are devastating. A thread summarizing them and drawing some consequences. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Young economics researchers--especially PhD students in Europe preparing for next year's job market--should apply for the Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics in Vigo, Spain, 8-10 July 2025. Submission deadline is 10 April. workshop.webs.uvigo.es/index.html

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on, ABC.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

It's got hundreds of signatures. Let's get thousands, tens of thousands.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

submitted 35 days ago • 1036 comments

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

Economics is about storytelling. In our baby boom paper, we argued WWII was key for the rise in female LFP. A referee disagreed, citing Goldin (1991), who argued it wasn’t. But when the words turned into numbers, Goldin's estimate was slightly larger than our untargeted moment @mdoepke.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

submitted 67 days ago • 28 comments

Percentage of total electricity production from solar ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

submitted 68 days ago • 23 comments

Departing on our Christmas EV road trip adventure of 2024! 855 km, four countries, one ferry. How will it go? Will charging work? Let’s find out.

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

Fabian Kindermann and @mdoepke.bsky.social build a bargaining model that matches new trends in fertility decisions. They find that bargaining loss directly depends on marginal child penalty, which may follow an inverted U-shaped pattern.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Do spouses keep secrets about income? Using novel Dutch data @mdoepke.bsky.social and coauthors find that in couples where income info isn’t fully shared, an income boost tilts consumption balance towards the higher earner. Suggests private info shapes family dynamics more than we thought!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning from Frankfurt, and welcome to the conference "Macroeconomic Implications of Intra-Household Decision Making". Looking forward to a great program! drive.google.com/file//1pouuF...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Last call for the "Macro at LSE" predoc opportunity - apply THIS WEEK if you would like to work in London on cutting-edge macro with Ben Moll, Joe Hazell, Ethan Ilzetzki, Ricardo Reis, and me! t.co/cBdznWii1Y @econ_ra #EconSky @benmoll.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx

submitted 82 days ago • 32 comments

Here’s my job market paper ‘Household Liquidity Policy’, joint with Patrick Moran at the FRB

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

New here and happy to share my job market paper! "Bad Bank, Bad Luck? Evidence from 1 Million Firm-Bank Relationships" We build a large novel dataset on US firm-bank relationships to ask the question “How do bank failures affect small business survival and employment?” A🧵summarizing our findings:

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments