The populations in East&West Germany were far from being randomly selected groups:
1. the later border is already visible in pre-WWII data
2. WWII & the subsequent occupying forces affected East & West differently
3. a selective fifth fled from East 2 West Germany before the building of the Wall
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Types of Board Game
xkcd.com/3235/
i am seeing posts from this account pop up on my tl so important FYI
on the one hand, finally some much-needed change. on the other hand, the line-up at some of these festivals might start to look very different for better or worse …
Is this prompted by the latest issue of JEL or just a wild coincidence? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Julia M. Rohrer
Randall Munroe
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(March 2026) - W. E. B. Du Bois is widely considered one of the most prominent American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois has been praised for his contributions to sister disciplin...
one of my favorite genres on SM: philosophers responding to everything from the most mundane to the most sublime with philosophers
Stephanie Wang
Stephanie Wang
give @joshtasoff.bsky.social a follow. how many economists have written papers about millions of League of Legends matches? docs.iza.org/dp16877.pdf
are you familiar with this terrific paper in the JEP by @essobecker.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
wow, @vinisingh.bsky.social and @dzeltzer.bsky.social and @aschwartz.bsky.social in one session? what a treat. I’ve already been by bowled over by @vinisingh.bsky.social ‘s Deadlt Stigma paper and the other two look fascinating as well.
Prof Dynarski
Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.
Stephanie Wang
(Spring 2020) - German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of co...
