Petra Moser
Economic historian, studying creativity, science, and innovation, mom of 2 boys. Love running in the mountains, climbing, and singing.
- When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).
- Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH
- Stephen Miller is Wrong about American Science www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
- Jacob French and I are hiring a pre-doc in Applied Micro apply.interfolio.com/166572
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- Some Germans want Syrians to return home - unless they are doctors. That won't work: "If my family and friends aren't allowed to stay, then I don't want to either." 1/n wapo.st/3DDxUYd
- Dunno what this says about me, but I saw "Moby Dick" at the Met last night and absolutely loved it, down to the "squarely undulating minor-key references to Philip Glass, John Adams and Britten..." Go see it if you can! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/a...
- Phew. All that takeout I'm buying is increasing productivity. Thank you @goolsbee.bsky.social, Chad Syverson, NYUStern PhD student Rebecca Goldgof & Joe Tatarka www.nber.org/papers/w33555
- When German Alexander rammed his car into a group of people in Mannheim on Monday, killing two, wounding 25, he was stopped by Afzal from Pakistan. It's funny how we only hear names and place of birth when they match our fear and prejudice.
- There is still some sanity in this world, at least when it comes to footwear. Birkenstocks argued that their sandals are "art" to get copyright protection. German courts said "nope" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/s...
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- A plagiarism check did not find evidence of plagiarism, so is publishing accusations of poor citation practices in footnotes (25 years ago, please check mine). And when that's not working they go after the dissertation of @robert-habeck.de wife. Ok....
- Ich rechne damit, dass heute, Vorwürfe gegen meine Doktorarbeit, die ich vor 25 Jahren geschrieben habe, veröffentlicht werden. Ich habe mich entschieden, das Ganze transparent zu machen. Denn ich kenne die Vorwürfe – und konnte sie vorab prüfen lassen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyA...
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- Felt this, as we were trying to estimate how seeing Marie Curie affected girls' choice to pursue science. Part of our data was gone. I never thought that in this country censorship would prevent me from doing my research. wapo.st/4hPMU3A
- Germany needs about 400,000 immigrants per year to keep its economy going. IAB's Enzo Weber & @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social explain why (in German) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
- Kim is great, really smart and thoughtful. And like @tkehoe.bsky.social I admire Kim for his service and very much hope he succeeds in influencing US economic policy.
- "The feeling of not being wanted in that country" is an issue not only in Germany but also in the US, historically and today. In "Immigration and Innovation. Lessons from the Quota Act" we find that students, who were exempted, did not come to the US after the quotas if their countries were targeted
- Inspiring: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
- I'm shocked by the implied decline in inequality between 1913 and 1958. Did WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII disproportionately destroy top wealth? Using the same measures for 1913 and the rest of the graph, 1913 may look as bad as today. So what happened in the first half of the 20th century?
- Access to pre-k increases parental earnings by over $5,400 per year, show bsky.app/profile/john..., Chris Neilson, Xiaoyang Ye, Seth Zimmerman). Could you do this for publications? For women vs men? nber.org/papers/w33038
- Not what I had expected to see: www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/u...
- Santos started his 5-year appointment in 2022, and was preparing the 2030 census, which is "set to be used to redistribute political representation and trillions in federal funding across the country over the next decade."
- If you want to pretend the world is in harmony for a couple of hours, we are singing, and I think it'll be beautiful bkcm.org/event/joyofs...
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- First time ever surfing. Loved every second of it. Back to the real world tomorrow.
- Great paper by Marta Prato on effects of inventor migration on innovation in the US and EU @qjeharvard.bsky.social academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
- My step-Dad came home from the hospital today, after three surgeries and four harrowing weeks. Not to die, as we had thought on Christmas but to live. And I'll do my darnedest to have it be a good time.
- Daughters living at home were the safety net when Dads making booze lost jobs during Prohibition www.nber.org/papers/w3334...
- If this is true, I might as well stop working out and start eating pop tarts www.nber.org/papers/w3334...
- If you are happen to be in Paris, go see Sahar Parsa present at CEPS!
- Reposted by Petra MoserRe-posting this call for applications targeting PhD students and early career researchers (PhDs 2014 or later) doing research on the fiscal and economic effects of three productivity policies: R&D, permitting, and immigration. Applications due at midnight on Thurs January 16.
- Attention: PhD students and early-career researchers interested in the fiscal and economic effects of productivity policies -- particularly R&D, immigration, and infrastructure permitting. Consider applying to this Sloan Foundation NBER fellowship: www.nber.org/graduate-fel...
- Looking forward to our session on "Women, War, and Structural Change" at the AEA, I'll talk about the "Ms.Allocation of Talent" - on zoom because I'm home with my step-Dad, but super grateful to be there with you all www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
- Reposted by Petra MoserHere are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
- I've had a tough hoilday taking care of step-Dad after two failed surgeries. But now I'm laughing as I try to clean my inbox from 100s of funny and kind emails from NYU faculty who hit reply all. Thank you NYU 🤣https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/28/40000-nyu-students-spammed-in-replyallcalypse/
- Merry Christmas! (I love old trees...)
- Tupi got a mantra, and I'm going to steal it. "Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/s...
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- Palma ahead of European Winter Meetings of @econometric.bsky.social. What a beautiful city!
- Red bars are the 1920s quota acts www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
- Reposted by Petra MoserEconomists are not prepared for the impact of the demographic cliff. Enrollments are already down in aggregate, they are going to fall more, and it looks like maybe professor demand is already responding
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[Not loaded yet] - This lecture by @humphreyslab.bsky.social is amazing: "William Muir was an evolutionary biologist interested in productivity. He studied chickens because their productivity could be very easily measured — by simply counting their eggs they laid. He designed an elegant experiment. ...1/n
- He took a group of average-producing chickens and combined them into a flock and bred them for six generations. He then took the highest-producing chickens he could find — you could call them super chickens — and combined them into a flock and bred them for six generations. ...2/n
