Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Faculty Member: @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, @bsoeberlin.bsky.social, @jfki-econ.bsky.social
Fellow: @iza.org
Homepage: sites.google.com/site/maxfriedrichst…
- We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- 🗓️ Thursday, January 29: We are very happy to welcome Thomas Triebs at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Switching to English to Attract Global Talent“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- 🗓️ Thursday, January 22: We are very happy to welcome Jana Mareckova at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „A Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Swiss Active Labor Market Policies“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- 🗓️ Thursday, January 15: We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- 📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us! 🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi 👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides ⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås 👉 baem.info
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- Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
- Exciting news from our team! 🎉 Research from our group is currently being shared at the Institute for @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social at the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. PhD researcher @riawilken.bsky.social is there as a visiting researcher, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship 🌍✨
- 📑 🗣️ Berlin calling II: Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics with a North American focus in Berlin? 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦 The Graduate School of North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its doctoral program. ⚠️Deadline: January 31, 2026
- ⏰ Only a few days left to apply for the 5th Edition of the Workshop on Human Capital at the Bank of Italy! 📅 Deadline for applications: January 9, 2026 🎤 Keynote speaker: Kevin Lang (Boston University) 📄 The call is available www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizi...
- The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>
- ✨ As the year comes to a close, we send our warmest holiday wishes to our colleagues and students. 🙏 Thank you for your engagement, collaboration, and commitment throughout the year. We look forward to continuing our work together in the year ahead. #HappyHolidays #BestWishes
- 📢 Call for papers 📢 Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7! Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides. Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf
- Really happy to see our work now in print at @j-humanresources.bsky.social — and grateful for the attention it’s receiving and for the recognition!
- 🎉Congratulation! The JHR 2025 Highly Cited Paper goes to @massimo-anelli.bsky.social , @osea.bsky.social & @lucastella.bsky.social for "Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility."
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- 1/ 📣 BIG News! It’s finally official: I’m starting a new job – and it’s the BEST! 🥳 I’ve joined the ifo Institute Munich as Deputy Director of the @ifoeducation.bsky.social (tenured) and have been appointed Associate Professor (tenure-track) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social / @econmunich.bsky.social.
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- Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
- 💬 Can a welfare reform meant to weaken a political rival actually make it stronger? A new study by @felixkersting.bsky.social on Bismarck’s famous health insurance reform offers historical answers 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new... @humboldtuni.bsky.social #socialpolicy #politicalecon
- Our paper is out as an Econ4UA working paper👇👇👇
- Working Paper No. 14: “Refugees and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland” Impact of refugees: evidence from Ukrainian refugees shows spurring entrepreneurship. Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u... Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
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- Our latest research on inequality in housing space highlighting the role of overcrowding and under-occupation by @steinhardt.bsky.social @simonvoss.bsky.social & @sebastiankohl.bsky.social has been featured in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
- 🪙 First Internal Workshop of the DFG Research Unit “Labor Market Transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy” Topics 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new... Research unit 🔗 www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/la... @phaan.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #labormarkettransformation
- 🗓️ Thursday, December 4: We are very happy to have Arianna Ornaghi at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Media Consolidation“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
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- For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Based on our new PPRNet research briefs @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and I argue in The Guardian that building alone won't solve the housing crisis. Housing is fundamentally redistributive, and progressive policy must treat it as such. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
- Happy to share that I just presented for the first time at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. I’m grateful for everyone who offered comments and feedback in my session. Had a great time in Tampa☀️
- 🎉 Der Schmölders-Preis 2025 geht an Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche und Wladislaw Mill für ihr Paper "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation“. In einem großen LinkedIn-Feldexperiment zeigen sie: Profile mit dunkler Hautfarbe erhalten 13% weniger Kontaktzusagen!
- It was great to be in Tampa for the SEA 2025 conference and to present in such an interesting session. Many thanks for all the valuable comments! #SEA2025 #Economics
- 🗓️ Thursday, November 27: We are very happy to have Efrem Castelnuovo at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Inflation-Uncertainty Amplifier“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us
- New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread
- With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org
- Excited to be attending the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Tampa, Florida, alongside @freya-rubel.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, and @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social from the Economics Department at Freie Universität Berlin. #SEA2025 #Economics
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- Deadline Monday! 24 November is the new deadline for New Researcher Poster proposals for the 2026 EHS Centenary Conference, which will be hosted at the LSE, 10–12 April 2026. Posters are eligible to win a prize of £100. More info and to apply: ehs.org.uk/conference/n...
- A Reminder that the Economic History Review now has its own Bluesky account! Be sure to follow: @echistsocreview.bsky.social For updates on the latest articles available on Early View, with research on all aspects of economic and social history from around the world and from all periods.
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- 📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome Submit by 23 January cepr.org/events/7th-w... @micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
- Next week, with the Progressive Politics Research Network, we are going to publish 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. While housing has become a huge grievance across Europe, it is often absent from progressive parties‘ agendas. Our group of experts discusses different aspects of this
- 🗓️ Thursday, November 20: We are very happy to welcome Gregor Pfeifer at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Abortion Access and Long-Run Household Outcomes: Evidence from Population-Wide Administrative Data“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
- New from me: An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals. Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
