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Niklas Witzig

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PhD student @uni_mainz | Behavioral Economics

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Many risky decisions have the potential to create positive externalities for society - e.g. innovation. Do these externalities affect how we distribute income? Do we reward risk-taking if it can benefit society? In my job market paper, I try to answer these questions:🧵1/8

ninasweber's tweet image. Many risky decisions have the potential to create positive externalities for society - e.g. innovation.

Do these externalities affect how we distribute income? Do we reward risk-taking if it can benefit society? 

In my job market paper, I try to answer these questions:🧵1/8

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We are pleased to announce the CRC-JGU Mainz Summer School 2021. You will find further information on our website: crctr224.de/en/events/summ…


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A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More should do so. A few notes.


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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin #WorldBookDay

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- George R.R. Martin

#WorldBookDay

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A survey of nearly half a century of Behavioural Economics (modestly labelled as 40 years by author @alxndr_trc 😎), plotting the shifts, the subdivisions, and the internationalization of the field. 👏 buff.ly/3sZhs9V HT @davdittrich

koenfucius's tweet image. A survey of nearly half a century of Behavioural Economics (modestly labelled as 40 years by author @alxndr_trc 😎), plotting the shifts, the subdivisions, and the internationalization of the field. 👏 buff.ly/3sZhs9V HT @davdittrich
koenfucius's tweet image. A survey of nearly half a century of Behavioural Economics (modestly labelled as 40 years by author @alxndr_trc 😎), plotting the shifts, the subdivisions, and the internationalization of the field. 👏 buff.ly/3sZhs9V HT @davdittrich

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remember the frankfurt school? this is them now... feel old yet?

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MordantK's tweet image. remember the frankfurt school? this is them now... feel old yet?

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Kaggle has just launched Kaggle Learn, an education program which uses Kaggle Kernels to teach essential machine learning concepts and workflows in a practical and interactive way. And there's a deep learning track! kaggle.com/learn/overview


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Most countries' words for tea are variations on either (1) "tea" or (2) "cha" That's how you can tell if they got it via sea trading (from a coastal part of China calling it "te") or land trading (from a landlocked part of China calling it "cha") qz.com/1176962/map-ho…

juliagalef's tweet image. Most countries' words for tea are variations on either (1) "tea" or (2) "cha"

That's how you can tell if they got it via sea trading (from a coastal part of China calling it "te") or land trading (from a landlocked part of China calling it "cha")

qz.com/1176962/map-ho…

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The origins of the Industrial Revolution dlvr.it/Q1dXqK


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Historical poverty reductions: more than a story about ‘free-market capitalism’ ourworldindata.org/historical-pov…


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Gapminder Data Visualization using GoogleVis and R ow.ly/2rj530eZlqk


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Corruption is still a problem 10 months after India's cash ban bloom.bg/2vSOI4F

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Was für ein absurder Text! Uninformierter und faktisch falscher @SPIEGELONLINE Kommentar zur Entwicklung in Afrika: spiegel.de/politik/auslan…


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'India is estimated to have produced enough plutonium for 150–200 #nuclear #warheads' @BulletinAtomic


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"South-South trade" is becoming increasingly important ourworldindata.org/international-…

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Randomly adding 2 paragraphs and 1 photo to @Wikipedia about Spanish towns increased visits by 9%! @WikiResearch marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipediamatte…

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