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Alexander Ahammer
@AhammerAlex
Associate Professor @jku_econ, health/labor/risky behavior
Austria
Joined August 2010
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    Friends, I want to tell you about new work with @FahnMatthias and @florastiftinger I am very excited about. The paper is called "Outside options and worker motivation" A short-ish 🧵
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    I can fund a PhD student for two years (30h/week, no teaching obligations). If you want to work with me and use cool admin data please apply: karriere.jku.at/engage/jobexch…
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    TFW your Covid paper is rejected 6 months after submission because "it feels like it was written in Summer 2020 and not very much revised since then"
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    Our paper on the intergenerational correlation of opioid dependence found a great home at Health Economics. Here's the final version: dropbox.com/s/xxwg23p1l0pb… (w/ @HallaMartin)
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    Yes, we – @HallaMartin, Mario Lackner, and me – also wrote a #COVID19 paper. Ever wondered how much mass gatherings actually contributed to early spread of the virus? We look at county-level variation in NBA and NHL games, which comes exclusively from the leagues' schedules. /1
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    So they let me teach a class I called „The Economics of Sex, Drugs, and Crime“ @jku_econ. Has anybody taught something similar? Any syllabi for econ of risky behavior courses around? #EconTwitter
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    Friends, I would like to tell you about a new paper with @DGrubl and @EbmerWinter I am really proud of. It's called "The health externalities of downsizing" 🧵
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    If I ever get a top 5 I‘ll do this. Mark my words.
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    My #zeroresult paper with Nicole Schneeweis and @HallaMartin on the effects of maternity leave on child outcomes just got accepted at @JHealthEcon! This is the WP version: economics.jku.at/papers/2018/wp… #NullEffectsMatter #TeamPreciseNulls @JohnHolbein1
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    We're hiring a 6-year post-doc in applied micro, apply if you want to work with cool admin data! karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexchang…
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    very proud of this paper, excited it found such a great home at RESTAT
    Downsizing affects the health of workers who remain in the firm. Just Accepted new paper, "The Health Effects of Downsizing Survival" by Alexander Ahammer @AhammerAlex, Dominik Grübl, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer @EbmerWinter zurl.co/45M5
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    does your campus have a beer garden?
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    we celebrate @analisapackham tonight. thanks for visiting us and becoming a part of the @jku_econ family, we hope to see you again soon!
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    Wenn Universitäten keine Bildungseinrichtungen sind, was sind sie dann? wrong answers only