Postdoc and lecturer. UGent, FWO, IZA. Member Flemish PES Ethics Board. Labour economics, discrimination, experiments, meta-analysis. https://louislippens.be/https://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.behttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3m2ryks5vkk2iI've been tinkering with a -finally finished- metadataset on hiring discrimination, representing roughly 1.4 million fictitious applications, and the power of contemporary meta-regression methods combined with tools such as {marginaleffects} really struck me.09 Oct 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ryks5vkk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3lrxajavuis2gGlad to have been part of this stimulating workshop. Thanks to @vatsalecon.bsky.social, @sanchariroy.bsky.social, Javier García-Brazales, Sonia Oreffice, and others at @exeter.ac.uk for hosting. A draft paper on our research into the cyclicality of hiring discrimination should be available soon. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jun 2025 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxajavuis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3lonye3ddyk26Flemish professors working on US-linked projects recently received a questionnaire from the US embassy in Belgium surveying them on university diversity policies. Guess we're going to have to charge a 300% ‘nosy-survey’ tariff now. #econsky #academicsky https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/05/08/us-embassy-questions-flemish-universities-on-diversity-policy/08 May 2025 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lonye3ddyk26https://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3ljkradtt7k2bLast week, @iza.org World of Labor published our policy article on hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups. In this article, we summarise insights from meta-research on the issue.04 Mar 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkradtt7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3lfwxllhabc2oWe have at least one open PhD position in our Labour Economics and Welfare research area (90% research, 10% teaching). Feel free to reach out for more details. Apply until 18 February 2025. #EconSky [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jan 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwxllhabc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3l4hbguddjo24WFH creates opportunities for people with a physical disability, who might otherwise not have been able to work full-time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Sep 2024 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4hbguddjo24https://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3l3sokis26u26Prof. Attila Lindner briefly presented this at #EALE2024 along with some key insights that, at the margin, minimum wages are primarily passed through to consumers and improve firm efficiency. Also interesting to see meta-science increasingly permeating economics. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Sep 2024 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3sokis26u26https://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3ke5lvypevk2lReally exciting and interesting work on labour market competition and its diminishing effects on wage inequality. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Nov 2023 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3ke5lvypevk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3kaypgl4vgt2cIf you want to verify that your bsky account is effectively yours and you own a custom domain, then I recommend you follow the steps in the blog post below. (The same applies if you just want a custom handle, like I did, of course 😀.) https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial05 Oct 2023 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3kaypgl4vgt2chttps://bsky.app/profile/louislippens.be/post/3kaupku5ivq2kIntroduction! I'm a postdoc at Ghent University with an MSc in org. psychology and a joint PhD in economics & sociology. My research focuses mainly on work and the labour market and, more specifically, labour market discrimination. I highlight some recent research below. https://louislippens.be/03 Oct 2023 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:gdz6pipyoyn4obdcp2hf6f5s/app.bsky.feed.post/3kaupku5ivq2k