Are you a PhD/Postdoc young scholar in search of opportunities abroad? Time to apply for the new call of the Visiting researcher positions with access to admin data @ NTNU in Trondheim. Deadline: 30.11.2025. Details: shorturl.at/Fdw9A Friends & colleagues: pls share with your best candidates.

Time to celebrate! 🎉 The WelGain project (Tangible welfare costs & hidden welfare gains: unveiling the counterfactual in the evaluation of social programs) has received funding by the RCN, approx. 11.97M NOK (1M EUR). I look forward to serve as PI of an amazing team of colleagues @NTNU and abroad!

It is finally online the SI of the EER that we guest-edited together with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social, and Jakob Madsen. The full list of papers is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

👴👵 Noa De La Vega, Max Weber Fellow at @eui-eco.bsky.social, sheds light on how sudden major health changes in the elderly impact their adult children’s employment, revealing that sons and daughters are affected differently. Read more 👉 https://loom.ly/1gb8nfc

We are delighted to publish this paper by @thomaspiketty.bsky.social in a forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Income Distribution jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/

An exciting year has just begun! Sabbatical in Pisa & Florence for the whole academic year 2025/2026. Let me know if you are in the area!

🔴 🌐First global database of wealth accumulation covering 1800–2025 now available 👇 wid.world/news-article... @cmtneztt.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @alisodano.bsky.social @anmol-smnch.bsky.social @jonasdietrich.bsky.social @gatonievas.bsky.social

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Great post by @brankomilan.bsky.social on Compositional vs. Income Ineq, highlighting @marcoranaldi.bsky.social's role in developing this novel concept. Regarding the high CI in the Nordics, @elisapalagi.bsky.social & I in our BEJEAP paper (doi.org/10.1515/beje...) have another interpretation..(1/n)

Just read @brankomilan.bsky.social's latest on income & compositional inequality. One more point: if AI pushes up the capital share by replacing jobs across skill levels, reducing compositional inequality can help capital complement labor—and prevent income inequality from rising👇

Happy to have this out (joint with @paolosantini.bsky.social & Ellora Derenoncourt). Stay tuned for more!

July 4th, 2025

The 2nd Lofoten Int'l Symposium on Inequality & Taxation (#LISIT2025) is now history! A fabulous 2-day workshop with a stellar group of economists & public finance scholars, surrounded by the stunning peaks & sea views that only the Lofoten islands can offer. Thread below

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries" By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance

In Oslo this Monday? We're running a Political Economics Mini Workshop—reach out if you'd like to attend. Presentations by Enrico Cantoni, @annkristinkolln.bsky.social, Sara Cools, Stine Hesstvedt, and @siggi-econ.bsky.social.

Lofoten archipelago generally receives around 1500 mm of rain per year... that is why it looks like we are blessed by the weather gods when forecasts for the next week look like this👇 #LISIT2025

Some perks of this conference.

On the way to Lofoten for a few days of cycling and then a few days of conferencing (shoutout to @robertoiacono.org for organizing a tax conference in the most beautiful place ✨) So far: night train to Trondheim (saw a moose from the train!) 💤🚂 Now: train up far north 🚂 Then: ferry to Lofoten ⛴️

It's only one week left before the #LISIT2025 starts! We look forward to welcoming you to Svolvær and the Lofoten islands! robertoiacono.org/events/

New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓 250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below

🧨 🧨 @deps-siena.bsky.social launches a fully funded Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program! We welcome scholars from any field of economics. Apply now and share your vision with us! More info below 👇

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Does It Take More Than One Village? The Effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Waste Separation” by Germà Bel and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social#WorkingPaper:  Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/pexiltgbqt #EconSky #WasteRecycling

New publication from our #WelMig research group leader @robertoiacono.org in @plosone.org: "The Welfare versus Work Paradox". Link to the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Come work with us!

Jeg skrev en kronikk om EU-samarbeid og internasjonal solidaritet. www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/2025/...

*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 2-3. See mikaelpersson.org/workshop for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 10). Please distribute to people that might be interested

Have you successfully defended your doctoral thesis and are looking for a postdoc opportunity? Then apply with us at NTNU in Trondheim for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! DM if you are interested & want more information. Pls help me to spread the word by reposting. www.ntnu.edu/horizon-euro...

“Moving From the Billionaire Age to the Age of Billionaire Taxation” – A snapshot of @lucaschancel.bsky.social's keynote at the #TaxingBillionaires Conference 🧵 Full video soon available. 1/5👇

Tomorrow 4:15pm! Ive Marx presenting "Zero Poverty Society" - co-hosted by CUNY Graduate Center ARC and the Stone Center. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social Zoom link below. 👇 👇 👇

The Academic Day of the International Conference on #TaxingBillionaires is underway! 📚 We’re kicking off with a country session where researchers will share the latest findings on billionaire taxation across the globe 🌍 @laurent-bach.bsky.social @leenders.bsky.social @arunadvani.bsky.social

Survey for academics with kids at home: how many weeks per semester are you allowed to travel for work? Asking for a friend.

Thanks @brankomilan.bsky.social 4 an amazing & enriching book presentation today for our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group @NTNU, touching upon different hot topics (global inequality, immigration, degrowth, trade wars, wealth & politics). We hope to welcome you in Norway in person next time!

What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳 Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli, @johannarickne.bsky.social & @michelebelot.bsky.social as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session 🚀

I follow up on Johanna's message and also thank the organizers of the #ifoFurth annual conference. I even found time to visit the impressive L.Erhard museum, a gem for econ history geeks. See you next year Furth!

Great to see III Fellow Yonatan Berman and Tora Hovland's research on the impact of austerity measures in the UK featured in @TheIndependent this week. Read the article: buff.ly/x3sCuNH Read the original blog post here: buff.ly/qTT1nQi #LSEInequalities

After two intense days in London at the LSE, I have just arrived in Furth (an amazing place I hadn't visited) for the Ludwig Erhard ifo Conference on Institutional Economics 2025. Program below www.ifo.de/en/event/202...

📣 Closing this week! Submit your papers by 28 March for our 10th anniversary conference, The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality Research. We invite submissions of innovative research papers on any aspect of inequality. Guidelines for submission:

London see you soon! Exciting work days ahead

🥂Time to celebrate 🥂: Full Professor in Econ (with specialization in Social and Welfare Policy) at NTNU!

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

📍 For Venezuelan migrants in Medellín, building one's own home in an informal settlement can be a key act of rooting and integration, despite having to deal with extractivist gang practices and the threat of violent state evictions. 👉 Curious to know more? Check out my latest short docu-film!

The #LISIT2025 final programme has now been launched: robertoiacono.org/events/ Keynote speaker: @lucaschancel.bsky.social Looking forward to see you in Svolvær for #LISIT2025

After exciting book presentations by I. Marx and A. Kustov, excited to welcoming @brankomilan.bsky.social to our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group at NTNU, to discuss his forthcoming book!

With hindsight, could anyone have predicted the death of USAID? This wasn’t on the campaign trail, nor in Project 2025. What bothers me most about our current predicament is the sheer uncertainty of potential human-made disasters in the coming years—not just from malice but also negligence.

Wanted: Zoom feature where people write a short bio that pops up when you hover over their name or square on the grid. Partly, I'm forgetful, but it might also substitute for spending the first 20% of a meeting on introductions, with clumsy handovers between participants.

Double blind, the only way to solve the huge bias issue we have in the profession. And it should be a collective effort. Other disciplines have been working more actively on this.

PhD position in Economics or Finance open at NTNU-Economics - Deadline 9th of March Details below - but great working environment, generous pay (approx. 535 000 NOK) and generous research funds. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

294-page working paper anyone? www.iza.org/publications...

Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story.