Very happy to be a member of the CESifo network. I had a great time participating in the Area Conference on Economics of Education last month and presenting my work (w/ Mathias Mørk) on the estimation of teacher value-added. Working paper coming soon (hopefully)!

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School’ by Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen, Michael Rosholm doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf033 @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social @michaelrosholm.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social‬

👏Congrats @anaisfabre.bsky.social on winning the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 for her paper "The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities" and to runners-up @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social & Genia Rachkovski for great presentations! @ifoeducation.bsky.social

The following presentation still on social science genomics (yeah!! We're finally taking over entire sessions in econ conferences) @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social estimating the technology of skill formation disentangling the differences by gender, genes, and parental SES

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Do genetic effects on education work through social mechanisms? And does the social environment moderate these effects? I’m addressing these RQs with brilliant @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social in a new project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark!

🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May. ✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social ✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk). essgn.org/essgn-confer...

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

BÆM is back! Come and join us in beautiful Bristol for the 2nd edition of the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings: Development Economics: May 6-7 Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital: May 8-9 Submit your paper by Feb 28. Travel support is available. baem.info. 1/4

Hi! Here to see what the fuss is about. #EconSky