I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring tenure-track assistant/associate professors in Economics at the University of Oslo. Fields: macro, micro theory, international trade, development Application deadline: November 30! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

The School of Public Policy at the LSE is hiring in political science! Associate or Full. I was the first political scientist hired by the SPP, come be the second! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Please share! Call for papers in the formal theory section at EPSS 2026 @epssnet.bsky.social. Call for papers is open: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We welcome individual and panel submissions on all substantive areas of political science!

Taught intro to hypothesis testing today in undergrad stats for the first time in a while and this activity is undefeated for giving the intuition for hypothesis testing: jse.amstat.org/v2n1/eckert..... Plus you can do it as a magic trick which makes it fun.

Please submit to EPSS Belfast! @knalewajko.bsky.social and I are section chairs for HPE 👇 Deadline: November 7, 2025 Conference: June 18-20, 2026

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

Jeg har laget en oversikt over skolevalgresultatet over skolene i Oslo, hvis noen andre er interesseret i sånt. Vinnerpartiet på hver enkelt skole er markert i grønt.

Imagine asking people two questions -- whether each of these is a good or bad way to run a govt: 1) having a democratic political system 2) having a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections What percent says *both* are good? 44%!

Great start to the WhoGov elite workshop with @seibertlukas.bsky.social discussing how transparency affects MPs' side jobs and @siggi-econ.bsky.social showing that Norwegian parties and voters do a good job at filtering out candidates with criminal backgrounds.

Breaking news

Norway votes in 11 days 🇳🇴 More than a century after PR was introduced, women still hold under half the seats. In Norway’s closed-list system, nomination order is decisive—women are projected to occupy ~44% of seats in 2025 (based on 2021 party seat shares across districts).

MDG ber velgere stemme taktisk for å passere sperregrensa (mdg.no/taktisk). Illustrasjonen 👇 er litt optimistisk, men viser en viktig diskontinuitet i valgsystemet. I 2021 ville 1720 flere stemmer til MDG gitt 4 ekstra mandater – tatt fra FrP (2), SV og H.

Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I think Elon Musk gets away with a lot of illegal stuff. Even with that as a backdrop, I’m reasonably confident he won’t get away with breaking Duverger’s law.

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚 In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

Sykelønn: for viktig til å ties ihjel www.dn.no/innlegg/syke...

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.

The newly released 2025 election lists reveal a persistent pattern: in Norway, women remain underrepresented at the top—despite 100+ years of proportional representation.

Last week to register for the ISEG Summer School in Lisbon 🔆 #EconSky

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

Kritikken mot å bruke tilfeldig utvalg for å teste skattegrep for unge avslører én ting: Manglende forståelse for kunnskapsbasert politikk. Vi trenger mer eksperimentering, ikke mindre. Samfunnet bør styres av evidens – ikke antakelser. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Trump’s 2025 pardons so far, by the numbers: Convicted of: – Fraud: 24 – Tax Evasion: 7 – Illegal Campaign Donations: 4 – Political Corruption & Bribery: 8 – Insurrection: 1,500+ A reminder of why descriptive representation matters.

Very psyched about this paper: PR systems tend to have more women in politics but “hidden majoritarianism” in the sub-national pipeline produces an over-representation of men.

#EconSky📉📈 Big change in Norway’s public sector pensions: From Jan 2025, the contractual early retirement benefit (AFP) is no longer reduced if you keep working after age 62. Colleagues and I at the Frisch Centre have just published the first results from a pre-registered near–real-time evaluation👇

Now officially forthcoming at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

Do political careers harm health? In a new @cesifo.org working paper, we link mayoral promotions in Norway to detailed data on healthcare use. Results may surprise you. Start 🧵👇 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

"Pressed on whether he still needs to abide by the Constitution, he said, “I don’t know." Surely, all the Republicans who have repeatedly stressed the importance of following the Constitution will be outraged. (ah, who am I kidding?) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Ugh! This is so stupid. I am so sorry for @teele.bsky.social and all others US researchers who find themselves in similar situations. Huge loss for society as a whole who lose out on excellent reseach.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Not much to investigate lol

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

Absolutely wild to watch partisanship cook people's brains in real-time.🧠 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

Dear American friends. We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option. So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together. Lars Løkke Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister

Støres regjering er balansert på kjønn. Men hvor er distriktene og arbeiderklassen? @nedregardoda.bsky.social, Henning og jeg skriver i DN om vårt paper som er under publisering Journal of Politics www.jon.fiva.no/docs/FivaNed... www.dn.no/innlegg/poli...

Dear academic economists! Two weeks left to apply to a position as full professor at the Econ Dept @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. in Sweden, academic - and personal - freedoms are deeply respected. And the microdata is awesome! Deadline March 31! #econsky su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (www.ft.com/content/7568... )

Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you using text, images, audio, or videos in your research? Submit the 9th edition of our online workshop! The extended submission deadline is *15 March 2025*

Updated paper w/ @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, & @fiva.no. Using a century of data from Norway, we investigate the effects of "hidden majoritarianism" (single-occupant positions) on women's representation and careers in PR systems. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”