This week, we're happy to have Muhammad Qasim from @lund-university.bsky.social visiting us! On Thursday, Muhammad will give a talk on "Robust instrumental variables methods for causal effects with invalid instruments". Welcome!

Congratulations to our PhD student @marcosdemetry.bsky.social, who successfully defended his interim (midway) seminar today! 🎉 Also thanks to internal opponent @jakobenlund.bsky.social for a great discussion! You can read more about Marcos and his research here: marcosdemetry.com

This week we're very happy to have @billingsecon.bsky.social from @colorado.edu visiting us! Tomorrow Steve will present his research at our Seminar in Economics and Statistics. Welcome to Växjö!

Congratulations to our researchers Tobias König, Thomas Giebe and Adam Birgersson who have been granted 1 million SEK in project funding from Formas for their project "Recycled water in Kalmar"! 🎉 formas.se/en/start-pag...

Our associate professor Magnus Carlsson was interviewed in Swedish radio about age discrimination. Listen here: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/reda...

👋 New colleagues announcement! We're very happy to have two new PhD students joining our department! A warm welcome to Fanni Forslind @fanniforslind.bsky.social and Marielle Appelkvist @marielleappelkvist.bsky.social! 🤩

Our professor @hansgronqvist.bsky.social is active! 👨‍🏫 Here you can listen to an interview with him in the Swedish radio channel P1: www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/kan-..., and here about a new research grant from the Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council: www.aktuellsakerhet.se/forskning-om... 🙌

”A-kassan är bakvänd – ge mer till långtidsarbetslösa”. Debattartikel i @dagensnyheter.bsky.social av IIES prof @jpeternilsson.bsky.social och Jonas Kolsrud @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social www.dn.se/debatt/a-kas...

Today you can read an op-ed about the Swedish unemployment insurance fund by our Jonas Kolsrud and @jpeternilsson.bsky.social in DN Debatt @dagensnyheter.bsky.social: www.dn.se/debatt/a-kas...

Welcome back to a new semester! 🍁 Tomorrow we'll start off our Seminar in Economics and Statistics with a talk by Andros Kourtellos @ucy1.bsky.social on "Social Curves: A Spatial Functional Regression Approach". Welcome to Växjö! sites.google.com/view/kourtel...

🚨 We have a comment on Begum et al (2018) forthcoming in @readdemography.bsky.social - see link below! @i4replication.bsky.social

Meet our PhD student @marcosdemetry.bsky.social 🎓: www.linkedin.com/posts/ekonom...

Having a good time at the @iipf.bsky.social Annual Congress in Nairobi! 🇰🇪

Meet our Professor Mats Hammarstedt 👇

Next up: the World Labor Conference in Toronto! The SOLE Mentoring Program (🙏 @jrothst.bsky.social et al) started off yesterday with a great session on replication with @larsvil.bsky.social - and on Saturday I'll be presenting our work on Human Wealth Inequality (w/ @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social)!

New report on the relationship between ethnic segregation and crime! This week, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social and Susan Niknami published a report written for the Expert Group on Public Economic (ESO). Read the full report or watch the seminar here (in Swedish): eso.expertgrupp.se/rapporter/20...

Our seminar is taking a summer break, but will be back with a great fall lineup! 😎 @billingsecon.bsky.social, @rkhoban.bsky.social, @rolandrathelot.bsky.social, @kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social, @hornungerik.bsky.social, @jesper-bojeryd.bsky.social, @teresafmonteiro.bsky.social, @essobecker.bsky.social

Welcome to our final seminar for the semester! ☀️ Tomorrow, we're happy to have Jakob Roland Munch from @ucph.bsky.social presenting his ongoing research. Looking forward to it!

This week we're happy to have Paolo Sodini from the Swedish House of Finance @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow, Paolo will present a paper on "More than Money: The Role of Preferences on Wealth Mobility". Welcome to Växjö! www.hhs.se/en/houseoffi...

Tomorrow we'll have @econom.bsky.social from the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam visiting us! 🤩 Olivier will present his ongoing work "From Tweets to Ballots: Refugee Inflows and Natives' Reactions". Welcome!

This week we're very happy to have David Domeij visiting us! David is the the Eva and Mats Qviberg Professor in Economics at @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social, and tomorrow he will present his research at our department seminar. A warm welcome! sites.google.com/view/daviddo...

Today we have another seminar, this time with Marc Goñi from the University of Bergen! Marc will present his research on "Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern, and Female Empowerment". Welcome to Växjö, Marc!

Today we're very happy to have @meltemdaysal.bsky.social from @ucph.bsky.social visiting us! Meltem will give a seminar on "Antidepressant Use and School Performance: Evidence from Danish Administrative Data". Welcome! meltemdaysal.com

This week we're happy to have Jarkko Peltomäki, Professor of Finance @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, presenting in our seminar series! On Friday, Jarkko will give a seminar on "Invest Like for Your Kids: Performance and Implications of Children's Investment Accounts on Portfolios in Adulthood". Welcome!

This week we're also organizing a Workshop in Statistics & Finance with great presenters and keynote speakers! 🤩 The aim of the workshop is to provide valuable insights and practical applications of statistical methods and the role of finance in a socially responsible environment. See program below:

Today we also congratulate our PhD student Sara Värn, who successfully completed her interim seminar - marking the midpoint towards her PhD! Well done, Sara! 👏

This week we're very happy to have Manon Garrouste from @univparissaclay.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow, Manon will present her ongoing work in our department seminar series. Welcome to Växjö, Manon! manongarrouste.fr/en

New publication from @ollehammar.bsky.social and co-authors in the European Economic Review! 🥳

This week we're happy to have Andreas Ek from @lund-university.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow, Andreas will give a seminar on "Assessing Market-Level Discrimination of Immigrants". Looking forward to it!

New publication! 🎉 "Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times" by Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger is now out in Small Business Economics!

The original paper is now retracted and our comment accepted for publication in the European Economic Review 🔥

Today we're very happy to have Stephan Schneider from @iies.su.se visiting us and presenting his ongoing work! Welcome to Växjö, Stephan! www.schneiderst.de

🎉 Big news! 🎉 Our department's application for a new LNUC center, the Center for Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis, has been granted funding of 10 million SEK for the coming five years! 🥳

More good news from the department! Big congratulations to @erikprawitz.bsky.social, Tobias König and Maziar Sahamkhadam who have been promoted to Associate Professors (docent)! Well deserved! 👏

Congratulations to our Erik Prawitz for his paper "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration", just accepted for publication in AEJ: Applied swlb1.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

JOIN OUR GROWING DEPARTMENT! 🌟 We're looking for a Professor of Financial Economics! More information here (deadline for applications April 27): lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Stellar conference on migration @rfberlin.bsky.social! 🤩 Full program here:

This week we're very happy to have @yoko-okuyama.bsky.social from @uu.se visiting us! Tomorrow, Yoko will give a seminar on "Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap". We're looking forward to it! 🤩

In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)

Today we're very happy to have Petra Thiemann from @lund-university.bsky.social visiting us! Petra will give a seminar on their project "School Density and Inequality in Student Achievement". Welcome!

👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!

New publication from our @erikprawitz.bsky.social: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" (with Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo & Björn Eriksson) - forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics @aeajournals.bsky.social 🤩 Great work!

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" by Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, Björn Eriksson, and Erik Prawitz. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This week we're excited to have @adrianadermon.bsky.social from @ifau.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow Adrian will give a seminar on their all-star project on "The Intergenerational Mobility of Children of Immigrants" 🤩 Welcome to Växjö, Adrian!

Deadline feb 15 for applying to the PhD program in Economics at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden www.nationalekonomi.se/wp-content/u...

Today we're happy to have Mathias Millberg Lindholm from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social presenting at our weekly seminar in economics and statistics. Mathias is Associate Professor in mathematical statistics and will present a paper on "Discrimination and Fairness in Insurance Pricing". Welcome!

Möt nationalekonomen Hans Grönqvist som leder Svenska kriminalpolitiska laboratoriet. Genom naturligt uppkomna experiment undersöker de vilken effekt olika politiska reformer har på brottsligheten. fof.se/artikel/fotb... #kriminalitet #brott

A new study evaluating the effectiveness of humans versus AI in assessing research reproducibility - featuring our researchers @ollehammar.bsky.social and Joakim Jansson as co-authors. Check it out!

Hey, don't forget to apply to our PhD positions in economics! Deadline: February 15. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Apply to the 3rd Workshop in Economic History at Uppsala University, co-organized by our @erikprawitz.bsky.social 👇