Come work with me! Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance. By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in. Econ advert below: jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

New working paper: "Engines of Empowerment: Cattle Tending, the Milking Machine & Women in Politics" (with Eva Forslund & @jmerilainen.bsky.social). 📄 swopec.hhs.se/hamisu/paper... #EconHistory #Gender #Development #SSE #Misum

...and now we're getting the milking machine --> increased female political representation in Finland by Forslund, @jmerilainen.bsky.social and @celinezipfel.bsky.social ! I have to say I'm a great fan of the agricultural history turn within economics. sites.google.com/view/celinez...

we've already had the milking machine --> upgrading of womens' job structure in Norway with Ager et al. openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha... ...

🎓 New working paper: "Communism in the Classroom: Long-Run Effects of an Experiment" (with Matti Mitrunen)

Currently in FirstView: "When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks" by Leandro De Magalhães, Dominik Hangartner, Salomo Hirvonen, @jmerilainen.bsky.social, Nelson Ruiz, and @jannetukiainen.bsky.social.

Puolue-kuntatason aineisto näyttää, että lyhyillä listoilla tuomioita on enemmän ehdokkaita kohti - pitkillä listoilla on todennäköisemmin vähintään yksi tuomittu ehdokas. Kuvioissa on lohkottu hajontakuvio, jossa aineisto on keskiarvotettu 20 lohkon sisällä, sekä lineaarinen sovite.

Iltalehti uutisoi ehdokkaiden rikoksista vuosina 2021-2025: iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a.... Plottasin vähän jakaumia rikoksista tuomittujen ehdokkaiden osuuksista puolueiden välillä ja vertailin muuhun väestöön Tilastokeskuksen aineistoilla rikostuomioista vuosina 2019-2023...

Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa. Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award

And in Finland, exposure to an inflow of workers following EU expansion ⬇️ earnings of exposed workers by about 9% relative to non-exposed workers and regions (though, some evidnece of positive effects for workers with complementary skills) @jmerilainen @jmerilainen.bsky.social

www.bbc.com/news/article... I’m just going to leave this here…

Interesting new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907 improves on both rdrobust and rdhonest! Quite compelling... 1/n

Kuntatyöntekijöiden ehdokkuus esillä mediassa, tällä kertaa johtavassa asemassa olevien työntekijöiden osalta: yle.fi/a/74-20149607. Tarkastelimme vuonna 2018 American Political Science Review -lehdessä julkaistussa tutkimuksessa kuntatyöntekijöiden edustuksen vaikutuksia.

The Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics is looking to hire to RAs. Read more and apply here: hhs.varbi.com/what:job/job....

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/...

Vaaliehdokkaiden rötökset jälleen esillä mediassa... (esim. www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...) :( Olisi mielenkiintoista tietää systemaattisemmin, miten paljon ehdokkaiden ja valittujen joukossa on rikoksista tuomittuja - ja miten he vertautuvat rivikansalaisiin.

Back to Stockholm after a quick visit to Turku—and what could have been better than presenting new work with Matti and Teppo, namesakes of two local music icons.

Today, we celebrate the day of Finnish culture - happy Kalevala Day! In recognition of this important day, here is a recording from two years ago when my wife Keyla and I performed some Finnish (and other) music at an event in CDMX: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gsn06....

🧵 Ketkä lähtevät politiikkaan? Ovatko poliitikot erilaisia kuin muu väestö? Tutkimuksemme (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz) poliitikkojen kognitiivisista ja persoonallisuuspiirteistä on nyt hyväksytty vertaisarvioituun @jeeanews.bsky.social-lehteen.

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

Kuntavaalit lähestyvät, joten nyt lienee hyvä aika palauttaa pinnalle vähän kunnallispolitiikkaan liittyvää tutkimusta. Tässä blogipostaus, jonka kirjoitimme viime vaalien aikaan @jannetukiainen.bsky.social kanssa: vatt.fi/-/aanestajil...

University of Helsinki decided to leave Twitter (X).

Ever wondered which regression discontinuity design (RDD) estimator to choose? 🤔 We tackled this question by using experimental benchmarks from lottery tie-breakers in local elections in Colombia and Finland. Here's what we found: 🧵

Job market candidates waiting for their turn to be interviewed (photo from ASSA 2019)

The Norwegian Parliamentary Debates Dataset (with @nedregardoda.bsky.social and Henning Øien) --> 1 million speeches 1945-2024 --> Just out at Nature: Scientific Data --> Part of Politics and elections data collection rdcu.be/d5pC4 www.nature.com/collections/... (collection still open for subm.)

So far the Finnish reaction to the latest undersea cable damage has been excellent: - Finnish authorities stopped the suspected saboteur Eagle S and directed it to Finnish territorial waters for investigation - police and border guard boarded ship and took control - 3km no fly zone around the ship

Latest addition to my collection of cool instruments I can’t play but try to learn — a cuatro puertorriqueño.

My students are writing their exam at the moment, and it's making *me* nervous. I thought I should be done with exam anxiety by now! Or perhaps I'm just anticipating the agony of grading...

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

What an honor (and a surprise!) to receive the 2024 SSE Corporate Partners' Research Award!

Here’s the full sample correlation from WVS and GWP (average over all years):

Best translation ever

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Correct! It's that, as covered in this: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The real reason Finland is the happiest country in the world isn't the sauna (www.economist.com/europe/2024/...); it's this:

Nobel laureates Johnson and Robinson visiting SSE—a wonderful event concluded with a beautiful performance of economics students’ choir.

Probably this one: RDD works (when properly implemented)—provides similar estimates of incumbency advantage as an experiment exactly at the cutoff. Joint work with @artahy.bsky.social, @tsaarimaa.bsky.social, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, and O. Toivanen. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3...

When I will respond to your email

Happy Finnish Independence Day! Here is an old recording of Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia I made when Finland celebrated 100 years of independence: youtu.be/ltay6-OUGpg.

Noooooooooo

I started the teaching period with two whiteboard markers. I now have 18. 😬 At least I’ve managed not to (accidentally) steal any erasers from the lecture halls this year…

Happening on that other social media platform... "We have decided that SSE will no longer use X as a way of sharing news from the School. [...] it no longer serves the purpose it once did."

The covers of the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish preparedness leaflets. Somebody went for a slightly different vibe!

Coming in May from Routledge and co-edited with Jari Eloranta, Elina Kuorelahti, and Price Fishback, a new handbook on the economic history of war. Check it out here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Jostain törähti täysin yllätyksenä ja pyytämättä monta suomalaista seuraajaa - terve vain kaikille! Olen taloustieteen apulaisprofessori Tukholman kauppakorkeassa. Viime aikoina olen tutkinut muun muassa erinäisiä Suomen kuntapolitiikkaan ja talous-/poliittiseen historiaan liittyviä kysymyksiä.

Tried to put together a list of pol econ people (both theory and empirics) on bsky: go.bsky.app/UhWxdmh Probably missing a lot of names: let me know who I should add!

Recently accepted by #QJE, “War Reparations, Structural Change, and Intergenerational Mobility,” by Matti Mitrunen: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...