En tanke på fars dag till min morfar Lennart Berggren som hade varit 98 år idag och som 25-årig filosofistudent i Lund var den sommarvikarierande visselblåsaren som avslöjade Vipeholmsexperimenten: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...

🎉 Honored to join @rfberlin.bsky.social as a Research Affiliate!

There's less than 1️⃣ month to go until the deadline for submissions to our #CallForPapers for the 2026 World Inequality Conference. 🏃‍♀️Hurry up and submit your paper by 1 December! inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

Den årliga rapporteringen 👇

Here are our 5 Job-market candidates this year: a strong cohort of excellent researchers, from macro to health and labor/AI. Have a look: www.uu.se/institution/...

📢 CfP Alert! We’re excited to announce the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). 🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol Three focused workshops in applied economics: Development, Migration & Fairness. 🔗 www.baem.info

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

🚨 Our comment on Begum, Grossman & Islam (2018) in @readdemography.bsky.social is now available as an @i4replication.bsky.social working paper (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur). Read it here 👉 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Awesome conference @isi-munich.bsky.social! 🤩 I had a great time presenting in the wealth measurement session this morning! #ISIWealthConference2025

Working on topics of Inequality and the #environment ? Join @sitestockholm.bsky.social workshop on Nov 28! Deadline October 15.

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇

👋 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! 🤩

Join us for ASWEDE's 10th annual conference in Development Economics! November 17-18 at Nääs Fabriker, outside Gothenburg. Submission deadline in one week: September 26. Open to PhD students and senior researchers. Details below. #ASWEDEConference #DevelopmentEconomics

📆 Save the date: the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 at Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social The call for papers is open until December 1. 🔗 More details & submission: inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

1/ The Vertical & Horizontal AI Replication Games debut at the University of Ottawa on Oct 16! This is the first event feeding into our next paper, and all participants will be listed as coauthors. Apply: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/TKRS5HG

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

#GDRI_rep Update 8a: Major updates coming up over the next few weeks. 1st update: We reproduced "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" some time ago. The paper was then retracted by the editors of the Euro Econ Rev. Additional studies are connected (see diagram) 🧵

📢 Call for Papers - Fall 2025 📢 If you are a #junior scholar studying the #economics of #migration, we encourage you to submit! 📧 Email [email protected] 🗓️ Submit by September 1, 2025 🎤 Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5:30pm CET

Välkommen att söka forskningsbidrag från IFAU senast den 15 september! Läs mer: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Fo...

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

Great news! IZA (the German labor economics institute that had lost its main source of financial support) has found a new home and will continue as a convener and disseminator of knowledge. Hurrah!

📄📄📄Call for Papers is open! RFBerlin invites submissions for the next Migration Forum "Migration: Drivers, Consequences, and Governance". Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues. Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526... #Migration #Governance #callforpapers

Just released: great program for the upcoming #IIPF2025 congress at USIU in Nairobi, Kenya: keynotes, panel discussions, mentoring, >60 sessions... not to forget social program! 🤩 Details at www.conftool.pro/iipf2025/sessions.php Registration still possible until August 2. See you there! #EconSky

We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

📣 Call for Papers 📣 🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12. 🗣️ With Keynotes from ‪‪‬@christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by September 15th 🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org #EconSky #EconConf #Migration

Where do people in low- and middle-income countries want to migrate? www.uu.se/en/centre/im...

Vart vill människor i låg- och medelinkomstländer migrera? www.uu.se/centrum/immi...

Apropå svenska värderingar. 🇸🇪 Här en variant av kulturkartan uppdelad på olika partiers väljare. Mest osvenska värderingar hos Sverigedemokraterna och Kristdemokraterna. (Data från WVS/@evs-values.bsky.social 2017.)

Last opportunity to reproduce/replicate a study published @nathumbehav.nature.com. This is an official collaboration with NHB. All authors of completed reports will be included as coauthors to our meta-paper to be submitted to NHB this Fall. 🧵

Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o

Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.

Update #2, RETRACTED: 15 months after we (w @ollefolke.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social ) submitted the initial comment to the Journal, we've noticed the paper was ultimately retracted. Retraction note here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We have a job opening at Lund University for an assistant professor in economics of education (tenure-track). Applications are open until 11 August 2025. Please reach out if you have questions! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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)!

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

📣 Call for papers - 18th International Conference on #Migration and #Development 📅 Event held September 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 With keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social ⌛ Submit by July 15, 2025 #EconSky #Poverty #Inequality #Globalization

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

🚨 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.🧵

Where we stand on the Islam-GDRI-Monash saga. A tally and some questions ... a-ortmann.medium.com/tallying-the...

Join us for the first ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE in Munich, October 9-11 2025 CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates... Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28. Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

Come work on migration, integration, and urban issues! Great opportunity in active and friendly research environment. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Great to see our comment now available online in the European Economic Review! (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Gunther Bensch & Abel Brodeur @i4replication.bsky.social) 🙌

Collaborators are looking for participants for a new multi-analyst study using SOEP data. For more information on registration, eligibility criteria, requirements, procedure, and timeline, please visit www.manydaughters.com. Deadline for registration is April 27

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

#GDRI_rep Update 7: Retraction! Our comment of "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country" has led to the paper being retracted. Our comment is accepted as is. Short 🧵

🎉 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! 🥳