Det här är nog det som förskräcker mig mest med högern i dag, att de så totalt gått in i postsanningspolitiken. De nya åsikterna om invandring och rättsstat går nog att byta tillbaka så småningom, men hur kommer man tillbaka från att ha omfamnat lögnen som politisk metod? www.dn.se/ledare/amand...

Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!

The expansion of TV stations in the mid-twentieth-century led to more leisure and earlier retirement among older Americans, say researchers at @cmu.edu and the US Treasury. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Important new paper on mental health in PhD programs finally published: from @EvaRanehill @Sanna_Bergvall @annahsandberg, evidence that in Sweden, use of psychiatric medicine sharply ⬆️ after enrollment in PhD compared to other highly educated ind, up to a peak of 40%

this is not quite an anti-trust tragedy but it's certainly some kind of capital market regulation problem if people can buy assets that provide huge public goods specifically in order to destroy the public good provision

Yes, yes, yes

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market: paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...

(1) banger (2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Vem kunde ana att det skulle sluta med våld – mot en Palestinademonstrant. Efter månader av högerdrev – 68-åriga Palestinaaktivisten misshandlad www.etc.se/inrikes/efte...

@aaronsojourner.org I think ICE (and even the entire DHS) could be the first case of negative multiplier. Not below 1. Below 0.

"children exposed to the welfare cut during preschool and school-age obtained lower GPAs, experienced reduced well-being and overall education levels, and suffered lower employment and earnings as adults. Children in their teens at exposure faced large increases in conviction probabilities"

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings updated & improved Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition. Same with local labor market competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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

Visual abstract for this one.

"In a large RCT on a credit card in Mexico, cutting rates and raising minimums barely reduced default. Job loss—more disruptive to cash flow—had far greater impact." Recently acepted to #REStud, from Castellanos, Jiménez-Hernández, Mahajan, Prous, & Seira: www.restud.com/contract-ter... #econsky

ok so on 16 June 2023 I had a dream that I was writing an album, and that the album was called "Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan." I wrote the dream down and went back to sleep In the morning, I said: "What if?" Today, the first song from the album is released! www.mountain-goats.com

Call for papers for our economics workshop! Deadline in just over two weeks.

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...

FTC posted a request for information on noncompetes' impact on innovation, startup formation, wages, & working conditions. They are looking for data as well as anecdotes. #EconSky www.ftc.gov/system/files...

Join us in Berlin for another great Masterclass 🚨 This time, we’re hosting Andrea Weber for a two-day workshop on UI 📋 Apply by Sept 6th! #EconSky

In med Mannaminne i kanon!

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

Cool new WP by Bernardo Fanfani links 3 major sectoral bargaining agreements to wage data of Veneto (Italy) & finds that changes in union min wages explain 1/3 of the increase in wage inequality 1990-2005 for these workers! I wonder how this would look like in Germany 🤔 docs.iza.org/dp18051.pdf

🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊 www.svd.se/a/zAnwp1/hyp...

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

denmark rocks bc theyll notice that only 80% of their population is currently laying in the grass in a park with a six pack of 8% beer reading a book while on a 3 hour lunch break from work making $50/hr selling croissants at a cafe called GOBBO or FLUUZ and their government will spring into action

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States" by Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom, and Kelly Vosters www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

after my second listen I'm upgrading this post to "the new pool kids album is a timeless masterpiece"

sorry all caps because i love tove jansson’s writing so much She Gets It

If you live to be 100 and read two books every week from the age of 8 onward, you will have read 9,568 books over your lifetime. In 2013 (most recent data I can find), the average public library had a collection of 116,481.6 items.

!! Trump demands BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer (20 year veteran govt employee) be fired after BLS data show deteriorating job market.

Micro evidence on firms' opting out of rigid collective bargaining in Italy finds that opting out reduces wages but increases workers' employment and retention within firms, from Dustmann, Giannetto, Incoronato, Lacava, Pezone, Saggio, and Schoefer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34076

Minst 18 500 barn har dödats i Gaza sedan Israel inledde sitt försök att utrota den palestinska befolkningen. Washington Post har samlat och publicerat deras namn: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I'm so excited to see this paper coming out in RESTUD. Fun facts about this paper: 1) My amazing co-author Bruno and I had never met in person until after we completed the first draft. 2) It's my first and only paper that was never rejected by a journal. 3) I can now claim to understand macro.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Vad bra den här var! En berättelse om oppositionsrörelsen mot den sydkoreanska militärdiktaturen, berättad i sju sektioner eller skikt: 1980, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2010 och 2013. Brutalt och blodigt, om militärens massaker på oppositionella i Kwangju 1980 och om tortyren och våldet i fängelserna

Yesterday at NBER SI Jason Sockin presented our work with Elliott Ash and me showing how your interview process shapes how job seekers form perceptions of you as an employer. These impressions can impact everything from offer acceptance to employee retention!

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

This research, from @kostoel.bsky.social and others, is available as an Upjohn Institute working paper, supported by our Early Career Research Awards program. research.upjohn.org/up_workingpa... #ECRA #Econsky

Bra drag att låta Christopher Garplind intervjua Per Gessle: www.dn.se/kultur/per-g...

Been waiting for this to come out for a while now: www.nber.org/papers/w3397.... That's such a cool paper!!!

En gång i tiden byggde vi ett samhälle. Nu bygger vi egoism

Otrolig text av @bruksdod.bsky.social , en ilska jag kan skriva under på varje dag

this is one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen

Läs Agri Ismail, en underskattat avgörande kulturpolitisk fråga som faktiskt vore lätt att lösa, eftersom alla – vänster, höger, grodor – rimligen tycker exakt samma sak, nämligen att han har helt rätt www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...

One dog? Just one dog? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...