Jag upplever mer och mer att jag saknar ord för att beskriva politiken. Man måste gå tillbaks till det Peloponnesiska kriget för att finna makthavare med samma kombination av arrogans och inkompetens.

Sverige kan öka produktiviteten genom att bättre använda global forskning – men bristen på STEM-kompetens riskerar att hålla tillbaka utvecklingen, enligt ny SNS-rapport av IIES professor emeritus Harry Flam. @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/english/divi...

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

We now have 4 available positions as RA! First application deadline 20 March! Check our website for more details about the different positions. #econ_ra #econsky

Where was this before? Our #NIH / CDC director now urges Americans to get vaccinated. 1. In 2026 we have ~1153 cases, more than half of 2025's (2279) totals. 2. South Carolina is the epicenter; w/ 990 cases alone. 3. Of those, 923 (93%) were unvaccinated. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/bhat...

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

🚨 Closing Tomorrow 🚨 Call for Papers: 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) 2026 Linnaeus University @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social Keynote Speakers: Jonas Hjort Rohini Somanathan Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026 Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/06/n...

New- I spoke with political scientist Vlad Kogan about his provocative new book "No Adult Left Behind." He argues that the politics of public education privilege the interest of adults over students. I tried to pressure test his arguments in this Q&A. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/no-adult-l...

Inte bara läkare, utan alla med attraktiv kompetens och därmed alternativ. www.dn.se/debatt/lakar...

Slutföra gymnasiet - men sedan ska de ut! Ett års frist där du ändå vet att du inte har någon framtid i Sverige, att du måste lämna allt och alla och bygga ett liv i främmande land. Ett litet köttben för att stoppa flodvågen av kritik. Ta inte köttbenet, håll trycket uppe!

Grymt, skamligt och idiotiskt, men - vad det verkar - helt enligt det regelverk som röstats igenom av en bred politisk majoritet.

De tre största partierna (och några till) är helt bekväma med att 18-åringar slängs ut på löpande band. Det är grymt, skamligt och dessutom idiotiskt. sulf.se/nyhet/utvisn...

One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves. College should be about taking a class that's a bit too hard for you, or in a field you don't know much about... but the risk of a B when so many get straight As is real. Safer to stick to what you know.

Leandro Carvalho, Damien de Walque, Crick Lund & Heather Schofield: 2/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Does this reflect "discrimination"? We can't test this directly. But we think it's likely that there is systemic discrimination by socioeconomic background in academia (Following the very useful framework by Bohren, @instrumenthull.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social (20/22)

We organize our Summer School “Applied Public Policy Evaluation” this year again at Tinbergen Institute Join us August 24-28 in Amsterdam Professionals an graduate students are welcome to attend For more information visit our website: tinbergen.nl/applied-publ...

Recently accepted by #QJE: “(Not) Thinking About the Future: Financial Information and Maternal Labor Supply,” by Costa-Ramón (@anacostaramon), Slotwinski, Schaede (@ursina), and Brenøe: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

‼️ Less than two weeks to go! ‼️ 📢 Submit your papers to BÆM 2026! - Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi - Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides - Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås www.baem.info

Efter Gärdet är det rätt uppenbart vilken mark i Stockholm som borde bebyggas med tät kvartersstad.

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are pleased to invite submissions to Linnaeus Inequality Summit, a new annual research conference organized by Linnaeus University Centre of Excellence Equality of Opportunity and Big Data Policy Analysis. The conference will take place on June 2-3, 2026, in Växjö, Sweden.

The Jan. 2026 issue of the @jpolecon.bsky.social should be of great interest to anyone interested in the well being of young people. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/2026...

US policy on protests in Iran somewhat different from policy on protests in US: “On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Survey incentives can worsen bias! Randomized incentives help detect & account for nonresponse bias. Methods using both incentives & reminders outperform existing approaches." New paper by Dutz, Huitfeldt, Lacouture, Mogstad, Torgovitsky & van Dijk www.restud.com/selection-in... #EconSky #REStud

Featured on INOMICS: Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Social Science Research Scholar at Stanford (USA) or Heidelberg University (Germany) #Econsky

Can we just put lead back in gasoline and call it good?

Estimating the short-term cognitive effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure in Kenya, from Xuqian Ma, Michelle N. Layvant, Edward Miguel, Eric Ochieng, Ajay Pillarisetti, and Michael W. Walker www.nber.org/papers/w34557

Another new working paper from the department! "Prenatal Conditions and Midlife Mental Health: Evidence from an Alcohol Policy Experiment" by Evelina Linnros & @jpeternilsson.bsky.social @iies.su.se: ekonomihogskolan.lnu.se/vxesta/25-02...

In the first keynote of the 2025 CEPR Paris Symposium, Philippe Aghion emphasised that while AI will induce job destruction, it will also bring job creation as it boosts the production of new ideas. The transition can be smoothed with strong education and flexicurity systems. #CEPRParis2025 #EconSky

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

Kate Musen has a super impressive portfolio of work-be sure to check it out at katemusen.com!

Call for Papers: CREST-IFAU Workshop on Evaluating Labor Market Policies: Methods and Results. Submission Deadline: 15 January, 2026.

New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

Jim Heckman i NZZ: Betyder detta att privata initiativ också kan spela en viktig roll? Absolut. Tänk på Henry Ford, som fördubblade sina arbetares löner i början av 1900-talet – inte av ren välgörenhet, utan som en investering i stabila och produktiva anställda.

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

🚨 Job Market Alert 🚨 The IIES invites applications for a tenure-track AP position (any field) starting AY 2026/27. 📅 Apply by Nov 14, 2025 via econjobmarket.org 💼 Low teaching load, competitive salary, PhD in econ required. More info: www.su.se/institute-fo... #EconSky

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

Fembarnsfamiljer där båda lever på bidrag får 46500 kronor i bidrag, enligt vår statsminister. Jag begärde ut statistiken, och det visade sig vara en stor fet lögn. www.dn.se/ledare/amand...

Hi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)

Mississippi has suspended data collection for Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Prams), a national database that has been integral to policymaking on maternal and infant health for nearly four decades www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Surviving Childhood: Effects of Removing a Child From Home," from Ronja Helénsdotter @rhelensdotter.bsky.social @MIT @econGU: www.restud.com/surviving-ch... #econsky

Varför avgår du inte Romina? Var så snäll nu och hör på vår bön Det är dags att du lämnar, Romina Så du kan sluta att svika miljön (Melodi Är du kär i mig ännu Klas-Göran, Stickan Andersson; textidé Gun Zetterström)

High mobility and low income inequality might not reduce learning gaps between rich and poor students: this week's study finds that these gaps persist in Nordic countries, equaling those in other European countries despite egalitarian welfare systems. 📖 Read the Paper Now: bit.ly/3GxgPAT

While building costs have only ever had limited explanatory power over US housing prices, even these imperfect correlations have weakened further in recent decades, from Brian Potter and Chad Syverson https://www.nber.org/papers/w33958

With rent control in the news, it’s a good moment to recall the research of @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social and co-authors. They show that strict rent control in San Francisco reduced the availability of rental housing, eventually *raising* rental costs. doi.org/10.1257/aer....