Stockholm friends - Mon, Sept 22 at Stockholm University: come discuss new research on gender gaps in academia! Email me or @johannarickne.bsky.social to sign up. Download the program here: bit.ly/45XOkWZ. See you there! 🙌

Paper forthcoming in AJS! Your last chance to read as a working paper here

Day 3 of the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! After two fantastic days on development economics, we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital”. Stay tuned for some excellent papers!

Alessandro Toppeta (@sofi.su.se) shows that more school isn't always better: in Sweden, teens randomly tested after holidays show stronger non-cognitive skills, especially those from wealthier families. More breaks may boost development, but they risk widening inequality.

Excited to co-host this year’s Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop with Jaideep Roy @econuniofbath.bsky.social We’ve a fantastic lineup of talks on voting, governance, activism, media, scientists’ incentives, political discourse, and more 📍 April 25, 4W 1.01, scan the QR code to join!

Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing? Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications... Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV... 🧵 1/

📢 Join our labor team! I am looking for two #predocs to work with me and my coauthors on applied labor economics projects in Switzerland! Job Ad: bit.ly/PredocLaborLugano Apply here: bit.ly/PredocLLCApply #econra #USIecon #predoc

Planning applications are down but shifts to large projects mean units may not always be! @nikdatta.bsky.social summarizes our work ⬇️

#Econsky 🎉 Excited that my first post is about #JEM25! The call for applications is now open - deadline: March 16. Join us in Milan on May 29-30, 2025, for a great workshop in applied micro, experimental & behavioral econ. Keynote: Prof. Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon). 👉 demm.unimi.it/en/call-appl...

Dr Amrita Kulka @amritakulka.bsky.social provides expert comment on the UK Chancellor’s pledge today to "introduce a new approach to planning decisions on land around stations” warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

Come join us at Stockholm University.

Excellent coverage by ZaidJilani on our paper "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" with @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social Link to the article: www.theamericansaga.com/p/scientists...

We have a new update on our paper "One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap" w/ @jarellanobover.com, N. Bianchi and M. Paradisi Short thread🧵👇 [1/5]

I just released Coding for Economists v1.0.2. This update fixes a lot of minor issues and switches to Astral's uv as the recommended package manager. We have some new contributors too. And, big news, CfE also hit 750 stars! ⭐⭐⭐ aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-e...

What happens when you increase the legal drinking age from 16 to 18? 🤔 We explore this question in the context of Spain. We find that the reforms decreased teenage alcohol consumption and improved educational outcomes📒🥂 - with Manuel Bagues @warwickecon.bsky.social #MLDA

Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 If you're a PhD student in Economics, please submit your extended abstracts! We always have great programmes, and are very generous with funding. If you have any questions, write to us using the email on the website, or comment below for short questions.

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵

Our work is featured in @uk.theconversation.com today! Check out the full paper (revised version!) here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... theconversation.com/why-are-fema...

🚨 Job Market Paper Alert! 🚨 🛫 🚢🗺️ How do countries adapt when certain transport modes become more expensive❓ My job market paper investigates how nations substitute between air and sea transport to mitigate the effects of transport cost shocks. #Econsky #EconJMP 1/9

I look forward to the Haavelmo Lecture 2024 with Stéphane Bonhomme: "Heterogeneity in Linear Econometric Models". Come and join us if you are in Oslo December 3! www.sv.uio.no/econ/english...

Congratulations to SOFI's José Montalban Castilla and Ola Sjöberg who just recieved funding from The Swedish Research Council! #research #SocialResearch #sociology #economics

Claire presented this paper in our seminar last week and I can second this impression. A carefully done deep dive into program take up with a very engaging presentation. Thanks for visiting, Claire, and for taking so much time to meet our group!

Just bumped into this amazing JMP from Claire Leroy who is a JM candidate at CREST focusing on public econ. #econsky #econJM Check out her work 👉🏽 sites.google.com/view/clairel...

#Econsky If you are hiring this year, please have a look at our terrific #CREST job market candidates! All of them are great and working in different fields so feel free to contact our placement officer Xavier d'Haultfoeuille econ.ip-paris.fr/job-market-c...

Using anonymized personnel records, Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, and Ana Lamo examine gender differences in career progression at the Bank of Spain. Super interesting. Way to go! www.bde.es/wbe/es/publi... @olympiabover.bsky.social @laurahospido.bsky.social

🇺🇸 people looking for a job in 🇬🇧? The UK's Top 2 Economics department is hiring Assistant Professors 👇

Recently published in REStud, ``Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity,'' from Card, @fabricolella.bsky.social @usiidep.bsky.social and Lalive: restud.com/gender-prefe...

Another day, another reason to celebrate! SOFI researcher @orsakekezi.bsky.social is contributing to a new Forte-funded project led by Johannes Lindvall (University of Gothenburg). The study explores how the disappearance of professions affects political attitudes and voting behavior in Sweden.

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I created an #EconSky 📉📈 starter pack for researchers, institutes and departments in/from Sweden. Go and check it out here (and DM me if I missed to include you): go.bsky.app/Sz1jgZX

At a Summer Institute of Computational Social Science in Barcelona, I have just battle tested my rJavaEnv #rstats package. Saves the day for RSelenium users too. Try it yourself, one line of code installs and sets Java with not admin rights required. www.ekotov.pro/rJavaEnv

Could there be a better way to debute on Bluesky than to announce that our researchers @thaning.bsky.social, Carina Mood and @adamaltmejd.bsky.social have recieved grants from Forte to study inequality, discrimination and young people's future prospects in Sweden?

The fantastic Leah Boustan, Sandra Sequeira and this rooftop terrace. Submit your best work on migration!

Status: conditionally accepted at REStud #econsky floswald.github.io/publication/...

How does a person's childhood SES influence their changes to participate and succeed in science? To answer this question, Anna Airoldi and I use machine-learning methods to link scientists in the American Men of Science (1921) with their childhood home in the US Census. www.nber.org/papers/w3306...

🚨 Academic job alert! 🚨 The IIES is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in any field of economics! Low teaching load, competitive salary, & research-focused. PhD (or nearly done) required. 📅 Apply by Nov 15, 2024. Don’t miss out! www.su.se/institute-fo... #EconJobs

🧵 (1/N) One of the most rewarding (= close to my heart) research projects I worked on, honoring victims of the Holocaust, out in latest issue of AEJ:Applied. Short 🧵 on "Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany" 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Today is the perfect day to share that my article with Juan Masullo "The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive" is forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! A preprint is available at osf.io/ve8w4 polisky

New version of @natewilmers.bsky.social and my paper on firms and intergenerational mobility now up at socarxiv. 50% longer and loads of new analyses. 1/7 osf.io/preprints/so...

One of the perks of working in Stockholm and Uppsala is that there are so many great seminar series around. I just updated my page aggregating all econ seminars in Stockholm and Uppsala: jansauermann.github.io/seminars.html @iies.su.se #EconSky 📉📈

@RockwoolFonden is launching a new seminar series where top researchers present their work. You can find the seminar schedule and sign up to receive information about upcoming seminars here: en.rockwoolfonden.dk/seminars/

On #internationalmigrantday : we present some novel research connecting two seemingly distant areas of migration policy – specifically, asylum regimes and naturalization laws – both central to the ongoing political discourse in Europe. #Econsky #Refugees #Citizenship #migcitsky #polisky 1/n

Hey #EconSky! Submissions are now open for the 12th edition of the Warwick PhD Conference! A great opportunity for PhD students at all stage to present their papers and meet colleagues from other institution! You can find the call for paper here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Thank you, ERC for the chance to study sexual harassment prevention with a consolidator grant! Yay!! Looking forward to working with wonderful colleagues on this important topic.

We're hiring at warwick econ dept! 🚨 Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/9917 Collegial & smart colleagues, VERY LOW teaching loads, supportive environment with loads of research funding & personal development opportunities. I'm having a blast!

"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7

CREST/ENSAE/Polytechnique is hiring we have several econ 📈📉 positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867 Our lab results from the merger of the dpts of econ of Polytechnique (France’s 1er engineering school)& ENSAEparis (which trains public statisticians)...