Just two weeks left to sign up to Stockholm School of Economics’s ’Scaling Social Impact Summit’ with keynotes John A. List & Dr. Dana Suskind @ panel session with AstraZeneca’s Per Alfredsson & Amref’s Anna Lindenfors, moderated by Tore Ellingsen. More details at: tinyurl.com/Governance-and…

In today's seminar, B. Tyrefors (IFN English) presented a joint work with Daniel Knutsson on a non-targeted summer youth employment program (#SYEP). They show that SYEP negatively impacts post-high school income, especially for males not on an academic track. #EconTwitter #USIEcon

Looking forward to our symposium next week Stockholm School of Economics. A scaling workshop followed by an academic conference....freely open to everyone! Details here: hhs.se/sv/forskning/f… Many thanks to Karl Wennberg Tore Ellingsen Robert Östling AstraZeneca’s Per Alfredsson &

Carmen Villa JMP: "The Effects of Youth Clubs on Education and Crime" Website: carmenvilla.net

🚨 What happens when the gov't cuts prices on medical technologies? New research (w/ Yunan Ji) finds a 61% price cut led to: 75% drop in innovation (may fully offset savings) 49% fewer new firms 28% more production moved overseas 3x repair/replacement rate 🧵(1/n)

Come to Uppsala and work as a post doctoral researcher at the Centre for Health Economic Research (hefuu.uu.se) at @UU_University econjobmarket.org/positions/11123 Live in a lovely university town close to #Stockholm #EconTwitter EuHEA @ashecon

Seeing this article forthcoming in QJE made my day. Congratulations Matti Mitrunen! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

Having written extensively about how real wages have risen strongly for working class Americans since 2019, let me be clear about a few things, on both the facts, and how we should interpret them. 🧵

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

Introducing our #EconJMC Patrizia Massner. In her #EconJMP “Should Elder Care Be Subsidized? Theory and Evidence from Sweden” she examines the impact of a 2002 elder care fee reform that lowered costs by 40% on avg. for 2/3 of Sweden’s municipalities. su.se/institute-for-… 1/6

Should we subsidise the care for elderly people? Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself. She is an enormously promising researcher. Check out her work!

Amin is on the market this year with a stellar JMP. Reach out if you want to know more about him or his paper. Here is a summary of the main contributions:

My new paper - Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? - with Zarek Brot-Goldberg Stuart Craig & Lev Klarnet was just published in AER: Impact (AEA Journals). A Thread

We're looking for PhD Students in Economics to join our growing department Linnéuniversitetet Linnaeus University! Apply here 👉 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I009/613/j…

Pretty striking findings! parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/20…

A few more words about the "Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" that we just posted (w/ Peter Hull, Xavier Jaravel) We tried to make it useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and those who didn't even know they were users (1/N)

New on inequalitylab.world: "Firms as tax shelters: The disguise of personal expenses as business expenses", by D. Leite Key finding: individuals who control firms shift 36% of their monthly personal expenditures to firms Conclusion: inequality is underestimated;

🚨 What happens when you take a bunch of human capital out of a local economy? Is brain drain a real thing & what are the consequences? In a new paper, we shed light on this in the context of highly developed economies: Sweden and Norway. Alexander Willén Katrine Vellesen Løken Petter Lundborg

Nu har vi gått ut med några namn! Cecilia Uddén, Johan-Mathias Sommarström, Terese Cristiansson, Paul Hansen, Göran Rosenberg, Jan Guillou, Farah Abadi och över 500 till har skrivit på uppropet. En lång lista jobbar på Sveriges Radio.

This is my favorite figure from this paper. It shows that methods that adjust for heterogeneous treatment effects rarely change the fundamental results of TWFE. "While scenarios where accounting for [heterogeneous treatment effects] completely reverses the empirical findings