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Achim Kemmerling

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Social scientist, political economy, development and social policy, activist for academic freedom

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those of you who did not have the time to join us live, here is the youtube video from our book talk (Policy Innovations from the Global South. Will the North ever Learn?). Thanks to @jcpaicpa.bsky.social for hosting us. The discussion was really fun. youtu.be/JrD5N4yRJZA?...
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Book Talk 9: Policy Innovations from the Global South – Will the North Ever Learn?
YouTube video by Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to our book talk tomorrow with ICPA_JCPA about Policy Innovations from the Global South. Will the North Ever Learn, with @luicypedroza.bsky.social Join us, if you are interested in #publicpolicy and international #policylearning especially #GlobalSouth comparativepolicy.org?p=8093
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ICPA SOCIETY AND JCPA BOOK TALKS SERIES – BOOK TALK 9 - Society for International Comparative Policy Analysis
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Eine schädliche Botschaft – www.welt-sichten.org/node/45795
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Eine schädliche Botschaft
Die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nutzt der Exportwirtschaft, heißt es in einer neuen Studie. Die KfW streut das Papier, will aber auch irgendwie nichts damit zu tun haben. Die Zweifel sind berechtigt, f...
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Universität Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Das Max-Weber-Kolleg der Uni Erfurt vergibt für 2027/28 internationale Fellowships an exzellente Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Bewerben Sie sich bis zum 31.08.2026! www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-ko...
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Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen des Max-Weber-Kollegs: Studentische*r Assistent*in (m/w/d) & Call for Papers für Workshop in Delhi. Bewerbungsschluss: 14.11.2025.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just a clarification: Infantino does not protect Argentina (only some 15 mio. instagram followers, for instance), but Messi (some 300 mio.). Follow the money...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Unfortunately, the Verge is right. The world’s first trillionaire is a killer www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
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The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 29/06/2026
One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.
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A Testy Musk Attacks Claims DOGE’s Cuts Killed Children. But Studies Paint Grim Picture.
One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New open-access book out on Policy Innovations in the Global South: Will the Global North Ever Learn? link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #PublicPolicy #PolicyLearning #PolicyDiffusion #PolicyTransfers.
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Policy Innovations from the Global South
This book challenges the conventional direction of policy diffusion by examining how policy learning flows from the Global South to the North
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
„Ich kann Ihnen mit Zuversicht sagen, dass Präsident Trump sich zutiefst für Ihren Erfolg einsetzt, denn Ihr Erfolg ist unser Erfolg", sagt Rubio - Und mischt sich damit in den ungarischen Wahlkampf ein. Wie man das bei Vasallen halt so macht
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/01/2026
Expanding on last week's theme
Chef Gordon Ramsay yelling at a chef in a kitchen, with text: “YOU’VE PUT SO MUCH OIL IN THE PAN” and “THE US WANTS TO INVADE IT.”
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21/01/2026
Correct. The trick is shifting them from their default position to the second setting #AcademicChatter
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.令
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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Please consider donating for independent academic research and education in social sciences in Myanmar, a country in which war and dictatorship have left many students stranded: gofund.me/e06a12195 #AcademicFreedom #ScholarsatRisk
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Donate to Support MUST's Online Education for Myanmar Youth, organized by Aung Myo Htun
Myanmar University of Social Science and Technology (MUST) Ed… Aung Myo Htun needs your support for Support MUST's Online Education for Myanmar Youth
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New article on how international organizations frame the future of work. We see those orgas emulate the solutionist spirit of tech entrepreneurs. The Schumpeterian logic of creative distruction leaves little space for real regulation in social & labor rights. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Rant of the day: why do I have to register on a platform, if I only have to upload an academic letter of recommendation for someone else? Utter nonsense.
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you are interested in qualitative methods and/ or evaluation, have a look at our review study on qualitative methods and reporting standards in evaluation. lnkd.in/ezVfzDZK
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Paradoxes of the AI age: students no longer do spelling mistakes or plagiarism, but now forget basics such as page numbers...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As if we need more reasons to inflate "significant" findings, AI does it for us... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.
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Universität Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🤖🧠 Bedroht KI unsere Jobs? Im #Wortmelder-Podcast spricht @achimkemmerling.bsky.social über den Einsatz von #KI & die Auswirkungen auf die #Arbeitswelt: Welche Berufe werden durch KI ersetzt & welche werden neu geschaffen? 🎧 Reinhören: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/ak... @brandtschool.bsky.social
Bildkollage mit schwarz-weiß Porträtfoto von Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling Professor für Public Policy und Development an der Willy Brandt School der Universität Erfurt, im Wortmelder, dem Wissenschaftspodcast der Universität Erfurt, mit dem Zitat: „Die letzten fünf Jahre der KI-Entwicklung kann man als dramatisch bezeichnen. Was die schiere Beschleunigung betrifft, würde ich schon von einer Revolution auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sprechen.“, Hintergrund orange
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Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Interested in how illiberal public rhetoric of right-wing leaders related to socio-economic inequality? Read our latest article to find out more.
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Mariana Llanos @millanos.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Las no tan populares (13% de participación!) elecciones judiciales en Mexico. Como sigue esto @azulaguiar.bsky.social ? elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
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Las primeras elecciones judiciales de México solo alcanzan un 13% de participación
Sheinbaum califica de “éxito” la jornada pese a la escasa afluencia a las urnas para seleccionar a más de 2.600 cargos
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"As long as Bolivia does not have a fully democratic government, these fires will continue to burn...authoritarian regimes disguise their abuse and prioritize short-term gains over the long-term survival of ecosystems and human life." www.journalofdemocra...
Image credit: Ángel Sandoval Sub-Governorate, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is why it is pointless being on X. If you get to the point where your voice is being heard, it will just be throttled.
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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to DEI, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics. More: pen.org/banned-words...
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🛜 ‘Digitalization and the future of the welfare state’ by @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, @achimkemmerling.bsky.social, Paul Marx, and Kees van Kersbergen: digit-research.org/event/digita...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Off University is the best way to address the autocratic onslaught on academic freedom. Check out their courses. bsky.app/profile/offu...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The importance of green skill formation: some insights on its political economy from great colleagues (@mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Martin B. Castensen and Jale Tosun) and myself: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Climate action means taxing the rich. We must "strengthen equality and redistribution through suitable taxation policies, basic income and job guarantees and by setting maximum income levels, expanding public services and rolling back neoliberal reforms" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientists’ warning on affluence - Nature Communications
Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The UK should ban X too.
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wie X zugunsten von AfD und BSW manipuliert: Deren Posts landen viel öfter in der „für Dich“-Timeline als die anderer Parteien. Dazu passt, dass meine Reichweite auf X um mehr als 95 Prozent ‼️reduziert wurde.
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just one of many examples what happens when #USAID disappears: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
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Myanmar in “polycrisis” as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect
Conflict, disease, and poverty are driving unprecedented needs as junta rule enters a fifth year. So why is humanitarian assistance shrinking?
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...
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MoPED Workshop
Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Warum die Abschaffung des USAID zynisch und idiotisch ist: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/ak...
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Nachgefragt: Welche Konsequenzen hätte die Schließung von USAID für die weltweite Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Prof. Kemmerling?
Welche Konsequenzen hätte die Schließung von USAid für die weltweite Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? "WortMelder" hat bei Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling von der Willy Brandt School of Public Policy nachgefrag...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Midway through our project, here is what we found so far how the Future of Work plays out in middle-income countries. Many thanks to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Inga Sabanova to let us showcase those findings. futureofwork.fes.de/tew-7
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2025/Issue 7
FES Blog by tech practitioners, academic researchers and policy makers. Editor - Inga Sabanova
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Wolfgang Obergassel @obergassel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The larger picture is that fascists thrive on fear, this is why they’re doing their best to spread it far and wide. To detox, it helps to get rid of algorithmic media and switch as much as possible to chronological media fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...
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282: Brain-Washing Machine
Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy to announce that our project PolDigWork Politics and the Future of Work has published its second working paper with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, this time on Indonesia. Thanks to all the good people at FES and Universitas Indonesia library.fes.de/pdf-files/in...
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Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Leiden University is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance (1.0fte)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance (1.0fte)Join our dynamic team at Leiden University! We seek a passionate scholar to contribute to cutting-edge research on the ...
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Universität Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#Stellenangebot 83/2024 Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in an der Professur für Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit den Schwerpunkten Wirtschaftspolitik und Finanzwissenschaft (13 TV-L, 75 %), Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2025 jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/1...
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A call for scholars at risk teaching a class on Myanmar with off university (offuniversity.org). The class is remunerated. Please share the call and consider applying. offuniversity.org/news/call-fo...
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Off University
Empowering Minds Beyond Borders
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Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My unit (Department of Public Policy at CEU, Vienna) is hiring!We’re looking for candidates with excellent skills in quantitative methods (specifically text mining, natural language processing, machine learning). Link to full call: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A... Happy to answer questions!
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Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We wrote a working paper taking stock of qualitative methods of evaluation. You can find it here: sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04810033. Happy to receive comments.
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Charles Knox-Vydmanov @knoxvydmanov.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Welcome @knowlesmarco.bsky.social of @unfao.bsky.social to Bluesky! Added to this social protection starter pack, and associated list/feed go.bsky.app/FP9qJZV
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Benjamin Blumenthal @bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tried to put together a list of pol econ people (both theory and empirics) on bsky: go.bsky.app/UhWxdmh Probably missing a lot of names: let me know who I should add!
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Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
The New Nordic Paradox: Nordic welfare states help parents, including most mothers, work (which is what most mothers in these countries want). And then they send parents a large bill. The help is real, but it is not a gift. ifstudies.org/blog/the-new...
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The New Nordic Paradox: How Family-friendly Welfare States Burden Parents the Most
Around most of the world, low fertility has become an urgent challenge. This is the case even in the Nordic societies.
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