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Jerry Montonen

@montonenjerry.bsky.social
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PhD Student in Economics at AaltoUniversity and HelsinkiGSE. Stockholm born and raised, now living in Helsinki. 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇬🇧🇩🇪 + flytande skandinaviska sites.google.com/view/jerrymontonen

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.."
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seit Google automatisch KI-Zusammenfassungen anzeigt, haben "zero-click searches" um ≈70% zugenommen. Für die direkte Demokratie der Schweiz hat das grosse Folgen. Bei der #10MillionenSchweiz -Abstimmung (Bevölkerungsdeckel) tendierten die KI-Zusammenfassungen von Google mehrheitlich zur Ja-Seite
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That’s good Bluesky
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I'm not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now 1/2
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THUS SPAKE BOB 2/2
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Bob here. I still have the original pencil drawing I did of the pig. Scanned it and sent it to my daughter who converted it to the logo with photoshop. My goal was to make it simple and recognizable. (Guess it worked out)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A fly just zipped into my mouth while gabbing on CNN. Next question was about the Fed, so I did what Kevin Warsh won't—I swallowed hard and kept talking. I figure folks deserve some clarity about the economy. (Postscript: The fly is dead. And I'm no longer a vegetarian.)
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Steffen Ganghof @ganghof.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@pluggedchris.bsky.social zur 5%-Hürde: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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6,8 Millionen wertlose Stimmen: Die Fünfprozenthürde entmündigt Wähler
Ist die Fünfprozenthürde noch zeitgemäß? Wenn immer mehr Stimmen von Bürgern verloren gehen, verlieren der Bundestag und die Landesparlamente an Legitimation. Reformen sind dringend geboten. Ein Vorsc...
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Torsten @kiedricher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Stort grattis!!
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22
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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The US must respond to this attack" ... #foreverwar
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/04/2026
This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral.
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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 13/04/2026
Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz…
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/04/2026
Live footage of German politicians
Subsidize demand meme
First panel: I just need to subsidize demand
Second panel: guy lying in bed “I just need to subsidize demand”
Third panel: home prices go up -> people get angry -> subsidize demand
Fourth panel: man coming in asking “bro are you okay?” — everything is black chaos “yes I just need to subsidize demand”
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Svend Elberg Thomsen @lejesvend.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I stedet for at sænke afgift på benzin (5 mia. kr.) kunne staten: - Halvere prisen på offentlig transport (5 mia. kr.) eller - Give 33.000 lavindkomst-familier med langt til arbejde en gratis elbil (5 mia. kr.) Forskellen er, at billigere benzin ikke løser energikrisen. #dkpol
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Nun will Trump also die Europäer in seinen Krieg hineinziehen, den er ja nach eigener Aussage bereits gewonnen hat, und doht dafür erneut mit dem Ende der NATO. Die Konsequenz muss sein: Beschleunigter Ausbau regenerativer Energien und rascher Aufbau europäischer Verteidigungsstrukturen.
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Iran-Krieg - Trump fordert Beteiligung der NATO in der Straße von Hormus und droht andernfalls mit "sehr schlechter Zukunft" für das Bündnis
US-Präsident Trump hat die NATO aufgefordert, die USA dabei zu unterstützen, die Straße von Hormus wieder für die Schifffahrt zu öffnen. Andernfalls drohe der NATO eine - wie er der "Financial Times" ...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's fascinating to me that Sweden, once global pariah for flouting lockdown consensus, seems to have come out better than even its Scandinavian neighbours
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You are correct, it is indeed the personality test Finnish conscripts take!
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Maybe I should've labeled it "Socio-emotional trait", or left out masculinity from the table... But the Finnish Defence Forces did measure it in the 80's and 90's!
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taz @taz.de · 17/02/2026
Die einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern?
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Gerechte Erbschaftssteuer: Fairness gibt es nicht
Die einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern?
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Dessa resultat pekar på en intressant motsättning i den akademiska världen, där studenterna vill ha svensk undervisning, medan den akademiska personalen föredrar engelska för att internationalisera omgivningen, vilket har tydliga fördelar inom forskningen. Mycket intressant.
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Stanislav Avdeev @stnavdeev.com · 26/11/2025
New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition. In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
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NBER @nber.org · 25/11/2025
Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 17/10/2025
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.
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Alexandra de Gendre @adegendre.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Ps. If you are interested on how dating or breaking up with the boss affects earnings – I have a paper on that too!
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Shortly about me – I’m a PhD candidate at @AaltoUniversity interested in labor economics and the economics of education. Read more about me and my research here: sites.google.com/view/jerrymo... (11/11)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🏛️Policymakers interested in the later-life outcomes of students should increasingly pay attention to fostering socio-emotional skills in schools. (10/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In conclusion, a changing labor market in recent decades has made socio-emotional skills increasingly valuable in the labor market. I show that teachers play key roles in shaping these skills, in addition to their effect on academic skills. (9/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Next, I correlate teacher observables with value-added in all three dimensions to explain what predicts high value-added teachers. I find that the university institution the teacher has graduated from correlates with value-added, suggesting that we might be able to train better teachers. (8/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This effect size is twice that of test score value-added (0.6%), showing that variation in teacher effects on socio-emotional skills is relatively more important for later-life earnings than variation in teacher effects on academic skills. (7/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
💰Next, I look at how these effects carry over to the labor market. I find that one standard deviation higher conscientiousness value-added teachers raise labor market earnings between ages 30-35 by 1.2%! (6/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You might ask: do the same teachers who raise academic skills also raise socio-emotional skills? No! The within-teacher correlation of test score value-added and conscientiousness or extroversion value-added is close to zero, suggesting that these effects are almost orthogonal to each other (5/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Using data from a personality test taken by Finnish men, I estimate that one standard deviation higher conscientiousness value-added teachers increase student conscientiousness by 0.067 standard deviations. The estimate for extroversion is 0.073 sd's and 0.175 sd's for test score value-added. (4/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
To answer this, I employ a teacher value-added approach and estimate teacher effects on two measures of socio-emotional skills: Conscientiousness and Extroversion, in addition to the classic test score value-added. (3/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Socio-emotional skills are increasingly important determinants of labor market outcomes, but what role can teachers play in shaping these skills? (2/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Just do as the Germans and mention all the titles! But I guess the ordering of the titles still matters...
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 15/10/2025
just a perfect paper, yet again with the power of scandinavian register data www.nber.org/papers/w34346
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The Impacts of Romantic Relationships with the Boss
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Unfortunately, we can't see this in the data. We don't distinguish between the types of exit from the firm, so the longer employment spell for the worker could be due to any number of reasons (lower risk of layoff, increased job satisfaction, etc.). If you're interested, we discuss it in the paper.
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In the Appendix, we do also show that subordinates in these relationships are more likely to stay in the firm. And after breakup, they are (much) more likely to leave the firm vs. the control group
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The retention results mentioned in the abstract refers to spillover effects, i.e. retention of colleagues at the workplace who we compare to a matched firm where no manager-subordinate relationship exists
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Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434...
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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thank you for the shout! This paper has been a very interesting project to work on!
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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