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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Call for papers -- Wages, Employment and Inequality, part IV. Uppsala Sep 4-5. Keynotes @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Anna Salomons. Also confirmed Alexander Willén and Lena Hensvik. Its the 4th time I do this with @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, great fun every time - join us! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/

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» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: WEI IV in Uppsala on 4 – 5.9.2026

<p>The fourth Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI IV) will be organized in Uppsala, Sweden, on September 4 – 5, 2026. The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of s...

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Economics is hard. Even the basics. Exhibit #52783

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Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I don't think the argument for the price system rests on full information. I think it rests on Hayek 1945, hence precisely on dispersed local knowledge --i said that before. But let's leave it here. I think we clarified quite a bit, and I hope some of our readers (if there are any!) learned a bit.

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Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research FIT @verotutkimus.fi · 08/01/2025

Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers. Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

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» Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/01/2025

From a soon-to-be-released project with @jevinwest.bsky.social, here's a way to think about what is happening. (2/2)

$So why does this happen? As we discussed in Lesson 5, it's difficult or impossible to reverse engineer LLMs to get precise answers. But we can understand the general problem. For us, the statements "Ed Sheeran has a song called The Crow" and "Ed Sheeran doesn't have a song called The Crow" feel like polar opposites. But recall that LLMs encode strings of words in high-dimensional spaces. For the LLM, these statements are very close to one another in that high dimensional space. Both involve Ed Sheeran. Both involve a song called The Crow. What fraction of English utterances involve either, let alone both? To the LLM, whether you throw in the word "doesn't" almost is trivial. Principle: predictive text machines like LLMs measure the distance between statements very differently from the way people do. Claims that seem diametrically opposed to us may seem almost identical to them. As a result, they can be wildly inconsistent in their responses.$

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Read this last year. Highly recommended. The part on behavioral Econ was particularly interesting as someone in the field.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The #QJE received 1,972 new submissions during 2023:Q4 – 2024:Q3. 1,340 (68%) submissions were desk rejected and 632 were sent to referees. If sent to referees, median days to first decision = 34, mean days = 38, max days = 92. Thank you for your submissions, and to our referees!

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Just say no to the gilding of the Gilded Age, and remember the postwar boom paulkrugman.substack.com/p/americas-f...

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America’s Forgotten Generation (of Prosperity)

How and why the postwar boom got memory-holed

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This paper finds that both ice and hot days increase workplace accidents by ~7%. Results suggest: 1. Little heterogeneity on hot days, on ice days older workers are more affected and accidents are more severe. 2. Main mechanisms are sleep problems on hot days, slipping on ice days.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/01/2025

Norway gives more foreign aid per capita than any other OECD country

A horizontal bar chart titled "Foreign aid given per capita in 2023" shows net official development assistance (ODA) divided by population for various countries. The chart depicts the following countries and their corresponding aid amounts in U.S. dollars:

- Norway: $1,160 (the longest bar, highlighted in green)
- Sweden: $515
- Netherlands: $370
- UK: $255
- France: $225
- US: $190
- Japan: $155
- Australia: $122
- Spain: $69
- Israel: $41

A note indicates that Norway is the only country giving over $1,000 per capita in foreign aid. The data source is from the OECD, dated 2024, and the image has a copyright notice stating "CC BY."

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A rare miss by Jim Hines, nobody can predictably beat the market, even I. @iipf.bsky.social

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Juho Junttila @juhojunttila.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Tuore tutkimuksemme osoittaa, että verovelvollisuuden siirtäminen ostajalle (käännetty alv) hillitsee harmaata taloutta rakennusalalla. Laki astui voimaan 2011, ja sen nettovaikutus verottajalle ilmoitettuun arvonlisään on keskimäärin 5%. www.doria.fi/handle/10024... @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

Kuvassa on neljä erotukset-eroissa kuvaajaa. Piste-estimaatit ovat lähellä vertailuvuoden erotusta vuosina 2008-2010. Estimaatit pomppaavat epäjatkuvasti ylemmäs vuonna 2011 ja jäävät korkeammalle tasolle.

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Dear friends and followers, I'm sharing here the Nobel prize acceptance speech I gave on behalf of Simon Johnson, James Robinson and myself. Thank you everybody.

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Heikki Bergholm @heikkibergholm.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Kuva Juhan blogista!

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Tuomas Kosonen @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Tutkimuksemme 2018 alkoholilain uudistuksesta: aiempaa vahvempien alkoholituotteiden myynti PT-kaupassa jopa viisinkertaistui suhteessa myynteihin Alkossa aiemmin. Silti alkoholin kokonaiskulutus ei noussut. @verotutkimusfit.bsky.social www.doria.fi/handle/10024/190563

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Vuoden 2018 alkoholilain uudistuksen vaikutuksista

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Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE @labore.fi · 11/12/2024

Tutkimus: Vuoden 2018 alkoholilaki siirsi myyntiä Alkosta kauppoihin – kulutus ei lisääntynyt @samijysma.bsky.social, @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, Arnaldur Stefánsson, Lukas Worku @labore.fi, VATT, FIT Tampereen yliopisto, Islannin yliopisto Lue lisää 👉 labore.fi/julkaisu/tut...

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