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karinhederos.bsky.social
Economist at SOFI, Stockholm University
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1/ As US colleges bring back the SAT, an old dilemma reemerges: do test scores reduce bias, or does focusing on β€œfit” quietly uphold class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧡

Great work showing how people’s career choices mirror their parents' in knowledge, values, skills, and more – and discussing the implications for inequality.

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for @AEAjournals There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes I hope they can be helpful! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v9...

Myrdalpriset 2024 tilldelas Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus RΓΆdin och Johan VikstrΓΆm. Artikeln ”Effekter av fΓΆrstΓ€rkta fΓΆrmedlingsinsatser – lΓ€rdomar frΓ₯n ett randomiserat experiment” publicerades i Ekonomisk Debatt nr 2, 2024. shorturl.at/D15UO shorturl.at/RAZNt

Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

Thanks to all who assisted. I have put links and brief descriptions on my webpage. Please let me know if I should add/change anything: sites.google.com/view/jonasvl...

New publication on gendered referral patterns πŸ‘‡ With @a-sandberg.bsky.social

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 πŸ“‰πŸ“ˆ

Not sure I have the bandwidth to learn another social media platform, but here goes...my first post here:) Excited to share a new paper: πƒπšπ­π’π§π  𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐖𝐒𝐭𝐑 𝐭𝐑𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐒𝐭𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐒π₯π₯𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 w/ Dave Macdonald & Jerry Montonen. Abstract pictured below!

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

Colada[115] shows the prevalence of pre-registrations in papers published in 2022, with lessons to improve in 2023+ datacolada.org/115

Special issue in memory of Nora Szech in the European Economic Review - deadline December 16! #EconSky πŸ“‰πŸ“ˆ @steffenhuck.bsky.social