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Today we're very happy to have Petra Thiemann from @lund-university.bsky.social visiting us! Petra will give a seminar on their project "School Density and Inequality in Student Achievement". Welcome!

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👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!

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New publication from our @erikprawitz.bsky.social: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" (with Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo & Björn Eriksson) - forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics @aeajournals.bsky.social 🤩 Great work!

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" by Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, Björn Eriksson, and Erik Prawitz. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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This week we're excited to have @adrianadermon.bsky.social from @ifau.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow Adrian will give a seminar on their all-star project on "The Intergenerational Mobility of Children of Immigrants" 🤩 Welcome to Växjö, Adrian!

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Deadline feb 15 for applying to the PhD program in Economics at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden www.nationalekonomi.se/wp-content/u...

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Today we're happy to have Mathias Millberg Lindholm from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social presenting at our weekly seminar in economics and statistics. Mathias is Associate Professor in mathematical statistics and will present a paper on "Discrimination and Fairness in Insurance Pricing". Welcome!

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Möt nationalekonomen Hans Grönqvist som leder Svenska kriminalpolitiska laboratoriet. Genom naturligt uppkomna experiment undersöker de vilken effekt olika politiska reformer har på brottsligheten. fof.se/artikel/fotb... #kriminalitet #brott

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A new study evaluating the effectiveness of humans versus AI in assessing research reproducibility - featuring our researchers @ollehammar.bsky.social and Joakim Jansson as co-authors. Check it out!

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Hey, don't forget to apply to our PhD positions in economics! Deadline: February 15. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Apply to the 3rd Workshop in Economic History at Uppsala University, co-organized by our @erikprawitz.bsky.social 👇

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Happy new year! 🎉 This semester we're extremely happy to have a great list of speakers presenting at our weekly seminar, including @adrianadermon.bsky.social, @yoko-okuyama.bsky.social, @valentinaconsil.bsky.social, @meltemdaysal.bsky.social, @econom.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social & many more!

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We're proud to have hosted one of these games together with @i4replication.bsky.social - focusing on replication of papers using Swedish register data. Stay tuned for more on this in 2025!

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Huge thanks to @ollehammar.bsky.social for organizing the Växjö Replication Games! We have more than 30 researchers joining us today. All teams focus on papers using Swedish admin/registry data. These papers are almost never computationally reproduced!

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Wrapping up the semester, we can conclude that it's been a productive year for our researchers! Here are some more examples of new publications from our department 👇

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Our department continues to grow. Today we are extremely happy to welcome our new post doc Erwan Dujeancourt! Erwan has been granted a three-year Wallander Scholarship by Handelsbankens Research Foundation. More about Erwan and his fascinating research here sites.google.com/view/erwandu...

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Vi diskuterar migrationsviljan i Ryssland i senaste avsnittet av Delmi-podden: www.delmi.se/delmi-podden...

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New DELMI report by our @ollehammar.bsky.social and co-authors on "War Policies and Migration Aspirations in Russia". www.delmi.se/en/publicati...

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This week we're very happy to have Mikael Lindahl from @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow, Mikael will give a seminar on "Dynastic Human Capital, Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants". Welcome to Växjö, Mikael!

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More Working Papers from the department! "Workplace Peer Effects in Turnout" by Magnus Carlsson and @finseraas.bsky.social: ekonomihogskolan.lnu.se/vxesta/24-11...

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The first Wednesday each month we have an internal seminar where researchers at our department present their ongoing work. Today Magnus Carlsson presented a project on "The Effect of Schooling on Non-Cognitive Skills" and @erikprawitz.bsky.social presented "Water and the Urban Mortality Decline".

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Sweden's probably most rapidly expanding economics department, the department of economics and statistics at Linnaeus University, is hiring multiple PhD students in Economics. Deadline is feb 15th. Please spread the word! lnu.se/mot-linneuni...

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More good publication news! Congratulations to @hansgronqvist.bsky.social for having their paper "The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration" (with Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme and Mikael Priks) accepted for publication in The Economic Journal! 🎉

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Last week, we had an alumni event for our students, where @marielleappelkvist.bsky.social and other great alumni talked about what you can do as an economist after graduation! 🎓

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Article from BBC on Växjö city, one of two campus of Linnaeus University bbc.com/travel/artic...

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New Publication! 🎉 Congratulations to @erikprawitz.bsky.social and @thorberger.bsky.social for publishing their paper "Inventors among the 'Impoverished Sophisticate'" in the prestigious Journal of Economic History! 🤩

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Yesterday, the Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank, Per Jansson, gave an inspiring guest lecture for our students and faculty members. Thanks for visiting us, Per!

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Earlier this year, our researcher Jonas Kolsrud published a paper on "Retirement Consumption and Pension Design" (together with Camille Landais, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn) in the American Economic Review @aeajournals.bsky.social 👏

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New Working Paper! "How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crises" by Julien Grenet, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler: ekonomihogskolan.lnu.se/vxesta/24-13...

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Read about our Professor @hansgronqvist.bsky.social in the latest issue of the magazine Change 🤩 Hans is leading the Swedish Criminal Justice Policy Action Lab (SCAL) which has received 17.7 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council 👏

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Today @ollehammar.bsky.social and our PhD students Sara Värn and Adam Birgersson participated in a workshop organized by Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economics (CNEE), which also includes our researchers @jakobenlund.bsky.social and Tobias König. Thanks for including us in Greater Copenhagen!

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PhD students - look here! 👉 In the spring, our department will give a PhD course on Equality of Opportunity. The course is open to any PhD students in Economics and free of charge! Schedule allows for commute from e.g. Stockholm-Uppsala, Gothenburg and Copenhagen-Lund. Apply and/or spread the word!

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On November 26, our researcher @erikprawitz.bsky.social is giving a seminar on "Cities and the Rise of Working Women" at @tcdeconomics.bsky.social 🇮🇪

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This week we're thrilled to have Anna Sandberg from @sofi.su.se visiting us! Tomorrow, November 21, Anna will give a seminar on "Experimental Evidence on Job Ads and Applicant Gender". Welcome to Växjö, Anna! annasandberg.nu/contakt/

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