Research by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social et al suggests, despite the high stakes and learning opportunity of a real TV show game, with perfect information, and suitable for perfect backward induction, people still tend to exhibit limited foresight: buff.ly/PZQ9STq 1/2

Just a week left to apply!

Bouke Klein Teeselink@bkleinteeselink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

🚨 New research: AI, Automation, and Expertise🚨 We analyze hundreds of millions of job ads across 39 countries to understand how AI is changing labor markets around the world.

But other studies DO identify disruption: 🗽In the US: www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat... & papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @acjohnston.bsky.social 💂‍♂️In the UK papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social 💻 Among freelancers: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... (4/5)

Thanks a lot for the useful comments on our paper yesterday. Really enjoyed being back and meeting everyone! Thanks, @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social for a very engaging day across Aldwych.

King's QPE@kingsqpe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Florian Foos (@florianfoos.bsky.social, LSE) on "Differential Mobilization and Turnout Inequality". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 PhD Opportunity on the Economics of AI 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 3.5-year PhD student to study how generative AI is transforming UK labour markets! This position is a unique collaboration between King's College London and the AI Security Institute.

📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

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This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's QPE@kingsqpe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at bouke.klein_teeselink@kcl.ac.uk or teresa.estebancasanelles@kcl.ac.uk. 📅 Full schedule 👇

🚨How is AI reshaping UK jobs? 🚨 Fears about AI causing hiring freezes, fewer entry roles, and pay pressure are widespread. My new research investigates whether these fears are justified. @kcl-spe.bsky.social wrote a great blog summarising my results!

School of Politics and Economics@kcl-spe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New research from Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink has shed light on the emerging impact of AI on the UK's labour market 🤖 👶 Entry-level roles adversely affected 📉 Job vacancies in exposed industries down 🗣️ Customer-facing roles resilient Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

New research from Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink has shed light on the emerging impact of AI on the UK's labour market 🤖 👶 Entry-level roles adversely affected 📉 Job vacancies in exposed industries down 🗣️ Customer-facing roles resilient Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

New study reveals early impact of AI on job market in UK | King's College London

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the UK labour market, with high-paying firms and professional occupations experiencing the most significant declines in employment and wages, while lower-paid sect...

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🧠 New analysis of LinkedIn posts finds junior workers are feeling the brunt of generative AI's impact on the labour markets. Fascinating work by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's QPE@kingsqpe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at bouke.klein_teeselink@kcl.ac.uk or teresa.estebancasanelles@kcl.ac.uk. 📅 Full schedule 👇

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Great thread summarising my new paper with @gmelios.bsky.social on the effect of disability benefits on employment in the UK!

George Melios@gmelios.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 New working paper alert! As part of our Horizon Europe BENEFITS project, @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social and I study whether disability benefits necessarily discourage work — using the UK’s Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reform as a natural experiment. 🧵

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy! If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

King's QPE@kingsqpe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at bouke.klein_teeselink@kcl.ac.uk or teresa.estebancasanelles@kcl.ac.uk. 📅 Full schedule 👇

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thread below👇

Daniele Girardi@dgirardi.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions.... [1/4]

Just out! ERNOP's practitioner summary of my paper with @gmelios.bsky.social, showing that 🇺🇸 Partisans reduce charitable giving by ~4.5 % when their own party is in power, as faith in government crowds out private help, whereas opposition to government motivates private giving. tinyurl.com/ernop1

🚨 We're hiring! King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... Please share! Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

AEP Lecturer in Economics

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We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

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🚨 Come work with us at King's College London! 🚨 We're hiring two assistant professors (Education Pathway): - Lecturer in Economics tinyurl.com/aepecon - Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods tinyurl.com/aepmethod Amazing department, great colleagues, central London, what's not to like?

AEP Lecturer in Economics

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Great to be hosting the European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting 2025 at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social. Excited about two more days of research presentations ahead!

King's QPE@kingsqpe.bsky.social · last yr.

Great first day at the conference yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, ending with an excellent keynote by Rani Spiegler. Looking forward to the next two days!

An interesting collection of opinions @theguardian.com on whether and how the 2020 BLM protests change the world. Covers our work with @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social on @polbehavior.bsky.social. Link on the first comment

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

How did 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement change the world? Our panel responds

🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

We kick off today! Excited to host this event.

Bouke Klein Teeselink@bkleinteeselink.bsky.social · last yr.

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Happy to host @kristoberg.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) this Wednesday (April 30) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Happy to host @nunopgpalma.bsky.social (University of Manchester) this Wednesday (April 16) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.