Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University
@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social
A modern Economics and Statistics department located in beautiful Växjö, Småland, southern Sweden. https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/Organisation/school-of-business-and-economics/meet-the-school-of-business-and-economics/economics/
Our seminar series is done for the semester! See you again in the fall with great speakers including Alessandro Topetta, Yanos Zylberberg, @csantantonio.bsky.social, @erikoberg.bsky.social, Nikhil Rao, Christian Thomann, @giuliavattuone.bsky.social, Gustav Martinsson, and more! Have a nice summer! 😎
Last week, we organized the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics in Växjö, Sweden, with over 100 participants from all over the world! Yesterday, the @ideadevecon.bsky.social was launched bringing development economists together globally! Join and support this great initiative! 🙌
Dean Yang@deanyang.bsky.social · last mo.Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍
On May 28, Professor Robert J. Sampson @harvard.edu @nasonline.org, delivered a lecture on his new book, "Marked by Time". The seminar was hosted @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and organized jointly with the Swedish Criminal Justice Policy Action Lab, where @hansgronqvist.bsky.social serves as the PI.
Forthcoming in the AER: "Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications" by Katrine Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven, Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, and Mathilde Munoz.
Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications
(Forthcoming Article) - Using administrative data from Scandinavian countries, we provide evidence on international migration responses to wealth taxes and evaluate their aggregate economic implications. We find significant migration responses among the wealthy: a 1pp increase in the top wealth tax rate decreases the stock of wealthy taxpayers by about 2%. A large fraction of the wealthy are business owners, and their businesses are negatively affected by owner out-migration. The aggregate effects are nevertheless modest: the migration responses to a 1pp increase in the top wealth tax rate reduce employment by 0.02%, investments by 0.07%, and value-added by 0.10%.
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🤩 New top publication! @jonaskolsrud.bsky.social's paper "Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications" (with Jakobsen, Kleven, Landais & Muñoz) is now forthcoming in the American Economic Review @aeajournals.bsky.social! 👏 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications
(Forthcoming Article) - Using administrative data from Scandinavian countries, we provide evidence on international migration responses to wealth taxes and evaluate their aggregate economic implicatio...
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It's a wrap - 3 days, 100 participants, 20 countries! Thanks to everyone who came and made NCDE 2026 such a great success! 🙌
The 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE 2026) in Växjö is now on! ☀️ See full program here: www.lnu.se/contentasset...
Thanks for having me on the Policy Implications podcast @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social! Hear our - unfortunately very timely - discussion on Russian support for the war in Ukraine here 👇
OlhaZadorozhna@olhazadorozhna.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎧 Today, as RU launched another massive attack on Kyiv, I’m sharing an episode that feels especially timely. Link: tinyurl.com/4fbjbrvs 🎧 Listen as a podcast: 🟢 Spotify: shorturl.at/Ho3jh 🍎 Apple Podcasts: shorturl.at/gOlvb ▶️ YouTube Podcasts: shorturl.at/otJaq #EconSky #PoliSky #EconTwitter
Yesterday, we had a visit from the Minister for Migration, Johan Forssell, and opposition councillor, Pernilla Tornéus, hosted by our professor Mats Hammarstedt, with discussions including education, language skills, entrepreneurship among foreign-born individuals, and labour immigration 👇
"Increased labor immigration is a major gain for Swedish society", according to a new report from Strategirådet and @larsbehrenz.bsky.social! The report will be presented at a webinar arranged by Tillväxtverket on Thursday June 11 👉 tillvaxtverket.se/tillvaxtverk...
Ekonomisk potential av ökad arbetskraftsinvandring inom högkvalificerade yrken
För många företag är möjligheten att rekrytera kvalificerad arbetskraft avgörande för att kunna växa och utvecklas. I rapporten analyseras de samhällsekonomiska och offentligfinansiella effekterna av ...
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Read about a paper's way from idea to publication - illustrated by @erikprawitz.bsky.social and co-authors' paper "Home Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" published in AEJ: Applied Economics @aeajournals.bsky.social 👉 ragnar.soderbergs.se/nyheter/vage...
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Congratulations to our PhD student @marcosdemetry.bsky.social who has been awarded Ratio's scholarship for young researchers! 👏 The scholarship will fund participation in the EEA-ESEM 2026 conference in Dublin @eeanews.bsky.social @econometric.bsky.social: ratio.se/de-tilldelas...
It's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who made the first Linnaeus Inequality Summit such a nice and successful event! 🙌
Olle Hammar@ollehammar.bsky.social · 2mo ago☀️ I had a great time participating in the inaugural Linnaeus Inequality Summit together with an impressive group of researchers: lnu.se/en/meet-linn... 🇫🇷 Next up, World Inequality Conference @wid.world @pse.bsky.social: inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
Linnaeus Inequality Summit is on! ☀️ Now with a fascinating keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA) on "De-Polarizing Politics"! 🤩
Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 3mo ago💫 On June 2-3, we'll be organizing the inaugural Linnaeus University Summit in Växjö! We have an amazing program, including a keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)! See full program below 👇
🥳 New publication in @pnas.org! Happy to be part of this big experiment on AI and reproducibility led by @i4replication.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
🎉 New publication in @pnas.org including three co-authors from our department - Joakim Jansson, Erwan Dujeancourt & @ollehammar.bsky.social! 👏 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science | PNAS
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are transforming how scientists conduct and validate research, offering promise as tools to improve sc...
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Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
Imorgon kommer jag att vara på Järvaveckan och prata om kulturell integration! Fredag 29 maj kl 13-14 i tält E18. Kom förbi! jarvaveckan.se/tent-activit...
"More and more billionaires – but the gaps still haven't widened" @ollehammar.bsky.social and co-authors write on DN Debatt 👇
Olle Hammar@ollehammar.bsky.social · 2mo ago💰⚠️ Sedan förmögenhetsskatten avskaffades 2007 har vi inte kunnat mäta förmögenhetsojämlikheten i Sverige. Vi har ägnat det senaste decenniet åt att bygga upp ett nytt förmögenhetsregister. Nu vet vi hur det ser ut! Läs om våra resultat på DN Debatt 📈📉 - www.dn.se/debatt/allt-...
"Came as refugees - now they are high-ranking managers" - Our professor Mats Hammarstedt is interviewed in Göteborgs-Posten about integrating refugees into the labor market 👉 www.gp.se/politik/kom-...
🎉 New publications from the department! Our guest professor @jpeternilsson.bsky.social has two forthcoming articles 👇
Program out for the 1st Linnaeus Inequality Summit 🤩
Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 3mo ago💫 On June 2-3, we'll be organizing the inaugural Linnaeus University Summit in Växjö! We have an amazing program, including a keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)! See full program below 👇
💫 On June 2-3, we'll be organizing the inaugural Linnaeus University Summit in Växjö! We have an amazing program, including a keynote speech by Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)! See full program below 👇
The program for the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics that we'll be organizing in June is out! ☀️😎 We have an awesome lineup with 3 keynotes, 83 presenters, and 104 participants from over 20 countries coming to Växjö! 🤩 See the full program here 👉 lnu.se/contentasset...
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Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 4mo ago🎉 We've now closed the submission for the Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2026 and sent out acceptance letters to all presenters! Congratulations to those accepted! We're very humbled by receiving 250+ submissions. Thanks to all applicants and for great work by the scientific committee! 👇
On April 30, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social participated in the @nber.org Children and Families Program Meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he presented the paper "Criminal Records, Family Formation and Violence Against Women" 👉 www.nber.org/conferences/...
New publication! "All in a Day's Work: Evidence From Danish Manorial Accounts on Labor, Seasonality, and Living Standards" by Peter Sandholt Jensen, Maja U. Pedersen, Cristina Victoria Radu & Paul Sharp is now out in the European Review of Economic History! 🎉
All in a Day’s Work: Evidence From Danish Manorial Accounts on Labor, Seasonality, and Living Standards
Abstract. We use detailed microlevel data from the Danish Price History Project to estimate the number of days manorial employers engaged day-laborers in e
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🎉 Our department is growing! We're extremely happy to welcome our newest colleague, Christine Alamaa, who is joining us as a postdoc! Christine defended her PhD thesis @sofi.su.se in December 2025, and her research lies at the intersection of labor, behavioral, and gender economics. Very welcome! 🎉
Christine Alamaa
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The Pride Festival has started in Växjö, and in the local newspaper Smålandsposten you can read about Mats Hammarstedt's research on the position of LGBTQ people in the labor market! 🏳️🌈
Congratulations to @jonaskolsrud.bsky.social who has been granted 1.5 million SEK from Handelsbanken's research foundations for the project "The distributional effects of worktime reduction, income shocks and job transitions"! 🎉
Anslag våren 2026 | Handelsbanken Forskningsstiftelser
Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse | Handelsbanken Forskningsstiftelser
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Our PhD student @marielleappelkvist.bsky.social has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from @unicologne.bsky.social for her outstanding academic achievements during her exchange semester in 2025 – an award given to the top 10% of international students! 👏
