World Cup quarter-finals starting today! As in most years, this is mainly a European and South American thing. But not a very good year for South America, with only Argentina left. One country from outside Europe/South America is fairly average; this year it is Morocco.

World Cup quarter-finals starting today! As in most years, this is mainly a European and South American thing. But not a very good year for South America, with only Argentina left. One country from outside Europe/South America is fairly average; this year it is Morocco.

One for the sociologists... a national team just fielded three players whose fathers played together at the same World Cup 32 years ago

Thread about our new @wid.world working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and Svante Prado on income inequality and structural transformation in Sweden, 1870–1970! Link to paper: wid.world/document/inc... Thread 1/

Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...

Kunstig intelligens i kunnskapsarbeid

Teknologirådet har gjennom 35 case dokumentert og vurdert bruk av KI i vårt eget arbeid med teknologivurdering, blant annet til kartlegging av eksperter og aktører, horisontskanning, utvikling av scen...

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Now this is a first for me at an academic conference: a famous economist (Thomas Piketty) discussing the future with an (even more?) famous science fiction writer (Kim Stanley Robinson). Interesting so far, but hoping for some space travel questions! #WIC2026

Inni samfunnsøkonomer er det to ulver. en som vil løpe og gå på ski mens KI fikser papers og en som oppriktig mener at den er den eneste ulven som skjønner noe som helst og derfor aldri vil gjøres overflødig.

Ola Innset@olainnset.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nå gjelder det å komme seg tilbake til HF før hele SV-fakultetet bare legger ned seg selv fordi de mener KI kan gjøre alt de gjør bedre enn seg.

New at ESR! #OpenAccess! Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060

A college on every cape: gender equality, gender segregation and local college openings

Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender

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Happy to have been appointed Visiting Professor at the great Economic History department at Lund University! Looking forward to several interesting visits over the next two years. www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lund-univers...

Looking forward to the 2026 Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History at NTNU tomorrow, hosted by @benmschneider.bsky.social , @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social et al. Image: view from today's workplace (Oslo-Trondheim train)

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet

Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

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Visiting the Economic History department at Uppsala University for a few days, nice place

Power outage at Oslo Airport, most services down - except, apparently, wifi via Eduroam, which works just fine

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet

Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

oslomet.no

Godt fra @martinbholm.bsky.social Bech Holte forholder seg ikke til faglig kritikk- svarer jo aldri på den. Men vet likevel best ved å tegne grafer på frihånd. Det kunne jo vært fristende å stemple han som er sjarlatan. www.dn.no/innlegg/okon...

Bech Holte slår effektivt ben under sitt eget prosjekt

Martin Bech Holte forholder seg til data som fanden leser bibelen. Det er synd, fordi det ødelegger det som kunne vært en konstruktiv debatt om hvordan Norge bør se ut.

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Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:

(+) Hvis vi vil beholde velferdsstaten, må vi regne med å bruke mer penger på den

At offentlig sektor er blitt dyr i drift, skyldes ikke at vi bruker for mye penger eller er uproduktive. Grunnen er at vi er ekstremt produktive. Det bør både sløserikritikerne og velferdsstatsforkjem...

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New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

Turns out history does help you understand the present

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 10mo ago

That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...

New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).

Her er noen "hva om"-utregninger etter stortingsvalgresultatet 2025. Alt med forbehold om feil, og at resultatene heller ikke er helt klare ennå (foreløpige tall er lastet ned fra valg.no). Mandatfordelingen med disse tallene er altså:

Calvin & Hobbes, July 1989

Enjoying the World Labor Conference (@eale-office.bsky.social /SOLE/AASLE) in Toronto! Look forward to an interesting program, and to presenting our paper on labor force participation and intergen mobility tomorrow. Happy to chat about mobility, inequality, long-run trends, historical micro data++!

Media feilet TOTALT da noen finansierte Jarle Aabøs anti-MDG-kampanje. Nå er det store penger som brukes på Putins talepunkter inn i norsk valgkamp. De ansvarlige må holdes ansvarlig.

Mathea@matheasagdahl.bsky.social · last yr.

Disse anti-Ukrainske plakatene tar opp 100% av reklameplassen i samtlige vogner på T-banen. Dette må koste en formue. Finnes det noen gravejournalister igjen i dette landet som kan gjøre jobben sin og følge pengesporet tilbake til de russiske kildene?

On Norway's Constitution Day: a new, unknown "anti-war" party has ads all over the public transport system in Oslo. Financed by Russia? Who knows, political financing transparency laws are weak

Great experience visiting the Social history of finance group at the University of Antwerpen today. www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... Many excellent questions and suggestions about historical wealth inequality! @uantwerpen.be

Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

Associate Professor in Economics

Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students...

oslomet.no

Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

Associate Professor in Economics

Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students...

oslomet.no

Great workshop on historical microdata at CES/LMU today! Look forward to the rest of it tomorrow. Image from lunch at Munich's Englisher Garten. Presentations included, among others: @mreiske.bsky.social @christianvedel.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social

New working paper! How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden, with Aaberge, Francesconi and Vestad. Using Norwegian administrative data, we show that income inequality is much higher than commonly measured. Measurement matters! www.iza.org/publications...

I made a starting pack with colleagues at Oslo Business School / Handelshøyskolen OsloMet go.bsky.app/Qth1ydg @oslomet.bsky.social