Øystein Hernæs

@oysteinhernaes.bsky.social

Economist-social scientist at the Frisch Centre frisch.uio.no, Oslo, Norway, & IZA. Doing empirical research on children, labor, pensions, health, politics, etc. Expressing personal opinions. https://sites.google.com/site/oeysteinmhernaes/

#EconSky📉📈 Big change in Norway’s public sector pensions: From Jan 2025, the contractual early retirement benefit (AFP) is no longer reduced if you keep working after age 62. Colleagues and I at the Frisch Centre have just published the first results from a pre-registered near–real-time evaluation👇

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat

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📢Call for papers for the Economics Workshop on Marginalized Children and Long-term Outcomes, Oslo January 30-31, 2025! Child welfare/protective services of particular interest. Keynote lecture by Joe Doyle+contributed sessions.🗓️Submit paper/ext abst by Nov 1, 2024. #Econsky

Call for papers Economics workshop on Marginalized children and long term outcomes.