The American Sociological Review issue with our paper on labor unions and Walmart's buyer power, with @joshuachoper.bsky.social and @zparolin.bsky.social, is now out alongside several other articles that are worth checking out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asra/91/3

American Sociological Review - Volume 91, Number 3

Table of contents for American Sociological Review, 91, 3

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#BasicIncome and #JobGuarantee are often pitted against each other. In our @econfip.bsky.social brief with @maxkasy.bsky.social, we argue they can be complements: Cash gives autonomy & security; Guaranteed jobs add latent benefits of work that cash alone doesn't deliver econfip.org/wp-content/u...

#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt.

📄New WP out: "Labor Market Consequences of Generative AI: Early Evidence from Norway" www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... Does GenAI displace early-career workers? Together w/ Dennis Facius (EUI), we bring population-wide evidence from Norway to one of the most urgent questions in labor economics these days

🎉 New paper out in World Development by @welgain.bsky.social's PI @robertoiacono.org & Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati (UCD): "Unintended Consequences of Externally Aided Projects on Fiscal Transfers: A Subnational Study of India" 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X26001439

Unintended consequences of externally aided projects on fiscal transfers: a subnational study of India

We investigate the impact of foreign aid on inter-governmental transfers in India. While anecdotal evidence suggests that the central government subst…

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Huge congrats to #WelGain member Jorge Luis Garcia (Texas A&M) on his new paper in AEJ: Economic Policy! He shows India's rural employment guarantee raises household consumption but cuts women's labor force participation & well-being — exactly the kind of hidden effect WelGain aims to surface.

Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intrahousehold Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences

(May 2026) - I investigate the intrahousehold labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, repla...

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Our WelGain project member @lukaslehner.bsky.social interviewed on the UK's benefits bill. Framing correctly the cost of welfare, and unveiling the hidden benefits of social programs, is central to the WelGain project. Stay tuned for more!

Lukas Lehner@lukaslehner.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reform UK recently claimed that the UK’s benefits bill would be much higher than in other Western countries. That's simply incorrect. I spoke to @timharford.ft.com for #BBC More or Less about the actual cost of welfare. BBC: www.bbc.com/audio/play/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6WyJ...

✨Winter School #IT19 ✨ Sarting the Nineteenth Winter School on #Inequality and #SocialWelfare Theory (#IT19) 3 days, 85 participants, 25 talks, 3 lab sessions, 40 posters/presentations, a lot to learn about! @cesifo.org @liser.lu Uni Verona @cy-univ.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

FYI: @lukaslehner.bsky.social @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social @nannaschonhage.bsky.social @valeriavitelli.bsky.social @davidabell.bsky.social @baardsmed.bsky.social @ivemarx.bsky.social @welgain.bsky.social @welmigntnu.bsky.social Thanks for sharing and reposting!

💶 Good salary & project money for conferences, travels, etc.🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026. ⬇️ details & online application (via Jobbnorge) 📩 inomics.com/job/phd-cand...

PhD Candidate in Impact Evaluation of Welfare Programs | INOMICS

The PhD position is funded by the WelGain project, financed by the Research Council of Norway. The WelGain project studies why the public debate about welfare often focuses more on the costs than on t...

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The three-year position is fully funded through the RCN project "WelGain - Tangible Welfare Costs & Hidden Welfare Gains: Unveiling the Counterfactual in the Evaluation of Social Programs". www.ntnu.edu/isa/welgain

📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢 I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇

The WelGain project has got a website on which you can follow our updates! www.ntnu.edu/isa/welgain