🎉 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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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) 👇

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Here’s what determines whether your income level rises or falls

Your work usually determines whether you manage to earn a better income compared to people around you, but not when your income falls.

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New publication from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org in the Socio-Economic Review!

Roberto Iacono@robertoiacono.org · 9mo ago

📢 Happy to share that our paper "Compulsory activation of young welfare recipients: revisiting the trade-off between workfare and welfare generosity", co-authored with @baardsmed.bsky.social, has been published in the Socio-Economic Review (OUP). 🔗 Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

New publication from our #WelMig research group leader @robertoiacono.org in @plosone.org: "The Welfare versus Work Paradox". Link to the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Welfare versus Work Paradox

How can countries balance work incentives and access to welfare without violating the principle that work shall always be strictly preferred to welfare? In a context in which wages stagnate or drop, a...

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Thanks @brankomilan.bsky.social 4 an amazing & enriching book presentation today for our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group @NTNU, touching upon different hot topics (global inequality, immigration, degrowth, trade wars, wealth & politics). We hope to welcome you in Norway in person next time!

WelMig@welmigntnu.bsky.social · last yr.

Dear followers, we continue our series of online book presentations on the 1. of April (15-16 CET) with a conversation with @brankomilan.bsky.social, related to his forthcoming book:"The World Under Capitalism". DM to @robertoiacono.org if u are interested in joining digitally #inequality #migration

Dear followers, we continue our series of online book presentations on the 1. of April (15-16 CET) with a conversation with @brankomilan.bsky.social, related to his forthcoming book:"The World Under Capitalism". DM to @robertoiacono.org if u are interested in joining digitally #inequality #migration

Thanks very much @akoustov.bsky.social for a very interesting and enriching presentation. It generated a stream of Qs and interest in our WelMig research group! Welcome to Norway and NTNU at any time!

WelMig@welmigntnu.bsky.social · 2y ago

We look very much forward to @akoustov.bsky.social's book presentation to our research group at NTNU in February 2025. DM or drop us a mail if you want to receive the invitation to join the event digitally #welmigntnu

@baardsmed.bsky.social og @robertoiacono.org fra WelMig gruppa har skrevet kronikk om krav til aktivitet og sanksjoner til velferdsmottakere. Den kan lese her: www.forskersonen.no/kronikk-meni... #NAV #Sosialpolitikk

NAV straffer trygde­­mottakere vilkårlig

KRONIKK: Trygdemottakere er pålagt krav til aktivitet av Nav. Likevel straffes brudd på aktivitetsplikten sjeldent. Det gjelder flere typer ytelser, inkludert sosialhjelp, dagpenger og arbeidsavklarin...

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We look V much forward to @ivemarx.bsky.social presenting (digitally) his new book *Zero Poverty Society* academic.oup.com/book/56424 to our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group @ NTNU this Friday 14.00-15.00 CET. DM/email @robertoiacono.org if you wish to attend digitally. #minimumincome #poverty

Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All

Abstract. This book is about preventing poverty. The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence of the rich world has a right to a minim

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Superb defense. Congrats again to the new doctor and supervisor!

WelMig@welmigntnu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday @baardsmed.bsky.social elegantly defended his doctoral thesis at NTNU & earned his PhD in Social Policy! Opponents were @ivemarx.bsky.social & Anne Grete Tøge. Proud supervisor @robertoiacono.org & a memorable day for our research group! A thread🧵on Bård's research during these 4 yrs below

Yesterday @baardsmed.bsky.social elegantly defended his doctoral thesis at NTNU & earned his PhD in Social Policy! Opponents were @ivemarx.bsky.social & Anne Grete Tøge. Proud supervisor @robertoiacono.org & a memorable day for our research group! A thread🧵on Bård's research during these 4 yrs below

📢 One week left to apply for the PhD position in my new project 🎓 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #EUsky #polisky #academicsky

Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Fantastic book on program evaluation: regression adjustment, matching, IV, DID, LATE, and regression discontinuity. Cerulli is a superb teacher. I’ve attended a few of his courses, like Machine Learning. If you get the chance, don’t miss his sessions at Timberlake! #DataScience

My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria. The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky. But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵

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We look very much forward to @akoustov.bsky.social's book presentation to our research group at NTNU in February 2025. DM or drop us a mail if you want to receive the invitation to join the event digitally #welmigntnu

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 2y ago

My book, In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular, has an official cover and publication date of March 2025, with praise from some good folks. It is time to make immigration popular before it's too late, so pre-order your copy now. Let's go! www.amazon.com/Our-Interest...

New study out in @asenevents.bsky.social exploring anti-immigrant attitudes across 28 post-communist countries. How applicable are Western theoretical concepts for explaining anti-immigrant outside of a Western context? Not very much, our findings suggest Open access link: bitly.cx/qJD3

Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes in 28 post‐communist countries

Most studies on anti-immigrant attitudes have been conducted within the US or in Western European countries. As a result, the theoretical frameworks utilised to comprehend these attitudes are often b...

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Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti-immigrant attitudes in 28 post-communist countries Read the latest research from our WelMig member David Andreas Bell here: doi.org/10.1111/nana...

Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes in 28 post‐communist countries

Most studies on anti-immigrant attitudes have been conducted within the US or in Western European countries. As a result, the theoretical frameworks utilised to comprehend these attitudes are often b....

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The WelMig research group welcomes application for visiting positions. We wish to invite early-career scholars from other universities working on Welfare&Migration to physically visit us at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. NTNU offers access to its facilities, however financial support is not provided.

Navigating environmental fragility: (Mal)coping and adaptation strategies in the socio-environmental system of the Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Tanzania Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.edu/employees/as... here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Navigating environmental fragility: (Mal)coping and adaptation strategies in the socio-environmental system of the Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Tanzania

The study conducts a systems analysis of coping and adaptation strategies in Tanzanian refugee camps, focusing on the Mtendeli camp as a case study. I…

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Drivers and trajectories of multinational migrations of West African international students Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.edu/employees/ma... here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Drivers and trajectories of multinational migrations of West African international students

This article focuses on international students from West Africa and their migration trajectories. Based on in-depth interviews, we investigate the migration drivers and students' motivations to becom...

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The Journey to Teruel: Immigrant Women’s Pathways to the Domestic Sector in Rural Spain Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.no/ansatte/hect... here: doi.org/10.1177/2163...

(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Read the latest research from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review Read the latest research from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org in the European J of Political Economy here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

We are setting up an exciting online seminar series starting in 2025. If you have some exciting research that you would like to present and receive feedback on, do not hesitate to take contact with us! You ccan contact directly the research group leader @robertoiacono.org

Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe Read the latest research from our WelMig member @davidabell.bsky.social in the JESP doi.org/10.1177/0958...