Prottoy Aman Akbar

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

📢 We are hiring a postdoc in urban and transportation economics at Aalto! I can personally vouch for the value of this opportunity: access to great data infrastructure and mentorship, Nordic lifestyle 🌲🫐

📅 Deadline: February 15, 2026

Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

As part of the Helsinki GSE initiative, the Department of Economics at Aalto University School of Business invites applications for Assistant Professor position in Economics (Tenure Track). Applications in all fields of economics are invited.

Read more: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

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Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

Thanks for a great workshop! See you next summer in Denmark!

Happening today! Look forward to meeting our Nordic colleagues 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮

Nordic Urban Economics meeting in Helsinki! Submission deadline approaching soon!

Are you an urban economist located in the Nordics or working with Nordic data?

You're in luck!

We are organizing the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics in Helsinki, Sept 8-9, 2025.

You can find the call for papers here:

sites.google.com/view/second-...

Graph of the share of US commuters by household income whose primary means of commute is either road- or rail-based public transit. The higher the household income, the greater the share of rail commuters. Low-income households in US cities tend to be segregated in low-opportunity neighbourhoods with worse access to good schools and desirable urban amenities. Public transportation is often expected to bridge inequalities, but sparsely distributed public transit networks may end up concentrating poverty further if high- and low-income households sort differently between driving-accessible and transit-accessible residential neighbourhoods. This column presents new insights on the relationship between transit expansions and income segregation within cities, and when segregation arises as an outcome of planners trying to maximise public transit ridership.

@prottoyakbar.bsky.social finds that the speed of public transit relative to driving time is linked to whether or not expanding access exacerbates urban segregation in US cities. Expansion of slow networks reduces income segregation across neighbourhoods.
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Nordic Urban Economics The Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics will be held on September 8-9, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. The purpose of this meeting is to foster exchange and collaboration between researchers in the N...

*Call for papers* for the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics, to be hosted in Helsinki, Finland, Sept 8-9! sites.google.com/view/second-...