Axel Malmcrona

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There is growing recognition of regional inequality in poverty calculations. However, incorporating such adjustments in multi-tier segmented programs is difficult: cross-selection + fiscal externalities. My #JMP considers whether or not it makes sense to do so in health insurance programs!

Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.

My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Mäktigt att va femton år och gå runt och heta Weiron. Garra att de är skolans populäraste.

A scene from the movie A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), taking place in the a cafeteria/restaurant area of a passenger ship, all white and sterile looking. We see, next to the serving area, two crew members and the ship's captain standing around the body of a man, who is collapsed on the floor dead. On their right, a red haired woman is standing behind the cash register, with the dead man man's order (a pint of beer and a shrimp sandwich) in front of her. In the background we can see the passenger looking at the dead man and the people around them. As previously mentioned, the colors of the room are very muted, white and sterile, and the people have a similar complexion to their skin, the make up making them looking almost pale.

It's giving really strong "scene from a Roy Andersson-movie" vibe imho

📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.

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Fascinating economics job market paper by Jens Oehlen on the effects of Enigma codebreaking and how it interacted with military/intelligence strategy jensoehlen.github.io/uploads/Enig...

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Workshop för forskare: Skriv en debattartikel | Forskning & Framsteg Är du forskare och har en åsikt inom ditt expertområde som du vill förmedla till allmänheten? Då är du varmt välkommen till en digital workshop …

Workshop för forskare som vill nå ut genom författande av debattartiklar, det låter som något som kan vara aktuellt för kollegor som hänger här. Se här, vad Forskning & Framsteg erbjuder: fof.se/artikel/skri...

i’ll take spanberger +8, sherrill +5, zoro gets to 54%

Arthur Turrell Arthur Turrell is an economic data scientist.

Hey #econsky,

We keep hearing about ticket resellers being a problem. Artists charge $ and resellers use bots to buy tickets in bulk, selling them for $$$.

What if econ can help? Here's one little trick to stop ticket resellers.

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Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
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🚨🚨Update: for the next @cepr.org -IO gathering on NOV 7, 2025 at 2PM CET, we've got a great set of IO job candidates lined up to give 10min versions of their JMP talks and then discuss them with audience members.

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Utskick från Arbetsdomstolen idag och allt framstår än mer absurt än igår. Jag kan inte komma på någon historisk eller geografisk parallel. Var och när har man egentligen stängt ned domstolar för att det saknas pengar?

AD tvingas ställa in höstens mål – regeringen minskar anslagen Arbetsdomstolen ställer in nästan alla mål i tre månader. Pengarna är slut sedan regeringen prutat anslagen. ”Problemen fortsätter nästa år då vi får mindre anslag”, säger ordföranden Lars Dirke.

Helt otroligt! Arbetsdomstolen stänger ner i tre månader på grund av besparingskrav från! Det här är en av våra främsta kanaler för att utkräva ansvar av arbetslivskriminella bolag. Nu får de frikort i tre månader av regeringen.

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We are very excited about the new research opportunities that this VR funding opens up for the department.

Major Formas grant to research on low-emission agriculture Joseph Vecci at the University of Gothenburg receives over SEK 8 million from Formas to study how farming in Kerala can reduce emissions and support farmers’ welfare.

Big congrats to Joseph Vecci!
He receives over SEK 8M from Formas for research on low-emission agriculture in Kerala.
👉 Read more: shorturl.at/OQkwO

Do older Americans work more when their housing wealth declines?

What do older workers do when the value of their home falls?

For many, home equity is their biggest asset. When housing prices fall, most can’t work more to recover the loss. Instead, they claim Social Security earlier, which can reduce lifetime benefits. #EconSky #housing #socialsecurity

Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes* Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi

Viktig studie om skärmar, studier, sömn och välmående. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Bad ass

Amazing public servant

Former chair of Federal Trade Commission Lina Kahn

Arbetsförmedlingen om Kristerssons jobbsiffra: Använd INTE denna Ulf Kristersson påstod i söndagens partiledardebatt att det finns 17 000 lediga jobb som inte kräver någon utbildning. – Varför tar man inte de jobben om man kan arbeta? undrade statsministern. Detta ...

Att politiker vinklar statistik till sin fördel är en sak. Att blåljuga i syfte att svartmåla en stor grupp människor, peka arbetslösa som lata samtidigt som man passivt låter arbetslösheten skena, det är vidrigt.
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Amanda Sokolnicki: Regeringen ertappas med en lögn – och fortsätter vilseleda Kristersson sprider missvisande uppgifter om familjer på bidrag. När han ertappas fortsätter han slira med sanningen, skriver Amanda Sokolnicki.

Det här är nog det som förskräcker mig mest med högern i dag, att de så totalt gått in i postsanningspolitiken. De nya åsikterna om invandring och rättsstat går nog att byta tillbaka så småningom, men hur kommer man tillbaka från att ha omfamnat lögnen som politisk metod? www.dn.se/ledare/amand...

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Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!

Entertainment technology and work behavior How did the rollout of broadcast television during the mid-twentieth century affect labor supply decisions in the United States?

The expansion of TV stations in the mid-twentieth-century led to more leisure and earlier retirement among older Americans, say researchers at @cmu.edu and the US Treasury. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Important new paper on mental health in PhD programs finally published: from @EvaRanehill @Sanna_Bergvall @annahsandberg, evidence that in Sweden, use of psychiatric medicine sharply ⬆️ after enrollment in PhD compared to other highly educated ind, up to a peak of 40%

this is not quite an anti-trust tragedy but it's certainly some kind of capital market regulation problem if people can buy assets that provide huge public goods specifically in order to destroy the public good provision

Yes, yes, yes