Andreas Madestam

Classrooms as Workplaces: How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health - RFBerlin %citation_technical_report_number%

Tillsammans med kollegor har jag en studie ute om hur lärares sjukskrivningar och arbetsmiljö påverkas av elevunderlaget - och därmed av skolsegregation. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

The Jan. 2026 issue of the @jpolecon.bsky.social should be of great interest to anyone interested in the well being of young people.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/2026...

DN Debatt. ”Biståndspengarna ska inte gå till konsulter och tidskrifter” DN Debatt. Det behövs permanenta strukturer – inte de improvisationsövningar vi ser i dag, skriver två nationalekonomer.

Bokslut för biståndsåret 2025: Regeringen kräver evidens men kapar 4 miljarder i blindo. Sida saknar utvärderingspolicy. Resultatet blir beslut på känn, inte på kunskap. Jag och Jakob Svensson föreslår tre reformer för evidensbaserat bistånd i DN Debatt. Gott nytt år!

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Fulvia Budillon, Andre Gray, and I are hiring a field RA for a project in Mozambique, starting in the spring. Please see application information here: www.saralowes.com/resources.html. Deadline February 13. Please apply!!

Academic Christmas

I've now updated this with a few updates:

1. I've added the JFE, JF, and RFS
2. I've added QJE and (most of) JPE
3. I've fixed some bugs
4. I added a way to adjust for length of papers over time
5. I've added citation counts (per OpenAlex)

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Thrilled to have presented our work with @saadgulzar.bsky.social and @juanfeliperiano.bsky.social "Pay-to-Play: Campaign Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement" at the XLIII Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference at Caltech piep.caltech.edu/selected-pap...

What’s the Latest Research on Human Development in Economics? A Roundup from NEUDC 2025 Earlier this month, the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference hosted presentations of more than 150 recent economic development studies. We went through each of those 60+ st...

For more takeaways from the North East Universities Development Consortium conference earlier this month, see our blog post. www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-l...

Superb research and engagement at ASWEDE's 10th conference. Thanks to everyone who made this event memorable! #ASWEDE2025

ASWEDE's 10th Annual Conference kicks off tomorrow at Nääs Fabriker! We look forward to sharp presentations and discussions on development economics from PhD students and senior researchers. Program: bit.ly/3K1sRUJ

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

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📢 5 more days to apply to our AP position in Microeconomics!

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

Read the latest #NBER paper by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau @corinnelow.com & Xiaoyue Shan

nber.org/papers/w34339

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt!

Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.

#PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

Come join us in Stockholm!

Marianne Bertrand explaining the Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, held a lecture at Stockholm University last week, in front of an audience of around 150 people includin...

”There is a dramatic change when women become mothers while nothing is happening to the fathers. Motherhood penalties around the world account for much of the gender pay gap in advanced economies.”
Professor Marianne Bertrand delivering this year´s Gunnar Myrdal lecture.
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Join us for ASWEDE's 10th annual conference in Development Economics! November 17-18 at Nääs Fabriker, outside Gothenburg. Submission deadline in one week: September 26. Open to PhD students and senior researchers. Details below. #ASWEDEConference #DevelopmentEconomics

Mycket intressant inlägg om behovet att reformera svenska doktorandutbildningarna i nationalekonomi.

India now spends ₹2 trillion/year (0.6% of GDP) on cash transfers to 130M+ women—yet we know little about their effects. In a new paper (bit.ly/4mE6EtW), @karthik-econ.bsky.social Paul Niehaus Jeff Weaver & I present findings from the first large-scale RCT of maternal cash transfers in India (1/10)

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.

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Deadline: 31 Aug

SJs trafikinformation: ett tåg som skulle kommit till Sthlm 10:17 har ankommit 15:37.

Vore det inte smidigare för alla om SJ bara tog betalt för halva biljetten redan från början? Och så får man betala in resten om tåget mot förmodan ankommer i tid?

By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.

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I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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New evidence that immigration raises intergenerational mobility, from Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky, and Jonathan L. Rothbaum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33961

Parenting choices, shaped by economic incentives, contribute to social stratification and inequality in society, from Francesco Agostinelli, @mdoepke.bsky.social, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33963