Fredrik Söderqvist

Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice* Abstract. This article empirically studies the effects of the early law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Insti

#QJE Feb 2026, #15, “Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice,” by Ash (@elliottash.bsky.social), Chen, and Naidu: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Säsong fem av Draken följer med hits different

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Säsong fem av Draken följer med hits different

The NYT missed the mixed curling result 🇸🇪

De jobbar 12 timmar om dagen för ”slavlön” Taxiförarna förlorare när app­företagen pressar priserna.

Taxichaufförer pressas hårt i plattformsbolagens priskrig.

När Uber och Bolt tar allt mer av kakan återstår skulder, obetalda timmar och ett arbete som inte längre går att leva på.

Det är vinter i gig-ekonomin.

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Peter Wolodarski: Måtte Spotify aldrig äga en stor svensk tidning. Washington Post skär ner kraftigt under Jeff Bezos. Vad betyder det för journalistikens oberoende – och vad kan svenska medier lära?

Viktigt inlägg av Peter Wolodarski

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Utvisning av 18-åringar gör Sverige mindre attraktivt för toppforskare Problemet att de som fyllt 18 år förväntas stå på egna ben och därmed utvisas även om deras föräldrar har …

If you're a foreign professor in Sweden, the gov't will expel your children when they turn 18, even if you have permanent residency: sulf.se/nyhet/utvisn... via @sulf-union.bsky.social

French trolling is just superb.

– Jag förstår inte att vänstern inte har varit ute på landsbygden och sett hur det ser ut. Vårdcentraler långt borta från centralorter är privatdrivna, skolor långt borta från centralorten är privatdrivna, sade centerpartiets partiledare Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist i TV4 igår.

Det är pinsamt.

"Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap Alan Benson Danielle Li Kelly Shue American Economic Review vol. 116, no. 2, February 2026 (pp. 375–417)

Abstract We show that subjective assessments of employee "potential" contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail chain, we find that women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings. Differences in potential ratings account for approximately half of the gender promotion gap. Women's lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues, both on average and on the margin of promotion. We highlight two mechanisms driving the gender potential gap: strategic retention and stereotyping.

Another important paper, now in print at AER: "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap

🎯Subjective assessments of employee "potential" account for about half the gender promotion gap.

🎯 This is despite fact that women go on to outperform their male colleagues.

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Det är inga små belopp det rör sig om heller. ”Kvalitetsjusterar” man bruttonationalinkomsten för hälsoutfall växer USA i samma takt som Frankrike sedan år 2000.

America’s sickness economy The US’s exceptional healthcare expenditure yields second-rate results

Financial Times gjorde en jättebra genomgång om hur hälsa i USA inte påverkas av sjukvårdsutgifter, samt att en stor andel av USAs tillväxt bygger på just utgifter för sjukvård. Lästips:

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... America’s sickness economy

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

A figure with two panels that regress contemporary economic complexity (left y-axis) and GDP per capita (right y-axis) on historical economic complexity from around 1900 (both x-axes) for around 100 countries. Both data clouds are formed from bottom left to top right, and best fits have a positive slope.

Delighted to be giving today's seminar at Harvard's Growth Lab on

"The world is not flat: Persistence in the hierarchy of economic complexity across a century"

with @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Junshang Liang, @tomwestland.bsky.social

Live 10am ET at: growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-wo...

Fyra sanningar???

Svensk journalistik är i kris. Det är precis som att de glömt att det är de som journalisterna.

Det journalistiska uppdraget är att ge korrekta nyheter, beskriva verkligheten, berätta sanningen.

Det är NI som är journalistiken. Det är ERT jobb att berätta.

One thing I’ve been thinking about this week:

Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.

New paper:
Monopsony, Markdowns,and Minimum Wages
w/E.Faia & B.Lochner

1st direct test of:
Firms exploit monopsony (wage setting) power to "mark down" wages<MRPL
=>Minimum wages restore "wage taking"=>curb markdowns

But: not in data

Weak links?
Monops model?
MD measures?
Research design?
#Econsky

Detailed job postings data do not show a dip around the launch of ChatGPT; rate hikes earlier in 2022 are the more likely culprit Job postings volume for junior and senior positions

‘Our analysis of job postings data from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands shows no clear evidence that AI is behind the slowdown in early-career employment across much of the west’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com
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Technological change and the transformation of women's work in the twentieth century The adoption of milking machines in Norway.

The experience of Norwegian milkmaids suggests that gender-biased technological shocks can narrow the gender gap by disrupting entrenched gender norms in the labor market, say researchers at @gessunimannheim.bsky.social, @unibergen.bsky.social, and @nhhnor.bsky.social. #econsky

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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Självkontroll räcker inte.

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

Who's Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns* Nirupama L Rao, Max Risch The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 141, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 373-427, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf053 Published: 10 December 2025 Article history V PDF • Split View 66 Cite P Permissions < Share V Abstract A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or pass on cost increases. We examine how these typically small and medium-size firms accommodate minimum wage increases along product and labor market margins using a matched owner-firm-worker panel data set drawn from the universe of U.S. tax records over a 10-year period, and using state minimum wage changes as identifying variation. We find that on average, firms in highly exposed industries do not substantially reduce employment-they do not lay off workers but moderately reduce part-time hiring. Instead, these firms are able to fully finance the new labor costs with new revenues, leaving average owner profits unchanged. Higher wage floors, however, forestall entry, particularly for less productive firms, reducing the number of independent firms operating in these industries by roughly 2%. Yet these industries do not shrink; instead, incumbent responses and strong positive selection among entrants reshape industries that rely heavily on low-wage workers, yielding fewer but more productive firms after the cost shock. We also take a worker-level perspective to examine how potentially vulnerable individuals are affected by minimum wage increases. Using panels of low-earning and young workers, we find that their average earnings rise substantially with the minimum wage, while they are no less likely to be employed. Worker transitions indicate that minimum wage increases boost retention and that worker reallocation from independent firms toward corporations buffers dis…

New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good

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Så gick det till när Stockholm avskaffade snöröjningen Det som lamslår Stockholm är inte snön. Det var politiska beslut att avskaffa den egna snöröjningen.

Det som lamslår Stockholm är inte snön.
Det är de politiska besluten att dra in den egna snöröjningen.

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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

”This tribe hopes to ward off multiple catastrophes at once by following its trusted method: wait until adversaries act, then respond feebly.”

Graf som visar att M har 65 mandat, KD 15 och L 0. SD har 81.

Om det vore val idag skulle alla regeringspartierna tillsammans få färre mandat (80) än Sverigedemokraterna själva (81), enligt pollofpolls.se Tidösamarbetet har varit en katastrof för den traditionella borgerligheten (som alla experter förutsåg).