Per Engzell

I heard there was a secret code
That purged effects of survey mode
But you don’t really care for bias, do ya

Picture of Felix on flyer advertising his seminar entitled "Random placement but real bias"

We're delighted to have Prof Felix Weinhardt giving the @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social seminar this Thursday!

He'll discuss biases introduced when randomising across schools/regions and what we can do about them!

🕕3-4pm Thur 5th Mar
📍Online or in-person (219, 26 Bedford Way)

Sign up: tinyurl.com/yanfx8j7

Yup, though this was pre llm. I was tempted not to answer just because I didn’t want to do their work for them

Had a similar experience where all the data was already on osf. I wonder how many authors just don’t bother to answer (or email bounces bc job moves, spam filters etc) and are classified as nonreplicable despite the data being out there

Stop anthropomorphizing ants. They're totally fed up with it. They had a meeting. "Eek! People keep anthropomorphizing us! What do we do?" "Derek, what did I tell you? We've got an agenda to work to here. Please raise your point as an AOB." "OK, sorry Judith." "Right, volunteers for the tombola"

Can’t go wrong with a good alliteration

Abstract text of working paper

What do we know - and what should we know - about economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies? This new WP by our Affiliated Scholar @guidoalfani.bsky.social identifies the main gaps that need to be filled in reconstructions of wealth & income distributions.
bit.ly/4l26cWx

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Honestly I'm even more intrigued the more I'm learning about it

No shade at all on your paper I just find it a fun fact about Finnish conscription... obviously someone thought it important enough to include!

I wonder how many people claimed they always dreamed of becoming one just to get out of conscription

PS: Claude Code doesn't work in secure computing environments (for now - my only remaining competitive edge)

Loool. We need more people like you on grant panels!

Willing to consider anything that could give me a competitive edge at this point

Do I know anyone who's attempted to max out the word count for the title of a grant? How did it go?

Appreciate the honesty... cute titles are like marmite, like or hate. I'm not the biggest fan, but agree these may be too dry

The paper that taught me 'masculinity' used to be considered a social skill in 1980/90s Finland

Björn Borg, dominant force in tennis during the 1970s and early 1980s

Boston, England, United Kingdom is 0 hours ahead of City of London, England, United Kingdom 16:00 Monday, Boston, England, United Kingdom BsT UTC+0 is 16:00 Monday, City of London, England, United Kingdom Bst UTC+0

Thanks but not the Boston I had in mind...

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3. Understanding geographic income gaps: Industrial structure, educational opportunity, and migration

4. Place, mobility, and inequality: A comparative analysis of regional income gaps in Sweden and England

5. Born in the wrong place? Spatial inequality and social mobility in Sweden and England

Focus group please! Which of the titles in this post and the next do you prefer for a research project?

1. Patterns of place-based inequality: Migration, human capital, and earnings

2. Regional divides and social mobility: Evidence from administrative microdata in two countries

There is still one month left to apply to the WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites. The deadline is the 1st of April.

It takes place in Oslo, August 20-21st, 2026. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood.

Call is found here : bit.ly/whogovminico...

"In keeping with disciplinary best practice, our estimate passes conventional significance thresholds while remaining safely trivial in size."

My tenure file? Oh that's just part of the character arc

I'm on board with this. Rebrand imposter syndrome as method acting. Commit to the character of 'serious researcher' and hope no one breaks the fourth wall.

10,000 babyshower cakes gone wrong want to have a word

Tocqueville is genuinely one of the midt underestimated commentators of the US in political philosophy. People always look to Rawls and Nozick as the two sides of American political imaginary, but Tocqueville is far more spot on.

Please, less focus on stranded holidaymakers in Dubai, and more on what’s actually at stake for the region’s future.

PhD in Economics (295348) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: PhD in Economics (295348), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, April 2, 2026

2 PhD positions at the Department of Economics at NTNU available

1. Open field

shorturl.at/dm9kH

2. EduGAP. Work with Jon Iversen, myself, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @gillwyness.bsky.social, and Richard Murphy to understand assessment effects on student outcomes.

shorturl.at/1h74L