Per Engzell

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.

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

For all the talk of shrinking attention spans and deliberative decline, it's striking that people are still willing to hear complex conversations for hours.

Say what you will about podcasts, but I find that hopeful.

📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist

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"Bureaucratic Selection and Weberian Values: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Indonesia" by Nicholas Kuipers.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Examples of regimes ended by external forces coming up roses?