Bouke Klein Teeselink

Lecturer in Economics | King's College London

📢 We’re hiring!

King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.

Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...

Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.

@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe"

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

For the full paper, see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨How is AI reshaping UK jobs? 🚨

Fears about AI causing hiring freezes, fewer entry roles, and pay pressure are widespread. My new research investigates whether these fears are justified.

@kcl-spe.bsky.social wrote a great blog summarising my results!

New study reveals early impact of AI on job market in UK | King's College London Artificial intelligence is reshaping the UK labour market, with high-paying firms and professional occupations experiencing the most significant declines in employment and wages, while lower-paid sect...

New research from Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink has shed light on the emerging impact of AI on the UK's labour market 🤖

👶 Entry-level roles adversely affected
📉 Job vacancies in exposed industries down
🗣️ Customer-facing roles resilient

Read more 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

🧠 New analysis of LinkedIn posts finds junior workers are feeling the brunt of generative AI's impact on the labour markets. Fascinating work by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social

📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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For a summary of the paper, see this blog by @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social:

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-f...

Great thread summarising my new paper with @gmelios.bsky.social on the effect of disability benefits on employment in the UK!

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy!

If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments

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🚨Publication alert!🚨

Thread below👇

Partisanship, political alignment, and charitable donations - Public Choice This paper examines how alignment with the government influences beliefs about the efficiency and role of government, and examines the behavioral consequences of these beliefs. In particular, we exami...

Link to full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just out! ERNOP's practitioner summary of my paper with @gmelios.bsky.social, showing that 🇺🇸 Partisans reduce charitable giving by ~4.5 % when their own party is in power, as faith in government crowds out private help, whereas opposition to government motivates private giving.

tinyurl.com/ernop1

AEP Lecturer in Economics

🚨 We're hiring!

King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway.

Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

Please share!

Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

AEP Lecturer in Economics

🚨 Come work with us at King's College London! 🚨

We're hiring two assistant professors (Education Pathway):
- Lecturer in Economics
tinyurl.com/aepecon

- Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods tinyurl.com/aepmethod

Amazing department, great colleagues, central London, what's not to like?

Great to be hosting the European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting 2025 at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social. Excited about two more days of research presentations ahead!

An interesting collection of opinions @theguardian.com on whether and how the 2020 BLM protests change the world. Covers our work with @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social on @polbehavior.bsky.social. Link on the first comment

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🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments?

A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power.

More 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋

New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social

We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸
doi.org/10.1086/736698

We kick off today! Excited to host this event.

Happy to host
@kristoberg.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) this Wednesday (April 30) for a seminar!

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London.

Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...

Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Happy to host @nunopgpalma.bsky.social (University of Manchester) this Wednesday (April 16) for a seminar!

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post) King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

King's College London is hiring 20 scholars doing AI-related research across *all disciplines*, including social sciences (5-year research fellowship leading to permanent faculty position).

Applications due May 19, 2025.

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social

Happy to host Sarah Smith (Bristol) this Wednesday (April 2) for a seminar!

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

My wife and I attended an antenatal course Or was it an anti-natal course?

For those who need a diversion from doom scrolling the news these days, my very talented friend Dimitris Dimitriadis is writing genuinely hilarious absurdist short stories that only take a few minutes to read.
Would highly recommend subscribing to his Substack!

His latest: tinyurl.com/ddbktshort

Great blog describing our research showing that mass collective action movements can significantly influence political outcomes!
A finding that feels more relevant than ever…

@gmelios.bsky.social

#Econsky #Polisky