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Randi Hjalmarsson

@profhjalmarsson.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics, University of Gothenburg; Yale PhD; labor economics, economics of crime and criminal justice; 🇺🇸🇸🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/randihjalmarsson/

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢 Save the date! RES Summit 2025 - 2 Dec

Theme: The Economics of the Justice System ⚖️
Sponsored by the @nuffieldfoundation.org

Speakers: Imran Rasul, @drstevenproud.bsky.social, Rocco d’Este, @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social, Arpita Ghosh, Emily Owens
👉 Register here: shorturl.at/Dclkz

#EconSky

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Randi Hjalmarsson @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congrats @kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social @nadineketel.bsky.social @econom.bsky.social on a great publication!

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Aug 5

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions" by Kyra Hanemaaijer, Nadine Ketel, and Olivier Marie. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions

(Forthcoming Article) - Decision-makers can exhibit biases when they overemphasize particularly salient features under limited attention. We exploit a sudden salience shock involving individuals of Mo...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Aug 5

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions" by Kyra Hanemaaijer, Nadine Ketel, and Olivier Marie. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions

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Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social · Nov 20

We're very excited to introduce three candidates on the #econjobmarket this year! Meet Vorada Limjaroenrat, Jimmy Karlsson, and Jens Ewald, and read their job market papers here: gu.se/en/school-bu...
#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp
@jensewald.bsky.social @jimmykarlsson.bsky.social

Three job market candidates at the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

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Jimmy Karlsson @jimmykarlsson.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello #EconSky I’m a PhD Candidate from Gothenburg University on the academic market this year. My research covers environmental and labor economics, and my #EconJMP studies the effect of a carbon tax reform on firms and labor market inequality in Sweden.

More info on my website: jimmykarlsson.com

Title page of “Climate Policy and Labor Market Inequality”.

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Vorada Limjaroenrat @voradalim.bsky.social · Nov 28

🚨 Excited to share my #EconJMP! 🚨

"Courtroom Surveillance: Evidence from a State Intervention in the Courts"

📄 Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1i8-T...

Here’s a summary ⬇️

MonitoringJudges_Vorada.pdf

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Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social · Dec 5

På måndag släpps Randi Hjalmarssons SNS-rapport "Determinants of Recidivism: How Criminal Justice Interactions and the Post-Release Environment Affect Repeat Offending". I samband hålls ett seminarium om hur återfall i brott kan minskas: www.sns.se/artiklar/hur...
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Hur kan samhället förhindra återfall i brott? - SNS

Nästan hälften av de som dömts för ett brott återfaller inom några år. Brottsligheten medför betydande samhällskostnader och ställer höga krav på samhället att erbjuda rehabilitering och visa att det ...

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Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are thrilled to welcome Kyra Hanemaaijer as a postdoc to our department! www.gu.se/en/news/meet...

@kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social
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NBER @nber.org · Jun 3

A criminal record reduces earnings and shifts workers across firms. Firms vary substantially—even within industry—in their propensity to hire workers with records, from Randi Hjalmarsson, Matthew J. Lindquist, Louis-Pierre Lepage, and Conrad Miller https://www.nber.org/papers/w33865

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Tinbergen Institute @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social · Feb 19

☀️ Summer Course Spotlight - Applied Public Policy Evaluation (July 7-11, 2025)

Early Bird Fee until April 15: tinbergen.nl/applied-publ...

Faculty: Bas van der Klaauw & Pierre Koning
@basvdklaauw.bsky.social @pierrekoning.bsky.social @vusbe.bsky.social

#EconSky #SummerSchool #TinbergenInstitute

Summer School Applied Public Policy Evaluation

Apply now: July 7-July 11, 2025 in Amsterdam, Zuidas

tinbergen.nl

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Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social · Jun 4

Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School) gave a keynote lecture at the CFF conference on Asset Pricing and Machine Learning. The conference is organized by @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social and funded by Andra AP-fonden and Handelsbanken.

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Randi Hjalmarsson @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social · Jun 4

Excited to release this working paper

NBER @nber.org · Jun 3

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · Apr 11

#TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of #Crime, Berlin, 26-27 September, jointly organized w/ @annabindler.bsky.social

📝Call for papers:
drive.google.com/file/d/16bOU...

⏱️Submission deadline in 3 weeks:
02 May 2025

📥Submit your papers➡️ bit.ly/4183vJ8

#EconSky #EconConf
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Randi Hjalmarsson @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social · Mar 6

Welcome to Gothenburg Kyra!

Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are thrilled to welcome Kyra Hanemaaijer as a postdoc to our department! www.gu.se/en/news/meet...

@kyrahanemaaijer.bsky.social
@profhjalmarsson.bsky.social

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Anna Bindler @annabindler.bsky.social · Feb 19

❗ Call for papers:
drive.google.com/file/d/16bOU...

📮Submit your papers here: bit.ly/4183vJ8

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Randi Hjalmarsson @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social · Feb 14

Bindler, Ketel, and Hjalmarsson (2020) “Costs of Victimisation,” Chapter in Risky Behavior, Eds Dave Marcotte (Section Editor) and Klaus Zimmerman (Handbook editor), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population. Survey on victimization (with international stats in intro)

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Randi Hjalmarsson @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social · Feb 14

Here is a paper we wrote on the Netherlands. Bindler, Anna, Randi Hjalmarsson, Nadine Ketel, and Andreea Mitrut "Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization" Economic Journal

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NBER @nber.org · Feb 4

Open call for papers, The Economics of Firearm Markets, Crime, and Gun Violence. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on October 10, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on June 4, 2025. More informat... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/economics-firearm-markets-crime-and-gun-violence

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Feb 3

We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 5 of the Handbook of Labor Economics, edited by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux.

Volume 5 of the Handbook of Labor Economics Published

We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 5 of the Handbook of Labor Economics, edited by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux. Recognized as a leading resource in the field, the Handbook brin...

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happy to share that @annabindler.bsky.social & I will organize the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime in Berlin.

Save the date: 26-27 September 2025.

CfP follows next month #econsky

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Aria Golestani @ariagolestani.bsky.social · Jan 16

📣 Submit your crime paper by Feb 14.

🔸 4th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars
🔸 29-30 May, 2025
🔸 Quattrone Center, UPenn
🔸 Keynote: @amandayagan.bsky.social
🔹 Send your paper to:
[email protected]

@emmarackstraw.bsky.social

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mkaradja.bsky.social @mkaradja.bsky.social · Nov 28

We are organizing the 3rd edition of our Workshop in Economic History organized in beautiful Uppsala on May 22-23, 2025 with a keynote by
Elias Papaioannou! Call for papers with submission link: tinyurl.com/49tah8zd

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