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Andreas Kotsadam

@kotsadam.bsky.social

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Social scientist with a PhD in economics. Work at the Frisch Centre and University of Oslo. Homepage: https://andreaskotsadam.wordpress.com/

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 8d

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 9d

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!

The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.

Info 👇

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Sep 6

How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Still a challenge!

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paper is here. Demonstrates with a very large sample the same phenomenon we saw previously in a somewhat smaller sample in Ethiopia: list experiments can produce fleeing behavior that leads to negative prevalence rates
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
www.tandfonline.com/...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Sep 4

The answer to this excellent question from @kotsadam + Løvgren: yes! List experiments do not, in general, seem to be an effective tool for measuring IPV; we should not use them unless there is a convincing reason to think otherwise

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Henning Finseraas @finseraas.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great day at the Frisch Centre, hosted by @kotsadam.bsky.social , presenting ongoing work on the integration paradox

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

#GDRI_rep Update 8a: Major updates coming up over the next few weeks.

1st update: We reproduced "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" some time ago. The paper was then retracted by the editors of the Euro Econ Rev.

Additional studies are connected (see diagram)
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jul 31

Development aid can help suppress insurgencies, but it may be counterproductive in areas where insurgents came from outside of local communities, say researchers at @theworldbank.bsky.social, @mit.edu, and @upf.edu. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/dev...

Development programs in war zones

Did development aid in Afghanistan help counter the Taliban’s insurgency?

www.aeaweb.org

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fascinating new paper shows that papers reporting statistical significance get at least 60% more media attention #econtwitter #econsky: from
Brodeur Cook @nikolaimcook @taylor_wright, a short 🧵

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Dec 20

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science.

75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city.

Deadline: February 15

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Anders M Fjell @andersfjell.bsky.social · Jan 9

Just reviewed for Mechanisms of Aging and Development, a respected journal w. IF>5, and found this in the acceptance letter: "This recommendation is primarily based on your esteemed standing in the academic community, rather than on the overall quality of the manuscript itself." What can you say?

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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · Mar 16

#TeachEcon

This semester, I thought I’d share a bit about what I do in my microeconomics lectures. I’m not particularly active on LinkedIn, but I started posting about my teaching because I’m quite frustrated with how economics is often perceived at business schools. (1/n)

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ALT: a woman sits at a desk using a laptop with ring the bell written on the bottom

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Economic Inquiry @ei-sky.bsky.social · Feb 18

Our Editorial Board has chosen our Paper of the Year for 2024. This paper presents important results regarding the trustworthiness of economic research. Congratulations to Anna, Magnus and Yifan! doi.org/10.1111/ecin...

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Joop Adema @jopieboy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Update #2, RETRACTED: 15 months after we (w @ollefolke.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social ) submitted the initial comment to the Journal, we've noticed the paper was ultimately retracted. Retraction note here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · May 9

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack this in a 🧵

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Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New research alert! 🚨

Check out this recent paper by Johannes Bergh, Dag Arne Christensen and @finseraas.bsky.social on the impact of early voting on partners mobilisation. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jul 8

10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have buff.ly/9lWzMqZ #EGAPMethodsGuide

10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have – EGAP

Authors: Jake Bowers and Rebecca Wolfe

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 8

"It's the economy, stupid"

Voters vote based on the economy.

But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most?

This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets.

But the inflation plays the biggest role.

www.ifau.se/globalassets...

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 8

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚

In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

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Andreas Kotsadam @kotsadam.bsky.social · Jun 21

Important paper from @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social and Sahar!

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 20

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · May 26

Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time. The key difference? Whether people mobilized.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · May 26

🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

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Andreas Kotsadam @kotsadam.bsky.social · May 17

Indeed