Bård Smedsvik
baardsmed.bsky.social
Bård Smedsvik
@baardsmed.bsky.social
Researcher at NTNU Social Research. Interested in social policy, poverty and related stuff
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💶 Good salary & project money for conferences, travels, etc.🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026.

⬇️ details & online application (via Jobbnorge) 📩
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PhD Candidate in Impact Evaluation of Welfare Programs | INOMICS
The PhD position is funded by the WelGain project, financed by the Research Council of Norway. The WelGain project studies why the public debate about welfare often focuses more on the costs than on t...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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📢 Happy to share that our paper "Compulsory activation of young welfare recipients: revisiting the trade-off between workfare and welfare generosity", co-authored with
@baardsmed.bsky.social, has been published in the Socio-Economic Review (OUP).

🔗 Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The answer was: yes as ideal types. But empirically: not much.
January 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM