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Maria Berlin @lilleberlin.bsky.social · 6d

Working on topics of Inequality and the #environment ? Join @sitestockholm.bsky.social
workshop on Nov 28! Deadline October 15.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 8d

🚨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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Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 19d

👋 New colleagues announcement! We're very happy to have two new PhD students joining our department! A warm welcome to Fanni Forslind @fanniforslind.bsky.social and Marielle Appelkvist @marielleappelkvist.bsky.social! 🤩

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Association of Swedish Development Economists @aswede.bsky.social · 19d

Join us for ASWEDE's 10th annual conference in Development Economics! November 17-18 at Nääs Fabriker, outside Gothenburg. Submission deadline in one week: September 26. Open to PhD students and senior researchers. Details below. #ASWEDEConference #DevelopmentEconomics

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 21d

📆 Save the date: the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 at Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social

The call for papers is open until December 1.

🔗 More details & submission: inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 22d

1/ The Vertical & Horizontal AI Replication Games debut at the University of Ottawa on Oct 16! This is the first event feeding into our next paper, and all participants will be listed as coauthors.

Apply: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/TKRS5HG

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 We have a comment on Begum et al (2018) forthcoming in @readdemography.bsky.social - see link below! @i4replication.bsky.social

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

We also document changes in language about the randomization between the working paper and published version, and inconsistencies in the authors’ response. See full report (here osf.io/wp8fr/) for more details.

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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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Junior Economics of Migration @junioreconmig.bsky.social · Jul 17

📢 Call for Papers - Fall 2025 📢
If you are a #junior scholar studying the #economics of #migration, we encourage you to submit!

📧 Email [email protected]
🗓️ Submit by September 1, 2025
🎤 Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5:30pm CET

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IFAU @ifau.bsky.social · Jun 27

Välkommen att söka forskningsbidrag från IFAU senast den 15 september!

Läs mer: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Fo...

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Having a good time at the @iipf.bsky.social Annual Congress in Nairobi! 🇰🇪

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Aug 20

Great news!

IZA (the German labor economics institute that had lost its main source of financial support) has found a new home and will continue as a convener and disseminator of knowledge.

Hurrah!

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 11

📄📄📄Call for Papers is open!
RFBerlin invites submissions for the next Migration Forum "Migration: Drivers, Consequences, and Governance". Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...
#Migration #Governance #callforpapers

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IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance @iipf.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just released: great program for the upcoming #IIPF2025 congress at USIU in Nairobi, Kenya: keynotes, panel discussions, mentoring, >60 sessions... not to forget social program! 🤩
Details at www.conftool.pro/iipf2025/sessions.php
Registration still possible until August 2. See you there!
#EconSky

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · Aug 6

We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J

Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu

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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme @liser-cb.bsky.social · Aug 6

📣 Call for Papers 📣

🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.

🗣️ With Keynotes from ‪‪‬@christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social

⏳ Submit by September 15th

🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org

#EconSky #EconConf #Migration

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Jul 20

Where do people in low- and middle-income countries want to migrate? www.uu.se/en/centre/im...

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Jul 20

Vart vill människor i låg- och medelinkomstländer migrera? www.uu.se/centrum/immi...

Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Jul 12

Jag gjorde den nu, men datan finns fritt tillgänglig här för den som vill återskapa: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp

World Values Survey Association

www.worldvaluessurvey.org

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Jul 12

Den som är nyfiken på motsvarande siffror för migranter kan t ex läsa min SNS-rapport från 2021: www.sns.se/artiklar/sns...

SNS Analys 80. Migranters attityder och värderingar - SNS

Efter tio år i Sverige har invandrare samma syn som svenskar generellt på hur viktigt det är med familj, fritid...

www.sns.se

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Jul 12

Apropå svenska värderingar. 🇸🇪 Här en variant av kulturkartan uppdelad på olika partiers väljare. Mest osvenska värderingar hos Sverigedemokraterna och Kristdemokraterna. (Data från WVS/@evs-values.bsky.social 2017.)

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Jul 3

Last opportunity to reproduce/replicate a study published @nathumbehav.nature.com. This is an official collaboration with NHB. All authors of completed reports will be included as coauthors to our meta-paper to be submitted to NHB this Fall.

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · Jun 29

Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · Jul 1

Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.

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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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