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Research economist at the ROCKWOOL Foundation (@rockwoolfonden.dk). Education, labor and applied econ. CESifo, IZA. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mikkelgandil

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📢 Call for papers:

CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)

🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich

🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social

👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026

🖼️ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...

26.01.2026 06:00 👍 39 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 3
Talentech - Postdoctoral Position in School Choice Modeling and Simulation

🚀 Postdoc in School Choice & Admissions

Join our research team at Uni Copenhagen with @gandil.bsky.social, Neilson & Oosterbeek. Work with unique high-resolution admissions data, long-run outcomes, and a large-scale field experiment.

📅 Apply by Feb 8

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

17.01.2026 09:11 👍 9 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

🚨 Deadline on Sunday:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

👇

07.01.2026 05:59 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

Btw - the Python open source applied metrics tooling is growing rapidly. We now have:

- PyFixest for HDFE regressions (github.com/py-econometr...)
- marginaleffects for marginal effects (github.com/vincentarelb...)
- maketables for regression tables (github.com/py-econometr...)

03.01.2026 10:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Does rhetorical othering affect the identity of the targeted minority?
@teresafmonteiro.bsky.social, @hasagerlinea.bsky.social and I study exactly this in the context of Denmark's so-called Ghetto List. Using an RD design, we find that the Ghetto label triggered a cultural backlash

26.12.2025 13:39 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Seminars - The ROCKWOOL Foundation

The 2026 program for the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Seminar Series is now online, and I couldn’t be more excited! We have an exceptional lineup of researchers who will visit us next year.

If you’d like to stay informed about upcoming seminars, sign up here.

en.rockwoolfonden.dk/seminars/

15.12.2025 09:11 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

So happy this paper is now accepted!

15.12.2025 08:12 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
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New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”

Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition.

In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

26.11.2025 08:02 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
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In an interesting turn of events, US and Danish government came up with the same to help with the affordability crisis: longer mortgages!

That has sparked some backlash. But in the US, it seems the discussion is focusing on the wrong stuff.

Well, let’s try to learn from 🇩🇰.

09.11.2025 21:27 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 5
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Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...

Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!

06.11.2025 04:06 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
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Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Position at The Department of Economics Description and QualificationThe Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) seeks candidates for one tenure-track assistant professor po...

Come work with me!

Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance.

By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in.

Econ advert below:

jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

10.10.2025 06:50 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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Do school meals work?

No: according to a new meta study by Sara Ayllón and Samuel Lad summarizing results from 42 studies.

I discuss that study in slightly more detail here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/the-causal...

08.10.2025 13:38 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

07.10.2025 08:05 👍 24 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 5
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"Forced Migration and Human Capital: Insights from Economic History" by Sascha O. Becker This masterclass, led by Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick, Monash University, and RFBerlin), explores the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens. Building on influe...

🚨 Only a few days left to apply for the next RFBerlin Masterclass!

Join @essobecker.bsky.social for two days of in-depth teaching on the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens.
www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

30.09.2025 07:39 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Agree. I also wonder about the additional role of video games. Lots of exposure time, no subtitles (for small languages?) and emergence at about the same time as cable TV. Take-up is probably lower and more uneven though

07.07.2025 08:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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...

01.07.2025 06:21 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 5
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Kartel på Himmelbjerget: Ugleboden og Bjerg-kiosken har i mere end 25 år haft forbudt aftale To boder på Himmelbjerget har gennem årtier haft en ulovlig aftale, som nu udløser bøde på 250.000 kroner til den ene.

Vidunderlig case for undervisere i mikroøkonomi: En bouillonterning af karteldannelse, spilteori og policy #dkøko

01.07.2025 09:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEP/RePEc link to paper

Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities: Anders Humlum; Mette Rasmussen; Evan K. Rose

16.06.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Uddannelser kan få sig en højere adgangskvotient ved at flytte pladser fra kvote 1 til kvote 2. (Det lyder dog heller ikke nemt at komme ind gennem kvote 2 i Rosas tilfælde)

20.05.2025 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hun har søgt uddannelse med landets højeste snit og venter nu spændt 26 personer blev i år indkaldt til samtale på Det Kongelige Akademis beklædningsdesign og tekstil-uddannelse. Rosa Marie Nørregaard Fenger var en af dem. Nu venter hun på svar.

Overskriften her viser meget godt problemet med adgangskvotienten som mål for hvor svært det er at komme ind: "Landets højeste snit" er vel strengt taget så Arkitekt i Aarhus, der kun optager gennem kvote 2 (uendelig høj? udefineret?)

20.05.2025 12:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.

What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.

🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

19.05.2025 11:23 👍 63 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 5
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👇 See the program of our

📢 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education

🚀 Starting on Monday!

Keynotes: Alexander Willén & @alexeble.bsky.social

What a tough choice from 160 submissions

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social

09.05.2025 06:54 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
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Gymnasievalg i blinde: Svært at søge gymnasium med den nye reform - ROCKWOOL Fonden

Unge vælger ikke altid deres drømmegymnasium – de vælger taktisk. Men med 2030-reformen bliver det næsten umuligt at gennemskue oddsene.
Ny analyse viser, hvordan det kan ramme unge – og hvad man kunne gøre i stedet.

Læs mere her:
rockwoolfonden.dk/udgivelser/g...

08.05.2025 07:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ROCKWOOL Fonden søger en metodestærk studerende med interesse for forskning i arbejdsmarkedsøkonomi - ROCKWOOL Fonden

Mangler du et studiejob? Kunne du tænke dig at arbejde i et etableret forskningsmiljø som ROCKWOOL Fonden? Og lyder forskning i arbejdsmarkedsøkonomi som noget for dig?

Så er denne stilling som studentermedarbejder i ROCKWOOL Fonden noget for dig.
rockwoolfonden.dk/stillingsops...

03.04.2025 05:19 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

@hhsievertsen.bsky.social har en pakke med forskertyper her: go.bsky.app/Q8HLRpb

18.03.2025 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Working on issues related to gender, diversity, and human capital?

Come join us for BAEM 2025, 8/9 May!

‼️Submission deadline: Friday next week (28 Feb)‼️

19.02.2025 08:30 👍 11 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral Researcher SNSF (22108)

💥 JOB (POSTDOC) ALERT 💥

Freshly posted: 4-year postdoc to work on applied market design at the university of Lausanne.

Job add here: shorturl.at/AEV0D

Spread the word!

11.02.2025 10:55 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

22.01.2025 02:22 👍 102 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 20

My personal modest take and feelings about this.

15.01.2025 05:09 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1

As I am now handling papers at AEJ:Policy again, I want to encourage authors of papers that identify partial equilibrium effects to consider (in a rigorous manner) how they relate to policy effects or general equilibrium effects.

11.01.2025 16:10 👍 90 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 5