“Sound investments in education yield big returns.” Glad to see @nytimes and others recognizing this. Democrats need to make renewing public education a top campaign issue.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb: "Finland has 90% of all nickel in the EU. Finland also has 90% of chromium and 90% of cobalt. And Finland has 90% of uranium. Why am I saying all this? I am not saying this because Finland as a country would like to benefit about this alone."

TOMORROW Tues 25 Nov at 1 pm (CET) we are very happy to welcome @ALPWillen from @NHHnor who will present his paper: "Beyond Training". https://t.co/nTk1gKIptV

Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 52 candidates on the market this year (link below). Lots of great papers, and many graduates of NBER Innovation PhD boot camp!

@EdSustainable is hosting our first annual interdisciplinary conference! Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎 May 1st, 2026 Providence, RI Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️ https://t.co/JIjpidNao9 Please share w/ your networks!

Share earning more than their parents

A coauthor of mine, @Jongonzlz, just computed age-indexed per-capita social spending and taxes for Spain. The figure below shows the results (any LLM can translate the axes if needed). Why should you care? Because the broad patterns apply to most Western countries. This is a

The notion that, "If there is a good signal, you don't need complex methods to find it" is a big, serious and common mistake (at least if "complex" means "anything other than an RCT or a graph of raw data"). @KirkegaardEmil

🚨 Job alert: I’m hiring a postdoc in Stockholm to work with me, @marome1 @karthik_econ on edu policy in India Flexible duration: 1 yr (if you have an AP job lined up) or 2 yr. The aim is to coauthor high quality papers. https://t.co/2SMPvhKxRX More details below ⬇️ (1/4)

Controlled a tiny robot with my mind, confronted the wonderful & terrifying future of neurotechnologies, wrote about it for my latest ideas piece in @NYTmag: https://t.co/cb5nq9J7XQ

It pleases me to see that admist a tough market for academic economists, the Nordics are really stepping up. Here’s what I can see at EJM and JOE: Uppsala Econ: 1 AP Uppsala IFAU: 1 post-doc Stockholm U, Econ: 2 APs Stockholm U, IIES: 1 AP Stockholm U, CEMOF: 1 Post-doc Lund U,

1/ In my JMP, I ask: Why do different kids specialize in different skills? In the same classroom you have: – the math whiz – the leader – the quiet empath Is that because they chose different skills to invest in… or because some skills are just harder for them to build? 🧵👇

In Evanston yesterday, immigration agents went around with guns drawn, interrupting Halloween gatherings (my kid’s school moved theirs indoors), and pulling people from cars. Local police had to step in to separate agents from residents. This cannot become the new normal.

📢Call for Papers #ESPE2026 🇫🇮Helsinki, June 11-13, 2026 📆 Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 🧑‍🏫Keynotes: @sulealan_econ & @ImranRasul3 👩‍🏫President: @ADelavande 👨‍🏫President-Elect: David Jaeger 👐 Local organisers: @KristiinaHuttu2 et al. ℹ️Info: https://t.co/KnTSAPseG3 Please share!🙏

Air pollution is the real monster. 👻 @BreatheCities is fighting back, aiming to cut toxic air pollution and carbon emissions 30% by 2030 — saving 55,000 lives and $147B in health costs for stronger, healthier cities. See how cities are making clean air less spooky:

This is a pretty incredible chart. In just ten years, we went from predictions of steadily rising carbon emissions to predictions of steadily falling emissions. Climate change is beatable.

This is one of the most important points about the decline in fertility, and one of the less well-known. Fewer young people, means less fluid intelligence, less disruptive innovation (the sort that completely changes the direction of future research).

🚨Now out in @J_HumanResource: ⛪️Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @BenjaminArold & @LarissaZierow 👉Religious education in school affects students’ adult lives 🔗 https://t.co/LByJjPpH14 A🧵 1/6

The research behind yesterday's Opinion Piece: 'Beyond Training: Worker Agency, Informal Learning, and Competition' "IZA Discussion Paper No. 18109 by @ALPWillen @NHHnor and @m_silliman @AaltoBIZ. #humancapital #skills #Norway https://t.co/xS4jfe9uvC

An overview on our new paper studying how labor market competition shapes workplace learning - integrating perspectives of firms and workers, and taking it to the (linked survey-admin) data: