Gender Gaps Under Comparable Tasks: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment.

New Working paper by Negar Khaliliaraghi, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström.

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Rewarding experiences? - Immigrant wage returns to host country employment

New Working paper by Zeynep Atabay and Olof Åslund.

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Parental leave quotas and workplace spillovers.

New Working paper by Malin Tallås Ahlzén.

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Can workers switch it up? - Organizational forms in the Swedish preschool sector

New Working paper by Karin Edmark and Lovisa Persson.

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Our next online talk is on Monday, 3 Nov 2025.
💥Leah Boustan💥 (Princeton) will present "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries". This is a joint work with many co-authors (👇). Visit our webpage to learn more sites.google.com/view/polecon...

I always assume it's the unadjusted gap unless otherwise stated. And in this case it even says so in the graph notes.

Both are valid and useful, they just capture different things.

We find correlations around 0.8--0.9, implying that these measures move together across space and time.

We conclude that intergenerational mobility and sibling correlations can indeed be used to compare levels of equality of opportunity across time and place. 4/4

In contrast, EOp estimators are derived from a normative ethical theory, and thus easy to interpret --- but they require very rich data to estimate empirically.

We estimate all three measures across Swedish local labor markets and birth cohort, and examine how closely correlated they are. 3/4

The first two are relatively simple to estimate, but their normative implications are not clear (what is the "right" level of intergenerational mobility?). 2/4

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The social mobility literature has organized around three types of measures: intergenerational regressions, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity (EOp) indices. 1/4

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I spend way too much time meticulously rejecting them.

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How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Thank you, looking forward to it!

This week we're excited to have @adrianadermon.bsky.social from @ifau.bsky.social visiting us! Tomorrow Adrian will give a seminar on their all-star project on "The Intergenerational Mobility of Children of Immigrants" 🤩 Welcome to Växjö, Adrian!

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That's an unfair characterization. Inequality, discrimination, and pollution are all large fields in modern economics, to give just three examples.

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Other advantages: writing a function in R is trivial, while in Stata I always had to spend time with the "program define" and "syntax" manuals. Makes me modularize my code more, which makes it less error-prone.

And making graphs (with ggplot2) is so much simpler!

I switched when I was writing an estimator that requires reshaping and merging of population data, all repeated hundreds of times in a bootstrap. Wrote it up in Stata, and one iteration took 40 minutes. Wrote the same thing in R (with the data.table package), and one iteration took 40 seconds.