welgain.bsky.social
Tangible Welfare Costs & Hidden Welfare Gains: Unveiling the Counterfactual in the Evaluation of Social Programs. NTNU project, financed by the RCN. PI: @robertoiacono.org. Overview of project's results: https://nva.sikt.no/projects/2754589
👤 Joined on 14 November 2025
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@welgain.bsky.socialThe American Sociological Review issue with our paper on labor unions and Walmart's buyer power, with @joshuachoper.bsky.social and @zparolin.bsky.social, is now out alongside several other articles that are worth checking out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asra/91/3
Show Post#BasicIncome and #JobGuarantee are often pitted against each other. In our @econfip.bsky.social brief with @maxkasy.bsky.social, we argue they can be complements: Cash gives autonomy & security; Guaranteed jobs add latent benefits of work that cash alone doesn't deliver econfip.org/wp-content/u...
Show PostLong-term unemployment is a policy choice, not an individual failing. Evidence from the #Marienthal #JobGuarantee shows we can end it, and at a cost public budgets can afford. I am glad to see my work in this area recognized by the #WileyResearchHeroes Prize, in the Impact Beyond Academia category.
Show Post📄New WP out: "Labor Market Consequences of Generative AI: Early Evidence from Norway" www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... Does GenAI displace early-career workers? Together w/ Dennis Facius (EUI), we bring population-wide evidence from Norway to one of the most urgent questions in labor economics these days
Show PostGuy at the airport climbs through the stanchions to cut the line at a crowded security checkpoint (which in my opinion there are very few or zero situations where this is acceptable) only to then sit down at a breakfast restaurant???? It never ceases to amaze me how unhinged some people are
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