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Vincent Somville
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Econ Prof at NHH Norwegian School of Economics.

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Vincent Somville @vincentsomville.bsky.social · 5d
Chatgpt also struggling with reshape 😆

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FAIR - CELE @fair-cele.bsky.social · Jun 18
🚨 New paper accepted in the American Economic Review!
Milking machines replaced women’s farm work—pushing young rural women into cities, education, and higher-paying jobs. A striking case of gender-biased tech reshaping lives.

🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-...

@nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

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Vincent Somville @vincentsomville.bsky.social · Jun 11
One of the most important papers I have seen in a long time (judging by the cover).
thomaspiketty.bsky.social Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
wid.world World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

wid.world/news-article...

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Apr 4
Forthcoming in the AER: "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions" by Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and Peyton Young. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions
(Forthcoming Article) - We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilita...
www.aeaweb.org

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Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social · Mar 28
"Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda" - new paper by Kjetil Bjorvatn and @vincentsomville.bsky.social (both @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social and @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social),

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Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social · Mar 3
"Technical change, jobs, and wages in the global economy" - new paper by Jan I. Haaland ( @nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), @baldwinre.bsky.social and Anthony J. Venables in @jintlecon.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Technical change, jobs, and wages in the global economy
This paper presents a compact and intuitive framework that consolidates, simplifies, and extends results on the links between technology, trade, and l…
www.sciencedirect.com

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FAIR - The Choice Lab @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social · Feb 4
❗Deadline Approaching for SEEDEC 2025!

Don't miss your chance to register for the Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC 2025) in Bonn, Germany!

⏳ Registration deadline: March 1, 2025

🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @vincentsomville.bsky.social

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Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics @nhhecon.bsky.social · Feb 3
"Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children" - article by Kjetil Bjorvatn and @vincentsomville.bsky.social (both NHH Econ and FAIR), Arne Nasgowitz, Denise Ferris, Lore Vandewalle and @selimgulesci.bsky.social
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children
Subsidised access to full-day preschools in Uganda had long-term positive effects on children’s anthropometrics but not their learning outcomes. Cash transfers of a similar value as the preschool subs...
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Vincent Somville @vincentsomville.bsky.social · Jan 13
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · Jan 10
Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025.

Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).

No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

Link below:

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Nov 30
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks

Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"

1/ (Twitter rerun!)
aeajournals.bsky.social AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 27
The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
American Economic Review
Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024
aeaweb.org

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 27
The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
American Economic Review
Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024
aeaweb.org

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Vincent Somville @vincentsomville.bsky.social · Sep 13
Interesting. Do you put tea leaves in coffee, or make coffee with tea instead of water?

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Laura Derksen @lauraderksen.bsky.social · Nov 7
Oslo Met is hiring an associate prof in econ! What a nice department. Deadline 26 Nov. If you want to know more about life in a Nordic utopia feel free to dm me
www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

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Rita Ginja @rginja.bsky.social · Nov 1
🚨Job Alert: Associate Professor TT at Department of Economics - University of Bergen
@UiBsamfunn
Deadline Nov 24! Specially for those working in Macroeconomics, Finance, Empirical Industrial Organization or Energy/Resource/Environmental Economics! econjobmarket.org/positions/10...

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Vincent Somville @vincentsomville.bsky.social · Oct 18
Great question. Maybe partly covered in the recent review Ingvild Ingrid and Charlotte wrote glabor.org/understandin...

I am also curious to know what we know about how private the private goods are. E.g. you buy a toy for kid 1 but then kid 2 also plays with it.

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Sandip Sukhtankar @sandipz.bsky.social · Oct 3
Some news: I have joined the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science. Part of the remit is to encourage more high-quality economics submissions. So here’s a long-ish thread on why, what, and how you should submit to Science, as well as some details on the editorial process 1/n