Mikkel Gandil
gandil.bsky.social
Mikkel Gandil
@gandil.bsky.social
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...
January 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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🚀 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...
Talentech - Postdoctoral Position in School Choice Modeling and Simulation
candidate.hr-manager.net
January 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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🚨 Deadline on Sunday:

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

👇
📢 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
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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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...)
January 3, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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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
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
@mettefoged.bsky.social, Teresa Freitas-Monteiro & @hasagerlinea.bsky.social study how harsh political labeling (Denmark’s “ghetto list”) affects cultural identity and triggers backlash responses.
🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
December 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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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/
Seminars - The ROCKWOOL Foundation
en.rockwoolfonden.dk
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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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 🇩🇰.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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!
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...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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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...
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...
jobs.hhs.se
October 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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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...
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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🚨 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...
"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...
www.rfberlin.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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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...
July 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Vidunderlig case for undervisere i mikroøkonomi: En bouillonterning af karteldannelse, spilteori og policy #dkøko
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.
www.dr.dk
July 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities: Anders Humlum; Mette Rasmussen; Evan K. Rose
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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?)
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.
politiken.dk
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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
May 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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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...
Gymnasievalg i blinde: Svært at søge gymnasium med den nye reform - ROCKWOOL Fonden
rockwoolfonden.dk
May 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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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...
ROCKWOOL Fonden søger en metodestærk studerende med interesse for forskning i arbejdsmarkedsøkonomi - ROCKWOOL Fonden
rockwoolfonden.dk
April 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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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)‼️
One month to go! Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Gender, Diversity and Human Capital, 8-9 May!

📢 Keynote by Michele Tertilt (U Mannheim)
📅 Submission deadline: Feb 28.
👉Details at baem.info
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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💥 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!
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral Researcher SNSF (22108)
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February 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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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!
January 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM