Laia Navarro-Sola
@lnavarrosola.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at IIES, Stockholm University. Researching the provision of education for underprivileged populations, focusing on labor market returns to human capital and the role of educational technologies.
www.laianavarrosola.com
www.laianavarrosola.com
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💥Research Assistant Positions💥
1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.
1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.
June 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
💥Research Assistant Positions💥
1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.
1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.
Excited to be part of the research team exploring how innovative edtech solutions can help close educational attainment gaps with Roma students in Spain. And so grateful to work alongside this dream team: @toniroldan.bsky.social @luciacobreros.bsky.social and Teresa 🔥
💻📚 "Roma Innova. Evidencias para reducir la desigualdad social y educativa de la infancia gitana" se llevará a cabo en 12 comunidades autónomas en el marco del programa educativo #Promociona
ℹ️ Más información: www.gitanos.org/actualidad/f... #FondosEuropeos
ℹ️ Más información: www.gitanos.org/actualidad/f... #FondosEuropeos
May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excited to be part of the research team exploring how innovative edtech solutions can help close educational attainment gaps with Roma students in Spain. And so grateful to work alongside this dream team: @toniroldan.bsky.social @luciacobreros.bsky.social and Teresa 🔥
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🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
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"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
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May 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
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"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
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🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:
👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings
@annualreviews.bsky.social
1/9
👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings
@annualreviews.bsky.social
1/9
April 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:
👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings
@annualreviews.bsky.social
1/9
👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings
@annualreviews.bsky.social
1/9
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🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
March 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
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📢 Call for papers: 📢
@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)
5-6 Sept 2025, Munich
Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social
👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)
5-6 Sept 2025, Munich
Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social
👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
March 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
📢 Call for papers: 📢
@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)
5-6 Sept 2025, Munich
Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social
👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)
5-6 Sept 2025, Munich
Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social
👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
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🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala.
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala.
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
First snow of the season at our annual Swedish development economics conference — even the Barcelona-born part of me can’t help but love it!
November 21, 2024 at 11:23 PM
First snow of the season at our annual Swedish development economics conference — even the Barcelona-born part of me can’t help but love it!
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Position based in 🇧🇷. Check it out ⬇️
Buscamos RA para uma pesquisa sobre habilidades socioemocionais em programas TVET. Colabore com uma equipe de pesquisa internacional na análise de dados para apoiar a transformação da empregabilidade de jovens. Aplique agora: bit.ly/4e07QmF
Buscamos RA para uma pesquisa sobre habilidades socioemocionais em programas TVET. Colabore com uma equipe de pesquisa internacional na análise de dados para apoiar a transformação da empregabilidade de jovens. Aplique agora: bit.ly/4e07QmF
Research Associate - J-PAL LAC
bit.ly
September 2, 2024 at 11:37 AM
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Position based in 🇧🇷. Check it out ⬇️
Buscamos RA para uma pesquisa sobre habilidades socioemocionais em programas TVET. Colabore com uma equipe de pesquisa internacional na análise de dados para apoiar a transformação da empregabilidade de jovens. Aplique agora: bit.ly/4e07QmF
Buscamos RA para uma pesquisa sobre habilidades socioemocionais em programas TVET. Colabore com uma equipe de pesquisa internacional na análise de dados para apoiar a transformação da empregabilidade de jovens. Aplique agora: bit.ly/4e07QmF
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The world is incredibly short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education, as at least 2/3s of the world’s youth do not even reach basic skill levels.
Today on VoxDev, Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...
A world unprepared: Missing skills for development
The world is incredibly short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education, as at least two thirds of the world’s youth do not even reach basic skill levels
voxdev.org
November 24, 2023 at 9:04 AM
The world is incredibly short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education, as at least 2/3s of the world’s youth do not even reach basic skill levels.
Today on VoxDev, Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Hoy escribo en Nada es Gratis sobre si las escuelas que impulsan el rendimiento académico son las mismas que marcan la diferencia en aspectos no académicos en el largo plazo, y cuáles son los factores relevantes para los padres en la elección de escuela 🧵
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nadaesgratis.es/admin/determ...
¿Determinan las puntuaciones en los exámenes estandardizados la calidad de las escuelas?
Por Laia Navarro-Sola
En plena era de la educación estandarizada, las puntuaciones en exámenes estandardizados como los de las pruebas de ingreso a la universidad o las pruebas PISA son la brújula...
nadaesgratis.es
November 8, 2023 at 11:04 AM
Hoy escribo en Nada es Gratis sobre si las escuelas que impulsan el rendimiento académico son las mismas que marcan la diferencia en aspectos no académicos en el largo plazo, y cuáles son los factores relevantes para los padres en la elección de escuela 🧵
nadaesgratis.es/admin/determ...
nadaesgratis.es/admin/determ...
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🚨Volume 7 is out!
Handbook of the Economics of Education
Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin
Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars
Have a look!
👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7
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Handbook of the Economics of Education
Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin
Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars
Have a look!
👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7
1/7
November 3, 2023 at 1:23 PM
🚨Volume 7 is out!
Handbook of the Economics of Education
Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin
Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars
Have a look!
👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7
1/7
Handbook of the Economics of Education
Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin
Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars
Have a look!
👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7
1/7
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RT from @nber.bsky.social: "School principals cannot use private-sector management tools to compel, but can act as leaders to improve teaching. Management affects learning if it changes classroom activities, from #SabrinBeg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, & [me]"
nber.org/papers/w31757
nber.org/papers/w31757
October 12, 2023 at 1:17 PM
RT from @nber.bsky.social: "School principals cannot use private-sector management tools to compel, but can act as leaders to improve teaching. Management affects learning if it changes classroom activities, from #SabrinBeg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, & [me]"
nber.org/papers/w31757
nber.org/papers/w31757
#Econsky 📈📉:?What are your top recommendations for cool RCT papers with null effects? 📚 (I know there has been discussions about this before; I keep bookmarking and losing them. Maybe by starting this thread, I can easily locate them later). TIA!
September 26, 2023 at 3:05 PM
#Econsky 📈📉:?What are your top recommendations for cool RCT papers with null effects? 📚 (I know there has been discussions about this before; I keep bookmarking and losing them. Maybe by starting this thread, I can easily locate them later). TIA!
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what i missed most when i left econtwitter was a way to crowdsource...
I'm looking for a compelling multi-arm RCT where it was not obvious which treatment would work better or the answer is ex post surprising. goal is to show non-researchers that their priors can be wrong, using an A/B example. 📈📉
I'm looking for a compelling multi-arm RCT where it was not obvious which treatment would work better or the answer is ex post surprising. goal is to show non-researchers that their priors can be wrong, using an A/B example. 📈📉
September 21, 2023 at 6:15 PM
what i missed most when i left econtwitter was a way to crowdsource...
I'm looking for a compelling multi-arm RCT where it was not obvious which treatment would work better or the answer is ex post surprising. goal is to show non-researchers that their priors can be wrong, using an A/B example. 📈📉
I'm looking for a compelling multi-arm RCT where it was not obvious which treatment would work better or the answer is ex post surprising. goal is to show non-researchers that their priors can be wrong, using an A/B example. 📈📉
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I am not an organizer so I can say this credibly: This will be fun! #econsky
September 21, 2023 at 6:12 AM
I am not an organizer so I can say this credibly: This will be fun! #econsky
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We're hiring! The Princeton development econ faculty are hiring pre-docs to start in Summer 2024, under the supervision of Pascaline Dupas, Mica Sviatsci, Thomas Fujiwaran, Allan Hsiao, and me. Can sponsor visas. Please share!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/17772/s...
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research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/17772/s...
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Careers | Human Resources
A career at Princeton provides the opportunity to make meaningful impact. We invite you to imagine the difference you can make being a part of our community.
research-princeton.icims.com
September 20, 2023 at 7:28 PM
We're hiring! The Princeton development econ faculty are hiring pre-docs to start in Summer 2024, under the supervision of Pascaline Dupas, Mica Sviatsci, Thomas Fujiwaran, Allan Hsiao, and me. Can sponsor visas. Please share!
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/17772/s...
📈📉
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/17772/s...
📈📉
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Rachel Glennerster and I have a recent JEP article on why many of the most cost-effective ways to mitigate climate change are in low- and middle-income countries. This Q&A covers the main points in our article. 📈📉
spia.princeton.edu/news/whose-c...
spia.princeton.edu/news/whose-c...
Whose CO2 is it Anyway? Seema Jayachandran’s Research Explores Alternate Mitigation Efforts | Prin...
As CO2 emissions continue to climb globally, Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Research Program in Development Economics, published research in the...
spia.princeton.edu
September 20, 2023 at 2:06 PM
Rachel Glennerster and I have a recent JEP article on why many of the most cost-effective ways to mitigate climate change are in low- and middle-income countries. This Q&A covers the main points in our article. 📈📉
spia.princeton.edu/news/whose-c...
spia.princeton.edu/news/whose-c...
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Waiting for the econometricians to join to tell me that the way I'm using this platform is biased and inconsistent.
September 20, 2023 at 12:22 PM
Waiting for the econometricians to join to tell me that the way I'm using this platform is biased and inconsistent.
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I am genuinely shocked that there is an important education policy research question to which the correct answer is "Multiply by 37".
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September 19, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I am genuinely shocked that there is an important education policy research question to which the correct answer is "Multiply by 37".
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edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...