Mirco Tonin

@mircotonin.bsky.social

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Economic Policy Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano @unibz.bsky.social, Italy; Director at FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in Trento. Personal opinions here.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

New column today:
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 3d

The program for the Health Economics and Risky Behaviors (HERB 2026) workshop is out! See you in Bologna!

eventi.unibo.it/workshop-her...

HERB 2026 program: 📅 22 January 2026
– From Courtroom to Court of Public Opinion: Secondary Victimization and Intimate Partner Violence — Caterina Muratori (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
– From Awareness to Action: Help-Seeking and Femicides after Gender-Based Violence Campaigns in Italy — Margherita Agnoletto (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
– Rising Temperatures and Domestic Violence in Peru: Evidence and Mechanisms — Fiorella Parra-Mujica (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
– After the Draft: The Lasting Effects of Male Conscription on Well-Being — Chiara Notarangelo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
– Leader Identity and Cesarean Childbirths: Evidence from Random Allocations of Female Leaders in Indian Villages — Mujaheed Shaikh (Hertie School)
– Qualitative Insights on the Income–Health Behavior Gradient — Manuela Puente-Beccar (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)

📅 23 January 2026 — 📍 Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Session 3 (Chair: Ana Armendariz)
– Health After Birth: The Persistent Health Penalty of Becoming a Parent — Jonathan Rossi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
– Precisely Zero: Migration’s Null Effect on Sex Crimes — Riccardo Ciacci (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)
– Do Drug Consumption Rooms Reduce Drug-Related Hospitalisations? Evidence from Switzerland — Ana Armendariz (University of St Gallen)
Session 4 (Chair: Flavia Cavallini)
– Empowering Parents in the Digital Age — Margaux Suteau (London School of Economics and Political Science)
– Children by Choice, Not Chance: Family Planning Associations and Fertility in Britain — Sara Tozzi (University of Bologna)
– Expectation Shocks and Fertility: The Case of Brexit — Flavia Cavallini (Università della Svizzera italiana)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6d

This online, PhD-level course in the economics of innovation is a huge opportunity.

Taught by some of the world's top scholars on this: @heidiwilliams.bsky.social, Chad Jones, Azoulay, van Reenen, many others! (Also: me.)

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 8d

3 January 1900 | Italian Jew Emanuele Di Porto was born in Rome. A merchant.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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🎧 Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

A vintage black and white photo of a man wearing a hat and bow tie.

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Erika Deserranno @erikadeserranno.bsky.social · 10d

I’m hiring a predoc at Bocconi starting summer 2026. Projects in development and personnel economics, to study how to improve worker productivity in private and public organizations both low and higher-income countries. Apply!

Details below

#EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13d

29 December 1923 | An Italian Jew, Shlomo Venezia, was born in Thessaloniki.

In #Auschwitz from 11 April 1944.
No. 182727
Forced to work in the Sonderkommando
He survived the war & passed away in 2012.

Black and white portrait of an Italian Jew, Shlomo Venezia, he was forced to work in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz.

A phot of an Italian Jew, Shlomo Venezia, forced to work in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz., He is standing in front of the ruins of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 13d

Great pre-doc opportunities at @econ.uzh.ch in Zurich for aspiring PhD candidates from low- & middle income countries or with a refugee/asylum seeker background.

Predoctoral Program Global Talent Common Application: www.facultyhiring.oec.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0... Please share widely in your networks!

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 14d

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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · 14d

New WP out: "Patterns in #University Applications: Socioeconomic Status, #Gender, and Subject vs. Institution Preferences" with Friederike Hertweck, Robbie Maris, @mvlass.bsky.social LINK: www.iza.org/publications...

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16d

A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America

Anti Italian cartoon

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for black-a da boot!

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · 19d

Should we be concerned about VAT evasion at the retail stage in contexts with high enforcement and low informality?

In their paper Annalisa Tassi and Adrien Bussy
exploit a VAT reform to answer this question.

📄Read the full paper: irvapp.fbk.eu/publications...

VAT collection only at the retail stage: Evidence on tax compliance

We investigate whether firms engage in VAT evasion at the retail stage—typically a point of weakness in VAT systems—in a high-enforcement, low-informality setting. To measure evasion, we exploit a ref...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23d

19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti.

On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
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Our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with a bow in their hair, looking surprised.

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · 24d

Per limitare la povertà educativa, è necessario rafforzare e rinnovare le politiche di diritto allo studio.

Davide Azzolini, Antonia Mazara e Loris Vergolini ne parlano su La Voce e riportano i risultati di un esperimento in Italia.

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Quando il risparmio è un’arma contro la dispersione scolastica | D. Azzolini, A. Mazara e L. Vergolini

Per limitare la povertà educativa, è necessario rafforzare e rinnovare le politiche di diritto allo studio. Sembrano dare buoni risultati i programmi che incentivano il risparmio familiare. Lo dimostr...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28d

Happy Hannukah

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Every year our card contains a picture that aims at inspiring moral reflection about the world we all share.

(Photo: Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

A man holds the remains of a Russian-made, inexpensive decoy drone made of foam and wood, known as a Gerbera, beside an Iran-designed Shahed-136 drone, known as a Geran-2.

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · Dec 9

Siamo lieti di invitarvi al seminario che si svolgerà in modalità ibrida: "Competenze digitali e di base", con la partecipazione di Roberto Ricci, presidente INVALSI.

Iscrizioni e info:
irvapp.fbk.eu/it/events/de...

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · Nov 27

Quali conoscenze economiche servono per decidere in modo consapevole?

In occasione del mese dell’educazione finanziaria ne abbiamo parlato con Elsa Fornero, @mircotonin.bsky.social e Matteo Ploner

Approfondimento di @gretasofial.bsky.social su FBK Magazine👇
magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/educ...

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Nov 20

"Aumentare l'offerta di alloggi", editoriale su Corriere dell' #AltoAdige e Corriere del #Trentino di oggi - LINK: pressreader.com/article/2815...

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · Nov 18

Ci vediamo questo venerdì 21 novembre!

Non dimenticare di iscriverti per assicurarti il posto: irvapp.fbk.eu/.../conoscen...

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Nov 15

Intervista sul problema casa in Alto Adige sul TGR www.rainews.it/tgr/bolzano/...

Edizione del 14/11/2025 - 19:30 - TGR Bolzano

TGR Bolzano. Le ultime notizie della regione Trentino Alto Adige (Bolzano) aggiornate in tempo reale. - Edizione del 14/11/2025 - 19:30

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Nov 12

For some reason I bought 10 lbs of good quality pasta yesterday

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves

The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.

www.wsj.com

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JKU Department of Economics @jku-economics.bsky.social · Nov 12

🚨JOB OPENING🚨

JKU Linz is hiring an Assistant Professor in Microeconomics (non-tenure track, 6 years).

The target date for applications is Nov 15, the hard deadline Nov 20.
Please share within your network!

Job ad and application (requires EJM login): econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social · Nov 11

Quali sono le conoscenze economiche di base utili a prendere decisioni individuali consapevoli?
Ne parlerà Elsa Fornero insieme a Matteo Ploner. Introduce Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social

🗓️21 novembre 2025 | 17:30
📍FBK - via S. Croce 77 Trento

Info e iscrizioni: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/events/de...

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Nov 11

"Conoscenza economica di base per decisioni individuali consapevoli" - evento organizzato da @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social IRVAPP - The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies | Bruno Kessler Foundation con Elsa Fornero il 21 novembre 17:30 a Trento. LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/events/detai...

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Nov 11

"Mente, #Soldi e Scelte Quotidiane: Come Riconoscere i #Bias e Gestire Meglio le tue #Finanze" - evento con Volksbank · Banca Popolare dell’Alto Adige il 20 novembre a Bolzano, Sede Centrale Volksbank alle 18:00 - LINK: www.volksbank.it/it/events/20...

Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Nov 4

"Casa, sussidi e prezzi alle stelle" - Intervista per Salto.bz salto.bz/de/article/0...

Casa, sussidi e prezzi alle stelle | SALTO

L'economista Mirco Tonin sulle nuove misure provinciali: “I sussidi senza nuove costruzioni fanno salire i prezzi e favoriscono i proprietari."L'economista Mirco Tonin sulle nuove misure provinciali: ...

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · Nov 3

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Oct 24

🚨 Job Market Alert 🚨

The Department of Economics of the University of Bologna invites applications for a fixed-term Assistant Professor position
**any field**
starting AY 2026/27.

📅 Apply by Nov 10

💼 6-year contract, low teaching load, no Italian required.

Info: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Oct 23

Per darvi un'idea di come funziona.

Come funziona la macchina del fango

Un piccolo episodio personale che rivela l’anatomia di un sistema nato per intimidire e riscrivere la realtà

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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Oct 20

Uscito oggi su Rivista Eco l'articolo "Che medici usciranno dal nuovo semestre aperto?" con Alessandro Fedele in cui discutiamo la recente riforma del meccanismo di accesso a medicina www.rivistaeco.com/2025/10/19/c... @mariomacis.bsky.social @danielwiesen.bsky.social

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