A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

New in the FIT working paper series: 🤩

Martín Brun & Xavier Ramos
Attitudes to income inequality and redistribution

verotutkimus.fi/verotutkimus...

@martinbrun.bsky.social

Why do people follow rules, most importantly laws & social norms? In our new paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ by current and former @UoNCeDEx researchers Simon Gaechter, @lucasmolleman.bsky.social‬ and Daniele Nosenzo, we provide some basic behavioural insights into this question. 1/15

💡 Open science: A team of researchers at Shandong University has attempted to replicate Oprea (2024 AER). The results do not replicate.

Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-Ended Survey Data" by Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Johannes Wohlfart. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Excited about our new working paper "Giving as a self-control problem". We look at information avoidance as an emotion regulation strategy in charitable giving decisions. We find evidence for both strategic avoidance and strategic seeking of emotions.

Paper:
papers.tinbergen.nl/25023.pdf

"Fairness Across the World" - new working paper by Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, @erikosorensen.bsky.social and Bertil Tungodden. @nhhecon.bsky.social @nhhnor.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social
openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha...

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

A new study reveals that we simplify decisions by storing key choices early and prioritizing critical points. These insights were uncovered through an analysis of London taxi drivers’ navigation strategies.

In @apnews.com: apnews.com/video/how-th...

In @pnas.org:: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I have written a review article on the research within experimental economics studying the impact of intelligence on economic decision making.

doi.org/10.1093/acre...

#EconSky

Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality

The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers.

Submit your paper by 30 March!

verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

Research teams composed of pro-immigration researchers estimated more positive impacts of immigration on public support for social programs, while anti-immigration teams reported more negative estimates, from George J. Borjas and Nate Breznau https://www.nber.org/papers/w33274

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social,
@nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

🎯JOB ALERT!🎯
I am looking for a RA to work with me and my team on several projects. You should be interested in poverty in developed economies, labour, gender or meta-analysis.

Phenomenal paper, one of my absolute favs! 2 points:

1) prospect theory is a *descriptive* model of choice. Choice still there, new work is getting us closer to understanding mechanism. 2) not clear whether choices are response to risk, and people apply same heuristic to similar non-risk contexts