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Paula Roth defends her thesis Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation
Paula Roth defends her thesis Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation on Friday 29th of May at 1:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence will take place digitally.
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Dmytro Stoyko is defending his thesis Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy
Dmytro Stoyko is defending his thesis Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy, Wednesday 27th of May at 10:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Please note that there will be a limited number of seats as the defence is taking place on a digital platform.
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Jonas Cederlöf defends his thesis Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy
Jonas Cederlöfs defends his PhD thesis Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy on Friday 15th of May at 2:15 pm in Lecture Hall 2 at Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. The thesis defence will take place digitally, for the first time in the history of the Department.
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Maria Olsson recruited to Norway
Maria Olsson, one of our Job Market Candidates, has found a job at the Business School in Oslo. Maria Olsson will defend her thesis Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations in June.
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Admission to the PhD Program 2020
The department has admitted 11 new PhD students to the PhD program. They will be starting August 17, 2020.
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New report on increasing achievement gap between immigrant and native pupils
Over the past ten years, the proportion of foreign-born pupils in grade 9 has doubled from 6 to 13 percent. This is a record increase. Hans Grönqvist at the Department of Economics and Susan Niknami at SOFI, Stockholm University, have mapped and analyzed the differences in study results between domestic and foreign-born pupils in primary and secondary education during the period 1990–2017.
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Yoko Okuyama will join the Department
We are delighted to announce that Yoko Okuyama, currently a PhD student in economics at Yale University, will start her work with the Department this fall.
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Eva Mörk elected as member of the Royal Academy of Sciences
At the General Meeting on 12 February Eva Mörk was elected a member of the Academy’s class for social sciences.
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Nobel Laureates in Economics lecture
The Nobel Laureates in Economics 2019 just visited Ekonomikum and gave an open lecture on the research that led to the award.
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Department of Economics and IBF in new collaboration with Uppsala Municipality
Uppsala Municipality allocates SEK 3 million to a new research program aimed at strengthening the quantitatively oriented urban research.
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Political Economy Workshop
Students and faculty members interested in political economy gathered for a one-day workshop in the Economics department on the 19th of November.
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TOP PUBLICATION: Understanding How Low Levels of Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories, Journal of Political Economy
Hans Grönqvist's paper "Understanding How Low Levels of Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories" (joint with Peter Nilsson and Per-Olof Robling) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the top economics journals in the world.
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EALE Conference 2019
EALE is Europe's largest labor market conference and brings together around 500 participants from around the world each year. This year, the conference is held for the first time in Uppsala and this is the second time it is being held in Sweden during its 31-year history. Uppsala university is hosting the conference through UCLS.
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Arnaldur Stefánsson defends his thesis September 6
Arnaldur Stefánsson defends his thesis Essays in Public Finance and Behavioral Economics Friday September 6 at 1:15, Lecture Hall 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10. Arnaldur's thesis consists of five self-contained essays. The essays cover different fields of public finance and behavioral economics, addressing how individuals make decisions and respond to policy instruments, and the implications of this behavior for the government.
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Stefano Lombardi defends his thesis August 30
Stefano Lombardi defends his thesis Essays on Event History Analysis and the Effects of Social Programs on Individuals and Firms in Hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, August 30 at 10.15. His thesis consists of 4 essays on topics such as unemployment insurance and benefit sanctions, estimation and comparison of duration models, and targeted wage subsidies and firm performance.
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Torben Mideksa receives Erik Kempe Award 2019
The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) awards the Erik Kempe Prize every two years to the best article in environmental and resource economics. The jury believes that Torben Mideksa and Bård Harstads (University of Oslo) article is fundamental to how the world can reduce deforestation and to understanding that there is no «one size fits all» solution in the work against deforestation; the strategies have to be adapted to different conditions.
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Mathias von Buxhoeveden defends his thesis 22 May
Mathias von Buxhoeveden defends his thesis Partial and General Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance. Identification, Estimation and Inference on 22 May at 09:15 in Hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 A.
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Admission to the PhD programme 2019
The department has admitted 11 PhD students to the PhD program starting autumn 2019.
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Qian (Louise) Liu Young Global Leader 2019
Qian (Louise) Liu, who did her PhD at the Economics Department, has been named Young Global Leader 2019 by World Economic Forum.
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Christoph Hedtrich joins the department
We are very happy to announce that Christoph Hedtrich from Universitat Pompeu Fabra will be joining the department this fall. Christoph does work in the intersection between labor and macro and his job market paper is on the link between labor market dynamism and job polarization.
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The Future of Swedish Municipalities
Swedish municipalities are facing major challenges in the future. An aging population implies an increased demand for care services. At the same time, a decreasing number of people of working age will have to provide for an increasing number of people who do not work. Furthermore, Sweden has undergone a significant process of urbanization that has led to substantially different conditions for urban and rural municipalities, respectively. In addition, Sweden has received a large number of refugees, many of whom are young, which entails challenges for the education sector.
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Peter Fredriksson new Chairman of the Nobel committee
Peter Fredriksson has been elected new Chairman of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Department of Economics receives research funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Forte
Three research projects receive SEK 12,869,000 in total from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) and Forte.
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Gunnar Brandén defends his thesis 17 December
Gunnar Brandén defends his thesis “Understanding Intergenerational Mobility. Inequality, student aid, and nature-nurture interactions” on 17 December at 13:15 in hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10.
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How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?
Arizo Karimi's research on the effects of the Swedish reform in 1995, aimed at encouraging fathers to take some leave after the birth of a child, mentioned as an American Economic Association Research Highlight.
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Stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund
The Economics Association in Uppsala annually awards stipends from the Ingemar Carlsson Memorial Fund to students who, through their thesis, have displayed a “special aptitude for the subject Economics”. Stipends this year total 24,000 SEK.
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Aino-Maija Aalto defends her thesis 26 October
Aino-Maija Aalto defends her thesis “Incentives and Inequalities in Family and Working Life” on 26 October at 10:15 in hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10.
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The labor market in Sweden since the 1990s
Read Nils Gottfries', Professor of Economics, popular science article on the development of the Swedish labor market.
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Admission to the PhD Program
The department has admitted eight PhD students and one externally employed PhD student to the PhD program starting autumn 2018.
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Lena Hensvik and Oskar Nordström Skans awarded the H. Gregg Lewis Prize
The H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics is presented biennially by the Society of Labor Economists to the authors of the best article in Journal of Labor Economics in the past two years.
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Henrik Andersson defends his thesis 8 june
Henrik Andersson defends his thesis Immigration and the Neighborhood – Essays on the Causes and Consequences of International Migration on 8 June, 13:15 in Hörsal 2 at Ekonomikum (Kyrkogårdsgatan 10).