Roberto Iacono

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥

"Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program"

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Senior researchers in History (291971) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

#CFA: We are hiring 2 Postdocs and 1 PhD to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (c.1750-1950). Join us in Trondheim!
2 Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
(deadline for applying: March 15)

Our WelGain project member @lukaslehner.bsky.social interviewed on the UK's benefits bill. Framing correctly the cost of welfare, and unveiling the hidden benefits of social programs, is central to the WelGain project. Stay tuned for more!

Eager to start a PhD and work with Norwegian register data? Apply! inomics.com/job/phd-cand...

✨Winter School #IT19 ✨

Sarting the Nineteenth Winter School on #Inequality and #SocialWelfare Theory (#IT19)

3 days, 85 participants, 25 talks, 3 lab sessions, 40 posters/presentations, a lot to learn about!

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PhD Candidate in Impact Evaluation of Welfare Programs | INOMICS The PhD position is funded by the WelGain project, financed by the Research Council of Norway. The WelGain project studies why the public debate about welfare often focuses more on the costs than on t...

💶 Good salary & project money for conferences, travels, etc.🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026.

⬇️ details & online application (via Jobbnorge) 📩
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The three-year position is fully funded through the RCN project "WelGain - Tangible Welfare Costs & Hidden Welfare Gains: Unveiling the Counterfactual in the Evaluation of Social Programs". www.ntnu.edu/isa/welgain

📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢

I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇

Here’s what determines whether your income level rises or falls Your work usually determines whether you manage to earn a better income compared to people around you, but not when your income falls.

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PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February.
www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...
This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

Excited to be part of this project, where we'll aim to improve cost-benefit analysis of social policies over the next four years.

Thanks for leading the work, @robertoiacono.org!

The WelGain project has got a website on which you can follow our updates! www.ntnu.edu/isa/welgain

‘But Switzerland’s boring’: tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital Abstract. Many countries are concerned about the migration of top taxpayers. Yet we know little about how economic elites weigh the taxes they pay when dec

‘But Switzerland’s boring’: tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital url: academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

I will be hiring soon! A fully funded 3-year PhD position at NTNU, supported by our WelGain project. Stay tuned!

📢 Happy to share that our paper "Compulsory activation of young welfare recipients: revisiting the trade-off between workfare and welfare generosity", co-authored with
@baardsmed.bsky.social, has been published in the Socio-Economic Review (OUP).

🔗 Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Roberto Iacono (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Capital and Labor Income Mobility - Dipartimento di Economia e Management Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at 2:30 pm Venue: Room Bruguier Pacini, DEM + Online via Teams Speaker: Roberto Iacono…Leggi tutto...

Our speaker this week is @robertoiacono.org (NTNU), who is currently visiting our Department of Economics @unipisa.bsky.social and presents "Capital and Labor Income Mobility", joint with @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social . www.ec.unipi.it/eventi/rober... #econsky #seminar

Being back at @deps-siena.bsky.social today to present my work, 4 years after my sabbatical spent here, has been a great pleasure, and a bit emotional. Keep up the good work, I think @deps-siena.bsky.social is gaining back the glory of its past!

📢THIS WEEK

@deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!

@robertoiacono.org (NTNU)

"Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform"

🗓️⏲️ Nov 5, 15:00, Goodwin Room #Siena

Happy World Statistics Day! 🎉📊

🔥 Final stretch! Apply to join #FIRE — Finland’s register-based research initiative — as a visiting researcher by Oct 22. 📊🚀

@utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi #TampereUniversity @helsinki.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

Do register-based research? 🔎 #FIRE Fellowships offer 1–2 month visits to Finland for postdocs & senior researchers.

Apply now 👉
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@utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi #TampereUniversity @helsinki.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem:

Political economy.
12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?”
Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

Second Call for Papers. GLO-JOPE Conference Bonn & Global – December 3-5, 2025. Submission Deadline October 23, 2025. Second Call for Papers. The Global Labor Organization (GLO), a large international network of economists and related disciplines, invites contributed papers on

Second Call for Papers. GLO-JOPE Conference Bonn & Global – December 3-5, 2025. Submission Deadline October 23, 2025. #Development #Family #Fertility #Migration #Refugees #Crime #Conflict #Religion #Economics #Labor #Population #Health #Conflict #EconSky #EcoConf glabor.org/second-call-...

Pleased to see our new paper finally out!

Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.

Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)

Ever wondered whether capital or labor income makes individuals move up the income ladder? So did my fantastic co-authors @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @robertoiacono.org and I!

Short answer: It's mostly LABOR income! 1/2

Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone - WID - World Inequality Database Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone This paper studies the dynamics of capital and labor income mobility using high-quality register data from Norway.

Do individuals move ⤴️ or⤵️ the income ladder because of jumps in labor or capital income, or both?

👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org

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Are you a PhD/Postdoc young scholar in search of opportunities abroad?

Time to apply for the new call of the Visiting researcher positions with access to admin data @ NTNU in Trondheim.

Deadline: 30.11.2025. Details: shorturl.at/Fdw9A

Friends & colleagues: pls share with your best candidates.

Time to celebrate! 🎉

The WelGain project (Tangible welfare costs & hidden welfare gains: unveiling the counterfactual in the evaluation of social programs) has received funding by the RCN, approx. 11.97M NOK (1M EUR).

I look forward to serve as PI of an amazing team of colleagues @NTNU and abroad!

It is finally online the SI of the EER that we guest-edited together with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social, and Jakob Madsen. The full list of papers is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...