Panu Pelkonen
@ppelk
Education and labour economist. Tweet mostly education/skills/labour/demography/political econ. Dad of two boys. Lived in 🇫🇮🇺🇲🇳🇱🇬🇧.
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This is a good point. We are doing everyone a disservice by calling the UK student finance system 'debt' when 'graduate tax' is more appropriate. theguardian.com/money/2026/feb…
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Counting the real cost of student debt | Letters
Letter: Concerns about the cultural damage being done by the student loan system are raised by Prof Vaughan Grylls
IZA@LISER Summer School in Labor Economics. Deadline 5th March: liser.lu/events/SummerS…
Discussing education in Peru at a @marginalbabble podcast. Covering improvement of public school results over 2010-16 and lessons for middle & lower income countries in general. Based on work at @SussexUBusiness, funded by @BritishAcademy_ youtube.com/watch?v=4-9P-v…
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Transforming Education in Peru | Marginal Babble Ep.26 with Professor...
Funded Econ PhD in a beautiful city and a great department. Salary of ~£42.600 per annum + pensions. Deadline 15. February. Enough said.
We have a new PhD-position out! Come join us in beautiful #Bergen. At UoB, we're particularly strong in finance, labour/family economics, and IO. For those who cannot apply themselves: please share! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…
🚨New paper🚨on the long-term effects of elite high school. 5 and 10 yrs after admission, marginally admitted students are less likely to be employed in the formal sector, and, if employed, earn lower wages. The gaps close after 15 yrs. With @fcabrerahz @andrewdustan @eco_osuna
Estimating the long-run effects of marginal admission to elite public high schools on students' labor supply in the context of Mexico City's centralized high school admission system, from Francisco J. Cabrera-Hernández, Andrew Dustan, @eco_osuna, and @MaraPadillaR
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Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.
Submissions open to the 8th Workshop on urban economics hosted by the @FundacioIEB at the University of Barcelona on the 17-18 of June. Keynotes by @Ahlfeldt and Lu Han (Wisconsin). Come join us under the 🌼 ☀️!. Submit your papers by the 15 March. ieb.ub.edu/wp-content/upl…
Fantastic review of the latest AI labor research by Danielle Li at the AEA meetings. She covers everything from micro-evidence (@shakked_noy, @orgRem, @erikbryn) to broader generalizations, including work by @davidautor, @ProfNeilT, & my own work w/ @EduardTalamas at @JPolEcon
New causal evidence (JPE): exercise boosts academic performance. In an RCT in Norway, free gym access increased exercise, reduced dropouts and failed exams, and improved course completion among university students. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… #RCT #education #HealthEconomics
As a referee I'd be sympathetic, but I'd like some robustness testing on that 11pm sleep time assumption.
After rewatching Home Alone, I couldn’t stop wondering: how plausible is the oversleep that leaves Kevin behind? So I wrote a tiny paper and ran the numbers. Merry Christmas! 🎄
Most educational apps don't work. Not "could be better." Not "work for some kids." They're architecturally incapable of producing reliable learning. Here's why 🧵
We show that substantial investment in public schools in Peru in the 2010s reduced enrolment and test scores in private schools, primarily in areas with lower education levels. New public school openings also reduced enrolment in nearby private schools. docs.iza.org/dp18189.pdf
In Peru, 10-fold increase in urban density comes with 0.13 SD higher value-added in learning. This is broken down to sorting and agglomeration benefits. Quasi-experimental census estimations confirm the relationship between urban exposure and education. docs.iza.org/dp18177.pdf
Two cohorts of 5th-graders in the Finnish municipality of Pirkkala were indoctrinated with Marxism. Their teaching included faux protests and poverty simulations, among other things. Communist indoctrination had lasting harms: As adults, their incomes were considerably lower!
President Trump has declared that the week of November 2-8 will henceforth be known as Anti-Communism Week! In remembrance of the millions of victims of communism and awareness of the evil of communism, let's share some facts about communism!
Since I posted about junior econ positions in the Nordics two weeks ago, a whole lot more positions have been added. See below for an updated list, in total 54 (!) positions. It makes me very glad and proud to see this! Uppsala Econ: 1 AP Uppsala Econ: 1 Post-doc Uppsala IFAU: 1
📢Call for Papers #ESPE2026 🇫🇮Helsinki, June 11-13, 2026 📆 Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 🧑🏫Keynotes: @sulealan_econ & @ImranRasul3 👩🏫President: @ADelavande 👨🏫President-Elect: David Jaeger 👐 Local organisers: @KristiinaHuttu2 et al. ℹ️Info: espe2026.org Please share!🙏
It pleases me to see that admist a tough market for academic economists, the Nordics are really stepping up. Here’s what I can see at EJM and JOE: Uppsala Econ: 1 AP Uppsala IFAU: 1 post-doc Stockholm U, Econ: 2 APs Stockholm U, IIES: 1 AP Stockholm U, CEMOF: 1 Post-doc Lund U,
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