Prof Economics NTNU, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE III, CESifo & WIL. Main organiser of LISIT. PI of @welgain.bsky.social. Father of two! https://www.robertoiacono.org/
Roberto Iacono
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Eager to start a PhD and work with Norwegian register data? Apply! inomics.com/job/phd-cand...
🚨New WP🚨 We study DIT across 20 countries (1980–2019). DIT adoption increases the top 10% share by 0.67 pp & the top 1% by 0.50 pp. Efficiency gains come at an equity cost. W/ M. Ceraolo & F. Rios-Avila.
ifo.de/en/cesifo/publications/2026/working-paper/dual-income-taxation-and-top-income-shares
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!
🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥
"Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Huge congrats to #WelGain member Jorge Luis Garcia (Texas A&M) on his new paper in AEJ: Economic Policy! He shows India's rural employment guarantee raises household consumption but cuts women's labor force participation & well-being — exactly the kind of hidden effect WelGain aims to surface.
🎉 New paper out in World Development by @welgain.bsky.social's PI @robertoiacono.org & Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati (UCD): "Unintended Consequences of Externally Aided Projects on Fiscal Transfers: A Subnational Study of India"
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X26001439
📢New Working Paper!
"Dual Income Taxation and Top Income Shares"
✍️ Michele Ceraolo, @robertoiacono.org & Fernando Rios-Avila
What are the distributional consequences of Dual #Income Taxation (DIT)?💲
Find out: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
✨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!
@cesifo.org @liser.lu Uni Verona @cy-univ.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social
#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)
4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway.
sites.google.com/site/prgreen...
Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU)
Call for papers open soon
Funded by EduGAP project
samforsk.no/prosjekter/e...
#EconConf
ifo.de
maxkasy.github.io
(May 2026) - I investigate the intrahousehold labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, repla...
We investigate the impact of foreign aid on inter-governmental transfers in India. While anecdotal evidence suggests that the central government subst…
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Roberto Iacono
Roberto Iacono
Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
The Department of Economics at NTNU and NTNU Samfunnsforskning are pleased to announce the 4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) in Trondheim, Norway 7th-8th September 2026.
We invite...
📢🚨 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) 👇
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
Colin Green
Reform UK recently claimed that the UK’s benefits bill would be much higher than in other Western countries. That's simply incorrect.
I spoke to @timharford.ft.com for #BBC More or Less about the actual cost of welfare.
BBC: www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6WyJ...
Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Located in Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund. Specializing in technology and the natural sciences. 40 000 students.
