Christian T. Elbaek
@celbaek.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Aarhus University | investigating how scarcity and economic inequality influences financial and moral judgment & decision-making
Website: https://www.au.dk/en/[email protected]
Website: https://www.au.dk/en/[email protected]
Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
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Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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It's ok, all holders of these securities need to do is buy an over-the-counter credit derivative to hedge their default risk, then securitize and tranche those derivative contracts and sell the resulting income streams. Assuming the top tranches get AAA credit ratings, what could possibly go wrong?
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
It's ok, all holders of these securities need to do is buy an over-the-counter credit derivative to hedge their default risk, then securitize and tranche those derivative contracts and sell the resulting income streams. Assuming the top tranches get AAA credit ratings, what could possibly go wrong?
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Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
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This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include:
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
Interested in how social psychology can illuminate socioeconomic inequality? Come join us for the preconference on economic inequality and social class at SPSP!
SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include:
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interested in how social psychology can illuminate socioeconomic inequality? Come join us for the preconference on economic inequality and social class at SPSP!
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🚨 New research published today
'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.
Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK
'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.
Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🚨 New research published today
'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.
Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK
'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.
Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK
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Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen:
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
Fattige børn får dårligere mad, får sjældnere børstet tænder og får mindre opbakning fra læreren
Danmark | Sektionen med Politikens undersøgende journalistik og seneste nyt indenfor politik, ret, sundhed, uddannelse, forbrug, økonomi og aktuelle temaer
politiken.dk
September 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen:
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
»Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun.
Læs denne artikel!:
politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
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“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0
Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0
New Capitalism in America, Part III - LSE Inequalities
Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Under the "new" capitalism, why do 85% of the world’s population remain capital-income destitute?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0
Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0
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The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.
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Episode five of Antisocial Economics is out now!
@wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.
@wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.
Antisocial Economics
What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Episode five of Antisocial Economics is out now!
@wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.
@wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States"
By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
"Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States"
By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
August 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States"
By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
"Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States"
By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
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An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
On my way to #ISPP2025 in Prague!
Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social:
“Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions”
Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social:
“Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions”
Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On my way to #ISPP2025 in Prague!
Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social:
“Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions”
Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social:
“Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions”
Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
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I dag træder et nyt kontanthjælpssystem i kraft.
Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.
Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.
July 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I dag træder et nyt kontanthjælpssystem i kraft.
Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.
Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.
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You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
It's a lie.
June 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
It's a lie.
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Trickle up economics
The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:
July 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Trickle up economics
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If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
June 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
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Okay this is getting ridiculous.
In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates.
osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...
In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates.
osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Okay this is getting ridiculous.
In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates.
osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...
In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates.
osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...
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Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs.
Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.
Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.
June 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs.
Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.
Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.
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“I Netflix-serien ‘Reservatet’ ses ekstrem rigdom - næsten eksotisk for Danmark. Men eksistensen af en superrig dansk elite er mere virkelig end nogensinde.”
25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23
www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...
25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23
www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...
June 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“I Netflix-serien ‘Reservatet’ ses ekstrem rigdom - næsten eksotisk for Danmark. Men eksistensen af en superrig dansk elite er mere virkelig end nogensinde.”
25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23
www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...
25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23
www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...
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What do tax cuts for the rich do?
They increase inequality.
They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.
"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
They increase inequality.
They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.
"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
May 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What do tax cuts for the rich do?
They increase inequality.
They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.
"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
They increase inequality.
They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.
"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
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1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
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‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️
3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅
I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅
I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
💥Postdoc call 💥
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
April 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️
3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅
I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅
I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
My brilliant postdoc, @fransolmar.bsky.social, recently published experimental evidence suggesting that perceived inequities in health and education can drive support to reduce economic inequality. Really cool work!
📢 NEW PUBLICATION! 📢
2nd paper of the thesis, in EJSP (2025). We ran 4 studies to test whether perceptions of economic-based disparities in health and education—beyond income—could enhance support for redistribution and collective action to reduce economic inequality doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
2nd paper of the thesis, in EJSP (2025). We ran 4 studies to test whether perceptions of economic-based disparities in health and education—beyond income—could enhance support for redistribution and collective action to reduce economic inequality doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
March 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
My brilliant postdoc, @fransolmar.bsky.social, recently published experimental evidence suggesting that perceived inequities in health and education can drive support to reduce economic inequality. Really cool work!