How aggregate and individual shocks combine to shape household incomes - Econ Brief How important are the ups and downs of the economy for individual families? Personal setbacks have more permanent effects on households’ lifetime earnings than a general economic downturn. But macroec...

Personal setbacks have more permanent effects on households’ lifetime earnings than a general economic downturn; but macroeconomic shocks are still critical because they set the stage on which microeconomic shocks play out - research by Richard Blundell et al

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The paper finds that Mothers’ labor force participation and earnings decline sharply following the birth of a first child.

Additionally, long-term financial factors are not top of mind when Swiss women are making labor supply decisions as a parent.

📕 NEW from @anacostaramon.bsky.social, Michaela Slotwinski, @ursina.bsky.social and Anne Ardila Brenøe:

'Do Mothers Respond to Information About the Long-Term Consequences of Part-Time Work?'

Do Mothers Respond to Information About the Long-Term Consequences of Part-Time Work? | Microeconomic Insights Mothers’ labor force participation and earnings decline sharply following the birth of a first child, resulting in gender gaps between parents that are large and highly persistent (Cortés and Pan, 202...

An information campaign can help create meaningful behavioral change, especially among the least informed groups.

Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/do-mothers-r...

XVIII Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento en Economía a Charles Manski por incorporar la incertidumbre en la investigación económica y su aplicación al análisis de las políticas públicas

Congratulations to Charles Manski on winning the BBVA Frontiers Award for his foundational contributions to partial identification, semiparametric methods, subjective expectations, social interactions and policy decision-making under uncertainty
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1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Economics, 15–16 June 2026.

Submissions of full papers or extended abstracts are invited.
Submission deadline: 13 February 2026

1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Economics Conferenceifs.org.uk/events/1st-annual-cep-if...

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026

We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

How can policy tackle regional inequalities? | Institute for Fiscal Studies At this policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

NEW: How can policy tackle regional inequalities?

🖥️ Sign up to join the livestream of our conference next Tuesday with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social, with new research on the scale and causes of regional inequalities and a keynote from @andyburnham.bsky.social ⬇️ ifs.org.uk/events/how-c...

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026

We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: https://ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

Tackling regional inequalities: lessons from new research | Institute for Fiscal Studies Summary of new research on the scale and sources of regional inequalities and policy implications.

📊 Read the briefing: ifs.org.uk/articles/tac...

📗 Read the journal articles on regional inequalities in the Fiscal Studies issue on spatial inequality and economic divergence in the UK here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755890...

Olympia Bover has been appointed president of the Catalan Statistics Council
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How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ

NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: Income inequality and the role of the state in Latin America: an overview

📗 Read @richardblundell.bsky.social, Mariano Bosch, Nora Lustig and Marcela Melendez's new paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

ReStud Tour @reveconstudies.bsky.social

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.

It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.

Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics.

📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...

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Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:

Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.

Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

🎓 Book your #virtualtix for the #DeatonReview session at #RES2025 Mon 30 June! By @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social

🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
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#EconSky #EconConf

This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social‬, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social‬, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White.

Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...

🚨 Last chance! Register by 8 June for #RES2025, 30 June–2 July @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🌞

🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel

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"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5

Chart showing Sure Start generated benefits for children up to adolescence, including improved GCSE results. Title states "Effects of Sure Start on achievement by age."

📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education.

Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount!

Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
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The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead.

Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller:

Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require

Trade and globalization Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...