In what ways does wealth inequality matter? How is inequality related to political power? What is its impact on modern social systems?
Hear from @landemore.bsky.social, Oren Cass & Elizabeth Anderson on these questions at our symposium next week.
Register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
“Economics needs history, [and] history needs economics just as much.” Hear Jonathan Levy in conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social about why bridging these disciplines leads to stronger findings and better research on this week’s episode of the podcast.
Listen now → bit.ly/4pBJt4c
I’m hiring a predoc at Bocconi starting summer 2026. Projects in development and personnel economics, to study how to improve worker productivity in private and public organizations both low and higher-income countries. Apply!
Details below
#EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs
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📣🚨New pre-doc position! Come work with Julia Fonseca and me on mortgage, housing, and labor markets. We'll be tackling policy-relevant questions with both empirical and structural methods. #econsky #economics -- Link: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times”
– Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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My first paper is out - still cannot believe it.
Big thanks to this amazing team and super grateful to be part of this project!
📢 We’re excited to announce that the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 in Paris.
📄The call for papers is now open — submit by December 1!
▶️ inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
@pse.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social
Between World War II and the '70s, income disparities in the U.S. were relatively narrow. Today U.S. society is beset by extreme inequality, economic fragmentation, and class warfare. What happened? Read Part I of @pkrugman.bsky.social's series "Understanding Inequality."
bit.ly/4lgfOMo
But wait...
There's more!
Did those who received cash get lazier and work less?
Nope!
"We find no evidence that people love doing nothing. This stereotype is not supported by research on basic income – or any other research."
New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈
Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy
A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.
Accidentally downloaded Daren Acemoglu’s CV
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2025 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution. Methodologically it will cover theory and experiments in the field and in the laboratory. In addition to these lectures, participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own research to the whole group. There will also be a panel discussion by the Summer School lecturers. Opportunities will also be available for work and discussion in informal groups that might lead to collaborative research efforts among the participants. The working language of the Summer School is English.
Call for applications for the 2025 Max Planck Summer School on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution.
Organisers: Kai A. Konrad @maxplanck.de, Dan Kovenock (ChapmanUni), Dominic Rohner @gvagrad.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
Deadline: 31/3/25
👉 cepr.org/events/max-p...
#EconSky 📈📉
Who Decides Matters: Female Representation and Academic Career Advancement: Marianna Brunetti; Annalisa Fabretti; Mariangela Zoli
Curious about Econ & Gender. Check out this session Sat 12:30pm at the Marker Hotel (location currently wrong in the #Assa2025 app) with work by @econprachi.bsky.social @bilgeerten.bsky.social and chaired by @olgashurchkov.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
Timely for the New Year, @theatlantic.com wrote about our findings on the detrimental consequences of Walmart Supercenter openings on poverty across the United States (with @zparolin.bsky.social Clemente Pignatti, Rafael Pintro Schmitt). #econsky
www.theatlantic.com/...
The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
I am very excited to share my #JMP with you all, which is titled:
"Unequal Access: How Public #Library Closures Affect Educational Performance". 📚
Together with Gregory Gilpin, I look at public library closures and how the loss of these public spaces impacts children in the United States. 1/5
🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨
Lucia Ruggera, @elinakilpi.bsky.social & @janierola.net show that for cohorts 1951-1980 educational inequalities have decreased for both men and women in Finland while returns to education only decreased for men, not women.
Open access 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
#sociology #econsky
New Orleans students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, credited with solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, have discovered nine more solutions to the problem
Thanks to Monica Essig Aberg (who I can’t find on here) posted the gender stats for new Econ PhD Cohorts. You can see who is more balanced vs less and live updates on this google doc #econsky 📈📉
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Finding an economically moderate, statistically significant degree of aggregate capital-skill complementarity by combining an aggregate model with detailed micro-data from France, from Giuseppe Berlingieri, Filippo Boeri, Danial Lashkari, and Jonathan Vogel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33000
