My inaugural lecture is now publicly available online if you are interested in my research into how we can improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people (including a little about my own social mobility journey)
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBbC...
We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199
🎓 We are thrilled to host the next #Equalitas Workshop at @ucm.es on April 23–24!
Sharing knowledge is essential for advancing the field.
With over 30 attendees, 3 specialized sessions, and 2 keynote speakers (@pedrotrivin.bsky.social & Mariña Fernández-Salgado), we are ready for a deep dive.
📢 We are hiring a Professor / Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Time Use Research.
We seek an internationally recognised scholar with a strong record of academic leadership.
Post available from January 2027.
Check out: timeuse.org for more information.
The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford).
▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, Janet Gornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor.
🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May.
Join us in Oxford! Details here: atkinsonconference.github.io
"I will be concerned with model fitting rather than with common sense." an ice cold, all time banger
The announcement is up for for the Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality: September 10th and 11th at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Submissions are due by 22 May 2026; decisions will be communicated by 8 June 2026. The call is here:
atkinsonconference.github.io
We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199
50 years ago Singh & Maddala published this influential paper on statistical models for long-tailed distributions (income, healthcare costs, …), known often as Burr-Singh-Maddala distributions (SM acknowledge Burr (1942) in their paper).
www.jstor.org/stable/1911538
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_di...
The Roma Tre Department of Law seeks to hire two postdoctoral researchers working on income and #wealth distribution/taxation, the economics of climate transition, and the redistributive effects of public policies.
Great job, great team, great city. What's not to to like?!
@morellisal.bsky.social
Kudos to Salvatore Morelli and his tremendous team, at both Roma Tre and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for their incomparable contribution to #wealth research.
@morellisal.bsky.social @ignacioflores.bsky.social @smaexie.bsky.social @severinrapp.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social and many more.
Join us for a special presentation by Bruce D. Meyer 📢
He will discuss the results of new studies on the extent of poverty and homelessness in the United States - and how this compares to public perceptions.
💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/ShSgvWf
🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/0oUKQap
NEW JOB AD -
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS -
(“Drivers and consequences of rising economic inequality”)
2 positions (Deadline May 17 2026)
sites.google.com/site/salvato...
We're hiring!
@ineq-wu.bsky.social (@wuvienna.bsky.social) is looking for a Pre-Doc Researcher to study wage inequality using Austrian administrative microdata alongside @lukaslehner.bsky.social and me.
Details and application:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Project-staf...
🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc
- 3 years fully funded, no teaching
- 25K research budget
- fame and prestige
EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!)
sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...
Publishing Social Sciences with Nature Portfolio Journals
An event jointly organized by the London Inequality Network and UCL CNET
📍 UCL
🗓️ 12 May, 16:00
👉 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...
If you’re a PhD student considering careers beyond academia, join us on 6 May for 'How to Prepare for the Job Market in the Outside World'.
Gain practical insights on pathways, skills & positioning your research for roles beyond academia.
Register here: bit.ly/4em7Ctu
Every reference to 'welfare' ever should have 'including pensions' or 'excluding pensions' in parentheses next to the word.
All interviewers/articles should clarify at first use whether the word includes or excludes. Interviews should be stopped if unclear.
Because frankly it's getting tedious.
Economics is so screwed.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. @dlmillimet.bsky.social and I (and others who may out themselves) have had a very hard time publishing applied econometrics papers because econometrics journals want asymptotics and/or prefer to publish replications instead of applied innovations.
Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...
Sign up for our brand new IFS-cemmap training course on 'Difference-in-differences in depth: A field guide to modern methods' with Jonathan Shaw.
📅 8-10 June 2026 | In-person | UCL Economics Department
More info and book here: ifs.org.uk/events/diffe...
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June.
We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...
🔔 Postdoc vacancies 🔔
A project co-led by our academic, Udit Bhatia, is advertising for two postdocs (four-year positions).
➡️ A third post will be advertised in 2027. The positions will assist with work on popular government in the Global South
popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...
The call for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social, also with the support of ISPI, is now open! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15).
bit.ly/4ma5k2H
NEW: Thomas Biegert, Michael Kühhirt, Wim Van Lancker, "There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024)." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
This paper estimates the causal impact of Brexit on migrant employment in the United Kingdom using a synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID) framework. We construct a counterfactual trajectory for the UK based on a weighted combination of comparable European economies and compare post-referendum outcomes to this benchmark. Rather than analysing migration flows, which are subject to substantial revision and comparability issues, we focus on employment stocks of foreign-born workers using administrative payroll data. We find that Brexit led to a large compositional shift in migrant labour supply and a modest change in its overall size. Employment of EU-origin workers declined substantially relative to the counterfactual following the 2016 referendum and the subsequent end of free movement. However, this decline was more than offset by a sharp increase in employment among non-EU workers after the introduction of the post-Brexit immigration system in 2021. By 2024, total foreign-born employment is about 0.6% higher than in the absence of Brexit. Brexit did not reduce migrant labour supply as widely expected, but instead reconfigured its composition, and highlight the interaction between migration policy and labour demand.
New @iza.org Working Paper, with @johnspringford.bsky.social docs.iza.org/dp18478.pdf "The Impact of Brexit on UK Immigration and Labour Supply: Evidence from Synthetic Differences in Differences"
These are very good rules: