Hi #EconTwitter, if you are a PhD or postdoc student interested in the #Economics of #Family or #Migration, feel free to submit your work 👇. We look forward to welcoming you at #IESEGIflame in Paris. 📢📢Deadline to submit: April 13th

For those working on inequality, a great opportunity for a research stay at LIS/LISER

Less than two weeks left to submit your paper to the 2025 ECINEQ conference in Washington DC. Keynote speakers Daron Acemoglu, Garance Genicot, Nora Lustig, and Debraj Rey. More information at ecineq.org/2024/12/08/cal…

Whether economics is a science is hotly debated. Nevertheless, I wish all my female colleagues and students a happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Today is the last day to apply! Inequality by the Numbers, our annual research workshop, will be held in person at the CUNY Graduate Center from June 9 to 13. See the link below!

Last day to apply for our one-years PhD grants. Aimed at PhD students in their final years, this grants allow you to spend a year at AMSE focusing exclusively on finalizing your papers. More information at amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/offres-empl…

📣📣 Short-term Part-time RA position at #SILab Dondena Centre Università Bocconi. Want to combine some research experience on inequality-related projects with your studies? Join us from September 2025. Call here jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=807 #Musa

Ahead of this summer’s Ecineq conference, there will be an online workshop for PhD students. Submit your papers!

Merci CNRS 🌍. C’est un honneur de recevoir la médaille d’argent. Thank you CNRS 🌍. It’s an honour to receive this recognition. Merci aussi à mes alma maters Murray Edwards College Corpus Christi College Oxford Nuffield College

What do we know about gender gaps in LIFETIME earnings? VoxEU has just published a note on my work with Bertrand Garbinti, Vladimir Pecheu and Frédérique Savignac on this question. Our analysis points out the factors that have slowed down the convergence of lifetime earnings.

Grateful to everyone who joined us yesterday, in person and virtually, for a powerful day of insights and debate on policy innovations to tackle economic inequality. The event opened with a thought-provoking debate on “Does Inequality Matter for Development?” featuring

Yesterday was the first day of the 2025 Ecineq conference, hosted by World Bank and GW University. Daron Acemoglu talked about new technologies - their distributive implications crucially depend on whether they increase only the average product of labour or also its marginal product.

On day two of the Ecineq conference, keynote lecture by Garance Genicot on measures of mobility. Her work asks whether there is a Great Gatsby curve and how the correlation between inequality and mobility depends on how we measure the latter.

On day three of the 2025 Ecineq conference Nora Lustig discussed the difficulties when measuring top incomes.

Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers! On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market. Apply by 15 August: rfberlin.com/event/rfberlin…

We all know how investments can "trickle down" and may help reduce income inequality. Branko Milanovic says we should also think about how increases in labour productivity "trickle up" with important consequences for distribution.

Congratulations to Kenza Elass for winning the Etta Chiuri best paper prize 👏

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr

Congratulations Philippe!

Another prize today - well desserved recognition of two innovative papers on gender by MɑriɑFernɑndɑ! ზ and Felix Rusche