We started Malengo Inc. in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n

#Jobalert #SpreadTheWord I'm looking for a #PhD student in #economics excited to work on a large project on intergenerational mobility in Switzerland. For details and application, go to: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Killer chart from "women and men at work" paper at today's Institute for Fiscal Studies inequality conference: no evidence that couples choose to maximise hh earnings once children born. Rather they "choose" to max the man's earnings... #changegendernorms

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me for 2 years Harvard Kennedy School thnx to generous funding from the Bloomberg Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Official job posting not up yet but please tell anyone you know who might be interested to email me! APSA Urban Politics #psjminfo

Now open: Registration for the #InequalityConf 2024! Come to beautiful Lake Constance to gain insights into the latest state of #inequality research, expand your network and listen to exciting keynote speeches. Register here: inequality-conference.de #EXCInequality Universität Konstanz

I am hiring a #postdoc to work on curriculum development and research related to Sustainable Cities and Equitable Societies. Please see description and instructions to apply. And please feel free to share with your networks! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job…

Richest five families in Florence 🇮🇹 from 1427 are still the richest today (archival data). Not only the top shows persistence. Any family who was in the (1427) top third is almost certain to still be there today. Likely many Florences out there Paper in Review of Econ Studies

Immer die gleiche Schlagzeile. Und immer haben die Interviewten keine Daten, nur ein Bauchgefühl. Wir haben dazu vor geraumer Zeit versucht, Daten zu erheben. 3425 Professorinnen und Professoren haben wir angefragt. Cancel Culture haben wir nicht gefunden: tagesanzeiger.ch/existiert-eine…

66% of young people in Greater Boston want state and local leaders to make availability and affordability of housing their top priority according to a recent Boston Chamber survey that also showed only 38% are “very likely” to stay in the next 5-years.

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**New Paper** The US spent $6.3 billion dollars to revitalize hundreds of public housing projects between 1993-2010. Did these investments transform high-poverty neighborhoods into mixed-income communities? Did subsidized renters benefit? #EconTwitter matthewstaiger.github.io/matthewstaiger…

What can cities do to promote acceptance of #densification? A new white paper by ETH SPUR shows what Swiss residents are more likely to accept - and what this means for planning practice & local policy. brnw.ch/21wIG2N #UrbanPlanning David Kaufmann @WickiMichael

Trending in #Geography: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors (EPE: Nature and Space) 2) Creating inequality in access to public transit (E&P B: Urban Analytics and City Science) 3) Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures & urban informality in Pakistan (Society & Space) 4)

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

Doing research on Airbnb or other short-term rental platforms? David Wachsmuth and I are co-editing a special issue of Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social on the research-regulation interface of short-term rentals. See link below for more details. Abstracts due 1st October. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

📢Looking for 2 PostDocs and 1 PhD researcher for my European Research Council (ERC) project POLMIG: the positions will be for four years, based in Freiburg ABIFreiburg with research in 🇬🇭🇰🇪🇲🇼🇱🇷. Job ads available here arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call-a… Deadline 27th December

I had a great time discussing my paper co-authored with Simon Büchler with Shane Phillips and Paavo Monkkonen on the UCLA Housing Voice Podcast! You can find the episode on Spotify or in the link below: lewis.ucla.edu/2024/12/11/83-…

‼️Hiring ‼️ 2 (!) positions in my group at IPZ - Political Science UZH Universität Zürich in Zurich 📣1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international & friendly department with excellent working conditions

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, an longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today