I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality. My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector. 🧵👇

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"Attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students' chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%"

1/3 PhD students: Apply to the Stone Center Summer Institute on Economic Inequality, led by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. July 7-10, 2026 at UC Berkeley. Work w/ leading researchers, present your ideas, dive into frontier inequality research. Travel, housing & meals covered.

A decade of reforms promised to curb financial secrecy, but have they delivered? Dive into the debate at our transparency conference. 2 days of engaging academic & policy discussions, featuring a keynote by Pascal Saint-Amans. 🗓️ 3–4 Feb 📍 Paris School of Economics Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/from-secrecy…

Pourquoi les chiffres de PIB par habitant ou de PIB par heures travaillées semblent si différent selon la source ou la personne qui les cite ? Une petite explication

Replacing hospital managers who are doctors with MBAs reduced mortality by 8%. That works out to two fewer deaths per every thousand patients. Managerial quality really does matter, and their pay is justified by the value created. 1/

Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

Depuis qq jours nous lisons que lorsque l’on corrige de l'⬆️ des prix, le niveau de vie aux US serait comparable à l’Europe (occidentale). Et que la productivité ne décroche pas. Mais qu'est ce que ça veut dire exactement ? Et quelle est la "bonne" mesure ? Un thread pédagogique.

"At least Hitler built the Autobahn..." Can successful infrastructure projects boost support for a dictatorship? Nico Voigtländer and I wrote a paper looking at the German experience: "Highway to Hitler". Here is a link to the ungated version: anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/nico.v…

California wants to tax billionaires 5%. But who are they actually taxing? We pulled Forbes 400 data: 90% of CA Forbes billionaire wealth is in tech + finance. Just 4 people (Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Huang) hold half the CA total. The rest of America's billionaires? Much more

1/ Multinationals shift hundreds of billions in profits to low-tax jurisdictions each year, but how do they do it? 🤔 Our latest WP by Kevin Parra Ramirez & Vincent Vicard takes a close look at #France to answer that question 👇 📄 taxobservatory.eu/publication/th…

Nombre de brevets "de rupture" par capita en Europe. Brevets EPO 2010-2019, méthodologie basée sur Kelly et al. AER Insight 2021

6 more days to apply to the UC Berkeley James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center Summer School on Inequality at Berkeley -- come join us! 👇👇👇

Aujourd'hui je suis très heureux (et un peu ému) de présenter le Laboratoire de l'Innovation et du Futur du Travail (LIFT). Il s'agit d'un nouveau laboratoire hébergé à HEC Paris Business School qui données et travaux sur l'innovation Lien : satraor.fr/_site/ Et description ci-dessous ⤵️

How effective are transparency innovations in curbing offshore tax evasion? We’re spending the next two days examining the latest evidence on illicit financial flows. 🎙️ Opening remarks by Gabriel Zucman. Can’t make it? Catch the full recording on our YouTube later this week!

1/ Big news! Today, we officially launch the International Tax Observatory (#ITO)🚀 Building on the foundation of the EUTO, we are expanding our mission to address global tax evasion, wealth concentration, illicit financial flows & the intersection of taxation & the environment.

🔎 Le secrétariat permanent du Haut Conseil des finances publiques a publié une note sur la sensibilité des principaux prélèvements obligatoires (PO) aux hypothèses macroéconomiques. Pour lire la note 📄 ➡ hcfp.fr/note/sensibili… Pour lire un résumé ⬇ 1/4 🧶

NTA is soliciting papers for presentation at the 2027 ASSA annual meeting to be held from January 3-5, 2027 in Washington, D.C. Submit by April 30, 2026 👉 cognitoforms.com/NTA1/_2027ASSA…

🤝 El secretario de Estado de Ministerio de Hacienda, Jesus Gascón, ha firmado un Memorando de Entendimiento con el director del International Tax Observatory, Gabriel Zucman, para colaborar en proyectos que ayuden a mejorar los sistemas tributarios. Aquí, todos los detalles: hacienda.gob.es/es-es/prensa/n…