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

"Counting the true toll of the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand". NZ excess mortality 0-2%, while it was 10% in UK & 11% in US. The elimination strategy & border controls allowed NZers to vaccinate, thus helping to keep the pandemic toll down till 2024. thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-07-…

I am delighted that starting today, I am Deputy Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, as Helen Miller becomes Director. Looking forward to working even more with my fantastic colleagues to help IFS succeed and deliver rigorous and impactful research on key policy issues facing the UK.

New research from the NEWS project on income and poverty from 2016-2021 Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty. Release at census.gov/data/experimen…, interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html

This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join Nuffield College as a Professorial Fellow. inet.ox.ac.uk/news/zach-paro…

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The ONS will continue to operate the Secure Research Service indefinitely, providing secure access to data for accredited researchers in partnership with ADR UK. The Integrated Data Service is not accepting new applications for external research.

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Pleased to report that I'm now a Research Fellow at Rockwool Foundation Berlin rfberlin.com and look forward to contributing to their agendas ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin LSE LSE Social Policy

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) were large, nationally representative surveys conducted in over 90 lower- and middle-income countries around the world. They provided core information such as birth and mortality rates, which are otherwise poorly recorded in many

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I'm delighted too! LSE LSE Social Policy STICERD

Are you an African economist living in Africa? We have funding available for African speakers attending the March 2026 CSAE Conference in Oxford, UK, and the CSAE Workshop in Addis Ababa Dec 2025, Ethiopia. Deadline 3 August csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-conferenc…

Thoughtful piece mainly macro: Delusions on the Left and Labour Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/delusi…

What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, Yifan Qian, Dakota Murray, Ben Jones & Chaoqun Ni 1/n

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for those considering applying. jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. By incorrectly asserting that the data are biased, President Trump is undermining