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The collective volume Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities - A Study of 50 Democracies 1950-2024 coedited with Amory Gethin & Clara Martinez-Toledano is now available in Greek, incl new chapter on Greece with Panos Tsoukalis wpid.world wid.world/news-article/p…

Four activists, including my 22yo cousin, have been sentenced to 4 YEARS for 'conspiracy to cause a public nuisance'. This sentence, considered widely disproportionate by many experts and the UN, is the longest ever given in the UK. Please support them 👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…

So excited to start my new position in the United St... Oops no, the French postal service lost my passport 😂

More unequal or not as rich?🤔 Our paper with Mauricio De Rosa and Ignacio Flores is out in World Development We reconcile micro and macro datasets to re-examine how growth was really distributed in Latin America and how we should narrate inequality stats sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨Job alert🚨 With Clara Martínez-Toledano we are looking for a part-time research assistant for a project on the relationship between inflation and political attitudes. Profile: living in the UK + good knowledge of Stata. If interested shoot us an email with your CV before September 25th!

Grateful for the opportunity to discuss my work on education, global poverty, and gender inequality in this VoxEU column 👇

Please share: we are looking for a research assistant for a project on protests and political attitudes with Vincent Pons. The position is paid, with flexible location. Please send me a short email and CV if interested! #econtwitter Econ RA Listings

Our aim is to provide a regular venue for overseas-based & local researchers to present & engage with frontier research. We will also have a session for local PhD students. For 2024 ad-hoc workshop, please submit papers/abstracts by 18 October. Details: saldru.uct.ac.za/2024/10/03/sal…

#EndPovertyDay: Time to rethink how we measure poverty. There is a recurrent debate on the need for higher poverty lines. The problem is not the PL but the measure. A 🧵! Max Roser Jason Hickel Josh Merfeld, Kate Raworth Charles Kenny Jostein Hauge Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 #EconTwitter

🚨Job Market Paper Alert 🚨 A significant part of inequality stems from market forces beyond individual control - what we call *market luck*. In meritocratic societies, this raises a key question: Do people perceive these inequalities as fair? Read on to learn more. 👇 [1/14]

Our paper on "Electoral Turnovers" with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet is now forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies ! Full thread on what we do and find here: x.com/VinPons/status…

This is THE paper you should read on U.S. political realignment. Takeaway: the Democratic party has become the party of the higher educated entirely because of changes in party polarization (supply), not because of changes in people's beliefs (demand). 👇

🚀I'm on the job market! Curious how digital tech boosts productivity and efficiency but still faces adoption barriers? Digital payments are powerful tools, yet data observability can be a double-edged sword. My JMP takeaways on the World Bank blog ! 🙂👇blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Very honored to receive the First Prize in Economics for the best PhD among Parisian universities! Congratulations to Georgia Thebault and to many other laureates across all sciences and humanities 👏

Private returns to schooling can explain 60-70% of real income gains among the world’s poorest individuals. Increased female #education accounts for around half of the increase in global #labour income accruing to #women. Amory Gethin ow.ly/AZZf50ULQG0 #EducationDay

Very excited to participate to the Berkeley Stone Center Summer School on Inequality with a fantastic lineup of researchers from around the world. Come join us! Applications here 👇

Excited to present at the Harvard/MIT Development Seminar this Wednesday! I'll be in Cambridge until Friday evening, if you're in the area and interested in chatting about research feel free to reach out ☕️

Very happy to see this out in the IMF's Finance & Development Magazine. I discuss how education policy has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction in the decades to come 👇 imf.org/en/Publication…

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

It was a real pleasure to host the Stone Center Summer School on inequality UC Berkeley Wonderful to see so many talented students working on inequality! Special thanks to our amazing lecturers David Seim 🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇦 Claire Montialoux Clara Martínez-Toledano Morten N. Støstad Amory Gethin K Danesh & E Saez