Rashford forced the government to feed impoverished kids, and earned a spot in the starting XI at one of the most prestigious football clubs in the world. What have you done with your life?

Annika Bacher JMP: "Housing and Savings Behavior across Family Types" Website: sites.google.com/view/annikabac…

Dropping a new Stata package on #joy plots or #ridgeline plots: ssc install joyplot, replace and then just: joyplot y x, over(variable) where "y" is the variable, "x" is the time dimension, and "over" is the group. #dataviz #stataviz

Dalila Figueiredo JMP: "The Effect of a Conditional Cash Transfer on Child Marriage: Evidence from Mexico" Website: sites.google.com/view/dalilafig…

Alaitz Ayarza-Astigarraga JMP: "Determinants of Migration Choices: The Role of Beliefs about Pecuniary and Nonpecuniary Outcomes" Website: alaitzayarza.com

Zheng Wang JMP: "The linking effect: causal identification and estimation of the effect of peer relationship" Website: zhengwangeconomics.com

Pretty astonishing chart here for the UK.

These charts are absolutely devastating. ft.com/content/b2154c…

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Italian police removing EUI Refugee Initiative posters that read "Refugees Welcome" from the EUI community board #SOU2023

It’s honestly delusional to think this in the context of the UK. Pensioners incomes exceed working people’s incomes across the distribution and they have vastly more household wealth, which broadly manifests as lower expenses.

It won’t be coming home then. I’ll tell the children.

As mobs attempt to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers, don't forget Nigel Farage led a campaign to publicise these hotels. He recorded himself turning up at a series of them in 2020 and asked his followers to identify more hotels, saying some residents "might be ISIS".

Me after presenting my research

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The editors at the Guardian fail to control their anti-expert journalists who are years behind the research Phineas spruiks misinformation that Croydon has gotten more expensive despite more supply.

A great speech by George Osborne - we're on the right track & we'll fix the roof when the sun is shining.