Zachary Parolin & colleagues at Columbia have created, and are using, *monthly* poverty estimates. This remarkable innovation, a complement to our longstanding annual estimates, will potentially change poverty scholarship in the US in the years to come. Zach Parolin ColumbiaSocialWork

For all your international parental leave policy comparison needs -- the annual review of leave policies is now online :) #parentalleave

“commonly used simple mediation approaches that ignore racialized moderation processes overestimate—by between 5% and 30%—the collective roles of socioeconomic status and stressors in accounting for racial inequities in health.” Impt new work! read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

My book w/ Erik Schneiderhan is OUT TODAY! 🥳 We look at why+how people try to raise money online for basic needs, and find that services like GoFundMe fail most of their users while touting themselves as cures to today's affordability crises. ✨Get it 20% off Stanford Press!✨

A person, by virtue of living in Alberta, does not pay more into CPP than other Canadians. That same person does not receive less out of CPP by virtue of living in Alberta. The whole "Albertans are subsidizing other people's pensions" shtick is pretty tiresome.

This is shocking. I mean, who would've "thunk" it? -- Giving people money who don't have money would be a solution. And here I am, over here thinking that marriage was the solution. 🤔

Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same

This is a really important point from Rachel Reeves - insecurity fundamentally limits people's ability to make longer term plans & work towards them As well as informing an approach to work, this insight needs to shape the adequacy & reliability of our social security system

📢 Finally available world-wide: 𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬: 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 @ThomStubbs and I document the impact of 40 years of IMF-mandated austerity policies on the Global South. What do we find?🧵

#hiring we are looking for a data scientist interested in mapping/geotag/web scraping to work with me and Nicoletta Balbo Dondena Centre on the automatic mapping of services for disabled child in Italy. Length: 6 month (with possible extensions). Deadline Oct 23rd. Link 👇

Be sure to catch recent PhD graduate Dr. Matthew Parbst’s (Matt Parbst) feature on the JHSB podcast. Parbst discusses an article co-authored with Prof Blair Wheaton about welfare spending, SES, and mental health journals.sagepub.com/page/hsb/podca…

Impressive evidence of the effectiveness of Ottawa's Canada-wide early learning & childcare plan in today's fall fiscal update. The cost parents pay for childcare has fallen dramatically. 1/2

Social determinants of health Progress of the World Report on Social Determinants of Health Equity apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…

We're not Number 1:

State policies play an increasingly salient role in healthcare inequality in the US. Learn more about state policies’ impacts on health by #race and #legalstatus in our recent publication in Social Science & Medicine: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iS8f-CmV1SP2 Tatiana Padilla & @areysoc 2024

@ehnheart @cancereu ENSP @aoecs European Cancer Organisation European Chronic Disease Alliance - ECDA EFA Patients @EUneurology EKHA European Liver Patients' Association Health deserves a prominent position within the EU budget, with explicit backing in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The principles of the Economy of Wellbeing should be followed by the new EU institutions to enhance the health of individuals, the planet & the economy.

The Prime Minister says: we have reduced child poverty by hundreds of thousands. Please look at this graph of destitution. Most important is the problem - the steep rise in destitution - but also important is trying to say that it doesn't exist.