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Stephen P. Jenkins
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Applied economist and quantitative generalist. Professor of Economic & Social Policy, LSE. 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 All views expressed are my own.

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 2d
We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team.

They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to research & research leadership in the new School.

Apply by 9 February 2026: bit.ly/4j6UMQ4

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6d
#EconSky
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Historical Supplemental Poverty Measure Use it for good link to blog post The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is an invaluable resource for examining poverty in the United States. However, the Census Bureau only releases SPM data back to the 2010 CPS ASEC. Fortunately, researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy (CPSP) have compiled the data necessary to extend SPM back to 1968, and partnered with IPUMS to make these historical SPM data available via IPUMS CPS. Read our latest blog post to learn more about how CPSP created the historical measures and their “anchored” poverty variables.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 6d
📣 New III working paper:

This paper uses a survey experiment embedded in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) for Luxembourg to show how provision of information influences elicited support for inheritance taxation.

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European Association of Labour Economists @eale-office.bsky.social · 6d
⏰ February 1 = submission deadline!
The deadline for the EALE 2026 Conference is approaching fast.
Time to submit your paper 📄

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 7d
Public Service Announcement:

🚨New updated version (1.0.2) of -lpdid- STATA command now available🚨

Update the command by typing
ssc install lpdid, replace
directly in STATA

Then look at the updated help file
help lpdid

See below for the key new features...

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 7d
How have different approaches to incorporating high-income populations into household surveys been implemented in practice? A forthcoming chapter by Nora Lustig and Andrea Vigorito, along with this WP companion piece, provides a comprehensive analytical survey on the subject.
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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 7d
Olympia Bover has been appointed president of the Catalan Statistics Council
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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work?

In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread.

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Paolo Brunori @paolobrunori.bsky.social · 8d
3rd Opportunity & Mobility research grant at III LSE. Join us for a visiting period! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities Visiting PhD Grant
Spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute. This visiting period assists doctoral researchers in their own research, and connects them with a network of academic contacts.
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 8d
A useful lesson I was taught too late was that someone in a Dept warns you off applying for something (which happened to me several times), don't necessarily give up. That is only 1 person , with some agenda. There will be others on the appointments committee with different agendas.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8d
People saying ‘I didn’t get the job because …’ I’ve been on very many hiring and grant committees. Each committee member has their own reasons. All that can be said is you didn’t get the job/grant because more committee members preferred another applicant. Then a reason is made up for the form.

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Bouke Klein Teeselink @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 PhD Opportunity on the Economics of AI 🚨

I'm recruiting a fully funded 3.5-year PhD student to study how generative AI is transforming UK labour markets!

This position is a unique collaboration between King's College London and the AI Security Institute.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9d
Heirs of wealthy parents reduce work.

"On average, these labor supply responses are large, with $1 of unearned income from inheritance reducing earnings by 11 to 31 cents under our preferred assumptions."
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Parental Death, Inheritance, and Labor Supply in the United States December 2025 Written by: ELIF TASAR AND JOHN VOORHEIS Working Paper Number: CES-25-71 Abstract We are the first to study how inheritances affect labor supply in the U.S. using large-scale administrative data. Leveraging federal tax and Social Security records, we estimate event studies around parental death to investigate impacts on adult children. Our results indicate that the death of a last parent causes sizable gains in investment income—our main proxy for inheritances—and proportionate reductions in labor supply. On average, annual per-adult investment income at the tax unit level increases by about $300 (45 percent) and annual per-adult wage earnings decrease by $600 (2 percent). These earnings responses are large relative to the implied wealth transfer. Income effects are the dominant channel through which parental death reduces earnings, with children of wealthier parents exhibiting larger earnings reductions. Over six years, inheritances slightly equalize the distribution of investment income.

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Alex Bogdan @alexbgd.bsky.social · 10d
A lot to agree with in here. (More?) proof that Labour's strategy isn't working is this chart I've shared before from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social. Labour are losing voters to both the left and right, and it's getting worse. They were holding on to 54% of their 2024 voters in June, 50% Sept, 40% Nov.

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Renee Reichl Luthra @rrluthra.bsky.social · 10d
#AcademicJobs MiSoC looking for a social scientist to examine how emerging technologies like generative AI transform educ, work, health. Also welcome applications from data scientists who can apply innovative methods— like LLMs—to advance social science research vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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