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Reposted by Miles Corak, Patrick Präg

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Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
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The world has become dangerously dependent on American stocks, writes the former IMF chief economist
Gita Gopinath on the crash that could torch $35trn of wealth
The world has become dangerously dependent on American stocks, writes the former IMF chief economist
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The short and long run dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve: Battiston, Diego; Maurer, Stephan; Potlogea, Andrei; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Aaron Sojourner, Kimberly A. Clausing

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5 Immigrants To America Won 2024 And 2025 Nobel Prize In Economics www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
5 Immigrants To America Won 2024 And 2025 Nobel Prize In Economics
Five immigrants to America have been awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2024 and 2025; four of the five former international students.
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Stéphane Saussier

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The expansion of TV stations in the mid-twentieth-century led to more leisure and earlier retirement among older Americans, say researchers at @cmu.edu and the US Treasury. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
Entertainment technology and work behavior
How did the rollout of broadcast television during the mid-twentieth century affect labor supply decisions in the United States?
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by Miles Corak

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Canadian Peter Howitt among 3 Nobel winners in economics | CBC News
Canadian economist Peter Howitt is among a group of three researchers who won the Nobel memorial prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday.
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by Bruce Bradbury — Reposted by Miles Corak, Parliamentary Library

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I'll be talking about Australian poverty trends tomorrow:
Poverty trends since 1982 in Australia
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by Miles Corak

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...
In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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aeajournals.bsky.social
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test" by Niels Johannesen, Johan Sæverud, and Emmanuel Saez. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test
(Forthcoming Article) - We document strong behavioral responses to an asset test for an old-age support program in Denmark using comprehensive administrative data. We show that the density distributio...
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Mel Bartley, Dave O’Brien

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With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>
Workshop on
Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...
www.eui.eu
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by Miles Corak

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
Lauren Greenfield on the Sad, Dark Kingdom of the Rich
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Fab "Lunch with the FT" with none other than former USTR, Amb. Robert Lighthizer. Glad @aimewilliams.bsky.social got him on to the topic of economists...

1st 300 clicks free to read...

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by Joshua Gans — Reposted by Miles Corak

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I just received a rejection from a top journal and I am pleased. Let me explain as it is a testament to our system of peer review.
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by Benjamin Braun — Reposted by Miles Corak, Daniela Gabor, Ian Bruff , and 1 more

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If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.

Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 7d
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Reposted by Miles Corak

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Join us tonight @ 6:30p for a discussion of Mike Wallace’s acclaimed new book & his career chronicling Gotham. Res link in comments. Read the NYT review of Gotham at War: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...
These New Yorkers Hated Fascists Before It Was Cool
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Juan Cole, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Dani Rodrik

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In Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social presents new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

Publishing November 4. Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik. New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.
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My friend @lkatfield.bsky.social has a book coming out that I think is essential reading for everyone. A starred review in Publisher's Weekly called it a "formidable debut ... a meticulous and unsettling revelation of a right-wing plan for a 'new old-fashioned world.'"
Furious Minds
The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy
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My first column for The Guardian: On Trump's attempt to take over the Fed. He's taking a page out of Nixon's playbook: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump looks to Nixon’s playbook - good for him, bad for the economy?
History suggests that bullying the Fed for political gain can have serious consequences for the rest of us
www.theguardian.com
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Double header for the #uncommonspod today, joined by Kate Robertson (senior researcher at @citizenlab.ca U of T) and Adam Sadinsky (immigration & refugee lawyer) discussing Bill C-2's implications on surveillance, cross-border data sharing, and our asylum process.
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by Miles Corak — Reposted by Paul Makdissi

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Probably the best use to which a degree in economics was ever put!
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15d
On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show.
It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!"
For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day.
This is the story of The Friendly Giant!

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Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.
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Reposted by Miles Corak

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show.
It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!"
For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day.
This is the story of The Friendly Giant!

🧵 1/12
Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.
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For many Zohran Mamdani supporters and others on the far left, the misery of the 2008 financial crisis left a lasting impression on.wsj.com/46HXLbZ
The Rise of America’s Young Socialists—From the 2008 Financial Crisis to Mamdani
For many on the forefront of the far left, the misery of the economic meltdown left a lasting impression.
on.wsj.com
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by Miles Corak

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“… the government could devise a points system — similar to Canada’s — that would capture other desirable characteristics”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...
High-Skilled Visas Have Problems. Trump’s $100,000 Fee Won’t Fix Them.
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by Miles Corak

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This is David Leonhardt interview of Elizabeth Warren is worth a read

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
Opinion | ‘The Game Is Rigged’: Elizabeth Warren on America’s Next Story
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aeajournals.bsky.social
Forthcoming in the AER: "The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility" by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
(Forthcoming Article) - We construct a public atlas of mean outcomes in adulthood by childhood Census tract. Outcomes vary sharply across neighborhoods: for children whose parents earn $27,000, the st...
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Erica L. Groshen

No need to distort the data. Just don't collect it: Trump administration cancels an annual USDA survey on food insecurity. “This nonstatutory report became overly politicized ...was unnecessary to carry out the work of the Department,” a USDA spokesman said.
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
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by Miles Corak

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Yup, it will impact a lot of Canadians … I know that personally.
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by Miles Corak

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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
The Wealth Tax Plans That Are Roiling New York and Paris
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