What is the impact of heat on educational achievement? This new III working paper estimates the effect of cumulative heat exposure on standardised test scores for over 3.4 million Italian fifth-grade students across seven school years. 🔗 buff.ly/T02ufIS

Cumulative heat exposure reduces standardized test performance and widens educational inequality: evidence from Italy researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... @lelepicchio.bsky.social

📢 Job vacancy Join @centaxuk.bsky.social as their new communications and events officer. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering the external profile of the Centre. 🗓 Deadline: 21 June 🔗 centax.org.uk/job-vacancy-...

To what extent is a person's country of origin predictive of adult incomes in Europe? Our latest working paper employs data-driven methods to estimate inequality of opportunity for household disposable incomes. 🔗 buff.ly/CNaS9oU

Playing the birth lottery in Europe? Inequality predicted by ascriptive characteristics accounts 23 Gini points, the country where a person was born accounts for 64% of this inequality. New @lseinequalities.bsky.social WP with Ferreira, Salas-Rojo & Valentini researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Do technological advances complement human labour, boosting productivity and wages? Or do they lead to workers being displaced? Our latest blog post examines the net effect of technological change on wage growth – and who the winners and losers are. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Submit your full paper by April 12, 2026 to [email protected] for the workshop The Dynamics of Inequality: Long-Term Perspectives at the University of Florence, September 17–18, 2026.

Submit your paper by April 12th write to: [email protected]

How much of today's income inequality is inherited? 💰️ Most measures of intergenerational mobility focus on average outcomes. This III working paper proposes a new approach that captures differences across the entire income distribution. 🔗 buff.ly/zSL1fd1

📣 Vacancy Alert! The ENDOW project (Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality) is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Apply now: buff.ly/qFUwfj8 ❗ Deadline: 15 February 2026

A new online database includes comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries that cover 2/3 of the world population. The share of total inequality that is due to inherited circumstances ranges from 19% (Denmark) to 77% (South Africa). stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

📢 New Research associate position at @liser.lu @liser-lc.bsky.social 👉 FT, 26 months, competitive wage 👉 Starts March 2026. 👉 quantitative skills, large-scale surveys and admin data 👉 Opportunity to develop own research agenda. Apply: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur... ✨Deadline: January 15, 2026

Looking forward to the 20th edition in 2027! Thanks for the incredible organization. The magic of the Canazei Winter School happened again!

If you are interested in understanding inequalities this is a brilliant workshop that can be attended online. Follow the link to register! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 New III working paper: Victoria Hünewaldt and @paolobrunori.bsky.social contribute to the growing evidence that inequality is often misperceived, and that personal experience plays a more significant role than objective conditions in shaping beliefs and attitudes toward it. 🔗 buff.ly/2pi2sZ9

3rd Opportunity & Mobility research grant at III LSE. Join us for a visiting period! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Pranab Bardhan has published his conversation with III Director Francisco Ferreira 💬 They discuss the Latin American political economy, and the historically high levels of economic inequality in the region. Read the full piece here ⬇️

📣 Call for applications for the Nineteenth Doctorate Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT19) The School provides the opportunity to discuss issues concerning the topic 'Inequality and Big Challenges'. 📆 Apply by 27 November Further details here ⬇️

✨Winter School #IT19 ✨ 📢 @cesifo.org @dseunivr and @liser.lu are glad to announce the Nineteenth Winter School on #Inequality and #SocialWelfare Theory (#IT19): Inequality and Big Challenges. 👉January 6-10, 2026 👉Alba di Canazei 🏔️ IT 👉 Call: dse.univr.it/it/documents...

Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place. An article by our founder, Julian Richer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 Work with @hermwerf.bsky.social & @carlahaelermans.bsky.social as part of the @eui-eu.bsky.social team 🗓 Deadline: 24 November 2025 🎯 School career inequalities & policymaker engagement Start: Jan 2026 13 month contract Please share - more below

📢 Call for Papers for the 19th Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory! Submit by 27 November 2025 📆6-10 January 2026, Canazei Organized by the University of Verona, CESifo & @liser.lu featuring a selection of speakers Submit 👉 liser.lu/events/canaz... For info👉 www.ifo.de/w/ef33de33

How much inequality passes from generation to generation in Latin America? A new WP by Francisco Ferreira, @paolobrunori.bsky.social, @gneidhofer.bsky.social, @psalasr.bsky.social & Louis Sirugue finds that 30–50% of educational inequality and 46–66% of income inequality is inherited. bit.ly/4nR04Qq

STD for Jan.14th & 15th 2026! All invited to projects SPES & ToBe Research joint Final Conference in Bruxelles. Over the past three years, the projects have generated #novelframeworks, #tools, and evidence, bridging the gap between #productivity, #environmentalsustainability, and #socialfairness.

📣 Our 2025 annual report is now online! This report highlights our work over the past year, which continues to shape debates, inform policy, and foster collaborations across disciplines and national borders. Read it now ⬇️ buff.ly/XWCHaYM

📣 Vacancy alert: We are seeking to recruit a Research Officer (post-doctoral researcher) for a 24-month period to conduct original research on topics related to inequality, intergenerational mobility, and inequality of opportunity. Apply by 20 November ⬇️ buff.ly/M23KHL9

📆 Upcoming III seminar: Join us on 11 November, as Louis Sirugue provides a meta-analysis of intergenerational income mobility around the world. 💻 Attend online: buff.ly/ELpNRMY 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/ONQn6aR

📣 New III working paper: Javier Olivera, Christian Breunig, @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, Patrick Dumont and Maj-Britt Sterba compare the “mental maps” of redistribution among politicians and citizens across seven parliaments. 🔗 buff.ly/VJM2ICl

Join the OM team @lseinequalities.bsky.social 2-year post-doc on Mobility and Opportunity. Apply by Nov. 20th. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Don't forget to submit your Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science application this weekend❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Applications close 26 October 🚨

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

Deadline approaching - November 3! Two postdoc positions at the GC-CUNY @stone-lis.bsky.social center in New York City. One position is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth #inequality. Info and link below. #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky 👇👇👇 bit.ly/40TZR6J

📣 We're hiring! We are looking for a Communications Manager to create, implement, and lead on all aspects of the AFSEE programme’s communications strategy. Deadline: 4 November 2025 (23:55 pm) More information on the vacancy and how to apply: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #vacancy #HEJobs

Tenure-track assistant prof post in LSE's Department of Social Policy: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic... . "Outstanding candidates whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in international social and public policy, are invited to apply. ..."

New OECD report on inequality of opportunity is out www.oecd.org/content/dam/... Happy to see that OECD consider our approach to inequality of opportunity estimation to be useful.

How to make inequality of opportunity measurement more credible by accounting for model uncertainty, from Giovanni Bernardo, Steven N. Durlauf, Andros Kourtellos, and Chih Ming Tan https://www.nber.org/papers/w34163

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

What accounts for he puzzling decline of #polarisation of opportunity in the US? @paolobrunori.bsky.social, Vanesa Jordá and @psalasr.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social.

“While inequality of opportunity measures the degree of ‘unfair’ inequality, it doesn’t capture how much circumstances group individuals into distinct social categories – the polarization of opportunity” – @paolobrunori.bsky.social, Vanesa Jordá & @psalasr.bsky.social buff.ly/UowXBQ9

Today’s inequality is inequality of opportunity for the next generation. The equalization of occupational status and educational in the 50s and 60s limited the growth of inequality of opportunity in the United States. Joint with @psalasr.bsky.social & Vanesa Jordà blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Incredible environment, outstanding participants, and flawless organization! The @ucstonecenter.bsky.social Summer School at IPEA, Brasília co-organized with @lseinequalities.bsky.social was a brilliant deep dive into research on inequalities. A truly immersive and inspiring experience!

Proud of the media coverage by @economist.com of the paper co-authored with Chico Ferreira and Guido Neidhofer on inherited inequality in Latin America www.economist.com/the-americas... the original paper they refer to can be downloaded here: doi.org/10.1093/ooec... @lseinequalities.bsky.social

Gov Newsom: “This is a manufactured crisis…This is not about immigration enforcement; this is about authoritarian tendencies. This is about command & control; it's about power; about ego. My way or the highway...It is a serious moment under the guise of immigration, but it is much deeper than that.”

Great second edition of INTEDU in stunning Modena! Many thanks to Fabrizio Patriarca, Bianca Balsimelli Ghelli, and Giovanni Gallo for the excellent organization!

The legacy of years of equalization in the US after WWs is still visible today and continues to limit the rise of inequality and polarization. If this trend isn't reversed, things will worsen within a generation. We show this in EL with @psalasr.bsky.social and Vanesa Jorda doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

High ocean temperatures are causing Arctic sea ice volume to be very low compared to earlier years. The image shows volume through April 26, 2025. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/04/reco...

7 maggio | Ore 16:30 Università di Roma Tre Public lecture di Brian Nolan (University of Oxford). Al centro: la povertà infantile e la sua persistenza intergenerazionale in Europa, Italia compresa. Registrazione (consigliata non obbligatoria): bit.ly/4m0l8of

Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...