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

📣 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. 🔗 buff.ly/vdhkEFR

#EconSky blog.popdata.org/multigenerat...

Golden opportunity for anyone interested in labor markets, inequality, orgs in the US context

⏰ February 1 = submission deadline! The deadline for the EALE 2026 Conference is approaching fast. Time to submit your paper 📄

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. bit.ly/4qmKQ7H

Olympia Bover has been appointed president of the Catalan Statistics Council www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

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...

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. 1/

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

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.

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.

🚨 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.

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc at LISER!! Join a vibrant research institute and an amazing group of researchers. You will be part of the Crossing Borders team, focusing on migration, which will be led by Andre Groeger. Please share widely! 🙏 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... Three reasons to apply 👇

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." www.census.gov/library/work...

#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...

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.

Applications are still open to join the IFS for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in collaboration with the Administrative Fairness Lab. 📊 Find out more and apply here by midnight, Sunday 4 January 2026: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

This evening sees the earliest sunset in London. After today the evenings start getting lighter. The mornings continue to get darker until the latest sunrise on 30 December. Winter solstice is at 15:03 on 21 December, which will be the shortest day. www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_suns...

In 2025 this youthy conference was fantastic 👇🏼 for 2026 #Econsky

NEW: Cuts to non-health-related benefits caused increases in disability benefit claims, our new report finds. 📗 Jonathan Cribb, @heidikarj.bsky.social, @eduinlatimer.bsky.social, Sam Ray-Chaudhuri and Tom Waters examine the impact of four cuts to benefits in the 2010s [THREAD:🧵]:

We are hiring a Professor of Public Policy @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

@theifs.bsky.social is looking for a new Associate Director to lead its healthcare programme. If you are an outstanding economist with research interests in any part of health economics, please apply! The IFS is a fantastic place to do excellent, impactful research with exceptional colleagues.

Great having you with us, Salvatore! Your impressive work on inheritance and wealth inequality, from the collection of new data and stylised facts to methodological innovations that improve its measurement, will, I am sure, continue to profoundly influence the inequality debate in the years to come!

#EconJobMarket ✨Meet Pallavi Prabhakar, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen. 🕵️‍♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics 📘JMP: Bottom Up Accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India 🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...

Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity #ECPRMemberJobs 🔬 Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies 🏫 @univie.ac.at ⌛ Wednesday 10 December buff.ly/18VsfvH #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

NEW ANALYSIS: Today the Government announced its new Child Poverty Strategy. But what might it mean for the outlook for child poverty in this Parliament, and how does it compare to progress on reducing child poverty in recent decades? New RF analysis answers these questions....

The Max Weber Institute of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg is seeking a full professor in sociology with a special focus on theory who connects well with the departments comparative focus. The deadline is December 8th, you can find the call www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Hello and welcome to all our new followers 👋 To ensure you're getting all the best analysis and insights, we've made a starter pack of all our staff on Bluesky. Make sure to give them a follow too ⤵️ go.bsky.app/5Anuz76

📢 Book launch this evening In his latest book, @alanmanning4.bsky.social makes the case that while immigration policy will never satisfy everyone, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done much better. Join Alan, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social & @stephenkb.bsky.social to discuss Register👉 buff.ly/0jtepcy

We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates! apply.interfolio.com/173456

'I don't think welfare spending is out of control. I think there is almost a moral panic about the level of welfare spending. If we look at the working-age benefit bill, it hasn't changed much over decades, if you look it as a fraction of national income.' @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social #c4news

Today in the US it is the day of Thanksgiving. This is the opportunity to thank all the volunteers who help index publications in RePEc, edit NEP reports, send corrections to EDIRC, amend Genealogy records, or edit Biblio topics. RePEc would not exist without them. repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

💡 Research spotlight: Our SOUTHMOD team is strengthening policy capacity across Latin America. This year, the team have delivered specialised training for government partners in Bolivia, as well as Ecuador’s National Statistical Institute (INEC). More on p.36 ⬇️ buff.ly/SQaN1zl

Thanks, John. Marc and I thought this was an important paper to write. It was an issue that has long bothered both of us. Hopefully it helps applied peeps think a bit more carefully about their model.

interesting paper on ye olde fixed effects estimator onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

RF are pro MW, but we agree it's 2nd order to benefits in tackling poverty. Big fight with Osborne over that re tax credit cuts in 2015. One example: a 2-earner 3-kid family on MW wld have been *worse* off in 2024 than 2014 despite real earnings up 27% www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

New post: If disability benefits spending is flat, then welfare spending is probably going down - Some figures to have to hand when looking through the Budget inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...

In our Department seminar last week, Professor Thomas Hale (University of Oxford) examined the politics of climate change. With long-term goals in mind, he outlined strategies for tilting the politics and policies of climate change toward better outcomes. 🎙️ Catch up here:

🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL723/l...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

Come and do a PhD at the #EUI! We are five professors in sociology, within the department of Political and Social Sciences. Social stratification, education, family demography, analytical sociology, experimental sociology, it’s all here!

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

✨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...

“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...

RePEc was created by economists for economists. If there is a way we can serve the community better, please do tell! repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Everybody loves brownfield-first. But where exactly should we densify our cities? And how? Our new report shows Britain's density gap is wider in the biggest cities outside London than in the capital - and the inner city 'urban cores' up to 5km out from the centre are to blame.