Last week to apply! It's shaping up to be an exciting event on inequality, bringing together perspectives across disciplines and beyond academia. Researchers, policy experts, civil servants and others working on inequality are all welcome.

This is a really exciting time for @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working with colleagues @cep-lse.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social and @departmentforedu.bsky.social to co-design research that informs decision making for education policy and developing the next generation of education economists

Economic geographer? Come work with us. @lsegeography.bsky.social is hiring a Fellow in Economic #Geography: 2-year post, starts Sept 2026. Recent or soon-to-be PhDs in econ geography, #economics or related fields. £43,277–£55,497 inc. London allowance. Closes 31 May. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM347/l...

interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)

📢 Remember to submit your abstract to #ESPANET conference by 17 May. We continue with our popular stream (#10) "New perspectives on poverty and economic inequality" with @zparolin.bsky.social @sbeduk.bsky.social @danieledmiston.bsky.social More info: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/event/24t...

Applications are now open for the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellowship! This six-month fellowship is available to early career post-doctoral researchers with experience conducting research on South Asia in the social sciences. Apply by 30 June 2026 ⬇️ buff.ly/zDpQQwB

Applications are now open for the Subir Chowdhury Fellowship on Quality and Economics! This three-month fellowship is available to early career post-doctoral researchers with experience conducting research on Bangladesh and/or India in the social sciences. Apply by 30 June 2026 ⬇️ buff.ly/3Kbonuq

The need to address inequality has never been more urgent. Challenging Inequalities offers a road map for how we have arrived at such a perilous spot—and how we can change course to achieve better outcomes for all.

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

2 post-doc positions available -- come and join us. Accumulate CV-worthy teaching experience while also working on your research. (Applicants: as requested, be sure to write a proper cover letter showing how you meet the Criteria for the posts.)

This week's post: UK decline and stylised empirical facts mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/05/uk-d... Any story about low growth in UK living standards needs to account for the two or three decades when UK growth was comparable with other major economies.

The combination of earnings inequality and economic stagnation has led to the growing importance of wealth, and a decline in social mobility. Economic inequalities have also resulted directly in dangerous differences between regions and in political power across groups.

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

We’re hiring two LSE Fellows in Public Policy A two year career development role for early career scholars to teach on the MPP and contribute to LSE’s research community 📅 Deadline: 21 May Apply: https://www.jobs.lse.ac.uk #LSEPublicPolicy

Do Americans accept higher rates of inequality because of our belief in the American Dream? Leslie McCall (@stone-lis.bsky.social) wasn’t convinced, so she went looking for the data. Listen to @durlauf.bsky.social & McCall discuss her pioneering research on The Inequality Podcast: bit.ly/4ndv9z2

Only this week left to apply!

📣We're hiring!📣 If you have strong research skills and a commitment to raising living standards in the UK, you might be the right fit for our team. Find out more about becoming a Senior Economist or Research & Policy Analyst, or one of our other current vacancies⤵️ buff.ly/7MNZRR4

After the mass resignation from Journal of Economic Surveys over bad publisher terms, I could not imagine in a couple of years we would have **Reviews of Economic Literature** Non-profit. True OA. With @stanfordpress.bsky.social; 2 articles already up this year rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel

2/2 Camille Landais, Co‑Director of the new Centre said: “With support from the Stone Foundation, LSE can deepen our understanding of the nexus between wealth inequality and entrepreneurship.” The centre will be hosted by STICERD and will officially launch in Autumn 2026.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dr Liam Beiser‑McGrath on being awarded funding from LSE’s Global Sustainability Research Fund for his proposal, “Status Anxiety and the Green Backlash: Understanding Distributional Resistance to Climate Policy in Advanced Democracies.”

🚨We're hiring🚨 We're recruiting for three exciting permanent roles within our Research and Policy team, at different levels of experience. Find our more and apply now ➡️ buff.ly/N4Xuj8b

If you're a current or recent PhD student based in London and using quantitative methods...we're currently recruiting TAs for next year, get in touch!

My inaugural lecture is now publicly available online if you are interested in my research into how we can improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people (including a little about my own social mobility journey) @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBbC...

We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

🎓 We are thrilled to host the next #Equalitas Workshop at @ucm.es on April 23–24! Sharing knowledge is essential for advancing the field. With over 30 attendees, 3 specialized sessions, and 2 keynote speakers (@pedrotrivin.bsky.social & Mariña Fernández-Salgado), we are ready for a deep dive.

📢 We are hiring a Professor / Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Time Use Research. We seek an internationally recognised scholar with a strong record of academic leadership. Post available from January 2027. Check out: timeuse.org for more information.

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford). ▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, Janet Gornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor. 🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May. Join us in Oxford! Details here: atkinsonconference.github.io

"I will be concerned with model fitting rather than with common sense." an ice cold, all time banger

The announcement is up for for the Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality: September 10th and 11th at Nuffield College, Oxford. Submissions are due by 22 May 2026; decisions will be communicated by 8 June 2026. The call is here: atkinsonconference.github.io

We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

50 years ago Singh & Maddala published this influential paper on statistical models for long-tailed distributions (income, healthcare costs, …), known often as Burr-Singh-Maddala distributions (SM acknowledge Burr (1942) in their paper). www.jstor.org/stable/1911538 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_di...

The Roma Tre Department of Law seeks to hire two postdoctoral researchers working on income and #wealth distribution/taxation, the economics of climate transition, and the redistributive effects of public policies. Great job, great team, great city. What's not to to like?! @morellisal.bsky.social

Kudos to Salvatore Morelli and his tremendous team, at both Roma Tre and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for their incomparable contribution to #wealth research. @morellisal.bsky.social @ignacioflores.bsky.social @smaexie.bsky.social @severinrapp.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social and many more.

#TeachEcon!

Join us for a special presentation by Bruce D. Meyer 📢 He will discuss the results of new studies on the extent of poverty and homelessness in the United States - and how this compares to public perceptions. 💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/ShSgvWf 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/0oUKQap

NEW JOB AD - POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS - (“Drivers and consequences of rising economic inequality”) 2 positions (Deadline May 17 2026) sites.google.com/site/salvato...

We're hiring! @ineq-wu.bsky.social (@wuvienna.bsky.social) is looking for a Pre-Doc Researcher to study wage inequality using Austrian administrative microdata alongside @lukaslehner.bsky.social and me. Details and application: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Project-staf...

🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc - 3 years fully funded, no teaching - 25K research budget - fame and prestige EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!) sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

Publishing Social Sciences with Nature Portfolio Journals An event jointly organized by the London Inequality Network and UCL CNET 📍 UCL 🗓️ 12 May, 16:00 👉 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

If you’re a PhD student considering careers beyond academia, join us on 6 May for 'How to Prepare for the Job Market in the Outside World'. Gain practical insights on pathways, skills & positioning your research for roles beyond academia. Register here: bit.ly/4em7Ctu

Every reference to 'welfare' ever should have 'including pensions' or 'excluding pensions' in parentheses next to the word. All interviewers/articles should clarify at first use whether the word includes or excludes. Interviews should be stopped if unclear. Because frankly it's getting tedious.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. @dlmillimet.bsky.social and I (and others who may out themselves) have had a very hard time publishing applied econometrics papers because econometrics journals want asymptotics and/or prefer to publish replications instead of applied innovations.

Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...

Sign up for our brand new IFS-cemmap training course on 'Difference-in-differences in depth: A field guide to modern methods' with Jonathan Shaw. 📅 8-10 June 2026 | In-person | UCL Economics Department More info and book here: ifs.org.uk/events/diffe...

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

🔔 Postdoc vacancies 🔔 A project co-led by our academic, Udit Bhatia, is advertising for two postdocs (four-year positions). ➡️ A third post will be advertised in 2027. The positions will assist with work on popular government in the Global South popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...

The call for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social, also with the support of ISPI, is now open! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15). bit.ly/4ma5k2H

NEW: Thomas Biegert, Michael Kühhirt, Wim Van Lancker, "There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024)." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...