New paper out! Carlos Bethencourt & Daniel Santos study how gender-role identity in adolescence shapes women’s fertility in adulthood. Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, you can find it here 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Amb l' @albalanau.bsky.social hi hem contribuït amb un capítol per explicar com la pobresa s'hereta a Catalunya. Molta feina a fer encara! @redequalitas.bsky.social

📢 A kind reminder… Joan Mut is presenting “Widowhood Policy in the US.” Juan Gabriel Rodriguez will be the discussant. TODAY at 12:00 CET (Google Meet) You can still join us! Just send a DM. #seminarioEQUALITAS

SEMINAR: Ready for round two! 🗓️ Wednesday, November 26, at 12:00 (Google Meet) 🎤Speaker: Joan Mut Benítez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Title: Widowhood policy in the US 💬Discussant: Juan Gabriel Rodríguez DM us if you’d like to join! #seminarioEQUALITAS

El Gobierno estudia una prestación universal por crianza que ya tiene la mayoría de países de la UE elpais.com/sociedad/202...

@ayllonsara.bsky.social & @samuellado.bsky.social have a new blog post for the Fundació “la Caixa”. About the causal impact of school-meal subsidies on academic achievement. elobservatoriosocial.fundacionlacaixa.org/en/-/becas-c... Want to dive deeper? See their Working Paper: 👉 IZA DP No. 18042

Ayer se presentó el IX Informe FOESSA sobre la situación social en España. Imprescindible este análisis para el diseño adecuado de las políticas públicas que necesitamos www.caritas.es/main-files/u...

🎓Pablo Brugarolas has also joined our ranks as a new PhD. Pablo recently completed a thorough and successful defense of his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Brugarolas! Explore his research 👇 pablobrugarolas.github.io

Hoy hace un mes que nuestro integrante @carlosgradin.bsky.social pronunció la laudatio en la investidura de Joseph E. Stiglitz como doctor honoris causa de la UIMP. 👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo: equalitas.es/es/noticias/...

Mothers rank daughters *higher in disappointment* when they have a brother than when they have a sister. One of the conclusions by Daniel Santos from our first online seminar. 👇 You can find and read it here: sites.google.com/view/dsantos...

📢 A kind reminder... We start today.

🎓A new PhD has joined our ranks. @samuellado.bsky.social successfully and rigorously defended his PhD thesis recently. Congratulations, Dr. Lado! Explore his research 👇 samuellado.github.io

Me entrevistan en @elperiodico.com sobre pobreza infantil. Tenemos mucho trabajo por delante pero como digo "No podemos permitirnos otra cosa que ser optimistas. Hablamos de la vida de niños y niñas, y es responsabilidad de los adultos garantizarles un futuro justo" share.google/9gwk87I5Ixk4...

Today is #EndPoverty Day. A good day to share insights that help to adress this challenge. Recent paper by our member Xavier Ramos and coauthors: “The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy”, published in the @jpube.bsky.social Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anoche participé con @kanciller.bsky.social en este pequeño debate sobre meritocracia y tributación de la riqueza, os lo dejo aquí, por si queréis escucharlo @cadenaser.com @hora25ser.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/29Rt...

El CETIS (bajo la Conselleria de Drets Socials i Inclusió de la Generalitat) presentó su primer informe para avanzar hacia la erradicación de la pobreza en Cataluña. Nuestra investigadora @ayllonsara.bsky.social contribuye con su experiencia en el comité. Puedes leer la notícia completa aqui 👇

Off we go! First Equalitas seminar: 🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet) 🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment 💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social DM us if you’d like to join! #seminarioEQUALITAS

We’re excited to launch the Equalitas Seminars, a forum for sharing and discussing ongoing research. 🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion. Open access upon request and approval. Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!

EQUALITAS Research Members Starter Pack. Join us! go.bsky.app/9vjdS7E

🚨🗞️🆕 EQUALITAS researchers Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan César Palomino and Dmitry Petrov are launching this project together with Clara Martínez-Toledano to measure regional wealth inequality in Spain.

📢🔝 👏🏼 EQUALITAS researcher Pedro Salas-Rojo (@psalasr.bsky.social) and co-authors have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper “Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe” 📉 (1/2) 🧵

Get to know us!! 📑📊 Our areas of interest include: - Economics of inequality and poverty - Public policy evaluation - Labour economics - Population economics - Macroeconomics - Institutional economics - Applied microeconometrics

We aim to develop good research in the field by stimulating high quality research, organising international workshops or seminars, training young researchers and facilitating access to the most recent results for a wide research community and for policy makers.

Welcome! EQUALITAS is a group of researchers interested in the analysis of inequality and poverty, including theoretical discussions, empirical studies on income distribution in a variety of countries, evaluation of social and labour market policies and the study of equity in the labour market.