Which countries have fertility rates above or below the “replacement level”? Fertility rates — which measure the average number of children per woman — have been falling worldwide. Since 1950, global fertility rates have halved, from almost 5 children per woman to 2.2.

CfP for our 3rd Annual HPE Conference @uscprice.bsky.social @usc.edu sponsored by @usccis.bsky.social and PIPE. Submit by May 30. If you work on MENA, I am running a smaller pre-conference for HPE papers focused on the region. @polisky.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It was a pleasure to welcome Amira Saber Kandil, Egyptian senator and President of the Human Rights Committee, to the World Inequality Lab this week. She met with our co-director @rowaida96.bsky.social for a rich exchange on inequality and taxation, climate change, and international cooperation.

EGYPT’S 1952 AGRARIAN REFORM curbed deep-rooted inequality and weakened the landed elite, but failed to reach the poorest landowners and the landless. Read my new WP: “Long-Term Land Inequality and Post-Colonial Land Reform in Egypt (1896–2020)” More findings 👇 #Egypt #Inequality #LandReform