España se sitúa entre los países de la Unión Europea con mayores tasas de pobreza infantil ➡️ Uno de cada tres niños y niñas —más de 2,7 millones— vive en riesgo de pobreza y exclusión social.

Las consecuencias económicas y sociales de este problema son mayúsculas. 🔴 Límite a la acumulación de capital humano 🔴 Menor movilidad social 🔴 Costes persistentes para el conjunto de la economía

¿Existe solución? ¿Cuáles son las causas de este fenómeno y cómo ha sido su evolución durante los últimos años? Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, aborda todas estas cuestiones (y más) en Carne Cruda Podcast. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0y0p...

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...

¿𝐐𝐮𝐞́ 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢́𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧̃𝐚? Con motivo del Día Internacional de los Derechos de la Infancia, os compartimos algunos resultados importantes del informe técnico que hemos elaborado para la Plataforma de Infancia y que se presentará en diciembre de 2025 en Madrid.

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

@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...

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/...

Además, destaca sus implicaciones políticas y sociales, vinculadas al aumento del malestar ciudadano y la polarización. 🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...

El texto muestra que España se sitúa entre los países europeos con mayores niveles de inseguridad económica, un fenómeno que no solo afecta a los hogares con menos recursos, sino también a amplios sectores de las clases medias.

A partir de su capítulo publicado en el Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, junto a nuestra también compañera Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, analiza cómo las percepciones de riesgo influyen en la calidad de vida, considerando esto una dimensión central de la cohesión social.

🚨🗞️ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓! Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.

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

The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years @unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject doi.org/10.1093/jae/...

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!

A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more. uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...

This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain). Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve... (introduction in Spanish)

The OECD's latest gender equality report is out 💥 It was a privilege to join other experts in providing feedback. A monumental effort by OECD staff to synthesize policies and propose a way forward #GenderEquality #EndGBV

Hoy en Vigo con l@s @redequalitas.bsky.social en nuestro XI workshop! #poverty #inequality #ipv #wages #academicfriends #workhardplayhard

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🔁By merging sociological and economic insights, the article offers a nuanced discussion of wealth's role in contemporary class analysis (2/2) Full paper here 🔍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨🗞️🆕 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.

New OA book by Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese. They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest. #poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/9781...

🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦 Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below. www.econ3x3.org/article/how-... Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...

A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...

Acemoglu argues: the positive macroeconomic effects of AI will be modest at best. "AI advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation [...] predicted to widen the gap between capital and labor income [...] some of new tasks may have negative social value"

What do we know on inequality in African countries? Check out our op-ed based on our book :) theconversation.com/what-causes-...

ineapir: an R package to query statistical data from National Statistics Institute (INE Spain) github.com/es-ine/ineapir

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The Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme launches today the results of an impact study of Mozambique's main Social Protection scheme, PSSB Idosos. The programme aims to support elderly Mozambican, age 60 years old and older living under poverty. #VLSMoz @ununiversity.bsky.social

Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

🗞️ ¿Qué es la inseguridad económica? ¿Cómo se puede medir? Nuestros compañeros Dmitry Petrov y Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz diseccionan este tema en una nueva entrada de nuestro blog. Todo a partir de su artículo publicado en Review of Economics of the Household. 📎 sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...

We also touch upon related paper, where we combine projections and simulation-techniques to analyze covid & related policy responses. Permits us to account for time lapsed since last data collection. Common issue many countries. Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 3/3

Please circulate to anyone interested, we are looking for applications to our annual Summer Workshop! 🖥️

#SocialMobilityMoz - Read the report in igmozambique.wider.unu.edu/report/inter...

Agriculture in Mozambique is the main activity of 70% of its population, generated 23% of its production and 20% of the country's exports. igmozambique.wider.unu.edu/report/agric... #MozAgriReport2025

📣 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Join us at the Universidad de Alcalá for our first Early Career and PhD Workshop on the 12th - 13th of June 2025! If working on socio-economic mobility and public policies (education, labour market, etc.), this is your event. Don't miss out and apply before mid-March!

Enormously valuable resource for inequality (and other) scholars

In my new WD paper, I analyze the global capital and labor income distributions, highlighting a capitalization process that benefited the global middle class at the start of the 21st century. 📄 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... 
 📊 Database & description: www.mranaldi.com/research

New UNU-WIDER Research Brief on my recent paper on rising consumption spatial #inequality in #Mozambique bit.ly/RBIneqMoz #econ #econsky

📣 ‘Resources Matter: ending poverty while protecting nature' @OUPAcademic @UNUWIDER now published! Open Access via👉 www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

My OUP book out on 19 December. Open Access 👇 www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...