Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

In the class-based society of the “old” capitalism, there was a clear contradiction between capital and labour. But today, the richest capitalists & the richest workers are increasingly the same people. What should we make of this, asks @brankomilan.bsky.social? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📣Conference announcement: Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below. Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London Conference date: 26 Nov 2025 Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

Join us at on 18 Sept for New Directions in Inequality Research, a panel event exploring the biggest gaps, challenges and future priorities in the field. 🎙️ With Facundo Alvaredo, Steven Durlauf, Anne Phillips, & LSE President Larry Kramer 🔗 buff.ly/ziJtegT

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected]. 📅 Full schedule 👇

🎉 Join us for a free online event. 📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT. With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

School's out for summer, but the hard work has just begun. Join our Summer Giving campaign over the school holidays and you'll support under-resourced young people to thrive 💚 Get involved 🔗 theaccessproject.org.uk/fundraising/...

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thread below👇

The 2nd Lofoten Int'l Symposium on Inequality & Taxation (#LISIT2025) is now history! A fabulous 2-day workshop with a stellar group of economists & public finance scholars, surrounded by the stunning peaks & sea views that only the Lofoten islands can offer. Thread below

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries" By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance

Definition of a good airport @StockholmArlandaAirport

Only a few days left to apply! 👇

Super interesting conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @brankomilan.bsky.social

🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/

🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12

🚨 We're hiring! King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... Please share! Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

REMINDER: The next LIN workshop will take place next week in Oxford! You're welcome to join. For details see below 👇

Applications are now open for Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the India Observatory for 2025-26! We invite early career academics involved in social science research from India or other South Asian countries to apply by 30 June. Find out more: buff.ly/owE50Fs

Great first day at the conference yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, ending with an excellent keynote by Rani Spiegler. Looking forward to the next two days!

Welfare benefit cuts and other UK austerity measures after 2010 lowered life expectancy — and the effect was nearly twice as great on women, according to the new WP by Stone Center associated researcher @yonatanberman.com and Tora Hovland. bit.ly/4jkSc7K

We had a great day yesterday. On to the third and last day. Thanks to all speakers, discussants and guests!

Happy to announce our upcoming workshop that will take place on June 9th afternoon @ox.ac.uk. We have three excellent speakers: @natrinh.bsky.social (Oxford), Marianne Vital (Oxford) and Vladimir Avetian (Dauphine) Please register by emailing @mikbavaro.bsky.social ([email protected])

If anyone needed a reminder... @nickbloom.bsky.social on the macro effects of Brexit

What are the Trends in Inheritance Across Developed Economies? Why is this important & What are the major drivers? Why has the Progressivity of inheritance tax been declining globally? I have talked about these issues in the Economist (@economist.com) podcast "Money Talks". tinyurl.com/khaekyre

I recently reviewed a paper for The BMJ, a top medical journal. Their model is open peer review: my name and affiliation were visible to the authors with my report, and if the paper is published, so is my report and identity. Interesting experience. Any thoughts for #EconSky?

The human cost of austerity: How UK fiscal policies led to 190,000 excess deaths. New IZA World of Labor op-ed by Yonatan Berman and Tora Hovland, based on their latest IZA DP. wol.iza.org/opinions/hum...

Happy to host @kristoberg.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) this Wednesday (April 30) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Programme is out for 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, this year it's in Madrid! 👇👇👇

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

📣 Vacancy! CenTax is seeking an individual with experience in policy-orientated analysis and engagement, for example via roles within government or policy-oriented research institutions, to undertake fast-paced, high-profile policy research. Apply: buff.ly/Qh2thgm

Happy to host @nunopgpalma.bsky.social (University of Manchester) this Wednesday (April 16) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

DEADLINE TONIGHT!

Today marks 100 years since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s #TheGreatGatsby. So #EconSky let’s celebrate by recalling how the #GreatGatsbyCurve got its name! The subtext of my post is that policy relevant research always needs a communication strategy milescorak.com/2016/12/04/h...

King's College London is hiring 20 scholars doing AI-related research across *all disciplines*, including social sciences (5-year research fellowship leading to permanent faculty position). Applications due May 19, 2025. @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social

On #WorldHealthDay, we highlight evidence that economic decisions have profound health impacts. Austerity policies in the UK are associated with 190,000 excess deaths and widening regional inequalities in life expectancy. Read our blog by Yonatan Berman and Tora Hovland ⬇️

Great to see III Fellow Yonatan Berman and Tora Hovland's research on the impact of austerity measures in the UK featured in @TheIndependent this week. Read the article: buff.ly/x3sCuNH Read the original blog post here: buff.ly/qTT1nQi #LSEInequalities

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🚨👇

Happy to host Sarah Smith (Bristol) this Wednesday (April 2) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Just a reminder: the last time we saw welfare cuts of this magnitude, life expectancy dropped by 3-5 months. That's tens of thousands of excess deaths over the course of a decade.

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

Join us this Thrusday for the 10th London Inequality Workshop! Details below👇

The #LISIT2025 final programme has now been launched: robertoiacono.org/events/ Keynote speaker: @lucaschancel.bsky.social Looking forward to see you in Svolvær for #LISIT2025

📣 New vacancy: @centaxuk.bsky.social are recruiting a Research Economist, who will undertake research in order to contribute to and support the work of CenTax. The role will be based at the HMRC Datalab in London. 📆 Apply by 20 March 2025

📣 We are excited to share the launch of LACIR x Oxford Open Economics: Rethinking Inequality in Latin America. The culmination of a multi-year collaboration between over 70 scholars, the papers in this issue ask: why does inequality endure? And what forces sustain it? 🔗 buff.ly/661Df1W

Great writeup - now with the link: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

We also have a post open at lecturer level in PPE, ideally with a focus on the history of political economy and/or economic thought 3/ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA388/l...