Aww, sorry to miss it! Have fun :)) ♥️
Amazing 🙏🏻
One reviewer said my manuscript submitted to an interdisciplinary journal reads like an "economist's fantasy about social relations". I'm not sure if this was an economist's critique of fantasies or a sociologist's critique of economists. Either way, I take it.
Inheritance explains more than 60% of wealth inequality nationwide Any serious attempt to address inequality should start there. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/o...
Many exemptions are very hard, perhaps impossibly hard, to defend on either practical or moral grounds.
Thank you Aaron! I'll look into it
Social stratification: Is the probability of intergenerational occupational inheritance - i.e., *micro-occ. to micro-occ.* - the same along parental occupational ranking/hierarchy? I assume not, or "it's complicated", but any reference in this direction would be appreciated!
We wrote a LIS Data Center newsletter article on the role of college majors in earnings inequality. It discusses collective benefits (via "closure") and individual payoffs (via major-occupation "matching") Find it here: www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Please submit a paper to the summer 2024 RC28 meeting @BrownUniversity! sites.brown.edu/rc28/
New LSE Summer School course on "Inequality and Poverty Analysis", with yours truly as the lecturer. (Over 3 weeks starting 2023-07-29.) Further details and application portal: see course pages at www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
This course provides an introduction to the analysis and measurement of inequality and poverty from a quantitative perspective.
We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position at NIDI within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) project. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies. The institute is part of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).