We are pleased to announce the first Economic Opportunity in Europe Conference, co-organized by @oppinsights.bsky.social, Sciences Po and @labdeoportunidades.bsky.social
Paris, France | Jun 15–16, 2026 | Keynote: Raj Chetty
Sub deadline: March 1
🔗More Info: opportunityinsights.org/updates/econ...
Excited to announce the first Economic Opportunity in Europe Conference, co-organized by @oppinsights.bsky.social @labdeoportunidades.bsky.social and SciencesPo
Paris, France | Jun 15–16, 2026 | Keynote: Raj Chetty
Submission deadline: March 1, 2026
Info: opportunityinsights.org/updates/econ...
Justo lo que el mundo necesitaba: una newsletter más. La inauguro con un intento de repensar la seguridad europea.
Inshallah os guste y os suscribáis.
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RFK Jr. has shut down 5 of the nation's 12 Head Start regional offices, closing facilities in Chicago, Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Head Start has served more than 39 million children with free learning and development services, health screenings, and nutritious meals.
03.04.2025 18:14 — 👍 117 🔁 67 💬 11 📌 11Hoy @futurepolicylab.bsky.social publica este importantísimo estudio, en el que se demuestra que el Capi tan solo llega al 10% de los hogares con niños pese a que podría llegar a más del 50% de estos!
27.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Un trabajo importante para hacer que el CAPI rinda al máximo de su potencial, y que se suma a investigaciones anteriores de FPL sobre rentas mínimas e Ingreso Mínimo Vital (www.futurepolicylab.com/informes/gar...).
27.03.2025 16:45 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Nuevo informe sobre non-take-up, esta vez nos centramos en la implementación del Complemento de Ayuda a la Infancia (CAPI) y cómo su integración dentro del IMV puede estar limitando su capacidad para reducir la pobreza infantil.
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🔴 Hoy lanzamos este informe que demuestra que pese a que más del 50% de los hogares españoles con niños debería beneficiarse del Complemento de Ayuda para la Infancia (CAPI), tan solo llega al 10,5%.
Breve hilo con qué cabe proponer 🧵👇
elpais.com/economia/202...
It is a myth that large numbers of voters who formerly supported social democratic parties have defected to the far-right. Visit Chartbook Top Link to find out more!
18.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Es por aquí:
«Los 537 multimillonarios que viven en la UE soportan un tipo efectivo del 0,2% de su patrimonio. Si los contribuyentes con fortunas de más de 100m€ tributaran cada año al 2%, las arcas públicas de los Estados miembros tendrían 67.000m€ adicionales»
elpais.com/economia/202...
This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Os dejo un teaser de ‘El Secuestro de la Vivienda’. Última revisión y ya estará listo para salir del horno.
Mis editores están muy ilusionados, así que yo con ellos.
Pronto anunciaremos la fecha de presentación… y más cositas. Se vienen curvas.
1/ As US colleges bring back the SAT, an old dilemma reemerges: do test scores reduce bias, or does focusing on “fit” quietly uphold class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵
17.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 5
Great to see "Generative AI at Work", my paper with Lindsey Raymond and Danielle Li, published in the @qjeharvard.bsky.social
.
We find that an LLM assistant makes customer support agents 14% more productive, improves customer satisfaction and reduces employee turnover.
Nuestro director adjunto, @javiercarbonell.bsky.social, y nuestro fellow, Kilian Wirthwein, han publicado un informe sobre cómo puede la nueva Ley de Juventud mejorar la vida de los jóvenes.
No te pierdas la presentación el 25 a las 6 pm en Madrid.
Inscripciones: madrid.fes.de/event-regist...
Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Paper title: Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Intergenerational Skin Tone Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean World Inequality Lab Working Paper 50 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2022 Last revised: 10 Feb 2025 By L. Guillermo Woo-Mora Paris School of Economics (PSE); Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Date Written: February 03, 2025 Abstract This paper examines how skin tone shapes intergenerational economic disparities across 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries. First, it analyzes the distribution of ethnoracial identities and skin tone, confirming Mestizo predominance and revealing how broad categories obscure substantial phenotypic diversity. Second, it documents non-linear gaps in income and education, with darker skin tones consistently linked to economic disadvantages. A variance decomposition shows that skin tone explains significant within-group variation, offering explanatory power beyond self-reported ethnoracial categories. Finally, using mothers’ education as a benchmark, the study provides novel cross-country evidence on skin tone gaps in absolute educational intergenerational mobility, revealing barriers to upward mobility for darker-skinned individuals. Robustness checks with machine-assessed skin tone data from Mexico—incorporating additional parental and contextual controls—confirm these disparities. These findings underscore the need to account for phenotypic variation when studying economic inequality in Latin America.
Bar plot of ethnoracial identity showing about 47% of subjects identify as mestizo, 23% as white, 16% as black, 7% as indigenous and 6% as other. This masks, however, significant within "race" variation in skin tone (as shown in next figure).
Figure that shows skin tone share by ethnoracial category and which reveals that within racial categories like white, mestizo, indigenous, black and other are large numbers of subjects whose skin tones vary from light to dark.
A plot of regression estimates that shows as skin tone darkens, estimated household income per capita declines.
New study on how “skin tone shapes intergenerational economic disparities across 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries” finds “darker skin tones consistently linked to economic disadvantages.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy
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This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the @Harvard @Kennedy_School LATAM Conference in Panel 4: "Social Mobility in Latin American Cities." Excited to discuss inequality & opportunity in the region alongside amazing experts
🔗Tickets & more info here👇 : latinamerica-conference.com
Europa necesita un nuevo proteccionismo
Resulta urgente hacer un examen sereno pero radical para modificar las relaciones económicas internacionales y frenar el nacionalismo
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.
14.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 132 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 8
Del escándalo y el victimismo a convertirse en una fuerza política y electoral respetable para millones de franceses. Escribo en @elpais.com sobre lo que la extrema derecha internacional le debe a Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Españoles, Le Pen ha muerto - elpais.com/opinion/2025...
The GC Wealth Project has launched an updated version of its data warehouse!
Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods.
Discover all the updates:
wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...
José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the United States' highest civilian honor.
Chef Andrés is being recognized for his extraordinary contributions to humanitarian work and the culinary world.
The honor was presented…
Workshop Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities Luxembourg, May 15-16, 2025 Call for Papers We invite paper submissions for a workshop on the Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities, to be held at the Kirchberg Campus of the University of Luxembourg. This workshop aims to bring together researchers to explore the latest developments and insights on the factors that drive socioeconomic disparities from distinct perspectives. We aim to build a comprehensive understanding of how inequalities emerge and are sustained across generations. The workshop will cover a range of key drivers of socioeconomic inequalities, including: - Genes and Environment - Assortative Mating - Firms and Labor Markets - Schools and Neighborhoods - Intergenerational Transmission
Workshop on the Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities, Luxembourg 15-16 May 2025.
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9. Online Politics in Spain: From 15M to the Fachosfera with
@iagomoreno.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/o...
If you want to know about inequality in Spain, check out this podcast!
29.12.2024 09:34 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
12. Inequalities in Contemporary Spain with
@bernaleon.bsky.social, @javiercarbonell.bsky.social
and @javiersoria.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
