Barra Roantree

Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

The GC-CUNY Stone Center invites applications for two postdocs, to join us in NYC Aug 2026-Aug 2028. One focused on wealth, one on intergenerational mobility/poverty. Deadline Nov 3!
@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications...

When I have it, I spend it The Government's Budget plans are looking like Charlie McCreevy for slow learners

The Government have outlined a broadly sensible approach to public investment in their review of the NDP. But the budget plans for current spending are looking like Charlie McCreevy for slow learners.

Some thoughts at open.substack.com/pub/howtotax...

Join us on Monday 26 May for a Virtual Information Session about our MSc in Economic Policy! 📉

📆 Monday 26 May
🕐 13:00-14:00
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yvkmwucf

@barratree.bsky.social @esri.ie @tcdssp.bsky.social #econsky #economics

Submission deadline for the 2nd @public-econ-ie.bsky.social workshop extended by a week, so still time to submit your paper or extended abstract at publiceconomics.ie/submit

We're extending the deadline for submissions to the 2nd Irish Public Economics Workshop by a week until Monday 21st April. Details in the thread below

Worrying trends in school attendance post-Covid in both primary and secondary schools in Ireland. Highest absentee rates in the most disadvantaged school. High levels of school completion have been a real success story but declining attendance &school engagement threatens this

After last year's super successful event,
@public-econ-ie.bsky.social and @centralbankireland.bsky.social are joining up to host IPEW this September! Keynote by @dinapomeranz.bsky.social and panel discussion on supporting public policy through research!

We're inviting submissions for the 2nd Irish Public Economics Workshop which will take place on September 1-2 at the
@centralbankireland.bsky.social with a keynote lecture by Prof. @dinapomeranz.bsky.social of @econ.uzh.ch

Details 👇 and submission via publiceconomics.ie/submit

Research Analyst - Taxation, Welfare & Pensions The ESRI (Economic and Social Research Institute) is seeking to recruit a Research Analyst on a three-year, fixed-term basis to join its Taxation, Welfare and P

We're hiring a Research Analyst on a fixed-term three year contract. If you are proficient in #microsimulation, interested in tax and welfare policy and want to work at @esri.ie Dublin, this could be the job for you!

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Economist(s) / Policy Analyst(s) Company Description: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of 38 member countries that works to build better policies for better lives. Our...

🚨 We are hiring!

The #OECD is looking to hire one or several Economists / Policy Analysts to work on labour market and social policy, including on #inequalities.

The vacancy is open until 3 January 2025.

Please spread the word, retweet and apply! #EconSky

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Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

stata2r.github.io

I did not know this! Any good reading on Sankey or his diagram?

Tbf they are well catered to by N Richmond who got over a quota

The Economic and Social Review is Ireland's leading journal for economics and applied social science and is now on Bluesky. Please follow and share folks! @orladoyle.bsky.social
@isweconomics.bsky.social @beta1hat.bsky.social @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @morgenrothedgar.bsky.social

🚨Econ Job alert 🚨
We are hiring! @tcdeconomics.bsky.social is looking for not one - not two - but THREE new colleagues to start next September. In addition to wonderful colleagues, you'll also get to teach in buildings like the one below!
🗓️Closing date is 6 Jan 2025.
Job details 👉http://jobs.tcd.ie

Exciting news! I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday at @tcdeconomics.bsky.social ☘️🎉

A huge thanks to the viva commission - Mark Spiegel, Paul Scanlon, @fontananicola.bsky.social - for the invaluable feedback + my supervisors A. Bénétrix & @davideromelli.bsky.social , for their guidance!

“The average tax partner will gain by …”

A follow up piece after FG wrote to me clarifying that they were planning less current spending than I’d estimated, revealing a multi-billion fiscal hole in their spending plans. And they are not alone.

open.substack.com/pub/howtotax...

I've set up a Starter Park for academic economists in Ireland and those abroad with a strong Irish connection. Keen to add more, esp PhDs and postdocs, so let me know!
(Women make up 50% of the 80 academic economists in Dublin but are a far smaller share of this list so far... Help me fix that!)

New post on my Substack about the major parties’ spending plans as outlined in their General Election manifestos: each of them planning very large increases and banking on the glut of corporation tax revenues continuing.

open.substack.com/pub/howtotax...

I made a starter pack of Irish economists and economists interested in Ireland. It’s still sparse, but I’ll add to it as people join. Let me know if you would like to be added or have any suggestions.

go.bsky.app/UweG3ib

Great idea! More folks on than I’d realised!