Carlos Gradín

¿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

School meal subsidies catalan language - El Observatorio Social - Fundación "la Caixa" - osocial Do subsidised school meals favour linguistic immersion? According to this study, beneficiary students spend more time at school.

@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

Thanks for coming!

EQUALITAS Research Members Starter Pack. Join us! go.bsky.app/9vjdS7E

Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...

🔁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.

Humbled, grateful. Thanks, of course, to brilliant coauthors.

The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Poverty in Latin America Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Poverty in Latin America

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...

Hace unos días conversé con Rodrigo Terrasa sobre herencias, desigualdad intergeneracional y desigualdad intrageneracional. Le ha quedado un artículo muy chulo:

¿Heredas o trabajas?

www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...

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...

📣New paper out with #VanesaJorda and @paolobrunori.bsky.social! Polarization of Opportunity @ Econletters.

Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle The richest 1% of Africans received 27% of the total revenue from growth on the continent. This is one of the inequalities that needs to change.

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

GitHub - es-ine/ineapir: Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute - GitHub - es-ine/ineapir: Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute

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