Richard Blundell

Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:

Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.

Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

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This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social‬, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social‬, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White.

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"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5

Chart showing Sure Start generated benefits for children up to adolescence, including improved GCSE results. Title states "Effects of Sure Start on achievement by age."

📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education.

Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

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The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead.

Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller:

Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require

Trade and globalization Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Helen Miller appointed as new Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies | Institute for Fiscal Studies The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

We are delighted to announce that @helenmiller.bsky.social has been appointed as the next IFS Director, following on from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social in July 2025.

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Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages (Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men and women in the US using a quantile selection model to account for systematic differences in employmen...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages" by Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

Congrats to the teams who made it possible!
I think it's time we have a (meta-) review of these reviews ! 😊

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

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Private monopoly and restricted entry | Microeconomic Insights Occupational licensing regulations are common across many service sectors, including health, education, transportation, and legal services. These regulations affect up to 20-30% of workers in both the...

New MI article ‘calls for a re-evaluation of occupational licensing regulations in professional service industries, to ensure these policies do not restrict entry into the industry for individuals who have fulfilled the necessary educational requirements’. microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

Private monopoly and restricted entry | Microeconomic Insights Occupational licensing regulations are common across many service sectors, including health, education, transportation, and legal services. These regulations affect up to 20-30% of workers in both the...

New MI article ‘calls for a re-evaluation of occupational licensing regulations in professional service industries, to ensure these policies do not restrict entry into the industry for individuals who have fulfilled the necessary educational requirements’. microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

To support increased productivity, helping children growing up in deprivation do better is an obvious target, but not enough. Social skills are also increasingly important for job success.

By @Richardblundell.bsky.social Rachel Griffith & @SandraMcNally.bsky.social

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Trade and globalization Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

History of inequality To think about inequality today, we need to think about inequality in the past. This is true for economic inequalities—of income and wealth—and perhaps eve

‘..historical perspectives stress the interplay of a range of forces - standard economic concerns such as technology and structural change in the economy, also changes in social structures, ideology, and the allocation of political power’ | IFS-Deaton Review | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Perceptions and preferences for redistribution Abstract. The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in political science and politica

Perceptions and preferences for redistribution | Stefanie Stantcheva | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Competition and industrial policy in the 21st century Abstract. Large fixed costs and (direct and indirect) network externalities generate barriers to entry and high markups for winners in the digital industry

‘Monopolies always raise concerns about high prices, low innovation and—if the monopoly position may be challenged—possible abuses of dominant position against potential rivals. Tech giants are no exception.’ Jean Tirole | IFS Deaton Review academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Trade and globalization Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...