@stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social
Applied economist and quantitative generalist. Professor of Economic & Social Policy, LSE. 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 All views expressed are my own.
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✨Meet Pallavi Prabhakar, JM-candidate at the Department of Economics at NHH Bergen.
🕵️♀️Fields of interest: Development Economics
📘JMP: Bottom Up Accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India
🔗Read more about the JM-candidates here: www.nhh.no/en/departmen...
Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity #ECPRMemberJobs
🔬 Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies
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⌛ Wednesday 10 December
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NEW ANALYSIS: Today the Government announced its new Child Poverty Strategy. But what might it mean for the outlook for child poverty in this Parliament, and how does it compare to progress on reducing child poverty in recent decades?
New RF analysis answers these questions....
The Max Weber Institute of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg is seeking a full professor in sociology with a special focus on theory who connects well with the departments comparative focus. The deadline is December 8th, you can find the call www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...
05.12.2025 14:30 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Hello and welcome to all our new followers 👋
To ensure you're getting all the best analysis and insights, we've made a starter pack of all our staff on Bluesky. Make sure to give them a follow too ⤵️
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Advert for a book launch event hosted by the Resolution Foundation, for Alan Manning's new book 'Why Immigration Policy is Hard.'' Alan will be joined by Stephen Bush in a discussion chaired by Ruth Curtice on Thursday 4th December, 5pm.
📢 Book launch this evening
In his latest book, @alanmanning4.bsky.social makes the case that while immigration policy will never satisfy everyone, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done much better.
Join Alan, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social & @stephenkb.bsky.social to discuss
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We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates!
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'I don't think welfare spending is out of control. I think there is almost a moral panic about the level of welfare spending. If we look at the working-age benefit bill, it hasn't changed much over decades, if you look it as a fraction of national income.' @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social #c4news
27.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Today in the US it is the day of Thanksgiving. This is the opportunity to thank all the volunteers who help index publications in RePEc, edit NEP reports, send corrections to EDIRC, amend Genealogy records, or edit Biblio topics. RePEc would not exist without them.
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💡 Research spotlight:
Our SOUTHMOD team is strengthening policy capacity across Latin America.
This year, the team have delivered specialised training for government partners in Bolivia, as well as Ecuador’s National Statistical Institute (INEC).
More on p.36 ⬇️
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Thanks, John. Marc and I thought this was an important paper to write. It was an issue that has long bothered both of us. Hopefully it helps applied peeps think a bit more carefully about their model.
26.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
interesting paper on ye olde fixed effects estimator
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
RF are pro MW, but we agree it's 2nd order to benefits in tackling poverty. Big fight with Osborne over that re tax credit cuts in 2015.
One example: a 2-earner 3-kid family on MW wld have been *worse* off in 2024 than 2014 despite real earnings up 27% www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
New post: If disability benefits spending is flat, then welfare spending is probably going down - Some figures to have to hand when looking through the Budget
inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
In our Department seminar last week, Professor Thomas Hale (University of Oxford) examined the politics of climate change. With long-term goals in mind, he outlined strategies for tilting the politics and policies of climate change toward better outcomes.
🎙️ Catch up here:
🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨
The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places.
Please share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL723/l...
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
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We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
24.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 66 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 1Come and do a PhD at the #EUI! We are five professors in sociology, within the department of Political and Social Sciences. Social stratification, education, family demography, analytical sociology, experimental sociology, it’s all here!
23.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 22 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
Abstract text of working paper
How much inequality passes from generation to generation in Latin America? A new WP by Francisco Ferreira, @paolobrunori.bsky.social, @gneidhofer.bsky.social, @psalasr.bsky.social & Louis Sirugue finds that 30–50% of educational inequality and 46–66% of income inequality is inherited.
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✨Winter School #IT19 ✨
📢 @cesifo.org @dseunivr and @liser.lu
are glad to announce the Nineteenth Winter School on #Inequality and #SocialWelfare Theory (#IT19):
Inequality and Big Challenges.
👉January 6-10, 2026
👉Alba di Canazei 🏔️ IT
👉 Call: dse.univr.it/it/documents...
“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
21.11.2025 04:02 — 👍 499 🔁 90 💬 9 📌 5RePEc was created by economists for economists. If there is a way we can serve the community better, please do tell!
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Everybody loves brownfield-first. But where exactly should we densify our cities? And how?
Our new report shows Britain's density gap is wider in the biggest cities outside London than in the capital - and the inner city 'urban cores' up to 5km out from the centre are to blame.
This weeks post: Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue...
If a Labour government sounds and acts like a slightly milder version of a Reform government, this is going to put off nearly all Labour voters, including those in Labour marginal seats.
Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝
We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
I’m sorry that I cannot provide my recommendation. This is not due to your module grade, but the fact that we had very limited personal interaction. As you know, students now make extensive use of AI tools, which can make it difficult to assess the extent to which written work reflects their own independent reasoning. Meeting regularly and discussing ideas in depth is usually the only reliable way for me to understand a student’s qualities and potential. For these reasons, I generally reserve my references for students with whom I have had repeated and sustained engagement over time, as this is the only basis on which I can provide a well-rounded and meaningful assessment. My door is always open for office hours and I encourage all students to come but few make use of it. In your case, I simply do not have enough direct insight into your work to write a reference that would be fair or helpful to you. I wish you all the very best with your applications.
I will be sending this email a lot this year. Feel free to tell me it's problematic, but I've had it with students who don't show up and expect me to be in their corner.
19.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0Take note Starmer and co
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Lots of sensible recommendations in the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee report published today, including the importance of place, prevention, and a proper data strategy
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
