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Kun Wu

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Curious about economic links among family members, and the impact of evolution of marital institution on inequality and mobility. kunslog.github.io

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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/10/2025
My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.
"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus."Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in  harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa."You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/10/2025
Welcome to Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall. You made the world a better place.
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Nature @nature.com · 02/10/2025
Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91 go.nature.com/46K10ja
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🦘#IPC2025 The first meeting of the new IUSSP Panel on "Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities" starts in a bit at 19:30 at the The Plough INN, 29 Stanley St Plaza, Brisbane. Steering committee members Saroja Adhikari & @bhuenteler.bsky.social will be there. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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NBER @nber.org · 10/07/2025
Low fertility is the result of shifting adult priorities, likely driven by changing norms, evolving opportunities and constraints, and broader social forces, from Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine www.nber.org/papers/w33989
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In our latest podcast episode, @durlauf.bsky.social & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social discuss variation in wealth inequality and why income gaps don’t tell the whole story. They explore how this inequality shapes individuals through education, housing, and risk assessments. Listen: bit.ly/4epPUTU
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/05/2025
Yo read this thread by an economist who @economeager.bsky.social calls the baddest mfer around (/ wrote the most important paper in Econ the recent decade www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We are here! #EconStats2025 @escoeorg.bsky.social @kunwu.bsky.social
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#RDDers: check it out. rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs "This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the...results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]" arxiv.org/abs/2505.07989
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?" By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 09/05/2025
Just read this truly lovely history of the fixed effects estimator, a concept I've repeatedly taught and used but never knew the origins of. (Also helps me justify never using random effects!) Thanks to Marc Bellemare and @dlmillimet.bsky.social for writing it. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I always read whatever Sam Bowles puts out. This with Mattia Fochesato. Humans have always competed for status and resources, but enduring inequality requires specific conditions: concentrated wealth, state power, and cultural acceptance of disparities. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"Tax data opens new opportunities for studying partnership histories, income and family dynamics of people across gender and sexual minority status. Using Canadian tax data, we find that ... (1/2) www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Demographic Research - Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges (Volume 52 - Article 2 | Pages 25–70)
Volume 52 - Article 2 | Pages 25–70
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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!
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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Inequalities – the Marshall Paley Lecture. Richard Blundell takes a deep dive into inequality and how to tackle it, drawing on the IFS-Deaton Review. The closing event at this year's Festival of Economics at Bristol University. Listen here on.soundcloud.com/8ytdxxYhJikH...
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Inequalities – the Marshall Paley Lecture
In this inaugural event, Sarah Smith OBE, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, introduces Professor Sir Richard Blundell CBE FBA, Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University Colle
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apoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · 30/10/2024
DDDiD: Don't do difference in differences (w obs data). DiD is a (bad) weighting estimator and is almost always strictly dominated by better ones Maybe now that Guido is saying it, people will listen files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/...
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 31/10/2024
Ok guys here's the point. Diff in Diff is a model based assumption that identifies the ATT (unless you're using random timing of rollouts, but almost noone is). It is model-based because you make assumptions to identify the OUTCOME MODEL in the *absence* of the treatment. 1/
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/10/2024
It's been 12 hours so maybe everyone has moved on, but I created a graph with the all the missing lines. Visually, you could say White men without college degrees were ahead of 10 groups in 1980 (5th place out of 16), and only 7 groups by 2022 (9th place).
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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
This special issue is the second in a two-part series on the evolution of labour market and disposable income inequalities over recent decades in Europe and North America. | Changing Labour Market and Income Inequalities: Part Two onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755890...
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Fiscal Studies | IFS Public Economics Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Forthcoming in the JEL: "Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty" by Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty
(Forthcoming Article) - I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent US poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market act...
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Kun Wu @kunwu.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
From last winter, Soda showed up in the square regularly at her meal time. Every early morning, she's always the first one coming to say hi. One afternoon in July, on my way home from work, I started worrying this will be the best time of my life. But then, Soda's there, waiting for me and said hi.
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John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
I will never recover from this student email.
Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.
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