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Shahe Emran

@shahe-emran-econ.bsky.social
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I am a development economist, with interests in both theoretical and empirical work, especially the interaction between theory and data.

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we’re highlighting @butaevak.bsky.social and Lucienne Disch, whose research and intellectual contributions are an important part of what we do. Their scholarship helps shape the questions we ask and the knowledge we produce here at the Stone Center.
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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"a different doctorate"
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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Grateful that the Swedish Research Council (VR) will fund my 🇸🇪 occupational change detective project with Roujman Shahbazian and Erik Bihagen @sofi.su.se Has the national occupational structure upgraded or polarised in recent decades, and how have these national trends played out locally? 🕵️
Has the Swedish labour market upgraded or polarised? Multiverse and spatial analyses 1990-2020

Although it is universally agreed that globalisation and technological change have profoundly reshaped the Swedish job structure over the past 30 years, there is no scientific consensus on whether these transformations have led to upgrading, characterised by strong growth of high-quality jobs, or polarisation, characterised by growth in low and high-quality jobs and decline in the middle. This yields a research question with implications for individual quality of life and Swedish
education and welfare policy: what has really happened to the Swedish job structure? By running multiverse analysis of labour market change in Sweden over the period 1990-2020 using population register and survey data, the project will first assess whether Swedish labour market change is best characterised by upgrading or polarisation, and systematically analyse the sources of contradiction in existing evidence. It will then analyse how these national transformations have
played out at the regional and local level, recognising that country-level trends can mask a diversity of regional experiences. The project will contribute important insight into how well the Swedish labour market has absorbed an increasingly qualified population and how the job structure is likely to evolve with further technological advances,
including generative AI.
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I do wish @chalkbeat.org had chosen a different cover image, though - our story is not just about Harvard, but about the broad spectrum of higher education. This graph, from @mattbarnum.bsky.social's article, just shows *public* colleges and universities. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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NBER @nber.org · 10/08/2026
How elite are the people we elect? Linking members of Congress born 1830–1950 back to the census household where they grew up, to trace the economic origins of political power, from @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, Andrew B. Hall, Daniel M. Thompson, and Jesse Yoder www.nber.org/papers/w35569
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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New working paper suggests that education may have played a bigger role than previously thought in the first industrial revolution in England www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar...
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qdrddr.bsky.social @qdrddr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On-Device Maple-Preview 20B-A1B: Ternary-weight natively trained (not quantized) reasoning #LLM by Deepgrove. 131k context window. Mac mini M4, 218 tokens/s; iPhone 127 tokens/s. Consumes 7.7 GB of RAM. #AI #SLM #OpenSource MIT lic Model Weights & Blog deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
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GIGAZINE @gigazine.net · 05/08/2026
iPhoneで動作しBonsai 27Bと同等性能で13倍高速なAI「Maple-Preview」が登場、ローカルAIがまた1歩前進 gigazine.net/news/20260805-maple-pr…
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iPhoneで動作しBonsai 27Bと同等性能で13倍高速なAI「Maple-Preview」が登場、ローカルAIがまた1歩前進
AI研究企業のDeepGroveが軽量かつ高性能なAIモデル「Maple-Preview」を発表しました。Maple-PreviewはiPhoneでも動作するほど小型のモデルで、同じくiPhoneで動作するBonsai 27Bと比べて13倍高速な処理が可能です。
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
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How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Evolution of Black-White Differences in Occupational Mobility Across Post-Civil War America" by Steven Durlauf, Gueyon Kim, Dohyeon Lee, and Xi Song.
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The Evolution of Black-White Differences in Occupational Mobility Across Post-Civil War America
(Forthcoming Article) - We examine long-run differences in intergenerational occupational mobility between Black and White Americans using linked censuses and survey data from 1850 to 2021. We document two main results. First, shifts in mobility dynamics, most notably for the 1940–1950 cohort, reshaped occupational structures and reduced racial segregation. Second, new measures of intergenerational persistence reveal both bottlenecks and the enduring memory in the mobility system, offering new perspectives on the role of mobility in explaining the lack of convergence in Black-White occupational outcomes.
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CORE Econ @coreecon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A great piece from @ucstonecenter.bsky.social looking at the many invaluable contributions CORE co-founder Sam Bowles has made to economics education: stonecenter.uchicago.edu/news-insight...
Steven Durlauf and Sam Bowles
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to…
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why isn't the market pursuing pro-worker AI? Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social explains that the reasons are both economic and ideological.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗵𝘂 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘆𝘂𝘀𝗵 (UBC) will present his paper on 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky Join Us! Title: 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆? 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma (All participants must re-register) 👇Abstract:
We examine how land ownership shapes educational mobility in rural India. Using full-count rural census microdata, we document a robust step-function pattern across the land distribution: educational mobility rises sharply from the landless to marginal landholders and then plateaus. Exploiting historical variation in British-era land-tenure regimes, we demonstrate a causal link between higher landlessness and lower educational mobility. To unpack mechanisms, we develop a model where parents allocate children’s time between school and work under a subsistence constraint. With little or no land, the constraint binds, increasing child labour and suppressing schooling; a small rise in land relaxes it, producing a sharp drop in child labour and a jump in schooling and upward mobility. The framework endogenously generates the step-function, matches the core facts, rationalizes heterogeneities, and yields testable predictions that we validate.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Paper summary here cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In more gender-equal countries - there is more gender segregation in university subjects studied - there is more gender segregation in childhood friendships Fascinating by Manuel Bagues & Natalia Zinovyeva
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
For 30+ years, recent college grads had lower unemployment than the broader workforce. That reversed in the 2020s. Today, recent grads are at 5.6% vs. all workers at 4.2%. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart:
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Excited to share an updated paper from a longstanding agenda with Andy Hall, @dthompson.bsky.social, and Jesse Yoder: "Fortunate Sons: Elite Political Selection in American History" We link Members of Congress (+ their families) to the complete count census, covering congresses from 1850-the 2000s
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗲 (LSE) will present his paper on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱: 𝗔 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮-𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
Intergenerational income persistence is commonly measured as the degree of association between the lifetime income of individuals and that of their parents. Over the last decade, a growing literature has provided national estimates of intergenerational income persistence for a wide range of countries. At the same time, evidence has shown that these estimates are highly sensitive to methodological choices, such as the number of years over which income is averaged, the age at which it is measured, or the set of variables used to predict parental income when it is unobserved. In most cases, data constraints prevent researchers from adopting best practices, limiting comparability across studies. This study systematically compiles national estimates of intergenerational persistence from the literature together with detailed information on their estimation settings. Cross-study variation in these parameters is used to provide a joint assessment of the impact of estimation settings on persistence estimates. Building on these results, national measures are adjusted for methodological differences to provide as consistent a depiction of the variation in intergenerational mobility across countries as possible.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
𝗠. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗻 (IPD, Columbia U) will present his paper on 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
Many recent studies on intergenerational educational mobility adopted the rank-rank model popularized by the work of Chetty et al. (2014, QJE) on income mobility, under the assumption that the approach remains valid for discrete variables. However, conversion of discrete data, such as years of schooling, into percentile ranks fails to make the empirical rank distribution uniform, unlike continuous variables such as income. Thus, the estimates of relative educational mobility from rank-rank regressions are not margin-free, and capture a fundamentally different concept of mobility compared to the rank-rank slope in income mobility analysis. Taking advantage of recent advances on discrete copulas, we introduce a margin-free measure of relative educational mobility, Yule’s coefficient, which is the analogue of the rank-rank slope in income mobility. Yule’s coefficient was proposed by Geenens (2020) as a summary measure of the margin-free dependence structure between two discrete variables such as children’s and parents’ schooling. The margin-free dependence structure is estimated by an iterative matrix re-scaling procedure applied to the joint probability mass function of the bivariate discrete distribution. We report estimates of Yule’s coefficient for 6 countries: the USA, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Chile, and Mexico. The evidence suggests that, in many cases, the rank-rank slope estimates for schooling overestimate the margin-free relative educational mobility (positional mobility). For example, the estimates for the USA (PSID data) are: rank-rank slope=0.441 and Yule’s coefficient=0.534. The extent of overestimation in the national estimates varies considerably across countries: 3.09% – 48.31%. The cross-country rankings and evolution of educational mobility across cohorts are substantially different when we use the margin-free Yule’s coefficient instead of the rank-based measures.
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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭🚨 🎉 🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡, 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮” 🏙️📈, has been published in the 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 (the premier and official journal of @areuea.bsky.social 🚀 🚀 🚀
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our research on regional inequality was featured on the BBC Today programme, focusing on how to boost the UK's non-London "second tier" cities. Listen from 2:39 (w/ Ed Balls & Dan Turner) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today - 19/03/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
𝗟𝗶 𝗬𝗮𝗻𝗴 (Hong Kong University) will present his paper on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #SocSky #AcademicSky Join Us! Title: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗽𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of absolute intergenerational mobility (AIM) in Hong Kong, using census data spanning four decades. Employing the “copula and marginals” method, the authors document a sharp decline in AIM, from 85% for the 1976 birth cohort to 49% for the 2001 cohort, driven largely by diminished labor income mobility. The erosion stems primarily from slower economic growth rather than rising inequality; under constant economic growth, AIM would stabilize at approximately 67%, accounting for nearly all of the decline, with minimal residual from inequality or copula changes. The findings are robust across specifications, and an innovative Mincer equation–based decomposition highlights education’s critical role in mitigating declines, offering general insights into how tertiary expansion shapes mobility in transitioning economies.
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 06/02/2026
"... the belief that great ideas are entirely new. In practice, he argues, many innovations grow out of existing ones, often by borrowing or transplanting concepts from one field to another." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘How Great Ideas Happen’ Review: Building a Brainstorm
The romantic idea of an insight that suddenly dawns is misleading. Most breakthroughs come slowly.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Labor Market Competition symposium in the JEP-- all articles look like a must-read.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
𝗞𝗷𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗚. 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 (Norwegian School of Economics) will present his paper on 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #Socsky Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀, 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a result, intergenerational mobility in college education increases.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮-𝗭𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 (Bank of Italy) will present his paper on 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 Time : 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 ||𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟭 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. We estimate multigenerational correlations in education across three generations, using five waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and the 1995 and 2005 Censuses. Contrary to previous findings, we find a negative grandparent-grandchild coefficient, implying greater educational mobility than the intergenerational correlations from developing contexts typically suggest. We build a theoretical framework to identify two key factors influencing multigenerational transmission in developing countries: (1) financial and credit constraints, and (2) cultural norms surrounding marital sorting. To test the salience of these mechanisms in Indonesia, we analyze regional variations in marital practices, education expenditures, and the impact of 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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Shahe Emran @shahe-emran-econ.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The linear model of educational mobility is misleading for understanding the evolution in Japan. It suggests no changes between the 1940s and 1990s birth cohorts, but the mobility curve was concave in the 1940s, and became convex in the 1990s. Link to the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Convexity and Latent Status: Understanding the Evolution of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Japan
We study intergenerational educational mobility in Japan, with a focus on its evolution from the 1940s to the 1990s birth cohorts.  Japan is an excellent c
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Researching social mobility is hard in countries that only have data on coresident family members. This paper suggests that sibling similarity is a more robust measure in this case than parent-child similarity.
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Read the full paper: "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆" by Ahsan, Emran, Mohammed, Murphy, & Shilpi (Dec 2025). #Economics #Education #SocialMobility (13/14). Link: tinyurl.com/ykjf7ur2
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<p>When Ranks Fail: New Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility</p>
Many recent studies on intergenerational educational mobility adopted the rank-rank model popularized by the work of Chetty et al. (2014, QJE) on income mobilit
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
To understand if we are truly equalizing educational opportunity, we need measures that aren't distorted by the "lumpy" nature of education data. (13/14)
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Is the popular rank-rank model (Chetty et al., 2014) valid for measuring educational mobility? While rank-based measures of mobility work well for continuous variables such as income, they face intractable challenges when applied to discrete variables, such as years of schooling. #Econsky (1/14)
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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🔗 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙! 📝💬👏
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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
#IntergenerationalMobility #SocialMobility #UpwardMobility #EconomicOpportunity #DevelopmentEconomics #SocialSustainability #EconSky
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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🚨 🎉 I’m thrilled to share that our paper, “𝙄𝙨 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙮? 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙞𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖” (with amazing coauthors @shahe-emran-econ.bsky.social and Forhad Shilpi), has recently been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 & 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀
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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thanks for sharing! This is still a preliminary draft, and any comments would be greatly appreciated!
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
My interview with Joe Stiglitz in which we talk about, among other things, how bankruptcy and intellectual property laws were structured to make billionaires richer cepr.net/publications...
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The Economy After the September Jobs Report
The September jobs report shows weak job growth, higher unemployment, and a cooling labor market driven mostly by healthcare gains.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗲𝗶 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗮 (NUS) will present his paper 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A hearty congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences! Great work, deservedly recognized. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social presents new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues. Publishing November 4. Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik. New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📢 𝗭𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿 (Princeton U) will present his paper on college mobility on 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. #EconSky #AcademicSky #Socsky Join us! Title: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟬 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/ekdw93ma 👇Abstract:
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Proposed cuts to NIH and NSF threaten to shut down labs, end promising clinical trials, and stall the progress that millions of families are counting on. Listen to Gwen. #sciencesavedme www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HT...
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Evidence from the matrilineal tribe of West Sumatra (Minangkabau) confirms the fundamental role of gender norms, where boys were crowded out, not girls! This highlights that educational policies must consider potential bottlenecks & social norms for equitable outcomes. Paper: tinyurl.com/3s6sn6xy
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Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Using full-count census data from Indonesia and a difference-in-difference design, we analyze the effects of primary school expansion on intergenerational educa
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Facing the bottleneck, boys crowded out girls at the secondary level, irrespective of a girl’s family background. Labor market returns don't explain this. Instead, we find strong evidence that #SocialNorms, specifically son preference in a patrilineal society, drives this crowding out.
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Nazmul Ahsan @nazmul-ahsan-econ.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Does large-scale public primary school construction improve educational mobility in developing countries? No credible evidence on this. We estimate the effects of 61k primary schools in Indonesia. Short answer: improved mobility for disadvantaged sons, but not for daughters. Why? #Econsky
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thank you, @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social, for reviewing my new book, The Origins of Inequality and Policies to Contain It. A very thoughtful piece. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
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Joseph Stiglitz – inequality is not an inevitable consequence of capitalism - LSE Review of Books
In The Origins of Inequality and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his career intoa framework for understanding inequality.
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 (𝗠𝗜𝗧) [ annastansbury.bsky.social ] will present on June 20, 2025. #EconSky Join us! Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉https://sites.google.com/view/rnim-seminar/home?authuser=0 👇Abstract:
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
📢 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 (𝗠𝗜𝗧) will present on June 20, 2025. Please join the seminar! Title: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮 Time: 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 || 𝟰 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗘𝗧 || 𝟭𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 Registration: 👉https://sites.google.com/view/rnim-seminar/home?authuser=0 👇Abstract:
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RNIM (Research Network on Intergenerational Mobility) @rnim-seminar.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📢 Join the RNIM Seminar on May 23 to learn about Dr. Forhad Shilpi's latest research on Intergenerational Mobility. Title: Opportunity and Risk Time: 10 AM EST || 4 PM CET || 10 PM China Registration: 👉 sites.google.com/view/rnim-se... Abstract:👇
The standard measures of intergenerational mobility do not account for risk. We develop a broader approach where conditional variance of children's outcome is a summary statistic for life-time risks. Conditional variance of children's schooling declines with father's education. We derive risk-adjusted measures of educational mobility by accounting for the risk premium implied by conditional variance. Estimates of risk-adjusted mobility in China, India, and Indonesia suggest that the standard measures overestimate relative and absolute educational mobility. The overestimation is substantial for the disadvantaged children and daughters, but negligible for the children of college-educated fathers.
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