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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in August 2027 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on wealth inequality, the other more broadly on economic inequality. Apply by Nov. 2! stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications...

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Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A new WP constructs the 1st continuous long-run series of top wealth concentration for South Korea, using estate tax tabulations & the mortality multiplier method. It documents two distinct regimes: low, stable concentration from 1970-1990, followed by an abrupt rise in the late '90s. bit.ly/4wzv5gL

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Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

On panelView, and why we should always look at our data first.. yiqingxu.substack.com/p/plot-your-...

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Please look at your (panel) data

Many of the most egregious issues can be avoided by simply looking at the data.

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A panel of experts will discuss @brankomilan.bsky.social's latest book, "The Great Global Transformation," this Wed., May 6, at 6:30 pm. Featuring Qin Gao, Daniel Markovitz & @adamtooze.bsky.social; moderated by @janetgornick.bsky.social. Register for the livestream!

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We’re pleased to announce a $10 million gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, which supports the work of @stone-lis.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu/news/10-mill... @cuny.edu

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"[T]he rich man holds the Law in his purse." -- Rousseau, Letters Written from the Mountain (#9).

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 29/01/2026

2025 highlights: ✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 ✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October ✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December ✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers ...and more! 📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Now another R&R at one of my favorite journals (JEH) - 2026 is blessed 😀

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 22/01/2026

To make the most of the World Inequality Database, consult the DINA Guidelines and other resources: wid.world/methodology/ This 3rd edition includes improved or new: 🔹macro aggregates 🔹income and wealth definitions 🔹data-quality flags 🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

✨ Good news to start 2026! ✨ 🥳 Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.

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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I am so very sorry to hear about the passing about my friend and colleague Professor Kimuli Kasara. She was a brilliant scholar and a bright, funny, warm person. I remember first meeting her as the only other Black woman/faculty at the Columbia political econ seminar and feeling relief/happiness

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · 30/12/2025

🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Also, "contributed by" articles should probably be entirely done away with at PNAS. This dirty little secret is that this provides a way for NAS members to get questionable work in at a high profile outlet with less stringent peer review. It's corrupt and it's anti science.

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 08/12/2025

South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income. New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993. Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

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Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa - WID - World Inequality Database

Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international aca...

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...

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World Inequality Report 2026

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes. A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

🇩🇪💼🇨🇳 Amid rising China–EU tensions, how do Germans really see Chinese foreign investment? And can facts, positive narratives, or negative narratives change those views? We answer this using: 🧪 A survey experiment in SOEP-IS (N = 2,365) 🇨🇳 A mirrored national survey in China (N = 2,000) 🧵 A thread.

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · 18/11/2025

📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Economics | King's College London

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Very excited to present ongoing work on the long shadow of French colonial army and military forced labor in Mali at the virtual workshop on French economic history online later!

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Cédric Chambru @cedricchambru.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present: “Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali” Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.

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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Transformative national development (as opposed to nano-developmentalist nibbling at the margins) is the only way out of this. The sooner everyone is on the same page the better.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 14/11/2025

🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social 🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 14/11/2025

Research shows strong public support for global climate & redistributive policies — and this new study by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social confirms it, through an original survey representative of the population in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇸🇦 🇺🇸 Read more: wid.world/news-article...

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Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries - WID - World Inequality Database

Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries This paper examines the support for global redistribution policies through an original survey representative of the populatio...

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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨 Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts". Application deadline: 30 December. #econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social bit.ly/4qWyG6G

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Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in Public Economics (22572)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/11/2025

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor
Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich
Aaron Sojourner

We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain
where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where
Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated
and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage
garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New Working Paper by Stone Center postdoc Zhexun Mo, coauthored with Katharina Kaeppel, Carsten Schroder, and our Affiliated Scholar Li Yang. Their intriguing findings highlight asymmetry in German vs Chinese perceptions of the other's Foreign Direct Investments. @zhexunmo.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Excited to share our new Stone Center WP! 🇩🇪📄 We survey how Germans perceive Chinese FDI: they overestimate it (~30% vs. ~1%) and view it less favorably than U.S./EU investment. Three treatments (factual + narrative) shift views only slightly—deep attitudes persist.

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Nouvelle étude de @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt confirme l’importance du facteur discriminatoire sur le marché du travail en 🇫🇷. Les minorités racisées subissent de fortes pénalités salariales. Être né.e en France réduit ces écarts, sans les faire disparaître.

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Video is up! On Oct 7, 2025, our Stone Center hosted a panel on "AI and the Future of Work", featuring Daron Acemoglu, Paul Krugman, Danielle Li, and Zeynep Tufekci, moderated by Steven Greenhouse. Quick summary: Question: Should we be terrified of the future? Answer: ... sort of... 👇👇👇

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing. Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇

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Africa Confidential @africa-confidential.com · 27/10/2025

#Jihadists are threatening #Mali’s southern supply routes to Côte d'Ivoire, already attacking a tanker on the road from #Bamako to #Sikasso. If successful, that could further isolate Mali’s capital. africa-conf.com/jihadists-ti...

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Jihadists tighten their stranglehold

With critical gold mines in the Kayes region already under threat, the militants are now targeting critical commercial axes

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

To what degree did education & health access become more inclusive globally in recent decades? To answer this and other questions, this WP constructs a new historical database on public expenditure and revenue and their components covering all world regions over the 1800–2025 period. bit.ly/3JlSBL2

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The Stone Centre at UCL @stoneeconucl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🎉 Join us for a free online event. 📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT. With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought:
A Panel Conversation, featuring Branko Milanovic and David Lay Williams
Tuesday November 4th 5pm GMT

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @advocate.nyc.gov · 22/10/2025

"Shame!" This word echoed across Canal Street as New Yorkers gathered to defend our neighbors from ICE. Federal agents swarmed this commercial and cultural hub today, depriving vendors of due process and ripping them from their families—all because they tried to earn a living.

Council Member Avilés speaks near 26 Federal Plaza at a nighttime press conference, as the Public Advocate and elected officials listen

The Public Advocate and Comptroller look at phone footage taken by protesters

The Comptroller speaks at a crowded nighttime press conference

The Public Advocate and Comptroller, photographed from behind, look on past the barricades in front of 26 Federal Plaza. NYPD Officers are on the other side

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Great opportunity: A position in IR/Politics of China in a *fantastic* department @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social and wonderful city! 👇

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New @stone-lis.bsky.social Working Paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Zhexun Mo, coauthored by Sehyun Hong, Nak Nyeon Kim, and our Affiliated Scholar Li Yang. This fascinating paper assesses income #inequality in South Korea during the course of nearly a century. @zhexunmo.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 21/10/2025

🔴Le replay du Débat de l’Égalité avec @lucaschancel.bsky.social autour de son dernier livre est désormais disponible👇 "L'histoire montre que les sociétés contemporaines ont le choix dans l'organisation du contrôle de l'énergie" youtu.be/X5bXwcd8qcg?... @editionsduseuil.bsky.social @pse.bsky.social

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Débat de l’Égalité: Énergie et Inégalités, Une Histoire Politique, avec Lucas Chancel

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Two weeks! Apply by Nov. 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in Aug. 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky

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Zhexun Mo @zhexunmo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Very happy to share an updated version of our working paper investigating long-run income inequalities in South Korea using the Distributional National Accounts (DINA) approach. In particular, we find that the top 1% share in 2022 (15%) is very similar to the level observed in colonial Korea.

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 15/10/2025

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 01/10/2025

Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

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Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties - WID - World Inequality Database

This study documents disparities in earnings and ranks across different minority groups in France and compare France with the US.

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