Nice to hear ex-Kanzler Scholz mention our paper with @brankomilan.bsky.social on homoploutia on The Rest Is Politics.
It looks at how top labor and capital incomes increasingly go to the same households and what that means for inequality: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper on the capitalization of the world, together with @brankomilan.bsky.social, out today! A short thread follows below 👇
Join us in London in May for our 6th Early Career Workshop!
Details below:
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Guido Tabellini on "Do Elections Moderate or Polarize Political Rhetoric?"
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
🏆 François Bourguignon, former Director of PSE and Director of Studies at @ehess.fr, has been awarded the 2026 Revue économique Prize for his major contributions to research on inequality, poverty, and economic development.
shorturl.at/LT8F8
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Ignacio Jurado (@jurado.bsky.social) on "Losing Elections: Democratic Consent and Illiberal Attitudes in Polarized Contexts".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity
Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.
Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.
Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Florian Foos (@florianfoos.bsky.social, LSE) on "Differential Mobilization and Turnout Inequality".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
📢 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
📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢
I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇
3rd Opportunity & Mobility research grant at III LSE. Join us for a visiting period! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
The #IIPF2026 Call for Papers is out!
👉 www.iipf.org/papers/Call%...
Submit your public finance paper by Feb. 15, 2026.
Further information on the congress at www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/event/iipf/
Organizers at ISEG 👇 and Scientific Chairs Naomi Feldman and @dforemny.bsky.social
#EconConf #EconSky
📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
🚨 PhD Opportunity on the Economics of AI 🚨
I'm recruiting a fully funded 3.5-year PhD student to study how generative AI is transforming UK labour markets!
This position is a unique collaboration between King's College London and the AI Security Institute.
We're organizing a conference to honor life and work of Shlomo Yitzhaki (he passed away in 2023). He made major contributions to work on inequality and tax policy design, in economics and statistics. He was also my co-author and friend👇
Please consider submitting and attending!
📢 Call for Submissions
UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE.
🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025
🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...
On Wednesday, I joined the 12th London Inequality Workshop at King’s College London, hosted by the London Inequality Network. It brought together over 50 scholars to discuss wealth, inheritance, and mobility.
Thks @yonatanberman.com @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @cmtneztt.bsky.social for the invitation!
Happening today!
Congrats Elena!❤️
And also this👇
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And also this👇
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📢One week to go!
There is still some time to sign up!
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🚨🚨🚨 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...
Even with the current debates about property taxes and the proposed 'mansion tax', none of this is likely to meaningfully change the regressive nature of Stamp Duty in the UK.
This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Eleonora Alabrese (@eleala.bsky.social, U. of Bath) on "Bad Science: Retractions and Media Coverage".
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
