🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

Now the time has come. #Impeach_Yoon #대통령_탄핵하라

Come visit LIS & LISER to collaborate with us!

Incidentally, issues of a fair data economy are discussed in greater detail in this recent report (to which I also contributed), written under the auspices of the Project Liberty Institute : projectliberty.io/news/project-l…

🌍 Exciting Opportunities at LISER and LIS! LISER and the LIS (LIS) are proud to announce the third call for two research initiatives: This year a particular attention will be given to the policies dealing with old-age and pensions and their impact on inequality and labour

👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals. Explore our databases here: lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research

Just a reminder that the deadline for the LIS-LISER visiting programme is the end of this month!

Join Professor Hanne Marlene Dahl (RUC) at our next seminar: "#Neoliberalism and #CareCrisis in the Nordic Welfare States" 🗓 Date: 30 January 📍 Hybrid Discover how neoliberalism reshaped Nordic care. Book➡️: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5e476…

Are you a LIS/LWS user curious about how variables are harmonized in detail? Here's our detailed mapping process!

Reminder: deadline in two days for LIS-LISER Visiting Fellowships!

Deadline extended! You have now one more week to apply for the LIS-LISER visiting programme! - Benefits: full access to LIS/LWS microdata + opportunities to collaborate with amazing inequality scholars from diverse backgrounds + funding for travel & living expenses

✨New Research ✨ Professor Nicole Kapelle has published a new paper in European Societies (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) with Andreas Weiland. Read the paper 👉 tinyurl.com/58jpb6nn @TCD_SSP Trinity Research

Special Event: ‘Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War’ Branko Milanovic presents highlights from his most recent book followed by a discussion with Francisco Ferreira and Janet Gornick.

Prof. Fabian Pfeffer (LMU Munich) giving the second Keynote Lecture of the 2nd III/LIS Comporative Economic Inequality Conference. Great insights in wealth and redistribution! Universität München

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) TCD Sociology 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: tcd.ie/sociology/vaca… Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity

Curious about the LIS/LWS database and eager to learn how to use quantitative methods with the harmonised dataset for comparative research? Register for the LIS Summer Workshop! I will also contribute to teaching macro-panel (or time-series cross-section) methods using LIS data.

New at Journal of Public Economics w/ Lukas Lehner & Nathan Wilmers: Personal earnings inequality finally declined in the US from 2010-2022. Simultanously, household income inequality continued its decades-long rise. What explains the discordant inequality trends? Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Reminder: The application deadline for the 2025 LIS Summer Workshop is 11 April 2025. This course will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus. For more details and to apply: lisdatacenter.org/news-and-event… #Inequality #SummerWorkshop

Forthcoming: Handbook on Welfare State Reform with 28 chapters examining main approaches, advanced methods, policy areas, and reform trends for the study of welfare states, August 2025: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handb…

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John B. Holbein alerted me, Olle Folke, and Joop Adema (Joop Adema) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵