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And just like that, a case study in poor data management is born! How did this go unnoticed for a week...? This is not an 'IT error' or a 'computer glitch', this is systemic incompetence.

One thing I didn't anticipate being taught in final year of PhD: Optimal plant positioning, lighting and book choice/placement

For The Drift's second issue (out now!) I wrote about a government merger I felt particularly angsty about this summer. thedriftmag.com/first-world-pr…

Michael Sanders King's College London with a great commentary on my gender pay gap reporting research. He raises an important point on distributional effects: "Not only does the gender pay gap still loom large, the spoils of transparency are unevenly divided" kcl.ac.uk/news/gender-pa…

Nice brief write-up of our work on intergenerational mobility across England and Wales in the latest CentrePiece magazine from Centre for Economic Performance

New! Gender pay gap closes by one fifth in response to reporting requirements Research by Jack Blundell Read: ow.ly/1Iue50E8rDw

UK gender pay gap reporting: a crude but effective policy? The difference between women’s and men’s pay has shrunk by just under a fifth at affected employers. Jack Blundell Centre for Economic Performance buff.ly/3fl7qw4

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the 'James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy' at UCL Economics, made possible with a gift by the Stone Foundation ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/economics/jame…

True stories about shortages of foreign workers currently command a fraction of the coverage that untrue stories about an abundance of foreign workers used to enjoy in most British newspapers.

NEW: We publish a new ranking of English universities in terms of their contributions to social mobility – and the least selective post-1992 institutions come out top. Read our report with The Sutton Trust & commissioned by Department for Education > ifs.org.uk/publications/1… [THREAD: 1/9]

Thanks PyData London for hosting PyData 2022! I had fun giving my talk introducing #Python standard library modules #pathlib, #datetime, #collections, #itertools and #functools youtube.com/watch?v=ypApmO…

First couple of blog posts up on my website here: jackblundell.co.uk. Both are on rerandomisation in experiments.

Hey #econtwitter, we just updated our working paper on the gender pay gap! In 2018, the UK introduced legislation that makes firms disclose their gender pay gaps. Unusually, information is made public rather than just being shared with employees’ reps. So what happened?