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Carlos Gradín
@carlosgradin.bsky.social
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Prof. Applied Economics, UVigo. Ex-UNU-WIDER. Economic development, labor economics, inequality, poverty. https://sites.google.com/view/cgradin

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · 7d
¿𝐐𝐮𝐞́ 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢́𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧̃𝐚?

Con motivo del Día Internacional de los Derechos de la Infancia, os compartimos algunos resultados importantes del informe técnico que hemos elaborado para la Plataforma de Infancia y que se presentará en diciembre de 2025 en Madrid.

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 7d
SEMINAR: Ready for round two!

🗓️ Wednesday, November 26, at 12:00 (Google Meet)

🎤Speaker: Joan Mut Benítez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Title: Widowhood policy in the US

💬Discussant: Juan Gabriel Rodríguez

DM us if you’d like to join!

#seminarioEQUALITAS

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 12d
@ayllonsara.bsky.social & @samuellado.bsky.social have a new blog post for the Fundació “la Caixa”.

About the causal impact of school-meal subsidies on academic achievement.
elobservatoriosocial.fundacionlacaixa.org/en/-/becas-c...

Want to dive deeper? See their Working Paper:
👉 IZA DP No. 18042
School meal subsidies catalan language - El Observatorio Social - Fundación "la Caixa" - osocial
Do subsidised school meals favour linguistic immersion? According to this study, beneficiary students spend more time at school.
elobservatoriosocial.fundacionlacaixa.org

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Olga Cantó @olgacanto.bsky.social · 20d
Ayer se presentó el IX Informe FOESSA sobre la situación social en España. Imprescindible este análisis para el diseño adecuado de las políticas públicas que necesitamos www.caritas.es/main-files/u...
www.caritas.es

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 29d
Hoy hace un mes que nuestro integrante @carlosgradin.bsky.social pronunció la laudatio en la investidura de Joseph E. Stiglitz como doctor honoris causa de la UIMP.

👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo:
equalitas.es/es/noticias/...
El premio Nobel de Economía, Joseph E. Stiglitz, fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) | Equalitas
equalitas.es

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Oct 15
Off we go! First Equalitas seminar:

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)

🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna

Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment

💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social

DM us if you’d like to join!

#seminarioEQUALITAS

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · Oct 15
Además, destaca sus implicaciones políticas y sociales, vinculadas al aumento del malestar ciudadano y la polarización.

🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · Oct 15
El texto muestra que España se sitúa entre los países europeos con mayores niveles de inseguridad económica, un fenómeno que no solo afecta a los hogares con menos recursos, sino también a amplios sectores de las clases medias.

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · Oct 15
A partir de su capítulo publicado en el Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, junto a nuestra también compañera Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, analiza cómo las percepciones de riesgo influyen en la calidad de vida, considerando esto una dimensión central de la cohesión social.

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · Oct 15
🚨🗞️ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓!

Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Oct 14
The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Oct 13
We’re excited to launch the Equalitas Seminars, a forum for sharing and discussing ongoing research.

🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.

Open access upon request and approval.

Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Sep 29
A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more.

uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Sep 26
This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain).
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)

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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · Sep 17
📢 Out now: “Gender Equality in a Changing World”

Key topics covered:
✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care
✅ Addressing gender-based violence
✅ The digital and green transitions

Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Sep 9
Thanks for coming!
fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9
It was a pleasure presenting at the XI EQUALITAS workshop @redequalitas.bsky.social hosted by @uvigo.bsky.social 🤩 Very grateful for the insightful feedback! Big thanks to the organizers @carlosgradin.bsky.social, Coral and Olga 👏

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Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9
It was a pleasure presenting at the XI EQUALITAS workshop @redequalitas.bsky.social hosted by @uvigo.bsky.social 🤩 Very grateful for the insightful feedback! Big thanks to the organizers @carlosgradin.bsky.social, Coral and Olga 👏

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Sara Ayllón @ayllonsara.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hoy en Vigo con l@s @redequalitas.bsky.social en nuestro XI workshop! #poverty #inequality #ipv #wages #academicfriends #workhardplayhard

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Stephen P. Jenkins @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social · Apr 14
Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Jun 27
🔁By merging sociological and economic insights, the article offers a nuanced discussion of wealth's role in contemporary class analysis (2/2)

Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research
Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...
link.springer.com

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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 26
🇪🇸 How is wealth distributed in Spain ?

This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain.

Key findings in 🧵[1/5]
wid.world/news-article...
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain - WID - World Inequality Database
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an internation...
wid.world

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Jun 25
Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'

Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Jun 5
New OA book by Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese.

They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Poverty in Latin America
Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Poverty in Latin America
doi.org

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jun 4
🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · May 26
How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦

Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.

www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...

Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
How have the returns to education evolved in post-apartheid South Africa? | Econ3x3
www.econ3x3.org

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Pedro Salas-Rojo 🍉 @psalasr.bsky.social · May 26
Hace unos días conversé con Rodrigo Terrasa sobre herencias, desigualdad intergeneracional y desigualdad intrageneracional. Le ha quedado un artículo muy chulo:

¿Heredas o trabajas?

www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 20
A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...
www.iea-world.org

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Pedro Salas-Rojo 🍉 @psalasr.bsky.social · May 19
📣New paper out with #VanesaJorda and @paolobrunori.bsky.social! Polarization of Opportunity @ Econletters.

Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · May 14
Acemoglu argues: the positive macroeconomic effects of AI will be modest at best. "AI advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation [...] predicted to widen the gap between capital and labor income [...] some of new tasks may have negative social value"