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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to post this wonderful conversation with Joseph Fishkin, whose brilliant book Bottlenecks has so deeply influenced my thinking about inequality and meritocracy.

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 1d

What if the goal isn’t equal outcomes, but equal access? This week on the podcast, @durlauf.bsky.social and @fishkin.bsky.social discuss opportunity pluralism, meritocracy, and how political economy has shaped American democracy.
If you care about inequality, this is a must-listen → zurl.co/JRALG

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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Parental income and family structure during childhood shape adult income—especially in middle childhood and adolescence. These effects complement one another across key developmental stages. Research by Yoosoon Chang, Steven Durlauf, Bo Hu & Joon Park. https://ow.ly/kZeL50X7ott

The Effects of Parental Income and Family Structure on Intergenerational Mobility: A Trajectories-Based Approach | Becker Friedman Institute

A rich literature within economics focuses on , or, the relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and their children’s outcomes later in life. While much research focuses on how parents’ average income shapes that of their child, research also suggests that timing matters across childhood. Moreover, joint consideration of family income and family structure is less Read more...

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 9d

Earlier this month, we hosted an authors' conference for the upcoming volume, "Whither Meritocracy?" published by the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Read the recap and preview what's to come → bit.ly/46VBKro

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 13d

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 13d

Are the new H-1B rules creating the wrong incentives? @durlauf.bsky.social tells @latimes.com how the policy could push growth away from the U.S.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 13d

Hiltzik: H-1B visas have always been a scam. Trump's changes won't fix the problem

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 14d

Very happy that exceptional conversation with Alexander Monge-Naranjo has posted. Alex's work addresses many aspects of inequality, from financial barriers to college attainment to the dynamics of spatial inequality in cities.

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 15d

Alexander Monge-Naranjo has been researching the role of credit constraints in shaping educational attainment. He sits down with @durlauf.bsky.social to discuss how credit access matters for recent cohorts, whereas family resources were more determinative for earlier groups.
Listen → bit.ly/4nOXPxK

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yanagallen.bsky.social @yanagallen.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper! (And note that effects faded to a pretty precise 0 by six months later)

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 27d

Very happy to share this terrific conversation with Francisco Ferreira @lseinequalities.bsky.social, with a focus on his foundational work on inherited inequality.

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 27d

"How much of the inequality we observe today can be predicted by inherited circumstances?”
This week on the podcast, Steven Durlauf is joined by Francisco Ferreira to explore how inherited inequality unfolds across countries and regions.
🎧 Hear the full conversation bit.ly/45XLHnV

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 29d

Recommended! Important evidence on declining mobility in Germany, consistent with an intertemporal Great Gatsby Curve.

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great opportunity.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

5/Using the PSID, we show that later year incomes are more important for offspring income terciles than other years and there is especially high complementary between parental income during middle to late childhood and family structure during late childhood, among other results.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

4/The analysis uses functional data analysis methods, some pioneered by my coauthors. The key idea is to use variants of the beautiful Karhunen-Loeve expansion to produce optimal approximations to the stochastic processes for the trajectories that may be used for estimation.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

3/This allows one to measure interactions between the two trajectories within and across years, creating the possibility that complementary effects and substitution effects between trajectory values depending on which pairs of elements are considered.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

2/The paper's methodological innovation is development of a framework to estimate family-specific transition probabilities which depend on the complete trajectories of family and family incomes across childhood and adolescence.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

1/Very pleased to release this paper which provides a very flexible methodology for estimation of Markov transition matrices linking parents to children, joint with my brilliant coauthors Yoosoon Chang, Bo Hu, and Joon Park.

NBER @nber.org · Sep 2

Providing a general framework for understanding how trajectories of family income and family structure affect adult outcomes, from Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Bo Hu, and Joon Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34179

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Tim Bartik @timbartik.bsky.social · Sep 2

My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very much looking forward to this event which celebrates the 10th anniversary of @lseinequalities.bsky.social.

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us at on 18 Sept for New Directions in Inequality Research, a panel event exploring the biggest gaps, challenges and future priorities in the field.

🎙️ With Facundo Alvaredo, Steven Durlauf, Anne Phillips, & LSE President Larry Kramer
🔗 buff.ly/ziJtegT

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you @tderyugina.bsky.social for taking the lead on this important letter.

Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 27

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very pleased to release this new paper with Giovanni Bernardo, Andros Kourtellos, and Chih Ming Tan on the measurement of inequality of opportunity.

NBER @nber.org · Aug 28

How to make inequality of opportunity measurement more credible by accounting for model uncertainty, from Giovanni Bernardo, Steven N. Durlauf, Andros Kourtellos, and Chih Ming Tan https://www.nber.org/papers/w34163

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Delighted that this conversation with the wonderful Wendy Carlin has posted.

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Econ 101 usually sticks to perfect models. The CORE project (@coreecon.bsky.social) is trying to change that by tackling climate, inequality, innovation, and the future of work. This week’s podcast guest is reinventing how economics is taught—with free resources. Listen wherever you get podcasts!

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Must read paper which provides fascinating evidence on the ways the Industrial Revolution generated social mobility.

NBER @nber.org · Aug 25

Social mobility went up over the course of the Industrial Revolution in England, and especially in parts of England where manufacturing was concentrated, from Cara Ebert, Leander Heldring, James A. Robinson, and Sebastian Vollmer https://www.nber.org/papers/w34153

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Very pleased to post this new paper which provides some theoretical structures to study aspects of the dynamics of assimilation.

NBER @nber.org · Aug 22

Exploring the role of social influences in majority language acquisition and language minorities and demonstrates complex comparative statics exist in such environments, from William A. Brock, Bo Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Shlomo Weber https://www.nber.org/papers/w34138

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NBER @nber.org · Aug 22

Exploring the role of social influences in majority language acquisition and language minorities and demonstrates complex comparative statics exist in such environments, from William A. Brock, Bo Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Shlomo Weber https://www.nber.org/papers/w34138

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Let me highlight my coauthor, the brilliant Stone Center postdoc Kristina Butaeva @butaevak.bsky.social, who was the heart and soul of the project.‬

NBER @nber.org · Aug 19

Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Delighted to release with paper with Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, and Albert Park. Many of the Markov chain ideas we develop are inspired by mobility ideas that originate in sociology, specifically about exchange versus structural mobility.

NBER @nber.org · Aug 19

Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · Aug 17

EJ Antoni for BLS Commissioner - Neither citations nor experience conducting statistical analysis needed (according to Daily Signal) #econsky
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What’s the Defense for Antoni’s Nomination? | Econbrowser

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