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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 29d

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.

It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.

Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years

A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Aug 12

NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics.

📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...

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Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · Jun 26

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:

Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.

Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights

Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Jun 26

With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.

Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · Jun 26

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:

Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.

Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights

Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...

microeconomicinsights.org

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The Stone Centre at UCL @stoneeconucl.bsky.social · Jun 19

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎓 Book your #virtualtix for the #DeatonReview session at #RES2025 Mon 30 June! By @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social

🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Jun 16

This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social‬, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social‬, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White.

Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Last chance! Register by 8 June for #RES2025, 30 June–2 July @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🌞

🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel

🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y
🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jun 3

"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · May 24

📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education.

Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).

Chart showing Sure Start generated benefits for children up to adolescence, including improved GCSE results. Title states "Effects of Sure Start on achievement by age."

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · May 16

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights

Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · May 16

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights

Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...

microeconomicinsights.org

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · May 8

📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount!

Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y

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Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · Apr 28

The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead.

Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

microeconomicinsights.org

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Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · Apr 28

New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller:

Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Feb 2

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Trade and globalization

Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 20

We are delighted to announce that @helenmiller.bsky.social has been appointed as the next IFS Director, following on from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social in July 2025.

Find out more:

Helen Miller appointed as new Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Mar 14

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages" by Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages

(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men and women in the US using a quantile selection model to account for systematic differences in employmen...

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 7

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 7

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

ifs.org.uk

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 7

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

ifs.org.uk

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 7

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

ifs.org.uk

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Mar 1

It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦

If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇

foundation.kse.ua/en

Home - KSE Charitable Foundation

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Mar 1

New MI article ‘calls for a re-evaluation of occupational licensing regulations in professional service industries, to ensure these policies do not restrict entry into the industry for individuals who have fulfilled the necessary educational requirements’. microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

Private monopoly and restricted entry | Microeconomic Insights

Occupational licensing regulations are common across many service sectors, including health, education, transportation, and legal services. These regulations affect up to 20-30% of workers in both the...

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