Tomorrow at King's, Waterloo Campus!

Related to that: in the UK, stamp duty (a transaction tax on property purchases) is effectively a regressive wealth tax. For most homeowners it's a one-off tax on wealth paid once or twice in a lifetime, and falls disproportionately on the middle class.
(from upcoming work with @zhuowen.bsky.social)

KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate
Conference

📅Date: 26 Nov 2025
🏟️Place: KCL Waterloo Campus
🎤Keynote: Prof. Jonathan Wolff
📊Sessions: Interdisciplinary & Policy-oriented (see ⤵︎for details)
📝Register here:
kclppe4pp.github.io

Please come join us!!

#PPE #Econsky #Philsky
#Polisky #Policysky

📢Call for Abstracts:

PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London

📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025
✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep)
➡️ Details & Application Form:
tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

#CfA #CfP #PPE #Econsky #Philsky #Polisky #Policysky

Why do social class and income still stick together after 100 years?
@thaning.bsky.social has the Swedish data – and the answers.
June 24, 12:15
Hosted by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social
Because meritocracy is more of a vibe than a reality.
#isimunich #sociology #inequality #lmu

There exist a wide range of measures of social heterogeneity, leading to a rich literature on their effects on socioeconomic outcomes, from Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, and Romain Wacziarg https://www.nber.org/papers/w33896

Examining whether Confucianism is to blame for why China missed the Industrial Revolution and did not democratize, from Ruixue Jia and James Kai-sing Kung https://www.nber.org/papers/w33883

The sunshine at #RC28meeting in Milan. Grateful for the inspiring sessions and everything in Milan those days.