Stéphane Benveniste

@stephanebenveniste.com

Social scientist (econ) | Assistant professor @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social, PhD from AMSE, General Secretary @afepop.fr | Research on Inequality, Education, Wealth stephanebenveniste.com

📢 Table ronde la Conférence AFÉPOP 2026 📢 🧭 Solidarités privées, solidarités publiques : quelles politiques face au vieillissement de la population ? 📅 Jeudi 7 mai | 16h15–18h 📍 Faculté des sciences économiques et de gestion, Strasbourg 👉 Ouvert à tous, sans inscription 🍸 Suivi d'un cocktail

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🎉 Next week! The #AFÉPOP2026 conference is almost here! 📅 May 6-7 📍 Strasbourg 🗣️ Keynote: Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni, @cesifo.org, @iza.org) 📚 Sessions covering education, family, health, inequality, migration, development & more Don't miss the French conference in population economics 🔬

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 9mo ago

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 AFÉPOP 2026 CONFERENCE 🗓️ May 6-7, 2026 📍 Strasbourg BETA ✨Keynote: Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni, @cesifo.org, @iza.org) Apply👇 afepop2026.sciencesconf.org Topics: Population econ (gender, family, education, labor, health, demography, inequalities, etc.) Deadline: Feb 6⏱️

⏰ LAST WEEK TO APPLY‼️ 📢 AFÉPOP 2026 CONFERENCE 🗓️ May 6-7, 2026 📍 Strasbourg BETA ✨ Keynote: Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni, @cesifo.org, @iza.org) Topics: Population economics (gender, family, education, labor, health, demography, inequalities...) 👉 afepop2026.sciencesconf.org ⏱️ Deadline: Feb 6

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 9mo ago

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 AFÉPOP 2026 CONFERENCE 🗓️ May 6-7, 2026 📍 Strasbourg BETA ✨Keynote: Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus Uni, @cesifo.org, @iza.org) Apply👇 afepop2026.sciencesconf.org Topics: Population econ (gender, family, education, labor, health, demography, inequalities, etc.) Deadline: Feb 6⏱️

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 9mo ago

🔔 The @afepop.fr newsletter is now available! 📬 📰 Join our growing community of population economists. Get updates on research, events, job offers and opportunities in population economics delivered to your inbox. 💡 🔗 Subscribe here: afepop.fr/en/newsletter/ 🔗

⏰🚨Only 5 days left to apply 🚨⏰ Apply here 👇 🔗 afepop2025.sciencesconf.org

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 2y ago

🔔Program update: New keynote speaker🔔 We are excited to announce that @chetinicoletti1.bsky.social will be delivering the keynote lecture at the Afépop Conference 2025 ✨ Join us, and don't miss the deadline (Feb 1st)⌚️ 🔗https://afepop2025.sciencesconf.org 📌Marseille @amseaixmars.bsky.social ⛵️☀️

🚨 Less than 2 weeks to apply to the @afepop.fr Conference 📢 🔆🏖️Great location & an inclusive environment! 🎓PhD students, don't miss out—financial assistance of up to €300 is available for those with limited resources 💵 👶Childcare services can also be provided Info👇

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 2y ago

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 AFÉPOP 2025 CONFERENCE - @afepop.fr Aix-Marseille School of Economics 🗓️ May 15-16, 2025 📍 Marseille ✨Keynote: Pauline Grosjean Apply👇 afepop2025.sciencesconf.org Topics: Population econ (gender, educ, health, labour, demographics, housing, etc.) Deadline: Feb 1⏱️

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour le trail de Mimet ! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Au programme : 13, 29 ou 47 km, selon votre envie (ou folie). Pour les partisans du repos actif, on ouvre bientôt les inscriptions pour l’équipe bronzette et baignade à la plage 🏖️ Et pour tout ça, rdv en mai à Marseille pour #AFEPOP2025 !

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Stéphane Benveniste@stephanebenveniste.com · 2y ago

Come to Marseille next May for #Afepop2025! Get ready to engage your minds, and possibly your legs with a Sunday trail run in the nearby Massif de l'Étoile! 🏃‍♀️🏃

Impressive research showing the persistent overrepresentation of high-income groups in U.S. elite colleges over a century 🇺🇸 This echoes my work on French elite colleges (Grandes Écoles), where admission rates for children of alumni first dropped but have then remained ~80x higher for 80 years 🇫🇷

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Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2y ago

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
November 2024
JEL No. 123, 124, N32
ABSTRACT
We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

This new NBER WP by Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer Kowalski, Santiago Perez, and Joseph Price (along with more than 60 RAs!!) is remarkable. It’s the best data ever compiled on socioeconomic origins at elite colleges, and includes some genuinely surprising findings that should move our priors. A thread:

A paper abstract

Come to Marseille next May for #Afepop2025! Get ready to engage your minds, and possibly your legs with a Sunday trail run in the nearby Massif de l'Étoile! 🏃‍♀️🏃

Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 2y ago

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 AFÉPOP 2025 CONFERENCE - @afepop.fr Aix-Marseille School of Economics 🗓️ May 15-16, 2025 📍 Marseille ✨Keynote: Pauline Grosjean Apply👇 afepop2025.sciencesconf.org Topics: Population econ (gender, educ, health, labour, demographics, housing, etc.) Deadline: Feb 1⏱️

#afepop2024 🔮, we foresee : - high-flying scientific exchanges 💬🛸🗨️ - a 2-days journey of conviviality ☕️🐶⚓️🐱👯 - a beautiful spring sunshine ☀️🌸🌼 - (an amazing emoji contest...) - and a few other surprises 🎁 👇⌛️ Submit your papers and join us in Paris ⌛️👇

Association Française des Économistes de la Population@afepop.fr · 2y ago

🚨📢 Last day to apply to the #afepop2024 conference! 🚨📢 🗼🥐Join us on May 2-3 2024 in the Paris Area for the inaugural conference of the French Association of Population Econ 🥐🗼 🌐👉Click here to submit your paper: afepop2024.sciencesconf.org