It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

🔬 How has psychology contributed to achieving the 🇺🇳 SDGs? Our new preprint maps 230,000 psychology articles to the SDGs using our text2sdg R package (www.text2sdg.io) and analyzes historical trends in topics, national and gendered contributions, and citation patterns. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08628

Does “feeling right”—that is, experiencing regulatory fit—lead us to act more in line with our moral preferences? With @schildchristoph.bsky.social and @stepf.bsky.social, we conducted a series of the first large-scale, independent close replications in the field of regulatory fit.

1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...

Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality

Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...

independent.co.uk

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

It's ok, all holders of these securities need to do is buy an over-the-counter credit derivative to hedge their default risk, then securitize and tranche those derivative contracts and sell the resulting income streams. Assuming the top tranches get AAA credit ratings, what could possibly go wrong?

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington@jsskeffington.bsky.social · 10mo ago

SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff

Interested in how social psychology can illuminate socioeconomic inequality? Come join us for the preconference on economic inequality and social class at SPSP!

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington@jsskeffington.bsky.social · 10mo ago

SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff

🚨 New research published today 'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families. Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen: »Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun. Læs denne artikel!: politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...

Fattige børn får dårligere mad, får sjældnere børstet tænder og får mindre opbakning fra læreren

Danmark | Sektionen med Politikens undersøgende journalistik og seneste nyt indenfor politik, ret, sundhed, uddannelse, forbrug, økonomi og aktuelle temaer

politiken.dk

“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0

New Capitalism in America, Part III - LSE Inequalities

Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Under the "new" capitalism, why do 85% of the world’s population remain capital-income destitute?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.

Episode five of Antisocial Economics is out now! @wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.

Antisocial Economics

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

buff.ly

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States" By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists

OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

lemonde.fr

On my way to #ISPP2025 in Prague! Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social: “Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions” Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!

I dag træder et nyt kontanthjælpssystem i kraft. Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

Trickle up economics

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · last yr.

The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

Okay this is getting ridiculous. In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates. osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...

Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs. Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.

“I Netflix-serien ‘Reservatet’ ses ekstrem rigdom - næsten eksotisk for Danmark. Men eksistensen af en superrig dansk elite er mere virkelig end nogensinde.” 25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23 www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring

Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

science.org

‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️ 3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅 I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · last yr.

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

My brilliant postdoc, @fransolmar.bsky.social, recently published experimental evidence suggesting that perceived inequities in health and education can drive support to reduce economic inequality. Really cool work!

Francisco M Soler-Martínez@fransolmar.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 NEW PUBLICATION! 📢 2nd paper of the thesis, in EJSP (2025). We ran 4 studies to test whether perceptions of economic-based disparities in health and education—beyond income—could enhance support for redistribution and collective action to reduce economic inequality doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...