Congratulations to Barbara Petrongolo for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in labor and related fields. Her term will start on September 1. I’m delighted to have her on our team. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky

Breaking new grounds in demographic science: Fresh research from @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social, @andreatilstra.bsky.social and Jane Greve investigates mortality patterns in the intersex population, a group long absent from population health research. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/new-wor...

New Working Paper Explores Mortality Patterns in the Intersex Population

Researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) have released a new working paper examining mortality patterns in the intersex population, the first study of its kind to address th...

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Shameless self-publicity. My new book "Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And How To Make It Better" is out. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better, Immigration policy will never satisfy everyone. It’s a stubborn fact that more people will want to move to high-income countries than residen...

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Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013

📅 8–12 Sept 2025 | Oxford & Online Advance your economics expertise with Oxford’s September Summer School. 🔸 Micro, macro, econometrics 🔸 Taught by Oxford faculty 🔸 Global cohort, small class sizes 🎥 Watch & apply: bit.ly/3ywbFkv #OxfordEconomics #EconomicsSummerSchool

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education,” by Andrew (@alisonandrew.bsky.social) and Adams (@abicadams.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education*

Abstract. We develop a new methodology to estimate subjective beliefs from hypothetical choice data. Our identification approach is based on the novel insi

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Big day yesterday, marking the end of my DPhil (Oxford lingo for PhD) 👨🏻‍🎓! Huge thanks to @melindacmills.bsky.social and @drcompton.bsky.social for making my viva a wonderful experience. Very excited that I get to continue studying queer populations as a postdoc here in Oxford in the years to come!

Professor Melinda Mills@melindacmills.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Congratulations to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

🎉Congratulations to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social who successfully defended his Phd 📖 & thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social Important #demography work using register, survey & medical records to study the lives of sexual & gender minorities. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

NEW PAPER w. Christian Gillitzer, Peer Skov, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social! We develop a new method to estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). In contrast to most earlier studies, we don't rely on (rare) quasi-experiments. The idea is simple... 1/3 #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

50 years of International Women’s Day and feeling tremendous sadness over recent anti-DEI developments. Light is seen in the organizations that boldly maintain that success hinges on providing employees equal opportunity for reaching their potential.

📢📢Hi #Econsky! You are a PhD or postdoc student interested in the #Economics of #Labor #Family and #Migration. Please submit your work to our thematic workshop. Check the fantastic line up of speakers of the 4th edition. www.anr-malynes.com please retweet 👇👇👇👇

*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen@fjaellegaard.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Latest paper on comparing intergenerational mobility of the kids of migrants with kids of locals in 15 countries. It has a very long author list so I feel like a real scientist at last. www.iza.org/publications...

@abicadams.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and I provide new results on the implications of birth timing & spacing on parental leave dynamics and child penalty estimates. More details ⬇️

Abi Adams@abicadams.bsky.social · 2y ago

New VoxEU explainer on our work on birth timing & spacing, and what this means for the estimation of child penalties Tl;dr: educated mums spend 25% of the 5yrs following first birth on parental leave for subsequent kids. So how you measure outcomes on PL matters, a lot! #EconSky ow.ly/3tPu50UeHTj

Who is Lee Elliot-Major, keynote speaker at our Diversity Workshop 2025? The UK’s first Professor of #SocialMobility, his work is dedicated to improving the prospects of disadvantaged young people. Find out more & book your place: bit.ly/3Zg2qOT @oxfordecondept.bsky.social #Leadership #DEI

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark" by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark

(Forthcoming Article) - In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents...

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