We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow in sociology! Are you interested in research on social policy, welfare, inequality, and the labor market? We offer the opportunity to work with leading researchers in the field. su.varbi.com/se/what:job/jo…

the New York Times once declared, “One of the worst career moves a woman can make is to have children.” But having kids isn't an inherent wage-and-job killer. I've spent the last few months digging into evolving research on the motherhood penalty: vox.com/policy/358808/… /1

Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review. A comprehensive treatment of all dimensions of inequality with world leading scholars delivering frontier analysis. The remarkable set of commissioned articles now published open access by OUP UCL Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3/S…

BSL Talks: Why measuring poverty matters Wednesday 21 August 3 pm to 4 pm Register now for a special edition of BSL Talks with Prof. Sabina Alkire on Wednesday 21 August bsl.org.au/news-events/ev…

As Michelle, I Carolyn Holbrook & Joshua Black have said before, it is a scandal that Labor will complete this term without fixing the humanities fee problem. Policy laziness & lack of principle abundant. Much more damaging than Coalition political interference with ARC grants.

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

ACT Shelter thanks Clare Wall and Ben Ponton for their work to have a street in Denman Prospect named after pioneering housing economist and academic, Professor Judy Yates. Judith Yates Terrace has been gazetted as one of four new streets named in the suburb #HousingEconomics

"But if more than two-thirds of our borrowings now come from the pockets of other Australians, then raising rates has larger distributional impacts and less aggregate impacts than previous decades."

Hosted by Yuvisthi Naidoo and yours truly.

"real household consumption for 15-24 is 2.3% below where it was in 2003-04, with spending for those 25-34 down 1.2%. While things improve somewhat from here, the spending of 35-44’s is still 5.3% below where it was in 2007-2008."

Adjusted for inflation, the WPI is at levels last seen around 14 years ago. Down 7% from its peak.

Looks interesting. Though we should give the originator of the term 'meme' some credit.

In the U.K, real wages going no where in 15 years is a factor in undermining social cohesion and faith in policymakers. Ironically, Australia is in almost the exact same end position, but has arrived there in a very different way.

Following the resounding success of our April short course, we're pleased to relaunch 'Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Disadvantage in Australia'. Bruce Bradbury 🗓️ 10 Oct - 26 Nov | 37.5 hours across 7 weeks | online 💬Yuvisthi Naidoo ➡️ eventbrite.com.au/e/understandin…

Cuts in Family Tax Benefit having a big impact on middle income family living standards.

I Interviewed Prof Peter Saunders (UNSW) for the UTS class Economic Inequality. We discussed poverty in Aust, from Henderson in the 60s/70s, Hawke's pledge to end child poverty, the 'Poverty Wars' in the early 2000s, UN SDG 1 "End Poverty" & Australia now youtu.be/5FgAxknNq9E?si…

"there was no point at which any one person “refuted” Marxism. Serious thinkers, for the most part, just slowly drifted away from it, the way that guests at a party filter out of the living room into the kitchen, where the conversation is livelier" josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls-a…