Join our team at Oxford DSPI! Two Lecturer positions in Comparative Social Policy 📅 Deadline: June 24 What we offer: ✨Fair workload with substantial time for research ✨Supportive colleagues ✨Brilliant and motivated students ✨A vibrant research environment

How does an unconditional cash allowance to families with children affect parents' mental health? Clemente Pignatti & I find that cash leads to a decline in bad mental health days, especially for lower-income and younger parents. Open access at Health Economics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Come work with Leah Libresco Sargeant, Will Raderman, @Alex_Armlovich in Chicago til 8/3, Andrew Justus👷🏼‍♂️🏘🏙🏗, Lawson Mansell, David Jiménez, and me as part of the social policy team at the most interesting think tank in American politics. We're hiring a deputy director! July 7th deadline. niskanencenter.org/deputy-directo…

We have some new work that focuses on the temporary expansion of the EITC to childless young adults.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent is one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I've ever encountered—she lists the criminal acts that presidents can now take with immunity and says "the president is now a king above the law." supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

In a new WP with Zach Parolin we examine the effects of a more generous unemployment insurance (UI) on the demand for other public transfers Does UI substitute for other transfers? Or does it lead to benefit dependency? And how these effects potentially materialize? 🧵

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content…

📢Seeking a PT (0.3 FTE) RA for a project on long-term childhood poverty Ideal for PhDs in the UK Based in Oxford DSPI, with flexible working options Gain research experience/skills, get an opportunity to publish & earn extra money 📅 July 17 Apply: shorturl.at/nzqNc

“We find that more generous state unemployment insurance benefits were associated with a lower probability of high-cost credit use during the first seven quarters of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.” nature.com/articles/s4156…

New article just out in Journal of Public Economics We estimate the employment responses to the largest expansion of non-contributory social protection in the US during the pandemic, and find zero labor supply effects across multiple groups and time periods sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨Job Alert!!🚨 Steph Cellini and I are hiring a full time Policy Director to co-lead a new initiative focused on bringing rigorous research and analysis to current higher education and workforce problems faced by federal and state policy makers and institution leaders. 1/3

Missouri's Medicaid rolls are down by roughly 136,000 kids since the process of recertification started up again, and pediatricians told Clara Bates many families don't find out their child lost coverage until they visit a doctor. #moleg #mogov missouriindependent.com/2024/07/19/mis…

Among the many ways Finland makes life more manageable for families with kids: here's a look at the playground + library inside our train compartment. Five-hour train journey with our one-year-old made easy! Our last Amtrak, by contrast, had no changing tables on board. 👀

NEWS: Kamala Harris proposes a major $6,000-per- child tax credit *for a newborn's first year of life* -- a big baby boost -- as part of 2024 agenda Also calls for restoring rest of Biden CTC that died, which took credit from $2K to $3K for most washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

The US has struggled to provide workers with an advanced EITC in the past but other countries are able to do this just fine. In a new commentary, Julia Pelletier takes a look at regularly paid 🇨🇦 and 🇳🇿 tax credits and finds lessons for 🇺🇸 policymakers. niskanencenter.org/advance-paymen…

Job opportunity with Oxford Politics and IR! I'm hiring 2 postdocs for the UKRI-funded DEVAL project. If you research authoritarianism/support for democracy and have experience with surveys and/or text analysis, please consider applying! Posting 174467 at jobs.ox.ac.uk.

Breakfast in Tampere. Am I doing this right? See you soon, ESPAnet2024.

Exciting line up for our UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) seminar curated by Tobias Rüttenauer and Michaela Sedovic @sedovicmicha.bsky.social

Are you an assistant prof studying inequality & looking for a 2nd semester of sabbatical support? I hope you'll apply to spend AY25-26 Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. As a work-family scholar, I am delighted that successful applicants can choose a nonresidential option if that's best for them.

I am thrilled to announce that our ANNALS Volume on the 2021 Child Tax Credit dropped today! Open access for the full volume is available! Thanks to my Co-editors Zach Parolin Megan Curran and the star studded cast of authors. journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/710/1