📢 Call for proposals.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts using the World Bank LSMS’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys data.

Papers from selected abstracts will be presented at a conference on December 10, 2024.

Details here ➡️ wrld.bg/UgHC50RjSzY

Tax Day. A good day to note that US taxes (income taxes & social insurance contributions) push many low-income households into poverty. New paper by me, David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) Ive Marx & Zach Parolin reports that US taxes push a larger % of adults into poverty than do several other countries.

We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data!

These three aspects would make this a dream job for me:
• You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team.
• You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important

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What an incredible honor! The work continues. Apply here to join our team studying regional patterns and drivers of racial wealth inequality: tinyurl.com/y68st2p8

Update to World Bank poverty numbers last week: (a) Poverty numbers until 2022; (b) 101 new surveys (total>2300).

blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/ma…

Details: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

Data: pip.worldbank.org/home

Stay up-to-date: eepurl.com/iKHEsI

World Bank Data World Bank Poverty

Interesting resources on the “tight knot of social maladies” that is #poverty in the United States, including state fact sheets.

Did you know that Washington DC has the highest rate of student homelessness and the second highest rate of child poverty?

endpovertyusa.org/state-facts/

Come work with us at ⁦King's International Development⁩ for a fixed period of 15 months beginning in September 2024. Expected to teach courses in Macroeconomics for Development and Economic Inequality and the Distribution of Income 👇🏼

Lecturer in Development Economics kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086547-le…

Meu livro entrou em pré-venda no site da #CompanhiaDasLetras ! Chega lá!

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Tomorrow, this World Bank ATD Fourth World IMF event will bring together practitioners, academics, and people with lived experiences of poverty to think collectively about how we build knowledge and design policies to combat poverty.

Register to join: bit.ly/3vO0Ok5

Wonderful to be back at University of Oxford for an Expert Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty and Wellbeing Data.

Thank you to OPHI DANE Colombia & Human Development for the invitation to share some innovative work from our team at World Bank Poverty on high frequency welfare monitoring.

Thank you to all of our expert panellists and audience members at the opening session of the Policy Priority & AI for SDGs data challenge today - and good luck to all the challengers over the next two weeks!

You can find out more about the challenge here: turing.ac.uk/events/policy-…

A pleasure to join this The Alan Turing Institute panel on the role of #AI in #policymaking for the #SDGs . We must use all of the tools available to us if we are going to get back on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda.

Thank you to Omar A Guerrero for the invitation.

👉bit.ly/3UdIYRP

For those working on inequality:
LIS and LISER have opened their 2024 call for visitors. Junior researchers are very much encouraged to apply for the research stays.
It's a fantastic environment and provides plenty of networking possibilities.

Calling all Africa-based junior economists (Phd post 2018)
Applications for STAARS program by Cornell Dyson World Bank Research and PEP is open until JAN 19: barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/staars/staars-…
Outstanding mentorship and prof development program. All the alums I've met are amazing
Chris Barrett

Want to join my amazing department at the University of Cambridge? We are hiring for an Assistant Professor in Development Studies (permanent role). We are looking for someone working on Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East in the field of Development Studies, broadly defined.

📢 Attention researchers!

Apply for the Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities PhD Visiting Grant, offering external students a chance to study at LSE. Gain access to facilities, supervision, and academic contacts.

⏰ Deadline: 21st Jan 2024
🔗 ow.ly/gL4F50QhZXm

Super interesting (and fully funded!) PhD opportunities to study how residents of urban peripheries interact with the state in various domains (particularly in relation to housing and upgrading projects) in Medellín, Santiago de Cuba, and Recife. 👇

NEW: Does the American Dream foster inequality?

Let’s start with a shocking stat:

These two things are simultaneously true:
• The richest Americans are the richest in the world
• Food poverty is more severe in America than in any other developed country