Researcher @WorldBank DECRG. Redistribution coordinator @WIL_inequality. PhD @PSEinfo. World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: https://nitter.cf/t.co/ddGGsPoofo.
Paris, France
Joined May 2016
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📄New paper on education & poverty reduction! I discuss the literature and present novel evidence on returns, distributional incidence, and well-being effects of schooling around the world. Forthcoming in Handbook of Education, ed. @hpatrinos & P. Wolf 👇
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New paper on extreme poverty: >12 million administrative records since 2017 from Les Restos du Cœur, one of Europe’s largest food charities.
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More to come: households’ longer-term trajectories and consumption patterns.
Key results below 👇👇
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Wild graph. In income terms, Black South Africa is Bangladesh. White South Africa is Denmark.
Very excited to see our paper forthcoming in the QJE!
Our publicly available database on hours worked, disaggregated by age, gender, and other socioeconomic characteristics, can be found here:
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @Leo_Czajka at the EU Tax Observatory - PSE who works on topics related to public finance in LMICs
How much does the world work? Excited to see our research with Emmanuel Saez on global working hours featured in the IMF F&D Magazine:
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🆕 Thirty years of inequality and redistribution in post-Apartheid South Africa
Today on VoxDev w/ @Leo_Czajka (@PSEinfo @PSEresearch) & @amorygethin (@wb_research): voxdev.org/topic/institution…
Happy to see this piece out in @GPforEducation summarizing my research on education and global poverty reduction 👇
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👋Excited to see our paper forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics! We construct a new global public spending database 1800-2025 and use it to revisit the relationship between human capital and economic growth in the very long run. Paper here!
amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Bh…
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NEW paper w. @LobeckMax, @CdMeul:
How do people in the United States and Norway argue for redistribution?
In the U.S., pro-redistributive arguments mainly appeal to fairness. In Norway, arguments about the societal consequences of inequality are central.
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Racial inequality in the United States and South Africa, 1913-2019: still a long road to equality.
👉Black-to-White average income ratio today = 80% 🇺🇸, 17% 🇿🇦
👉Black-to-White average wealth ratio = 18% 🇺🇸, 6% 🇿🇦...
More in our paper: amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Cz…
In 1968, a new French electoral survey was fielded. It could have surveyed deep political opinions. Instead, it asked smth way more important: a whole module on what kind of car people own..
Fortunately the 1995 survey did better by asking the French what there is after death ☠️
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Very much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation!
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
🇿🇦 Thirty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world. In this new paper with @Leo_Czajka we revisit progress made on racial inequality and redistribution since 1993 🧶👇
However, redistribution has not contributed to the reduction of racial inequality: the rise of redistribution has been financed by new Black top income groups.
In other words, the rise of redistribution has primarily occurred within the Black population.
