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Miles Corak
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Professor of economics
The Graduate Center,
City University of New York

Senior Scholar
The Stone Center on
Socio-Economic Inequality

#socialmobility #childrights #inequality #jobs #poverty #socialpolicy #cdnecon #EconSky

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · Nov 9
If you are interested in #inequality, how it shapes economic opportunities, and the implications for both public policy and economic research, then listen to this engaging conversation I had with Steven Durlauf, director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social

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Miles Corak on the Great Gatsby Curve and Cross-Country Comparisons of Inequality and Mobility
Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · 2024-10-07 · 50m
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Opinion | What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?
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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Miles Corak, Aaron Sojourner , and 1 more

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d
When prices rise because *demand* is hot, wages usually follow. When prices rise because tariffs raise costs -- a *supply* shock -- there’s no reason paychecks catch up. That’s why tariff inflation hurts a whole heckuva lot more. It's a permanent reduction in living standards.

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 1d
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
Opinion | The Aesthetic That Won New York City
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 1d
The challenge of upward mobility and identity

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
A Quebec Writer Confronts His ‘Little Darkness’ as a Class Defector
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 2d
“I did have moments of nostalgia for Buddy’s aftershave and clean white short-sleeved cotton T-shirts with the cigarette packs tucked into the sleeves. But time moves on, whether you want it to or not.”

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Margaret Atwood on the Lessons She Learned as a Young Girl
In her new memoir, “Book of Lives,” the author recalls the mean girls, “magic person” and high school boyfriend who helped inspire her novels and short stories.
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 3d
The entire thread and the article linked to are we’ll worth the read.
delong.social Brad DeLong @delong.social · 3d
Affordability, Inflation, & the Misinformation Machine: How Prosperity Lost the Plot
Thanks to Bidenomics, full employment returned fast after the plague depression; but voters heard “affordability crisis” amid broken information channels. Housing’s post-GFC scar, health/childcare costs... 1/

Reposted by Miles Corak

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Brad DeLong @delong.social · 3d
Affordability, Inflation, & the Misinformation Machine: How Prosperity Lost the Plot
Thanks to Bidenomics, full employment returned fast after the plague depression; but voters heard “affordability crisis” amid broken information channels. Housing’s post-GFC scar, health/childcare costs... 1/

Reposted by Miles Corak

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 3d
It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Reposted by Janet Gornick, Ive Marx, Miles Corak

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 3d
Welfare agencies increasingly rely on targeting to ensure that limited resources reach those deemed most in need. A new WP by @pietrovaletto.bsky.social and @ivemarx.bsky.social shows how asset testing in the EU and US often undermines their stated goal of poverty reduction.
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Abstract of working paper

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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 3d
It's not that AI isn't coming for your job at some point. But the big shift toward automation of white-collar work is probably going to play out at small companies that grow into big ones, rather than at big established companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Mass Layoffs Are Scary, but Probably Not a Sign of the A.I. Apocalypse
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NPR @npr.org · 4d
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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Brad DeLong @delong.social · 4d
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
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Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and...
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 5d
Today and biweekly! PDHP @um-psc.bsky.social runs a drop-in Zoom call offering free mentorship to population scientists. Mark your calendar and join us! myumi.ch/zXA1n
ASK ME (ALMOST) ANYTHING POPULATION SCIENCE EDITION DROP-IN ZOOM OFFICE HOURS HOSTED BY ROTATING MENTORS BIWEEKLY WEDNESDAYS AT 1 oct 8 oct 22 NOV 5 NOV 19 Dec 3 dec 17

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 5d
But the deaths of millions of young children every year remain one of the worst problems in the world and deserve much more attention.

(This Data Insight was written by @maxroser.bsky.social and Edouard Mathieu.)

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 5d
Almost one billion children have died globally since 1950
The UN estimates that 990 million children have died globally since 1950. Bar chart showing annual number of children who died before age five from 1950 to 2024, with a long-term downward trend. Key points annotated: 1950 annual child deaths about 20 million, child mortality rate 23%; deaths peaked in 1960 as millions died during the "Great Leap Forward" famine in China; 2000 annual child deaths about 10 million, child mortality rate 7.6%; 2024 annual child deaths about 5 million, child mortality rate 3.6%. X-axis runs from 1950 to 2024. Data source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024). License: CC BY.

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 5d
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 6d
New from me. Some initial thoughts on the 2025 budget.

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ANALYSIS | Are Canadians going to get behind Mark Carney's 'generational' budget? | CBC News
"Generational" is the Carney government's adjective of choice at this moment of consequence. The word appeared 11 times in the prepared text of François Philippe-Champagne's budget speech and another ...
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 7d
Check out this @eui-eu.bsky.social

"Workshop on Intergenerational Persistence and Inequality"

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Workshop on
Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 7d
“A.I. doesn’t need to know what you have been doing; it only needs to know what people like you have done …

That’s why privacy can no longer be defended one person at a time. … we need to exert collective control over all of our data, to determine if it’s used to benefit or harm us.”

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 7d
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: ‘There Ain’t Much of a Democratic Party’
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Reposted by Miles Corak, Charles T. Mathewes

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 7d
I talked to @johncassidysays.bsky.social of The New Yorker about my new book www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Can the Global Economy Be Healed?
A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.
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Reposted by Branko Milanovic, Miles Corak, Samuel Bentolila , and 2 more

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 8d
Just out in the New York Times:

My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
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Reposted by Diane Coyle, Richard S.J. Tol, Alistair Munro , and 12 more

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 9d
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 10d
I had the same thought. Also it may have to do with the actual changes going on in the US changing perceptions of Canada

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 10d
Canada looks pretty good in these cross country comparisons
jburnmurdoch.ft.com John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10d
NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10d
NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Reposted by Miles Corak

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 12d
Ottawa, it’s time to Man Up! Join me Thursday & bring your questions, we will have time for lots of good discussion.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d
Tomorrow (October 30th) at 6:00 pm EDT, join @carleton.ca in welcoming @milleridriss.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Man Up, and the explosive rise of misogyny driving mass and far-right violence.

This event is free and open to the public. Learn more here: hubs.ly/Q03PYNM40
Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism by Cynthia Miller-Idriss Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12d
Tomorrow (October 30th) at 6:00 pm EDT, join @carleton.ca in welcoming @milleridriss.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Man Up, and the explosive rise of misogyny driving mass and far-right violence.

This event is free and open to the public. Learn more here: hubs.ly/Q03PYNM40
Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism by Cynthia Miller-Idriss Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12d
Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.

Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Professor at the UNSW. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton,…
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Human Capital HCEO - CEHD @hceconomics.bsky.social · 14d
New from HCEO member Bhashkar Mazumder and colleagues: A review of efforts to expand measurements of intergenerational mobility beyond income, education, and occupation to broader measures of well-being. www.nber.org/papers/w34407?
Intergenerational Mobility in Measures of Wellbeing: Consumption, Health and Life Satisfaction
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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