Adrian Adermon
adrianadermon.bsky.social
Adrian Adermon
@adrianadermon.bsky.social
Economist, researcher at the Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market and Education Policy. Interested in social mobility, inequality, and technical change.

https://www.adrianadermon.com
I always assume it's the unadjusted gap unless otherwise stated. And in this case it even says so in the graph notes.
April 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Both are valid and useful, they just capture different things.
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We find correlations around 0.8--0.9, implying that these measures move together across space and time.

We conclude that intergenerational mobility and sibling correlations can indeed be used to compare levels of equality of opportunity across time and place. 4/4
March 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
In contrast, EOp estimators are derived from a normative ethical theory, and thus easy to interpret --- but they require very rich data to estimate empirically.

We estimate all three measures across Swedish local labor markets and birth cohort, and examine how closely correlated they are. 3/4
March 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The first two are relatively simple to estimate, but their normative implications are not clear (what is the "right" level of intergenerational mobility?). 2/4
March 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I spend way too much time meticulously rejecting them.
February 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thank you, looking forward to it!
February 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
That's an unfair characterization. Inequality, discrimination, and pollution are all large fields in modern economics, to give just three examples.
January 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Looking forward to it!
January 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Other advantages: writing a function in R is trivial, while in Stata I always had to spend time with the "program define" and "syntax" manuals. Makes me modularize my code more, which makes it less error-prone.

And making graphs (with ggplot2) is so much simpler!
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 AM
I switched when I was writing an estimator that requires reshaping and merging of population data, all repeated hundreds of times in a bootstrap. Wrote it up in Stata, and one iteration took 40 minutes. Wrote the same thing in R (with the data.table package), and one iteration took 40 seconds.
December 15, 2024 at 8:10 AM