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Emanuel Agu
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Labor economist specialized in social policy and demography. PhD Candidate in Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center.

#inequality #childrenrights #socialmobility #urbaneconomics #geospatial
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The Baltic countries lost a quarter of their population between 1990 and 2020. While net migration was the main driver, below-replacement fertility reduced their populations by about one tenth.
Details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#demography #Population #Estonia #Lithuania #Latvia
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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cuny.edu
Among regional universities in the northern U.S., two CUNY colleges — @baruch.cuny.edu and @huntercollege.bsky.social — tied for the top spot on U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Colleges ranking, with a total of six CUNY senior colleges in the top 10.
CUNY Leads U.S. News 2026 Rankings for Social Mobility and Return on Investment – The City University of New York
CUNY has once again been recognized as a powerhouse of upward mobility by U.S. News & World Report. On its 2026 Best Colleges ranking, U.S. News featured 10 CUNY colleges, including The City College o...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Last but not least! Installment #7 in Paul Krugman's recent series on #inequality.
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
stone-lis.bsky.social Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · Aug 18
Crypto: a perfect merger of predation and corruption. In this final installment of his Understanding Inequality series, @pkrugman.bsky.social discusses the rise of the crypto industry, an of-the-moment case study of hyper-powered predatory finance and influence-buying.
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Crypto. Paul Krugman, Understanding Inequality: Part VII - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Part VII of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s series “Understanding Inequality,” which originally appeared on his Substack newsletter.
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August 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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equitablegrowth.bsky.social
In their piece for the #EGEssaySeries, @davidautor.bsky.social, @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, and Gordon Hanson break down the China trade shock of the early 2000s, its impacts on manufacturing and the labor market, and how it has shaped U.S. politics.

Learn more ⬇️
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August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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smaexie.bsky.social
New Working Paper Alert! Joint work with my amazing co-authors Lisa Klein and @pmlersch.bsky.social! We show how demographic changes contributed to #wealth #inequality in #Germany from 1988 to 2017. #econsky
pmlersch.bsky.social Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · Jun 27
This was a great collaboration with the brilliant @smaexie.bsky.social and Lisa Klein. We find demographic trends having counterbalancing effects on wealth inequality.
socarxivbot.bsky.social SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · Jun 27
Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988-2017: https://osf.io/jh5xp
June 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
emanuelagu.bsky.social
Solving Baumol’ Cost Disease Problems: A Modern Approach
Tech C.E.O. Pays $400,000 to Conduct the Toronto Symphony
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June 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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cuny.edu
CUNY mourns the loss of Andrew A. Beveridge, a professor emeritus of sociology at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. He also directed the University's Applied Social Research program and helped establish its Institute for Demographic Research.
Andrew A. Beveridge, Who Found the Unexpected in Census Data, Dies at 79
With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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ourworldindata.org
What share of women reach the end of their childbearing years without having children?
This chart shows the share of women who have had no births by the end of their childbearing years in four countries: the United States, Sweden, Japan, and Spain. Each country's data is represented on separate graphs, plotted against the years from 1918 to 1972 along the horizontal axis, labeled as "Women's birth year." The vertical axis indicates the percentage of women who have had no births, ranging from 0% to 30%. In the US graph, the percentage starts around 15% in 1918, dips slightly mid-century, and then rises again to near 20% by the early 1970s. The Sweden graph shows a relatively stable line around 10–15% throughout the years, with no significant fluctuations. Japan's graph trends upward, reaching around 25% by the end of the timeline. In Spain, the share steadily increases, culminating in over 20% by 1972, indicating a growing trend in women having no births. The data source is cited as the Human Fertility Database (2024). The chart is published by Our World in Data.
February 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ourworldindata.org
Read more in our article “Twice as long – life expectancy around the world”: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-globally
Twice as long – life expectancy around the world
Life expectancy has doubled over the last two centuries around the world. How has this happened?
ourworldindata.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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jneugsch.bsky.social
Hello world! #data #LISdata

Data below refers to risk of poverty rate at 60 % of median equivalised disposable income (including 95% confidence interval)
January 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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lisdata.bsky.social
First post on Bsky! Hello world!
👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals.
Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research
January 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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milescorak.com
Read @henrygrabar.bsky.social on the political leadership needed to make congestion pricing both effective and sustainable #EconSky

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Opinion | Congestion Pricing Shows the Future of the Democratic Party
A model for how to deliver for voters without getting stuck in a traffic jam — political or otherwise.
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January 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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nber.org
Swift economic change may lead to both generational and gendered conflicts that result in a rapid decrease in the total fertility rate, from Claudia Goldin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311
January 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ipums.bsky.social
IPUMS IHGIS is now more geographic! 🌏 You can view tabulation geography metadata, filter tables by geographies for which they are available, and select geographies to include in your extract. 🗺️ Check it out at ihgis.ipums.org
Screenshot showing off some of the new IPUMS IHGIS features, including some of the finest scale geographies
December 16, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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ipums.bsky.social
There is a new post on the IPUMS DHS Climate Change and Health Research Hub! Learn when and how to us IPUMS spatially harmonized boundary files in your longitudinal research. @ipumsGH #GlobalHealth #spatial #cartography tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
Demystifying and Demonstrating Spatially Harmonized Geography in IPUMS DHS
Data and techniques for dealing with shifting boundaries in longitudinal research
tech.popdata.org
April 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Calling all urban gardeners! Alumna Anna Paltseva’s new book offers other help for testing urban soil for contaminants and other down-to-Earth suggestions for improving soil quality www.gc.cuny.edu/news/urban-s...
The Urban Soil Guide
Earth and Environmental Sciences alumna Anna Paltseva explores the science of urban soil and how to grow healthy food.
www.gc.cuny.edu
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
emanuelagu.bsky.social
Family influence on children's futures is crucial, but broader societal factors like labor markets, education systems, and healthcare also play significant roles. Addressing inequalities in these areas is essential for effective family support and children's opportunities. 👇🏻
milescorak.com 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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#econsky
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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November 14, 2024 at 2:57 AM
emanuelagu.bsky.social
Higher poverty rates in the US than in other rich countries are not due to a higher prevalence of single-parent families but due to the especially high penalty of being a single parent in the US. The explanation for variation in poverty across countries is not demography. 👇
janetgornick.bsky.social Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · Nov 13
Check out "The Inequality Podcast", hosted by Steven Durlauf, Damon Jones, Ariel Kalil, Geoff Wodtke, at UC's Stone Center. @ucstonecenter.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of participating! "Episode #14: "Importance of Measuring Socio-Economic Inequality".

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The Inequality Podcast - Stone Center
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November 14, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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milescorak.com
How can academics with good ideas have more of an impact on policy makers?

The challenges lie in understanding the different perspectives of researchers and politicians.

Here’s a short thread on what I think are three of the main challenges, and the ways around them.

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November 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM