Richard Blundell
@richardblundell.bsky.social
Ricardo Professor of Political Economy, @EconUCL http://ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/
Co-Director ESRC Research Centre, @TheIFS http://ifs.org.uk/inequality/
Co-Director ESRC Research Centre, @TheIFS http://ifs.org.uk/inequality/
Pinned
Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, including all the remarkable articles examining the many dimensions of inequality, published open access by OUP at academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3...
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How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ
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NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: Income inequality and the role of the state in Latin America: an overview
📗 Read @richardblundell.bsky.social, Mariano Bosch, Nora Lustig and Marcela Melendez's new paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Read @richardblundell.bsky.social, Mariano Bosch, Nora Lustig and Marcela Melendez's new paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: Income inequality and the role of the state in Latin America: an overview
📗 Read @richardblundell.bsky.social, Mariano Bosch, Nora Lustig and Marcela Melendez's new paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Read @richardblundell.bsky.social, Mariano Bosch, Nora Lustig and Marcela Melendez's new paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
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ReStud Tour @reveconstudies.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ReStud Tour @reveconstudies.bsky.social
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Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.
It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.
Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.
Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.
It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.
Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.
Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
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NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics.
📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...
#econsky
📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...
#econsky
August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics.
📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...
#econsky
📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications...
#econsky
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New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights
Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...
microeconomicinsights.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.
New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha:
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril.
Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...
Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights
Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...
microeconomicinsights.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.
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A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.
June 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.
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🎓 Book your #virtualtix for the #DeatonReview session at #RES2025 Mon 30 June! By @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social
🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky #EconConf
🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky #EconConf
June 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎓 Book your #virtualtix for the #DeatonReview session at #RES2025 Mon 30 June! By @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social
🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky #EconConf
🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social
🪑Baroness Sharon White
🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky #EconConf
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This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White.
Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...
Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...
June 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White.
Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...
Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...
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🚨 Last chance! Register by 8 June for #RES2025, 30 June–2 July @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🌞
🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel
🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y
🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ
#EconSky
🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel
🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y
🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ
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June 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚨 Last chance! Register by 8 June for #RES2025, 30 June–2 July @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🌞
🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel
🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y
🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ
#EconSky
🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan
🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs
👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel
🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y
🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ
#EconSky
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"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5
buff.ly
June 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5
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📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education.
Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).
Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).
May 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education.
Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).
Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).
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The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights
Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...
microeconomicinsights.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights
Casual observation and historical evidence suggest this picture is incomplete: as employment in previously labor-intensive sectors such as agriculture, textiles, mining, and manufacturing has eroded, ...
microeconomicinsights.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
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📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount!
Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky
Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky
May 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount!
Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky
Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight!
Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y
#EconSky
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The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead.
Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
microeconomicinsights.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead.
Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...
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New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller:
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require
April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller:
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require
Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require
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The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...
Trade and globalization
Greater openness to international trade has had significant impacts on the structure of the UK and other advanced economies. The role that this greater ope
academic.oup.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...
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We are delighted to announce that @helenmiller.bsky.social has been appointed as the next IFS Director, following on from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social in July 2025.
Find out more:
Find out more:
Helen Miller appointed as new Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies | Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.
ifs.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We are delighted to announce that @helenmiller.bsky.social has been appointed as the next IFS Director, following on from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social in July 2025.
Find out more:
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages" by Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages
(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men
and women in the US using a quantile selection model to account for
systematic differences in employmen...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages" by Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.
The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.
This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
March 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.
Reposted by Richard Blundell
The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.
This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies
The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.
ifs.org.uk
March 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.
The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.
This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies
The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.
ifs.org.uk
March 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.