Peter put together a starter pack of my colleagues at the IFS.
Follow them for high-quality, policy-relevant analysis on tax and spending, efficiency and equity, firms and workers, healthcare and education and much more.
thanks gavin! i updated this the other day - so stark that the post-covid data look the same as the lockdown years: bsky.app/profile/xiao...
Great piece by @paulswinney.bsky.social raising serious concerns about the UK's sub-national productivity data and what it can tell us. I share his worry that misleading conclusions about a northern city miracle may already be skewing policy debates www.economicsobservatory.com/have-the-uks...
The 'despair' measure we use in the paper (GHQ-12 score of 23+) is noisier, but tells the same story.
Hump shape in illbeing has been replaced by a declining age profile, and this isn't a Covid blip.
The latest USoc wave lets us split out the Covid years from what came after.
So striking that they look the same!
Average mental ill health (based on a general screening instrument) is no better now than during the lockdown years, at any age. @alexbryson.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Finally made it over here, hello! 👋
(Authors of Carneiro et al. are Pedro Carneiro @ucleconomics.bsky.social, @francescafolia1.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova @manchester.ac.uk, Julia Loh @theifs.bsky.social and @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social)
The paper by Carneiro et al. shows that places with strong labour markets also have higher equality of opportunity for kids who grow up in poor v. rich neighbourhoods.
Education also matters: LAs with better schools and less academic segregation have more equality of opportunity.
My paper shows that youth migration has also increased in recent years, especially among graduates. Graduates move from places with weak labour markets to London and other high-paying cities, which exacerbates regional skills inequalities.
Skilled labour, as well as capital, flows towards London.
The paper from Daams, Mayer and McCann @productivity.bsky.social shows that risk premiums on real estate investments outside London increased dramatically after the 2008 financial crisis, limiting access to credit in regional cities.
Excited about discussing regional inequalities at the Fiscal Studies symposium event next week!
We've got a star-studded lineup of @andyburnham.bsky.social, Paul Collier, Philip McCann, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @amcanning.bsky.social and more.
Summary of new papers below 🧵👇
