Come to beautiful Munich and work with me as a post-doc or Ph.D. student. But get your application in quickly (due date: July 5!).

Postdoc: https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a6dff860293580d309e16613bf99b9c48c41e3e00

PhD student: https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/48cac30b46097b99c21f946f5ba7e38e53a4d2720

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Combatting radical wealth inequality requires political intervention, so I am happy to see our new video be picked up by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib!

We made the video to help people visualize the vast inequality in U.S. wealth and provide a provocative statement that widens the discursive space for debates on wealth taxation.

https://youtu.be/PAHYCiiXQlQ

Ballots for #ASA elections went out today.

I am a candidate for chair of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (IPM) section and would be excited to serve. Here is my personal statement:

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

DIRECTOR of the SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER at the Institute for Social Research (University of Michigan).

An amazing organization with more than 500 employees (incl. ~80 core faculty). SRC is an international leader in social science research, especially involving the collection of data (e.g., it hosts the PSID, HRS, and many other cornerstones of the social science data infrastructure).

Application information here (feel free to reach out with questions): https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/university-michigan-institute-social-research/director-survey-research-center

Wealth inequality in the U.S. is extreme. So extreme, that it's hard to gain intuition. With a new interactive visualization Asher Dvir-Djerassi and I provide a tool that may help.

It lets you explore wealth levels across the full distribution (inequality among the 99%) while also allowing the display of wealth at the top that would otherwise be "off the charts".

Check it out (you can mark up the x-axis & add the Forbes 400): https://asherdvirdjerassi.github.io/wealth_thresholds_viz/figure1.html

Published version: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231221143957