María Gómez León

How exceptional was Italy’s inequality path in the interwar years? What was the role of wars, depression, and authoritarianism?🚨 Our new paper w/@GGabbuti in Explorations in Economic History explores these questions. Full article (open-access) here 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An excellent paper by Javier Rodriguez Weber Inequality, instability, and the dynamics of Kuznets waves in core capitalist societies mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/127306/

An excellent article. Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe’s Iran Response socialeurope.eu/spain-and-norw…

In our new paper (BMJ Global Health), we systematically collected 923 historical growth studies covering 122 countries from 1814–2016. By harmonising height-by-age data, we reconstruct stunting patterns over two centuries. Link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-… 5)

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems A new papee by Erfurth, Gomez Leon, Gabbuti and Milanovic ehes.org/wp-content/upl…

New paper on the capitalization of the world with @BrankoMilan just out! Capital income remains very unequally distributed worldwide, but inequality has slightly declined. Meanwhile, the share of people earning at least $100 per year from K income increased from 12% to 27%.

What is the impact of technological change on wage inequality? Our latest working paper presents a unified empirical framework that isolates the effects of new technologies such as automation and AI on the entire wage distribution. @raqui_sebastian 🔗 buff.ly/qJB9DIG

📢 New III working paper: This paper provides a methodological contribution to the study of historical income inequality by examining the construction and use of social tables for the nineteenth century. @BrankoMilan @GGabbuti @Maria0zmg @theErforce buff.ly/2LWqOwU

"Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems", a new paper by P. Erfurth, M. Gómez León, G. Gabbuti & B. Milanovic researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1371…

Happy to share a new working paper, also in our @SantAnnaPisa LEM series, coauthored with old (@Maria0zmg) and new (@theErforce and @BrankoMilan) coauthors: "Historical Social Tables: Advantages, Methodology, and Problems"

Social tables are widely used 🌍but how comparable are they across countries and over time? 📚In a new working paper (with @theErforce @Ggabbuti @BrankoMilan) we explore social tables… methodology, advantages, and problems ehvalencia.es/wp-content/upl…

New working paper @ehvalencia @Maria0zmg (with @theErforce @GGabbuti @BrankoMilan) "Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems" More info: ehvalencia.es/dt_ehv/ #past #history #inequality #methodology

Just out. New Working paper on the use social tables to study historical inequality; their advantages, problems, methodology; by @theErforce , Maria Gomez Leon, Giacomo Gabbuti and myself. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications/h…

Jornadas sobre desigualdad económica en la Universidad de Cantabria, con @BrankoMilan y @MarcoRanaldi_ entre otros. Gracias a Vanesa Jordá por organizarlo

@LdelaEscosura @DavidGonzlezAg2 @ehvalencia @fdeconomiauv Gracias, Leandro!!

@DavidGonzlezAg2 @ehvalencia @Maria0zmg @fdeconomiauv Enhorabuena!!!

Muy contentos por la promoción a permanente laboral de nuestra compañera @Maria0zmg @ehvalencia @fdeconomiauv

🎉 Thrilled and grateful to the @FundacionAreces for funding my project “The Price of Empire: State Capacity and Inequality in Castile, 1528-91”, with @Maria0zmg , studying inequality and tax capacity at municipal level in 16th-century Castile. #EconomicHistory #Inequality

Israel ha matado en Gaza a otras 11 personas, siete de ellas niños y niñas, mantiene bloqueado el paso de Rafah y consolida su ocupación en más de la mitad de la Franja, con la señalización de la línea de separación amarilla ANÁLISIS | ✍️↘️↘️ eldiario.es/internacional/…

Interested in doing world-class economics research on Africa's past, present and future? #econhist Join us as a postdoc at @LEAP_SU @StellenboschUni in 2026!

I’m very excited to see this year’s Nobel price winners. I’ve been deeply engaged with the works of Joel Mokyr throughout my PhD and I can say that this is one of the most exciting Nobel prizes in econ for a long time. So here's a thread 🧵on Joel Mokyr’s work 🚨🚨