Zach Parolin

Blue states cannot redistribute their way out of housing shortages. Here's my take for @TheArgumentMag based on several analyses of how housing costs affect poverty rates. ⬇️

“Redistribution is important. But it is not enough.” It is not enough because, in high-cost regions, income transfers are increasingly inefficient at reducing poverty [...] “Abundance” is, itself, an anti-poverty strategy. A must-read from @ZParolin: theargumentmag.com/p/you-cant-red…

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford). ▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, @JanetGornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor. 🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May. Join us in Oxford: atkinsonconference.github.io

NEW JOB AD - POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS - (“Drivers and consequences of rising economic inequality”) 2 positions (Deadline May 17 2026) sites.google.com/site/salvatore…

New issue of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management has an interested debate between Harry Holzer and Katherine Michelmore on the merits and impact of a fully refundable child tax credit. ⤵️

Graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty across the social sciences, please apply to this Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Mobility! The school is co-organized by the Dondena Center at @Unibocconi, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale @ispionline, and the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility @UCStoneCenter. The interdisciplinary team of lecturers is Guido Alfani @guido_alfani, Béatrice Cherrier @Undercoverhist, Ariel Kalil @ariel_kalil, Zachary Parolin @ZParolin , Paola Profeta @Paola_Profeta, Antonio Villafranca @AntVillafranca, and me.

@_cingraham Damn. What a journey. So glad to read the good news after everything you had to through in the meantime.

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42.

More details: inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

@IveMarx 7 years! And what a group. Should have warned the Irish guy on the right to watch out for his job. ;)

Facebook reminds me of this picture. 7 years from PhD to Oxford professor is not bad ⁦@ZParolin⁩. Not bad at all.

📢 Join us for the next London Inequality Workshop! 🗓 Wed, 3 Dec 2025 | ⏰ 4–6pm 📍 KCL, Bush House (Room 2.02) Speakers: Jeanne Bomare, @valengabrielli (LSE) @MorelliSal (Roma Tre) Register 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/12th-london-… #Inequality #EconTwitter

Today is a good day to remember that housing policy is also anti-poverty policy. ICYMI⤵️

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford! @ZParolin is hiring: 🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility 🠺 3x PT Researchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility Find out more & apply ➵ inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

3/3 -- For the part-time RA positions -- Great opportunity for PhD/DPhils or advanced masters students studying in the UK and/or from the UK to join our growing research team. See call for more specifics.

2/ Due to conditions of the grant used to hire, candidates should have eligibility to work in the UK (we'll hire without this condition in the future). Desired start date: Jan 2026 or as soon as possible afterward. Great post-doc opp for those currently in need of funding.

Join us at @INETOxford! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

I'm truly honored to receive the 2025 Kershaw Award. I entered the policy research world almost by accident after a failed run in the Australian Baseball League. Any recognition of my work is a testament to the wonderful mentors & colleagues I've learned from these past 10 years.

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. iza.org/publications/d…

Welcome to DSPI, Professor @ZParolin! 👋 Prof Parolin joins us in October as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. He will also hold posts at @INETOxford and @NuffieldCollege - find out more: spi.ox.ac.uk/article/profes… #SocialMobility #Inequality #Poverty

My response with Raj to Heckman and Eshaghnia in the WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/the-be…