Global poverty is commonly measured by counting the number of people whose consumption falls below a given threshold.
This approach overlooks an enormous component of people’s economic well-being: public goods. 🧵
Amory Gethin
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Amory Gethin
@amorygethin
Researcher @WorldBank DECRG.
Redistribution coordinator @WIL_inequality.
PhD @PSEinfo.
World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: wpid.world.
- So happy to see our article forthcoming at AEJ: Applied 🥳 This was the very first paper I ever worked on, quite a journey since we started collecting data in 2017 with @thomas_blncht and @lucas_chancel! Here are five facts that we uncover about income inequality in 🇪🇺 and 🇺🇸: 👇
- Hugely excited to announce the publication of our article in @QJEHarvard!🤩 This paper is the outcome of a massive data collection effort that we started with @cmtneztt and @PikettyLeMonde in 2017. A few takeaways on the evolution of political divides in Western democracies 👇
- Excited to announce that with Emmanuel Saez we are making our working hours database publicly available. It covers hours worked in 160 countries, including long time series in 87 countries. Hope it can be useful for research and feedback welcome! 👇 🔗amory-gethin.fr/data.html
- 🇫🇷 About 7% of French citizens trust political parties. This is the second lowest in Europe after Greece 🇬🇷. The corresponding figure in Germany 🇩🇪 is... 32%.
- Following up on a few requests, I am happy to make available four datasets I have been assembling over the years. I will probably add more datasets to this page in the future. 👇 amory-gethin.fr/data.html
- Incredibly happy to see my paper forthcoming in @QJEHarvard! I quantify how much of worldwide growth and poverty reduction can be accounted for by education over 1980-2019. A quick summary 1/9 👇
- Replying to @amorygethin3/ The US tax system is MORE progressive than European countries'. This is because the personal income tax is about as progressive in the US as in Western Europe (and much more progressive than in Eastern Europe), while indirect taxes are much lower.
- Who benefits from public services❓ Thrilled to see this published in the Journal of Development Economics! I provide novel evidence on the role of public services in reducing inequality, focusing on post-apartheid South Africa. A few takeaways👇
- We often hear that the US has economically outperformed Europe in recent decades. But it's all about work hours declining more in 🇪🇺: GDP per hour growth has been substantially faster in most 🇪🇺 countries than in the 🇺🇸! Source: GDP from WID, hours from amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Geth…
- Excited to present my job market paper! Exploiting a unique microdatabase, I estimate that education accounts for: 1⃣ 50% of global economic growth since 1980 2⃣ 70% of growth for the world’s poorest 20% 3⃣ 50% of global gender inequality reduction 🔗 amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Geth…
- Excited to announce I will be joining the @WorldBank Development Research Group this September in Washington DC. Incredibly grateful to all of you who accompanied me during the past few years and looking forward to this new part of life!
- Replying to @amorygethinTakeaway: policies aiming at reducing pretax inequalities (minimum wages, education policy, labor regulation, unions, etc.) matter substantially.
- Replying to @amorygethin4/ As a result, despite lower transfers, the US tax-and-transfer system is MORE redistributive than that of any European country. About 6% of the national income is transferred to the bottom 50% in the US, versus 4% in Sweden and 0% in Serbia.
