P.-Guillaume Méon

Ca y est, l'ouvrage collectif sur les prix littéraires codirigé avec Géraldine David est sorti hier aux Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles.🎉 On peut le commander sur le site des Éditions 👉 www.editions-ulb.be/fr/book/?gco...

Géraldine David, Pierre-Guillaume Méon (dir.), Avons-nous besoin des prix littéraires ? — www.fabula.org/actualites/1... @ulbrecherche.bsky.social #prixlittéraires #Goncourt

The World Bank’s Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) is a key dataset that helps us understand employment and wages in the public sector: how many people work there; their age, gender, and education; how their pay compares with the private sector; and more.

Link to the paper: www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

En cas d’accession à l’Elysée, la candidate du Rassemblement national promet la convocation d’un référendum pour réviser la Constitution et y inscrire les fondamentaux de l’extrême droite. Sa réforme braverait l’Etat de droit et menacerait la France d’une mise au ban dans le concert des nations.

Missed our session “How Does Religion Affect Development?" moderated by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan. Catch the speakers’ key messages. 👇

Notre nouvelle Note du @caeeco.bsky.social avec @vinpons.bsky.social 👇 @crestumr.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social @ippofficial.bsky.social

Chaque nouvelle candidature réduit les chances de battre le RN. Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇

How can we measure the state of democracy around the world? Measuring democracy is challenging. It has many dimensions, and researchers assess them in different ways. No single source of data captures the full picture, so we present data from several of them.

The mother of all inequality disputes. (All data are in PPPs and on per capita basis; all measures are in Ginis.) Unweighted international inequality (aka Concept 1 ineq) is inequality of all countries' GDPs per capita (as simple as that). It has been going down, but slowly, over the past 30y,

EU member states with the most restrictive fiscal policy stance stance in 2026 (i.e. fiscal consolidation) according to the European Commission: Romania, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Austria.

"Rien qu’en cessant d’écrire « s’il vous plaît » ou « merci » à ChatGPT, on économiserait 98 gigawattheures d’énergie par an."👇 www.standaard.be/bundle/ds/en...

🚨 L'IPP et la @drees-sante-social.bsky.social recrutent un·e post doctorant·e sur le sujet des aidants 📆 Date limite de candidature le 14 juin ▶️ Consulter l'offre de poste et les modalités de candidature : www.ipp.eu/wp-content/u...

How much do countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers? Most countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers — taxing higher incomes more, and redistributing through benefits like pensions, unemployment support, and family allowances.

What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades? The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.

The global number of people without electricity has halved since 2000, but it has increased in Sub-Saharan Africa— Most people in the world would think very little before flicking on the lights, charging a mobile phone or turning on a laptop to read this.

Hunger levels have increased across Africa over the last decade— In every region of Africa, hunger is more prevalent than a decade ago. The chart shows the increase in the share of the population that is undernourished, comparing 2014 and 2024 (the most recent year available).

It’s a common misconception that life expectancy has increased only because fewer children die. Historical mortality records show that adults today also live much longer than adults in the past.

Nature research paper: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research go.nature.com/3QdKP93

Stand Up for Science appelle toutes celles et tous ceux qui défendent les sciences comme biens communs à manifester le jeudi 26 mars 2026. A Paris, le cortège partira de Jussieu à 16h pour rejoindre le Panthéon en passant par la rue des Ecoles, le boulevard Saint Michel et la rue Soufflot.

Outside rich countries, widespread informal work means unemployment rates are low— (This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.) Last year, three-quarters of the world’s countries had unemployment rates below 10%, according to data from the International Labour Organization.

📊 Data update: How much do people trust their government? How does this vary across countries, and how has it changed over time? To help answer these questions, the OECD publishes data on trust in government across 47 countries, drawing on the Gallup World Poll.

A fascinating result on social cohesion: closing bars leads to more votes for the far right, whereas opening them has the opposite effect (in #France). www.cepremap.fr/2026/01/quan...

Happy to see our paper "The Church as Arbiter" with @cboix.bsky.social now available online at @thejop.bsky.social. Here 👇 A Thread

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Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.

Marco Rubio just flew to Budapest to deliver a speech in which he provided a full endorsement of Viktor Orbán in the upcoming Hungarian elections. Here is the letter he signed in 2019 warning about Hungary's "downward democratic trajectory" under Orbán h/t Carrick Ryan

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Nice essay by Carlos Chavez on the history and development of causal inference carloschavezp29.substack.com/p/on-causality

We rarely think of economics as scandalous, but maybe we should. Sam Bowles, in conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social & Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, argues that a core assumption in the field impedes moral reasoning about wealth redistribution. Watch "Why Economic Inequalities Endure"→ bit.ly/3Yj4F3B

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

📊 Data update: Explore updated data on social spending by governments— How much are different countries spending on social programs like housing, unemployment, benefits for the sick and elderly, and more?

Our paper with Robin Rampaer and David Raymaekers, on how earthquakes and time preference, is out in the Journal of Development Studies. It illustrates the externalities of research & teaching, as it began with Robin's Ma dissertation at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline for SIOE submission in one day! January 15. Come to Fontainebleau to hear about Inst and Orgs in one of the foremost historical (Fontainebleau castle) and sports (world-class bouldering) sites in Europe! www.sioe.org/conference/2...

@PhoebeIshak deserves a shoutout. Working with her is stimulating, productive, and fun.

What is an economics PhD? Should I do an economics PhD? And how should I prepare and apply to a PhD programme? Assistant Professor of Economics Abdoulaye Ndiaye outlines everything you need to know about a PhD in economics. https://voxdev.org/topic/everything-you-need-know-about-phd-economics

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice is now out. I'm honoured to have been invited to contribute three entries on: - elections and social norms, with @mgiani.bsky.social; - the grease the wheels hypothesis of corruption; - democracy and institutional quality.