Professor of Social Policy, Inequality, and Opportunity at University of Oxford. Director, Inequality Programme at INET Oxford. Fellow at Nuffield College.
Joined February 2009
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Zach Parolin retweeted
May 27
Interesting paper! (that I'd argue supports the UI Theory of Everything™️)
Policy discussions on how unemployment benefits impact job transitions often are too one-dimensional -- singling out how more generous UI can delay returns to work -- without considering other dynamics...
May 26
New working paper out today for the real UI heads, from me and @dwasser2: ⬆️ UI generosity
- ⬆️ wages
- for UE, J2J, and EE workers
- especially at the bottom
- ⬇️ hiring from U
- ⬇️ LF exit
- maybe ⬇️ job postings
- ⬆️ posted wages
- ⬆️ new entrant hiring
- and more!
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May 10
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. ⬇️
May 8
Blue states have built some of the country’s most generous safety net programs. But in places like California and New York, those gains are being swallowed by the cost of housing.
That’s the core problem: Poverty isn’t just about how much money people have. It’s also about how much it costs to meet basic needs.
Cash transfers, SNAP, and the Child Tax Credit still matter, but in high-cost states, redistribution can only go so far if rent keeps rising faster than income.
Read Zach Parolin on why building more housing is an anti-poverty strategy: theargumentmag.com/p/you-can…
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Zach Parolin retweeted
Apr 30
“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-can…
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Apr 22
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…
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Zach Parolin retweeted
Apr 20
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/salvat…
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Zach Parolin retweeted
Apr 16
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. ⤵️
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Zach Parolin retweeted
Apr 2
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.
Early-career researchers — Milan is calling 🇮🇹
Join us for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, hosted with the Dondena Centre at @Unibocconi and @ispionline.
Your spot is waiting. Apply now: bit.ly/4ma5k2H
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Zach Parolin retweeted
27 Oct 2025
📢 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-lond…
#Inequality #EconTwitter
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Zach Parolin retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Today is a good day to remember that housing policy is also anti-poverty policy. ICYMI⤵️
8 Jul 2025
In my new report for @NiskanenCenter, I argue that housing policy should be as central to anti-poverty strategies as direct cash redistribution. Focusing on California, I highlight a few key findings to support this general argument. 🧵 niskanencenter.org/housing-p…
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Zach Parolin retweeted
10 Oct 2025
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.
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Zach Parolin retweeted
8 Oct 2025
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
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7 Oct 2025
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
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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.
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7 Oct 2025
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.
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1 Oct 2025
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.
Along with our partner, @mathmaticanow, we are pleased to announce Zachary Parolin as the 2025 David N. Kershaw Award winner. We look forward to recognizing Zach at #2025APPAM. Read more: ow.ly/1tJM50X57Bw
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29 Sep 2025
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/dp/1814…
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Zach Parolin retweeted
18 Sep 2025
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/profess…
#SocialMobility #Inequality #Poverty
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Zach Parolin retweeted
8 Sep 2025
My response with Raj to Heckman and Eshaghnia in the WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/the-benefits…
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5 Sep 2025
Today's @nytdavidbrooks reflection on the BFY cash transfer RCT makes a misleading claim in its opening sentence, but more generally speaks to a broader confusion in recent write-ups of what BFY can vs. cannot tell us about cash transfers & poverty. 🧵nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opini…
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5 Sep 2025
9/ In short: cash can clearly reduce poverty and promote families’ consumption power. To many, that’s enough. To others, it’s not; cash should do more. All fair. But claims like ‘BFY shows that cash xfers don’t do much to reduce poverty’ (first line of Brooks) are unwarranted.
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5 Sep 2025
10/ Tl;dr: clarifying which of the three criteria one desires from a cash transfer expansion would probably clarify the competing perspectives on BFY here. Open to pushback from others who have written on this (@KelseyTuoc @Noahpinion @MattBruenig @mattyglesias @nytdavidbrooks..)
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