Jack Blundell

Economist/Data Scientist. Mainly on the other place now..

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@SeilerStephan There’s this paper on MLRate (ML for variance reduction) from Meta https://t.co/tNqSHlDDRK

[Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell]

Hey #econtwitter, we just updated our working paper on the gender pay gap!

In 2018, the UK introduced legislation that makes firms disclose their gender pay gaps. Unusually, information is made public rather than just being shared with employees’ reps.

So what happened?

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@RoyalTS @dandekadt +1 on these. I’ve had mine for 6 years.

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

First couple of blog posts up on my website here: https://t.co/cK9uKLuo4h. Both are on rerandomisation in experiments.

[Simon Ward-Jones @SimonWardJones]

Thanks @pydatalondon for hosting PyData 2022! I had fun giving my talk introducing #Python standard library modules #pathlib, #datetime, #collections, #itertools and #functools https://t.co/LQ2fJW6ygO

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@thosjleeper @DanBischof Thanks @thosjleeper.

You might be interested in my paper on gender pay gap reporting requirements, in particular later in the paper where I survey respondents on their perceptions https://t.co/5wJmYrloxs

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: We publish a new ranking of English universities in terms of their contributions to social mobility – and the least selective post-1992 institutions come out top.

Read our report with @suttontrust & commissioned by @educationgovuk > https://t.co/7kZxAVesBq

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[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@EEANews Not just for PhD students but also anyone else on the market (postdocs, faculty etc)

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

For PhD students on the @EEANews European Econ Job Market this year, I'm doing a Q&A on Tuesday 23rd November about careers for economists in tech (in Europe). Come along with any questions! https://t.co/Cu0U96DdGq #EconTwitter

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@Nik_Datta https://t.co/aGBN5i8fFj via @giphy

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

True stories about shortages of foreign workers currently command a fraction of the coverage that untrue stories about an abundance of foreign workers used to enjoy in most British newspapers.

[Stone Centre at UCL @StoneEcon_UCL]

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the 'James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy' at @EconUCL, made possible with a gift by the Stone Foundation ➡️ https://t.co/nXV1ZnXsRz

[Tyrone Mings @TyroneMings]

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

[LSE Business Review @LSEforBusiness]

UK gender pay gap reporting: a crude but effective policy?
The difference between women’s and men’s pay has shrunk by just under a fifth at affected employers. @jackrblundell @CEP_LSE
https://t.co/JJ1FJanmGZ

[Centre for Economic Performance @CEP_LSE]

New! Gender pay gap closes by one fifth in response to reporting requirements

Research by @jackrblundell

Read: https://t.co/FdcofJ2r74

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

Nice brief write-up of our work on intergenerational mobility across England and Wales in the latest CentrePiece magazine from @CEP_LSE

[Centre for Economic Performance @CEP_LSE]

Children’s chances of doing well at school and getting a good job are affected by their family backgrounds – but how does this differ across the country?

Brian Bell, @jackrblundell and @s_machin_ explore

Read more in the latest CentrePiece magazine: https://t.co/0UG74rmGY0

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@hannofoe @Feli_Koenig @DanielBZhao @jenniferdoleac @andreas_gulyas If I understood the Austria paper correctly, their policy differs in a crucial way to the UK policy in that reports are not made fully public, but are internal. In the UK, the pay gap statistics were widely reported on in the media, with various employers 'named and shamed'.

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@mike_t_sanders @KingsCollegeLon with a great commentary on my gender pay gap reporting research. He raises an important point on distributional effects: "Not only does the gender pay gap still loom large, the spoils of transparency are unevenly divided" https://t.co/UlqasNRmcI

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@mike_t_sanders @KingsCollegeLon with a great commentary on my gender pay gap reporting research. He raises an important point on distributional effects: "Not only does the gender pay gap still loom large, the spoils of transparency are unevenly divided" https://t.co/UlqasNRmcI

[Jack Blundell @jackrblundell]

@Feli_Koenig @DanielBZhao @jenniferdoleac Thanks Felix. Yes, the papers find the same core result on wages and then follow different directions, this one going into employer responses using job postings data and mine exploring worker preferences using a survey.