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🚨We're hiring: Part-time Research Assistants (2 positions)

Are you a PhD student interested in inequality, social policy and social mobility? Join Professor Zachary Parolin's research team working on economic and social inequality in high-income countries.

Successful candidates will work in one of two areas:
📈 Labour market institutions and their relationship to social and economic outcomes
📑Public policy analysis

We’re are looking for applicants who:
✅Are working towards a PhD in a social science discipline (or relevant data science field)
✅Have an interest or research in economics
✅Have experience in data management and analysis

Details:
- Part-time (12 hours per week)
- Fixed term until 28 February 2027
- Opportunity to work closely with Professor Zachary Parolin, building your research experience and contributing to publications

📅Application deadline: 2 September 2026

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Inside this essay from Carter Powis you'll learn:

- Exactly what it would take for AI to substantially accelerate economic growth;

- The things that arbitrarily advanced AI will never be able to do (and whether they matter);

- A rigorous perspective on how humans continue to contribute economically in a world where knowledge work is automated;

- Why the simulation theory is probably wrong;

- A perspective on how to live through periods of disorienting change.

No. 2026-17 - Policy Discussion Paper: Return from Erewhon - What I… Every public conversation about AI seems to end in one of two places: the machines kill us, or the machines save us. Notice that both stories tell you to…

The Economic Experiment That Upended Reality ➟ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/minimum-wage-experiment-worked/687255/?gift=S2oq8j3Y-_sMOYlRJYDbFHjF_DClyl6ah-UNOUxu4mQ

Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

Nick Hanauer & Eric Beinhocker write for The Atlantic on economic paradigm change.

Oxford Martin School Blavatnik School of Government

The Economic Experiment That Upended Reality Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

INET Oxford Newsletter - Trinity Term 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/inet/april-news