Latest updates on our research, collaborations, and public impact.
August
Diogo Britto has presented his work on intergenerational mobility in Sharing Prosperity organized by the World Bank. He has also given lectures on the same topic in the UNU-Wider Summer School for early-career researchers.
July
The paper “Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence” co-authored by Paolo Pinotti, Diogo Britto, Breno Sampaio and Sonia Bhalotra has now appeared in print in the Review of Economic Studies.
September
Alexandre Fonseca has present his work on Conditional Cash Transfer and Social Mobility in Brazil (with D. Britto, P. Pinotti, B. Sampaio and L. Warwar) in one of the two country-focused sessions of the 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference held in London, UK, in September 2025
October
In partnership with Opportunity Insights (Harvard University) and research groups working with Africa, India, Spain, and the United States, we are pleased to announce the release of the Global Opportunity Atlas
The Atlas provides a global perspective on how the places where children grow up shape their income and opportunities in adulthood, offering open data to inform local public policies that help more children escape poverty.
📊 The Global Atlas complements the Brazilian Mobility Atlas – https://atlasmobilidadesocial.org.br/, developed in partnership with the Imds – Instituto Mobilidade e Desenvolvimento Social (https://imdsbrasil.org/), which presents more detailed socioeconomic and mobility data for Brazil.