🌍 Cross-National Researcher | Social Policy & Health Advocate | 🔬 Passionate about Health Equity | 💡 Sharing Knowledge & Insights | PhD | Dondena Centre
Milan, Italy
Joined January 2011
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Matt Parbst retweeted
The Prime Minister says: we have reduced child poverty by hundreds of thousands. Please look at this graph of destitution. Most important is the problem - the steep rise in destitution - but also important is trying to say that it doesn't exist.
A national scandal: Levels of destitution not seen since the earlier 20th century are just the tip of an iceberg of poisonous inequality, insecurity and destruction
bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q313… @dannydorling @MichaelMarmot @ProfRGWilkinson @CamillaKingdon @ChildrensComm @bmj_latest
Matt Parbst retweeted
Health deserves a prominent position within the EU budget, with explicit backing in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).
The principles of the Economy of Wellbeing should be followed by the new EU institutions to enhance the health of individuals, the planet & the economy.
ALT Health has its place in the EU budget and should be clearly supported in the MFF, with a strong EU4Health budget. The Economy of Wellbeing should guide the new EU institutions in improving the health of the people, the planet, and the economy.
Matt Parbst retweeted
State policies play an increasingly salient role in healthcare inequality in the US. Learn more about state policies’ impacts on health by #race and #legalstatus in our recent publication in Social Science & Medicine:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iS8f…
@tpadillaCU & @areysoc 2024
Matt Parbst retweeted
Social determinants of health
Progress of the World Report
on Social Determinants of Health Equity
apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_fi…
Matt Parbst retweeted
Impressive evidence of the effectiveness of Ottawa's Canada-wide early learning & childcare plan in today's fall fiscal update. The cost parents pay for childcare has fallen dramatically. 1/2
Matt Parbst retweeted
Do unconditional cash transfers boost fertility?
We found that casino-based cash transfers were linked with an increase in conceptions that result in births at 1 & 3 months after payment. Increase concentrates among first-time moms.
Similar to Alaska Permanent fund findings!
🚨New paper🚨 on fertility impact of unconditional cash transfers using a natural experiment in North Carolina with the amazing @alisongemmill and @TB_entelechy
Non-paywalled version available here until Dec 30, 2023 👇
Link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1i3p4…
Matt Parbst retweeted
Be sure to catch recent PhD graduate Dr. Matthew Parbst’s (@Parbsty) feature on the @JofHSB podcast. Parbst discusses an article co-authored with Prof Blair Wheaton about welfare spending, SES, and mental health journals.sagepub.com/page/hs…
Matt Parbst retweeted
#hiring we are looking for a data scientist interested in mapping/geotag/web scraping to work with me and @sissinicobalbo @DondenaCentre on the automatic mapping of services for disabled child in Italy. Length: 6 month (with possible extensions). Deadline Oct 23rd. Link 👇
Matt Parbst retweeted
📢 Finally available world-wide:
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@ThomStubbs and I document the impact of 40 years of IMF-mandated austerity policies on the Global South.
What do we find?🧵
Matt Parbst retweeted
This is a really important point from Rachel Reeves - insecurity fundamentally limits people's ability to make longer term plans & work towards them
As well as informing an approach to work, this insight needs to shape the adequacy & reliability of our social security system
ALT Quote from Rachel Reeves: "You cannot dream big if you cannot sleep in peace at night. The peace that comes from knowing you have enough to put aside for a rainy day and the knowledge that, when you need them, strong public services will be there for you and your family."
Matt Parbst retweeted
Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same occupation, and that it largely arises with the birth of the first child.
#NobelPrize
Matt Parbst retweeted
This is shocking. I mean, who would've "thunk" it? -- Giving people money who don't have money would be a solution. And here I am, over here thinking that marriage was the solution. 🤔
Matt Parbst retweeted
A person, by virtue of living in Alberta, does not pay more into CPP than other Canadians.
That same person does not receive less out of CPP by virtue of living in Alberta.
The whole "Albertans are subsidizing other people's pensions" shtick is pretty tiresome.
Matt Parbst retweeted
My book w/ @E_Schneiderhan is OUT TODAY! 🥳
We look at why+how people try to raise money online for basic needs, and find that services like @gofundme fail most of their users while touting themselves as cures to today's affordability crises.
✨Get it 20% off @stanfordpress!✨
Matt Parbst retweeted
“commonly used simple mediation approaches that ignore racialized moderation processes overestimate—by between 5% and 30%—the collective roles of socioeconomic status and stressors in accounting for racial inequities in health.”
Impt new work!
read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
Matt Parbst retweeted
For all your international parental leave policy comparison needs -- the annual review of leave policies is now online :) #parentalleave
The International Network on Leave Policies and Research is pleased to announce that the 2023 edition of the network’s annual review of leave policies is now available online at leavenetwork.org/annual-revi… @LeaveNetwork @UCLSocRes
Matt Parbst retweeted
Zachary Parolin & colleagues at Columbia have created, and are using, *monthly* poverty estimates. This remarkable innovation, a complement to our longstanding annual estimates, will potentially change poverty scholarship in the US in the years to come. @ZParolin @ColumbiaSSW
Now. Webinar. @stone_lis Affiliated Scholar Zach Parolin discussing his timely new book, Poverty in the Pandemic, published by Russell Sage Foundation. Introduced by Sheldon Danziger, Jason DeParle, Chris Wimer. @ZParolin @RussellSageFdn @JasonDeParle @ColumbiaSSW @BrookingsInst
Matt Parbst retweeted
Social security is bad because it incentivizes people to be old. We should replace it with social insecurity - taxing old people and redistributing to the young. That way we incentivize people to stay young.
Follow me for more economic policy advice.
Matt Parbst retweeted
*New podcast!*
How does social welfare spending affect the relationship between SES and #mentalhealth?
Listen to the new podcast with co-author @Parbsty: bit.ly/3ZkIFoL.
The article with co-author Blair Wheaton: bit.ly/3HpaeFy
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