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A 360° View on Inequality

We are focused on building and sharing knowledge about the
causes, nature, and consequences of socio-economic inequality.

Income & Wealth

Research and commentary on earnings, poverty, indebtedness, mobility, and more.

Culture & Society

Research and commentary on class, gender, race, political opinion, and more.

Policy & Institutions

Research and commentary on labor markets, taxes, transfers, social policies, and more.

The Stone Center is proud to house the US Office of LIS, the renowned cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. LIS serves an international community of researchers, educators, and policy-makers interested in quantitative research. The LIS archive includes two primary databases, the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, which focuses on income, and the smaller Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Database, which focuses on wealth.

Find out more about how the Stone Center works with the LIS team in Luxembourg.

Latest Research

Leaving Legacies and Liabilities: The Distribution of Wealth at Death

F. Disslbacher and S. Rapp. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 90. 2024.

Wealth and Welfare: Do Private and Public Safety Nets Compensate for Asset Poverty?

S. Rapp and S. Humer. Social Inclusion. vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 176–186. 2023.

Anti-Corruption Campaign in China: An Empirical Investigation

L. Yang, B. Milanovic, and Y. Lin. European Journal of Political Economy. vol. 85. 2024.

News and Commentary

Two Theories of Immaculate Disinflation, and Their Implications: Paul Krugman

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman discusses how the U.S. economy achieved disinflation without a recession, and what that means for important policy questions.

The Past and Future of Labor Unions, and the Effect on Inequality: Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefitting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

Changes in the Income Distributions in China, India, and the U.S., 2018–2023: Branko Milanovic

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic examines the effects of Covid-19 on China, the U.S., and India, and the return to “normalcy.”

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Curated Library on Racial Inequality

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Stone Center Working Paper Series

We are pleased to present papers from our scholars examining a diverse set of issues on inequality.