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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

Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity: Accounting for Dynamic Complementarity

A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.

Reform Windfall as Redistribution: A Survey Experiment on Redistributive Preferences in Contemporary China

M. Belguise, N. Y. Chen, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 97. 2024.

Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa

D. Cogneau and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 96. 2024.

News and Commentary

Measuring Inequality of Opportunity, and the Importance of Childhood Circumstances

Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.

Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? – Paul Krugman

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman looks at U.S.-EU divergence in the technology sector, and the role of geographic clusters.

The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” – Paul Krugman

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman reintroduces his Substack newsletter. He also discusses parallels between current and past efforts "to bring a business sensibility" to the federal budget, with the goal of eliminating inefficiency.

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The GC Wealth Project Website

Our new website expands and consolidates access to the most up-to-date research and data on wealth and wealth inequality.

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Curated Library on Racial Inequality

A resource page containing relevant academic research from scholars associated with the center.

Stone Center Working Paper Series

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