Inequality as a lens on society, the economy, and politics
Manuel Schechtl, a 2022–2024 Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses his Stone Center Working Paper, which combines two new sources of data to compare the extent of democratic backsliding in all 50 U.S. states.
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From the Archives
Q&A with Jim Stone
This is a text of a 2016 interview with the lead donors of the new James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
U.S. Office of LIS
The Stone Center is proud to house the U.S. 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.
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