Inequality as a lens on society, the economy, and politics
Part III of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part II covers LIS's recent history and the world beyond.
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GC Wealth Project
Working Paper Series
All the Ginis (ATG) Dataset
Curated Library of Research on Racial Inequality
Our work is data-driven, interdisciplinary, oriented toward policy and institutional change, and addresses questions about inequality throughout the world.
Explore our work by topic:
Income Inequality
Wealth Inequality
Economic Policy
Social/Family Policy
Political Beliefs/Public Opinion
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The Economics of Work-Life Conflict
In this video, Heather Boushey and Janet Gornick discuss why resolving work-life conflicts is as vital for individuals and families as it is for our country’s productivity.
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.
Recent Videos
Europe is widely perceived as losing ground to both the United States and China. But is it really? Paul Krugman challenges conventional assumptions about Europe's economic performance in his James Martin Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.
Paul Krugman gave this talk on economic size and economic power during the second day of the European Central Bank's annual research conference.
Experts discuss Branko Milanovic's timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers.
Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.
Branko Milanovic discusses his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, with Kirsten Sehnbruch at an event hosted by LSE's International Inequalities Institute.
Leslie McCall delivers a keynote address at "The III at 10: New Directions in Inequality Research," a two-day conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the London School of Economics' International Inequalities Institute.
