Janet Gornick, Sarah K. Bruch of the University of Delaware, and Graduate Center Sociology Ph.D. student Joseph van der Naald, have begun work on a sponsored project funded by Social Security Administration (SSA) through a newly created national research center.
Ignacio Flores, the data architecture expert at The GC Wealth Project and a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently launched Distribuciones.info, a Spanish-language site aimed at providing research on inequality in Latin America by Flores and his coauthors to a general audience.
The two Nobel Prize winners discuss the role of the economist and Deaton's new book, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality.
Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp will join the Stone Center for two-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars in September 2024.
Gonçalo Pessa Costa, a doctoral candidate in economics, will continue and expand upon his research on ways to improve the enforcement of labor laws.
In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Miles Corak discusses economic justice. The text is adapted from Corak’s response during a panel discussion at the Pearson Institute’s 2023 Global Forum, held at the University of Chicago.
In this video, Miles Corak joins a panel discussion on inequality and social mobility at the Pearson Institute's 2023 Global Forum.
Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently testified in Albany about why New York State should expand its paid family leave policy. Her research focuses on ways that workplace polices can reduce inequality throughout the life course.
In this interview, economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury discusses her recently published study on the lack of socio-economic diversity within the field of economics.
The Stone Center has selected seven Ph.D. students as Junior Scholars for the 2023–2024 academic year. Each student will receive $5,000 in funding to help support their research on topics related to socio-economic inequality.