Blog Posts

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bennett Callaghan explains why discussing the existence of inequality isn’t enough to change public opinion, and can even backfire.

In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Jaquelyn Jahn, a social epidemiologist who focuses on health equity, discusses ways to prevent more illness and deaths in jails and prisons.

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog, Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University discusses why reducing inequality may be essential for growth.

In this commentary, Professor Leslie McCall discusses the Stone Center’s recent Conference on Coalitional Democracy.

In this blog post, Arthur B. Kennickell, the former director of the SCF, uses the latest data to step beyond the usual summary statistics to chart the changes in wealth and income, revealing important distributional shifts.

In this commentary, Professor Leslie McCall, associate director of the Stone Center, explains why, in the United States, efforts to increase voting access are critical to achieving a more egalitarian society.

In this blog post, Charlotte Bartels and Dirk Neumann, the authors of a new Stone Center Working Paper, discuss how long-run and annual redistribution diverge in various welfare states, and the implications for policymaking.

In this blog post, Zachary Parolin, the author of a forthcoming paper, describes his findings about the TANF program’s impact on cash support to families in need.

In this blog post, Brian Nolan and his coauthors discuss their research on patterns of wealth transfers across generations and the role this plays in wealth accumulation.