Scholar Interviews

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.

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

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.

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.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Max Longmuir discusses how he became interested in inequality studies, his work on The GC Wealth Project, and his research.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani talks about how the position of the rich in Western society has changed over the centuries, and the implications for the present and future.

In this interview, Stone Center Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses his recently published book, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Zachary Parolin discusses his new book, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from Covid-19," and assesses an array of policies that would improve economic well-being in the long term.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Nancy Folbre discusses her recent study, which looks at why care services providers have relatively low pay compared to workers in business services with equivalent levels of education.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Manuel Schechtl discusses his research interests and his working paper on fiscal impoverishment, a new framework in comparative poverty research.