In this interview, University of Michigan sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses his recent paper, coauthored with Nora Waitkus of the London School of Economics and Tilburg University, on cross-national patterns of wealth inequality.
In this interview, Francisco Ferreira, director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the need for a better data-driven understanding of shifts in the income and wealth distributions, and of the reasons behind these changes.
In this interview, the authors explain why childless households are fueling the rise in poverty in the United States, and how simple policy changes could end this problem.
Janet Gornick talks about economics and poverty in a time of COVID-19 on CUNY TV.
In this interview, Marco Ranaldi discusses his work on measuring the shares of income that come from capital and labor, and what this means for the structure of the economy.
In this interview, Bhash Mazumder discusses his work on intergenerational mobility, why the subject is so difficult to study, and how race factors into mobility and inequality.
In this interview, Nora Lustig discusses the importance of accurately assessing the very top of the income and wealth distributions when analyzing inequality.
In this interview, Janet Gornick discusses how the size of the middle class in the United States and other rich countries has shifted in recent decades, and the implications for inequality.
In this interview, Yonatan Berman discusses his research on the interrelationships among absolute mobility, relative mobility, growth, and inequality.
In this interview, sociologist Philip N. Cohen discusses his work on developing open platforms for social science research and his research on family inequality.