Inequality by the Numbers Virtual Workshop 2020 and 2023

Inequality by the Numbers Virtual Workshop 2020 and 2023

April 19, 2023

Introduction to the virtual workshop series by Stone Center Director Janet Gornick and Associate Director Leslie McCall

In 2020, we launched the first virtual version of the Inequality by the Numbers summer workshop, converting the planned in-person presentations into videos for 14 of the scheduled sessions. In 2022, we began organizing a second round of virtual presentations that sought to cover the full range of important topics originally planned for the 2020 in-person workshop. We also aimed to expand further by incorporating presentations from scholars involved in the workshop in prior years.

We are very pleased, then, to add these seven new video presentations on topics of major contemporary concern, including inequalities in exposure to global environmental harms (by Deborah Balk and Daniela Tagtachian), in health (one by Jacqueline Jahn and one by Nancy Krieger), in housing (one by Jacob Faber and one by Brandon Martinez), in New York City’s labor market (by James Parrott), and in the workplace (by Ryan Smith). Unless otherwise noted, these videos focus on the U.S. context, and often on racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S.

Taken together, the videos from 2020 and 2023 present a comprehensive picture of the startling range and degree of inequalities that exist throughout U.S. society and throughout the world. We combine them here as a single collection to encourage viewers to better understand the scale and scope of inequality and the interconnections among various dimensions of inequality.

We plan to continue to build this video series in the future. We are also pleased to announce that the live workshop will return in June 2024. Stay tuned for announcements.

 

The Rising Tide: Population Exposure and Change in Low-Lying Coastal Areas Across the Globe and in the United States

Deborah Balk – Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College
Daniela Tagtachian – The Graduate Center, CUNY

New Deal Policy and the Racialization of Homeownership

Jacob Faber – Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University

The Criminal Legal System and Population Health Inequality

Jaquelyn Jahn – Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

Grounded in History and Place: Critical Science for Health Justice and the People’s Health

Nancy Krieger – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Racialized Generational Homeownership Inequality

Brandon Martinez – CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance

Inequality in New York City and the Impact of Local Policy

James Parrott – The Center for New York City Affairs at the New School

Inequality and Workplace Diversity: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Decision-Making Authority at Work

Ryan Smith – Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College

For the past five years, we have offered an intensive, weeklong summer workshop on inequality – “Inequality by the Numbers” – at the campus of The Graduate Center/CUNY in midtown Manhattan. Although we are unable to carry on that tradition this year due to the pandemic, we are pleased to offer a set of videos as a substitute for the live event. We hope that this virtual workshop will reach a wider audience than the 50-60 attendees that we usually host onsite at The Graduate Center. 

As in past years, the purpose of the workshop is to provide a broad overview of the latest research and thinking on inequality across a wide range of substantive topics, disciplinary perspectives, and geographical terrains. Although we cannot cover every subject worthy of attention in the space of one week, each year we try to extend our discussion of inequality into new areas of research while retaining an emphasis on topics that the senior scholars at the Stone Center study. This year we have invited presenters to incorporate the coronavirus pandemic into their presentations wherever relevant, given the extraordinary importance of the pandemic to understanding past, present, and future structures of inequality. 

Below, you will find this year’s workshop presented as (roughly) 30-minute lectures by 14 of the 18 scholars who had generously agreed to present at this summer’s workshop. All videos are newly recorded for this impromptu series. Stay tuned, as additional videos may be posted in the future. ​

 

Inequality and Education

Jordan Conwell – University of Texas at Austin

 

Inequality from the Child’s Perspective

Miles Corak – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY

 The Care Penalty

Nancy Folbre – University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

LIS Data: A Resource for Inequality Research

Janet C. Gornick – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY

 

Cross-National Inequality: Trends, Causes, and Consequences

Lane Kenworthy – University of California, San Diego

 

The Social Psychology of Inequality

Michael Kraus – Yale University

An Unequally Distributed Depression

Paul Krugman – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY

The Multidimensional Politics of Inequality in the United States

Leslie McCall – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY

Global Distribution of Income and its Political Meaning

Branko Milanovic – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY

Inequality and the Labor Movement

Ruth Milkman – The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

The Growing Relevance of Wealth and Inheritance

Salvatore Morelli – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Roma Tre University

Inequality in NYC: Does Local Policy Matter in the Age of the Covid-19 Pandemic?

James Parrott – The Center for New York City Affairs at the New School

Persistent Effect of Prenatal Stress on Children’s Cognitive and Educational Outcomes

Florencia Torche – Stanford University

Punishment and Inequality

Bruce Western – Columbia University

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