Spring Semester 2025

Hosted by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholars

All seminars will be held from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST/EDT) in hybrid format:

In-Person Location: Stone Center Library and Meeting Room (Room 6203.01) at The Graduate Center 
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/SCMDSS‐S25

If you wish to attend the seminars via Zoom, please be sure to register in advance.

Date Title Presenter

February 6

Understanding Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Self‐Selection and Income Inequality

Swapnil Landge

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, CUNY Graduate Center; Junior Scholar, Stone Center on Socio‐Economic Inequality

February 20

Monetary Policy and the Firm‐Level Labor Share: A Story About Capital

Lea Steininger

Research Fellow, Law and Political Economy Research Group, Harvard University

March 6

Mapping Inequality of Opportunity in France and Its Regions: A Data‐Driven Analysis Based on Fiscal Administrative Data

Thibaut Plassot

Ph.D. Candidate, Bordeaux School of Economics, University of Bordeaux

March 20

Rebellion Rhymes: Intergroup Cleavage and the Early Chinese Revolutions

Erik Wang

Assistant Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

April 3

Technological Change, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Early 20th Century Agriculture

Jacob French

Assistant Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University

May 8

Tax Expenditures on Families by Income and Year: When Have Expenditures Been Greatest, and Whom Have They Benefited the Most?

Sophie Collyer

Ph.D. Candidate, Social Policy and Policy Analysis, Columbia University