Fall Semester 2024

Hosted by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholars

All seminars will be held from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EDT/EST) 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-F24

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

Date Title Presenter
September 12 Introductions Meredith Slopen, Max Longmuir, Severin Rapp and Zhexun Mo

Postdoctoral Scholars, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

September 26 The Subjective Wealth Distribution: How it Arises and Why it Matters to Inform Policy? Severin Rapp

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

October 17

Measurement of Income Inequality of Opportunity: Focusing on Early Childhood Circumstances Aman Desai

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, CUNY Graduate Center

October 24 Ideological Shifts and Wealth Dynamics: Unraveling the Century-Long Accumulation of Chinese National Wealth (1911–2020) Zhexun Mo

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

October 31 Measuring Poverty to Understand the Impacts of Antipoverty Policy Chris Wimer

Director, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work

November 7 Education Can’t Fix Everything: Job Quality and Gender Stratification in the Labor Market Shauna Dyer

David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

November 14 The Impact of Paid Sick Leave Mandates at Critical Junctures in the Life Course Meredith Slopen

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center on Socio- Economic Inequality

November 21 Measuring the Effects of Agricultural Subsidies on Market Structure, Productivity, and Pollution Tristan Du Puy

Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Development, Columbia University

December 5 Cooperatives, Competition, and Compensation Parijat Lal

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University

December 12 Return Heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality? Max Longmuir

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality