Leslie McCall Awarded Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship
Leslie McCall, the associate director of the Stone Center, was named a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar for the 2023–2024 year.
Searching for the Roots of U.S. Inequality Exceptionalism: Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic
In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.
When Rich Democracies Exacerbate Poverty: Manuel Schechtl on Fiscal Impoverishment
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.
Leslie McCall: The Multidimensional Politics of Inequality, LSE Event
In the inaugural Social Policy Lecture at LSE, Leslie McCall presents a novel analytical framework for the understanding of popular responses to economic inequality.
A Comparative Perspective on Policies to Support Single-Parent Families: Webinar
A discussion of the latest volume of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, which focuses on on single-parent families and the best approaches to support them. Janet Gornick, director of the Stone Center, presents an overview of the research.
Tina Law on Training Computational Social Scientists and Her Own Path to Becoming One
In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Tina Law discusses the origins and growth of computational social science, how she became a sociologist, and why receiving her doctoral degree was particularly meaningful to her.
Geographic Disparities in the U.S. Social Safety Net: An Underexamined Dimension of Inequality
In this post, Stone Center research assistant Joseph van der Naald discusses the chapter of the recently published "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth" that he co-authored with Sarah Bruch and Janet Gornick.
A Study Demonstrates a Better Method of Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in Middle- and Low-Income Countries
A working paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Rafia Zafar shows that consumption expenditures can be used to accurately measure mobility in Indonesia, one of the largest lower-middle income countries in the world.
Miles Corak: The Great Gatsby Curve
In this interview, Miles Corak discusses the fraying of the American Dream and the power of inequality to disrupt the promise of social mobility.
Guido Alfani on What Past Epidemics Can Teach Us About the Impact of Covid-19 on Inequality
In this interview, Guido Alfani, a professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, and an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center, discusses his latest paper on epidemics, inequality, and poverty.