Postdoctoral Scholar (2023–2025)
Max Longmuir is an economist whose work combines topics in household finance, labor economics, and distributional economics, with a special focus on wealth inequality. He examines questions such as the relevance of households’ portfolio choices on wealth inequality, and the effect of labor market risk on wealth accumulation processes. His research interests also include methods for measuring the wealth distribution, intergenerational mobility along the wealth distribution, and the interdependencies of inheritances and labor market outcomes. Longmuir received his Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2021 and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, where he worked on intergenerational wealth inequality and its socio-demographic conditions in Germany.
Longmuir joined the Stone Center in the fall semester of 2023.
Areas of Expertise
Applied Microeconomics
Distributional Economics
Household Finance
Intergenerational Mobility
Labor Economics
- Blog Post: From Data Deserts to Rich Insights: Lessons from Researching Wealth Inequality
- Working Paper: Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988–2017
- Journal Article: Wage Risk and Portfolio Choice: The Role of Correlated Returns
- Working Paper: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1.2 – Documentation
- Journal Article: How Many Brackets Should We Ask for to Derive Adequate Metric Information for Income and Wealth?
- Interview: Max Longmuir on His Path Toward Inequality Studies and His Research on Wealth
