Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity
Oxford University
Zachary Parolin is a professor of Social Policy, Inequality, and Opportunity at the University of Oxford, as well as the Director of the Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity programme at INET Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. His research focuses on the measurement and determinants of poverty and social inequality in high-income countries. His work has appeared in journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, AEA: Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Demography, and elsewhere. His research has also been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, The Atlantic, CNN, in a U.S. presidential debate, and in other outlets. Parolin published his first book, Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19, in 2023. Before joining Oxford, he directed the ERC-funded ExpPov Project at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D. in socio-economics from the University of Antwerp in 2018.
Areas of Expertise
Poverty
Income Inequality
Measurement
Labor Markets
- Panel: Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future
- Interview: Zachary Parolin on What We Learned About U.S. Poverty, and Ways to Reduce It, from the Pandemic
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 51: Minimum Income Support for Families with Children in Europe and the US: Where Does It Stand?
- Co-author: Pathways Toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 42: Pathways Toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles
- Interview: ‘There’s No Substitute for Just Giving Poor People Money’: David Brady and Zach Parolin Discuss Their Research on Deep and Extreme Poverty
- Blog Post: What Explains the Decline of Cash Assistance in the United States?
