Postdoctoral Scholar (2022–2024)
Manuel Schechtl is a sociologist with research interests in the policy determinants of poverty and of income and wealth inequality. His research is centered around different dimensions of tax policy and their consequences. Schechtl’s recent work is concerned with comparative fiscal impoverishment, i.e., the fraction of people who are taxed into poverty across rich countries. One focus of his research on economic inequality concerns differential tax treatment across family types. During his postdoctoral period, he will work on multiple facets of wealth inequality and accumulation, with a particular focus on the impact of inheritance taxes. He received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin in July 2022.
Schechtl joined the Stone Center in the fall semester of 2022.
Areas of Expertise
Tax Policy
Social Policy
Comparative Economic Inequality
Poverty
- Interview: When Rich Democracies Exacerbate Poverty: Manuel Schechtl on Fiscal Impoverishment
- Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 111: Rising Wealth Inequality and Democratic Backsliding across U.S. States
- Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 99: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1.2 – Documentation
- Center News: Stone Center’s Fourth Cohort of Postdocs to Start Tenure-Track Positions
- Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 75: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1 – Documentation
- Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 68: The Gender (Tax) Gap in Parental Transfers. Evidence from Administrative Inheritance and Gift Tax Data
- Journal Article: Tax Principles, Policy Feedback, and Self-Interest: Cross-National Experimental Evidence on Wealth Tax Preferences
