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Graduate Student

  • Stone Center Ph.D. Student Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School

    Gonçalo Pessa Costa, a doctoral candidate in economics, will continue and expand upon his research on ways to improve the enforcement of labor laws.

  • Stone Center Awards Funding to Seven Junior Scholars for 2023–2024

    The Stone Center has selected seven Ph.D. students as Junior Scholars for the 2023–2024 academic year. Each student will receive $5,000 in funding to help support their research on topics related to socio-economic inequality.

  • Class of 2023 Graduates Head Off to Postdoctoral Fellowships and Tenure-Track Positions

    Class of 2023 alumni who worked closely with Stone Center Senior Scholars are starting postdoctoral fellowships and tenure-track positions where they will continue their work on socio-economic inequality.

  • 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.

  • Is the European Union More Unequal than the Habsburg Empire?

    P. E. Erfurth. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 50. 2022.

  • Unequal Unification? Income Inequality and Unification in 19th Century Italy and Germany

    P. E. Erfurth. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 46. 2021.

  • Assortative Mating and Labor Income Inequality: Evidence from Fifty Years of Coupling in the U.S.

    N. Yonzan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 15. 2020.

  • The Decline of Income in the Bottom Half of the United States

    In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.

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