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Janet C. Gornick

  • Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War

    Branko Milanovic discusses his latest book, a sweeping and original history that focuses on how six of the most influential economists saw inequality in their time, with Paul Krugman, Clara Mattei, and Donald Robotham.

  • Stone Center Director Janet Gornick Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Stockholm University

    Janet Gornick, the director of the Stone Center and a professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden in recognition for her research on socio-economy inequality.

  • Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future

    Carol Jenkins leads a panel discussion on child poverty and related policy interventions, featuring Regina S. Baker, Janet Gornick, Jeff Madrick, and Zachary Parolin.

  • The Stone Center Launches the GC Wealth Project, Expanding and Consolidating Research and Data on Wealth

    The Stone Center announces the launch of the GC Wealth Project website, the result of a multi-year effort aimed at expanding and consolidating access to the most up-to-date research and information on wealth and wealth inequality.

  • The Stone Center Welcomes Its Fifth Cohort of Postdoctoral Scholars

    Maximilian Longmuir and Meredith Slopen will join the Stone Center as postdoctoral scholars in September 2023.

  • 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.

  • The Persistence of the Gender Earnings Gap: Cohort Trends and the Role of Education in Twelve Countries

    E. Bar-Haim, L. Chauvel, J. Gornick, and A. Hartung. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 60. 2022.

  • Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth

    R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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