Salvatore Morelli

The Stone Center’s sixth cohort of postdoctoral scholars, Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp, will start new positions this fall after they complete their two-year terms at the Graduate Center. Mo will join the economics department of Laval University, and Rapp will join the London School of Economics's International Inequalities Institute.

M. Longmuir et al. Scientific Data. vol. 13, no. 774. 2026. 

Stone Center Director Janet Gornick and GC Wealth Project Director Salvatore Morelli took part in a recent meeting of the International Panel on Inequality Founding Committee, an international group of experts and officials who are seeking to establish a permanent global panel to fight inequality.

S. Morelli, B. Nolan, J.C. Palomino, and P. Van Kerm. Journal of Public Economics. vol. 247. 2025.

Fifteen researchers associated with the GC CUNY Stone Center, including three senior scholars, attended the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, held in Luxembourg on February 27 and 28.

Salvatore Morelli, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on the “return of inheritocracy,” discusses the surge in inherited wealth, what this means for wealth inequality, and potential solutions for the negative effects of the ongoing Great Wealth Transfer.

S. Morelli, T. Asher, F. Di Biase, F. Disslbacher, I. Flores, L. Giangregorio, A. Rego Johnson, M. Longmuir, G. Rella, M. Schechtl, F. Subioli, and M. Targa. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 99. 2024.

S. Morelli, B. Nolan, J. C. Palomino, and P. Van Kerm. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 94. 2024.

Salvatore Morelli, the director of the GC Wealth Project and a Stone Center Senior Scholar, and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström discuss Waldenström's new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West.

F. Alvaredo, Y. Berman, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper no. 91. 2024.