June 23, 2026
Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, and Postdoctoral Scholars presented their research at the World Inequality Conference at the Paris School of Economics from June 4 through June 6. The conference included the release of the Global Justice Report, plenary sessions focused on the report’s themes, and parallel sessions on new research.
Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic spoke on the plenary session panel that addressed the question “Are We on the Road for Global Equality?” In addition, Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, current Postdoctoral Scholars, and members of the GC Wealth Project team contributed to the following parallel sessions:
- Salvatore Morelli, Taxing Wealth: “Inheritance Tax Around the Globe Over Two Centuries: Revenue and Distributional Implications”
- Demetrio Guzzardi, Inheritance: “The Return of Inheritance”
- Naomi Crowther, Inheritance: “Shaping Women’s Fortunes: Inheritance and Gender Disparities”
- Severin Rapp, Inequality Perceptions: “The Good Council: Deliberating Inequality in a Field Experiment”
- Jan Mazza, Global Inequalities: “Domestic Inequality and Global Imbalances”
- Franziska Disslbacher, Income and Wealth Dynamics: “Wealth Inequality Trends Around the World: A First View from the GC Wealth Project Data”
- Zhexun Mo, Income and Wealth Dynamics: “Ideological Shifts and Wealth Dynamics: Unraveling the Century-Long Accumulation of Chinese National Wealth, 1911-2024”
- Francisco Ferreira, chair of Inequality of opportunity around the world (Co-organized with III/LSE)
- Francisco Ferreira, The African Inequality Review (Co-organized with III/LSE), “The Latin American (LACIR) example: ‘Here is one we made earlier…’”
- Yonatan Berman, Taxing Wealth: “Transaction Taxes and Housing Inequality: Evidence from the UK Stamp Duty Holiday”
