Non-Meritocrats or Choice-Reluctant Meritocrats? A Redistribution Experiment in China and France
M. Belguise, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 93. 2024.
Changes in the Income Distributions in China, India, and the U.S., 2018–2023: Branko Milanovic
In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic examines the effects of Covid-19 on China, the U.S., and India, and the return to “normalcy.”
Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality Using the Distribution of Estates
F. Alvaredo, Y. Berman, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 91. 2024.
The Link Between Left-Wing Political Parties and Lower Income Composition Inequality
In this post, former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bilyana Petrova explains the recently published paper she coauthored with Marco Ranaldi, also a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar.
Wealth and Welfare: Do Private and Public Safety Nets Compensate for Asset Poverty?
S. Rapp and S. Humer. Social Inclusion. vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 176–186. 2023.
Compositional Inequality: Measurement, Stylized Facts, and Normative Aspects
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 87. 2024.
How Rich Were the Rich? An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Pre-Industrial Bases of Wealth
B. Milanovic. Explorations in Economic History. vol. 93. 2024.
Poverty and Poverty Reduction Among Non-Elderly, Nondisabled, Childless Adults in Affluent Countries: The United States in Cross-National Perspective
J. C. Gornick, D. Brady, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 84. 2024.
The Stone Center’s Ignacio Flores Launches Site on Inequality in Latin America
Ignacio Flores, the data architecture expert at The GC Wealth Project and a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently launched Distribuciones.info, a Spanish-language site aimed at providing research on inequality in Latin America by Flores and his coauthors to a general audience.
The Three Eras of Global Inequality, 1820–2020 with the Focus on the Past Thirty Years
B. Milanovic. World Development. vol. 177. 2024.