Cross-national

F. Alvaredo, F. Bourguignon, F. H. G. Ferreira, C. Lakner, and N. Lustig. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 131. 2026.

T. Asher, L. Giangregorio, S. Morelli, M. Schechtl, and F. Subioli. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 129. 2026.

F. Disslbacher, S. Morelli, and M. Targa. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 128. 2026.

Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, and Postdoctoral Scholars presented their research at the World Inequality Conference at the Paris School of Economics in June.

Part III of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, considers the U.S. healthcare system from an international perspective and concludes by looking at the future. What kind of system is workable in the U.S.? How has the political economy of U.S. healthcare reform changed? And what is a possible path forward?

P. Valetto, S. Filauro, I. Marx, and J. C. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 127. 2026.

N. Bharti et al. Journal of Public Economics. vol. 255. 2026.

Jakob Dirksen, a visiting researcher at the Stone Center who is based at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, discusses his current projects and research goals.

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

Stone Center Junior Scholar and Ph.D. candidate Shou-Ming Chang, who worked as a legislative assistant in the parliament of Taiwan before coming to the Graduate Center, discusses his research, his interests in methods of measuring inequality, and what he learned from his government role.