Cross-national

Part III of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part II covers LIS's recent history and the world beyond.

Part II of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part II covers LIS's history from 1990 to 2026.

Part I of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part I covers LIS's history from 1983 to 1989.

Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic discusses the recent update of his All the Ginis (ATG) dataset, which now covers the period from 1950 to 2024 and includes 6,762 Ginis from 183 countries or territories. He also explains the continuing challenges in improving the production and collection of data on national income inequalities, and gives a warning about technological change.

The Stone Center awarded funding to three CUNY Graduate Center students and two Stone Center postdoctoral scholars to attend the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop from June 29 through July 3 in Luxembourg.

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?