Cross-national

In this brief, prepared for the Social Science Research Council, Janet Gornick and Nathaniel Johnson explore variation across countries and over time in levels of income inequality and in the size of the middle class.

In this research spotlight, a study by Miles Corak and colleagues of differences within the United States and Canada suggests why U.S. mobility is lower than in other rich countries.

In this interview, Yonatan Berman discusses his research on the interrelationships among absolute mobility, relative mobility, growth, and inequality.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic says advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure.

B. Petrova. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 51, no. 1. pp. 374–393. 2020.

The Business Insider highlights research by Miles Corak on the "Gatsby Curve."

A. Lindh and L. McCall. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 10. 2020.

S. P. Jenkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 09. 2020.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 07. 2020.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 05. 2020.