Inequality by the Numbers 2025
The Stone Center's annual research workshop of socio-economic inequality, targeted to Ph.D. students and early-career scholars who work in a range of social science disciplines.
Measuring Inequality of Opportunity, and the Importance of Childhood Circumstances
Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.
Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity: Accounting for Dynamic Complementarity
A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.
Long-Term Trends in Income and Wealth Inequality in Southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
G. Alfani and S. Sardone. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 95. 2024.
The Subjective Wealth Distribution: How it Arises and Why it Matters to Inform Policy?
P. Fessler and S. Rapp. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 92. 2024.
Richer and More Equal? A Conversation between Salvatore Morelli and Daniel Waldenström
Salvatore Morelli, the director of the GC Wealth Project and a Stone Center Senior Scholar, and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström discuss Waldenström's new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West.
The Past and Future of Labor Unions, and the Effect on Inequality: Suresh Naidu
Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefitting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.
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.
Changes in Household Wealth and Income, 1989–2022: Part 3, by Arthur B. Kennickell
Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell describes changes in the levels of household income across the distribution from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the final in a three-part series.
Compositional Inequality: Measurement, Stylized Facts, and Theoretical Aspects
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 87. 2024.