Measurement & Methods

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.

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 Director Janet Gornick and GC Wealth Project Director Salvatore Morelli took part in a recent meeting of the International Panel on Inequality Founding Committee, an international group of experts and officials who are seeking to establish a permanent global panel to fight inequality.

G. Alfani. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 126. 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.

P. Erfurth, M.G. León, G. Gabbuti, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 122. 2026.

N. Lustig and A. Vigorito. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 119. 2025.

Manuel Schechtl, a 2022–2024 Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses his Stone Center Working Paper, which combines two new sources of data to compare the extent of democratic backsliding in all 50 U.S. states.

S. Hong, N. N. Kim, Z. Mo, and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 113. 2025.