Measurement & Methods

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.

Erfurth et al. 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.

F. Disslbacher, M. Haselmayer, L. Lehner, S. Rapp, and F. Windisch. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 112. 2025.

Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Max Longmuir shows how to use the Wealth Topography section of the GC Wealth Project site to compare and visualize forms of wealth in various countries.

In this post, Max Longmuir reflects on his time as a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, his work on the GC Wealth Project and other studies, and why some initial ideas wound up in his “project cemetery.”