Measurement & Methods

D. Bloome, D. Burk, and L. McCall. American Journal of Sociology. vol. 124, no. 5. 2019.

In this lecture, Leslie McCall presents a framework for understanding how, in the United States, public opinions about inequality, economic opportunity, and redistribution are related to one another in ways that are at odds with key tenets of American exceptionalism.

In this video, Paul Krugman, Janet Gornick, Achim Steiner, and other experts discuss the challenges of addressing global inequality.

The Human Development Report Office, LIS, the Stone Center, UNU-WIDER and the World Inequality Lab will host a symposium on March 28-29.

2019 annual research workshop on socio-economic inequalities.

This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from nine sources. B. Milanovic. 2019.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

The week-long workshop "Inequality by the Numbers” took a broad approach to the study of socio-economic inequalities, covering disparities in income, wealth, education, social mobility, and happiness.

L.K. Nelson, D. Burk, M. Knudsen, and L. McCall. Sociological Methods & Research. 2018.

Watch Paul Krugman in conversation with Janet Gornick about inequality with a focus on New York City.