Measurement & Methods

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting 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.

F. Alvaredo, Y. Berman, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper no. 91. 2024.

N. Cesa-Bianchi, R. Colomboni, and M. Kasy. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 89. 2024.

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.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 87. Revised 2025.

P. Erfurth. Stone Center Working Paper no. 86. 2024.

B. Milanovic. Explorations in Economic History. vol. 93. 2024.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell describes changes in the levels of household wealth across the distribution from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the second in a three-part series.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 85. Revised 2024.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell analyses the cross-sectional patterns of change in household wealth and income from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the first in a new series.