Measurement & Methods

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 62. Revised 2025.

In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.

E. Bar-Haim, L. Chauvel, J. Gornick, and A. Hartung. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 60. 2022.

R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Tina Law discusses the origins and growth of computational social science, how she became a sociologist, and why receiving her doctoral degree was particularly meaningful to her.

B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 59. Revised 2023.

M. Ranaldi and E. Palagi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 57. 2022.

A working paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Rafia Zafar shows that consumption expenditures can be used to accurately measure mobility in Indonesia, one of the largest lower-middle income countries in the world.

R. Zafar. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 55. 2022.

T. N. H. Albers, C. Bartels, and M. Schularick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 54. 2022.