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Measurement & Methods

  • What Do We Mean by ‘Wealth Inequality’? A Framework by Arthur B. Kennickell

    In this blog post, the second in a series of three, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell examines the meaning of wealth inequality and presents a framework for analyzing questions related to inequality.

  • Wealth, Inequality, and Measurement, and the GC Wealth Project Website: Arthur B. Kennickell

    In this blog post, the first in a series of three, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell addresses key questions about the definition of wealth.

  • Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950–2020

    Y. Berman and B. Milanovic. The Review of Income and Wealth. 2023.

  • How Rich Were the Rich? An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Pre-Industrial Bases of Wealth

    B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 69. 2023.

  • Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

    M. Kasy and L. Lehner. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 67. 2023.

  • The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China

    M. Targa and L. Yang. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 66. 2023.

  • Fractal Theory of Income Distribution

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

  • Searching for the Roots of U.S. Inequality Exceptionalism: Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic

    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.

  • The Persistence of the Gender Earnings Gap: Cohort Trends and the Role of Education in Twelve Countries

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

  • Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth

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

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