Measurement & Methods

In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.

In this interview, Ignacio Flores discusses his work on constructing macro-consistent estimates of inequality in Latin America and a project on agricultural land distribution in France.

M. A. Lugo, C. Niu, and R. Yemtsov. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 47. 2021.

In this video, a panel of social scientists, including Janet Gornick and Leslie McCall, discuss ways for researchers to move beyond describing and quantifying the problem of inequality and to focus instead on ways to reduce it.

P. E. Erfurth. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 46. 2021.

N. Hérault and S. P. Jenkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 45. 2021.

N. Hérault, D. Hyslop, S. P. Jenkins, and R. Wilkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 44. 2021.

S. N. Durlauf, A. Kourtellos, and C. M. Tan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 43. 2021.

In this interview, Bilyana Petrova and Marco Ranaldi discuss what they learned at the Stone Center and the new positions they will be starting this fall.

In this interview, University of Michigan sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses his recent paper, coauthored with Nora Waitkus of the London School of Economics and Tilburg University, on cross-national patterns of wealth inequality.