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.
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.
The Three Eras of Global Inequality, 1820–2020, with the Focus on the Past Thirty Years
B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 59. 2022.
Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics: The Compositional Inequality Perspective
M. Ranaldi, E. Palagi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 57. 2022.
A Study Demonstrates a Better Method of Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in Middle- and Low-Income Countries
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.