Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality
M. Ranaldi and B. Milanovic. Journal of Comparative Economics. vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 20–32. 2022.
Mind the Gap: Disparities in Measured Income Between Survey and Tax Data
In this commentary, originally posted on VoxEU, Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli, and Janet Gornick analyze when and why household survey data and tax data diverge at the top of the income distribution.
Why Economists Should Think Like Sociologists: An Interview with Steven Durlauf
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.
Measuring Inequality in Latin America: A Conversation with Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Ignacio Flores
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.
Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China: A Decomposition Approach
M. A. Lugo, C. Niu, and R. Yemtsov. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 47. 2021.
Unequal Unification? Income Inequality and Unification in 19th Century Italy and Germany
P. E. Erfurth. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 46. 2021.
Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977–2018
N. Hérault and S. P. Jenkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 45. 2021.
Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
N. Hérault, D. Hyslop, S. P. Jenkins, and R. Wilkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 44. 2021.
How Housing Wealth Plays a Key Role in Inequality in Affluent Countries: an Interview with Fabian Pfeffer
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.
Measuring Poverty’s Multiple Dimensions: New Guidance for Countries Developing Multidimensional Poverty Measures
In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Data Blog, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Maria Ana Lugo and her coauthors discuss a roadmap for governments seeking to design and adopt a national measure of multidimensional poverty.