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.
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches
N. Deutscher and B. Mazumder. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 39. 2021.
‘We Can’t Let Go of the Efforts to Understand Why These Changes Are Taking Place’: Francisco Ferreira on the Future of Inequality Studies
In this interview, Francisco Ferreira, director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the need for a better data-driven understanding of shifts in the income and wealth distributions, and of the reasons behind these changes.
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality
B. Petrova and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 38. 2021.
The Real Urban Wage in an Agricultural Economy Without Landless Farmers: Serbia 1862–1910
B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 74, no. 2. pp. 424–448. 2021.
Chasing the Tail: A Generalized Pareto Distribution Approach to Estimating Wealth Inequality
A. B. Kennickell. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 37. 2021.
How Is Personal Wealth Concentrated in Italy, Which Has One of the Highest Wealth-to-Income Ratios Among High-Income Countries?
A working paper by Paolo Acciari, Facundo Alvaredo, and Salvatore Morelli uses a novel source to shed light on the wealth distribution from 1995 to 2016.