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When Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin came to the Graduate Center, she already had more than a decade of experience working directly with patients as a medical social worker. She entered the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare determined to focus her research on improving care for older adults with disabilities.

L. Klein, P. M. Lersch, and M. Longmuir. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 110. 2025.

Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses her project on how older workers benefit from paid family leave and paid sick leave policies, for which she recently received a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty.

M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.

A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.

Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.

In this interview, Jaquelyn Jahn discusses two of her recently published papers, which examine the effects of policing, and police violence, on vulnerable groups: teenagers and pregnant women.

Ercio Muñoz, a member of The GC Wealth Project team, was awarded The Graduate Center’s Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship.

C. Bartels and S. Morelli. Journal of Modern European History. vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 33–39. 2021.

In this research spotlight, a study by Deirdre Bloome and her colleagues about a child’s likelihood of winding up on the same income rung as her parents sheds light on countervailing trends.