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Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, and Postdoctoral Scholars presented their research at the World Inequality Conference at the Paris School of Economics in June.

In this conversation with host Steven Durlauf, Leslie McCall discusses her work examining inequality and Americans’ beliefs about it, as well as what her findings might tell us about meritocracy and the effects of artificial intelligence on the labor market.

Stone Center Junior Scholar and third-year doctoral student Paisley Shultz discusses her interest in industrial-organizational psychology and how it applies to questions related to socio-economic inequality, such as pay disclosure among coworkers.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Academia."

Artificial Intelligence is developing at breakneck speed, causing much anxiety about how our society and daily lives may change in the not-too-distant future. Top of mind for many: jobs. Daron Acemoglu, Paul Krugman, Danielle Li, and Zeynep Tufekci bring the speculation down to earth in a panel moderated by Steven Greenhouse.

Marai Hayes, one of the Stone Center's new postdoctoral scholars, discusses her research projects, how she became interested in the connections between health and inequality, and the likely impacts of recent health policy changes at the federal level.

Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses capital income and how it functions under new capitalism in this final post of his three-part series.

Are all class-based societies unequal? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses the differences between compositional and income inequality in this blog post, the second in a three-part series.

The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people, Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic explains in this blog post, the first in a three-part series.

Experts look ahead at how artificial intelligence may affect jobs, the workplace, and the economy.