From Workers to Capitalists in Less Than Two Generations: A Study of Chinese Urban Elite Transformation Between 1988 and 2013
L. Yang, F. Novokmet, and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 06. 2020.
Distributional Aspects of Economic Systems
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 05. 2020.
The Long Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility
Y. Berman. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 04. 2020.
Real Urban Wage in an Agricultural Economy Without Landless Farmers: Serbia 1862–1910
B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 01. 2020.
Does Adjusting for Family Size Eliminate the Partnership Benefit?
In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall considers whether adjusting for family size eliminates economic benefits for families headed by couples compared to those headed by single people.
Couples with (Economic) Benefits
In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.
The Decline of Income in the Bottom Half of the United States
In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.
Intergenerational Mobility Between and Within Canada and the United States
M. Connolly, M. Corak, and C. Haeck. Journal of Labor Economics. vol. 37, no. s2. 2019.
The Canadian Geography of Intergenerational Mobility
M. Corak. The Economic Journal. vol. 130, no. 631, pp. 2134–2174. 2020.
Financial Post: Canada’s Income Ladder Is Easier to Climb Than America’s, but It’s Way Smaller
In this article, the Financial Post's William Watson explores a study by Miles Corak, Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck on the intergenerational transmission of income inequality in Canada and the United States.