Income Inequality

F. Colcerasa, L. Giammei, and F. Subioli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 104. 2025.

Swapnil Landge, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Graduate Center and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his research goals, his interest in inequality, and what led him to investigate the intangible transfers of skills between parents and children.

Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Zhexun Mo discusses two recent papers he contributed to the Stone Center Working Paper Series that focus on perceptions of inequality and redistribution in China.

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

G. Alfani and S. Sardone. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 95. 2024.

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic examines the effects of Covid-19 on China, the U.S., and India, and the return to “normalcy.”

In this post, former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bilyana Petrova explains the recently published paper she coauthored with Marco Ranaldi, also a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar.

D. Guzzardi and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 88. 2024.

M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 87. Revised 2025.