Poverty and Poverty Reduction Among Non-Elderly, Nondisabled, Childless Adults in Affluent Countries: The United States in Cross-National Perspective
J. C. Gornick, D. Brady, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 84. 2024.
The Stone Center’s Ignacio Flores Launches Site on Inequality in Latin America
Ignacio Flores, the data architecture expert at The GC Wealth Project and a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently launched Distribuciones.info, a Spanish-language site aimed at providing research on inequality in Latin America by Flores and his coauthors to a general audience.
Angus Deaton and Paul Krugman in Conversation
The two Nobel Prize winners discuss the role of the economist and Deaton's new book, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality.
The Stone Center Announces Its Sixth Cohort of Postdoctoral Scholars
Zhexun Mo and Severin Rapp will join the Stone Center for two-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars in September 2024.
Reframing Public Policy Discourse for Dignity, Community, and Resilience
In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Miles Corak discusses economic justice. The text is adapted from Corak’s response during a panel discussion at the Pearson Institute’s 2023 Global Forum, held at the University of Chicago.
Miles Corak: Inequality and Social Mobility at the Pearson Global Forum 2023
In this video, Miles Corak joins a panel discussion on inequality and social mobility at the Pearson Institute's 2023 Global Forum.
Inequality by the Numbers 2024
The Stone Center's annual research workshop of socio-economic inequality, targeted to Ph.D. students and early-career scholars who work in a range of social science disciplines.
Looking at the Workplace as a Site to Reduce Inequality
Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently testified in Albany about why New York State should expand its paid family leave policy. Her research focuses on ways that workplace polices can reduce inequality throughout the life course.
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani discusses his new book, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West.
The Three Eras of Global Inequality, 1820–2020 with the Focus on the Past Thirty Years
B. Milanovic. World Development. vol. 177. 2024.