Mobility

F. H. G. Ferreira, P. Brunori, G. Neidhöfer, P. Salas-Rojo, and L. Sirugue. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 117. 2025.

Kenworthy, a professor of sociology and the Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the findings in his latest book, which examines whether reducing income inequality would have beneficial effects on living standards, health, economic opportunity, the functioning of democracy, and subjective measures of happiness.

In the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? Yong Cai, Qin Gao, Rongbin Han, and Branko Milanovic, address these questions in a panel moderated by John Torpey.

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.

In this post, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Zhexun Mo, an economist whose research focuses on the intersection of political economics, development, and economic history, reflects on the Center’s recent international workshop.

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.

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 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.

In this video, Miles Corak joins a panel discussion on inequality and social mobility at the Pearson Institute's 2023 Global Forum.