Mobility

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Enobong (Anna) Branch and her co-author Caroline Hanley explore themes from their recently published book, Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, R. Vélez-Grajales, and G. Yalonetzky. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 61. 2023.

R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 58. 2022.

A working paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Rafia Zafar shows that consumption expenditures can be used to accurately measure mobility in Indonesia, one of the largest lower-middle income countries in the world.

In this interview, Miles Corak discusses the fraying of the American Dream and the power of inequality to disrupt the promise of social mobility.

R. Zafar. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 55. 2022.

In this post, Miles Corak explains how he came to write the introductory essay to a new edition of The Great Gatsby, now available from Century Press.

In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.

S. N. Durlauf, A. Kourtellos, and C. M. Tan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 43. 2021.