Shades of Social Mobility: Colorism, Ethnic Origin and Intergenerational Social Mobility
L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 58. 2022.
A Study Demonstrates a Better Method of Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in Middle- and Low-Income Countries
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.
Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation Over Time and Across the U.S. States
S. K. Bruch, J. van der Naald, and J. C. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 56. 2022.
Where Redistribution Has Been ‘Zoned Out’: Jessica Trounstine’s Study of Racial and Class Segregation and Inequality at the Local Level
Jessica Trounstine’s chapter in the recently published book The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power examines the ongoing impact of restrictive land use policies on inequality in metropolitan areas across the U.S.
Spotlight on Reducing Inequality Network (RIN) Scholars
The Reducing Inequality Network program is a collaboration among faculty and graduate students at the Stone Center, Columbia, and NYU.
How Does Wealth Matter for Social Policy? A Special Issue of the Journal of European Social Policy Seeks to Answer That Question
In this commentary, Ive Marx of the University of Antwerp and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Brian Nolan of the University of Oxford introduce a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy focused on social policy and wealth.
Poverty in the EU Using Augmented Measures of Financial Resources: The Role of Assets and Debt
S. Kuypers and I. Marx. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 496–516. 2021.
Measuring Inequality in Latin America: A Conversation with Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Ignacio Flores
In this interview, Ignacio Flores discusses his work on constructing macro-consistent estimates of inequality in Latin America and a project on agricultural land distribution in France.
Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China: A Decomposition Approach
M. A. Lugo, C. Niu, and R. Yemtsov. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 47. 2021.
An Inequality on Top of Inequalities: When People Who Can’t Get Bank Accounts Turn to Prepaid Cards, They Face a Confusing Array of Options
New behavioral economics research by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Emiliano Huet-Vaughn and his coauthors proposes a way to make choosing the right card easier.