Poverty

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Manuel Schechtl discusses his research interests and his working paper on fiscal impoverishment, a new framework in comparative poverty research.

In this post, Stone Center research assistant Joseph van der Naald discusses the chapter of the recently published "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth" that he co-authored with Sarah Bruch and Janet Gornick.

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.

S. K. Bruch, J. van der Naald, and J. C. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 56. 2022.

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.

The Reducing Inequality Network program is a collaboration among faculty and graduate students at the Stone Center, Columbia, and NYU.

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.

S. Kuypers and I. Marx. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 496–516. 2021.

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.