Poverty

Research by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Regina S. Baker of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Heather A. O’Connell of Louisiana State University analyzes the impact of structural racism on poverty among single-mother and married-parent households in the U.S. South.

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Zachary Parolin discusses his new book, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from Covid-19," and assesses an array of policies that would improve economic well-being in the long term.

Carol Jenkins leads a panel discussion on child poverty and related policy interventions, featuring Regina S. Baker, Janet Gornick, Jeff Madrick, and Zachary Parolin.

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.