Poverty

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.

M. A. Lugo, C. Niu, and R. Yemtsov. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 47. 2021.

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.

On its 10th anniversary, a panel of activists who participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement will discuss its influence on the world today.

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Data Blog, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Maria Ana Lugo and her coauthors discuss a roadmap for governments seeking to design and adopt a national measure of multidimensional poverty.

S. Kuypers and I. Marx. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 41. 2021.

Branko Milanovic joins Angella MacEwen and Wolfgang Schmidt in a panel discussion moderated by John Torpey, director of the European Union Studies Center.

In this research spotlight, a study by Hilary W. Hoynes and her colleagues uses large-scale data to determine whether the SNAP program is a cost-effective investment.