Pushes and Pulls of Father Leave Policy Reform: Unpacking Divergent Father Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic and South Korea
M. Gurín and J. C. Gornick. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. pp. 1–19. 2025.
Russell Sage Foundation: Leslie McCall, Visiting Scholar, 2023-2024
Leslie McCall, associate director of the Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, discusses public opinion about inequality, wages, and related economic and policy issues in a video for the Russell Sage Foundation, where she was a 2023-2024 visiting scholar.
Are We on the Brink of a New Economic Order?
A panel of experts discusses today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change.
Paid Sick Leave and the Employment and Employment Intensity of Older Workers
M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.
Measuring Inequality of Opportunity, and the Importance of Childhood Circumstances
Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.
Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity: Accounting for Dynamic Complementarity
A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” – Paul Krugman
In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman reintroduces his Substack newsletter. He also discusses parallels between current and past efforts "to bring a business sensibility" to the federal budget, with the goal of eliminating inefficiency.
Wealth and Welfare: Do Private and Public Safety Nets Compensate for Asset Poverty?
S. Rapp and S. Humer. Social Inclusion. vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 176–186. 2023.
Artificial Intelligence Policymaking: An Agenda for Sociological Research
T. Law and L. McCall. Socius. vol. 10. 2024.
Stone Center Director and Student Awarded Funding Through New Research Center
Janet Gornick, Sarah K. Bruch of the University of Delaware, and Graduate Center Sociology Ph.D. student Joseph van der Naald, have begun work on a sponsored project funded by Social Security Administration (SSA) through a newly created national research center.