Wealth/Assets

Brandon Martinez, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, brings together research on intergenerational mobility and racial/ethnic inequalities in home ownership to examine the differential impact of parental home ownership on children’s socio-economic attainment across racial/ethnic groups.

M. Schechtl and D. Tisch. Socio-Economic Review. 2023.

R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

M. Ranaldi and E. Palagi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 57. 2022.

In this interview, Guido Alfani, a professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, and an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center, discusses his latest paper on epidemics, inequality, and poverty.

T. N. H. Albers, C. Bartels, and M. Schularick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 54. 2022.

In this interview, Ignacio Flores, a postdoctoral scholar at the Stone Center and a member of The GC Wealth Project team, discusses “The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data” and the algorithm that he and coauthors invented during his Ph.D. years.

A research spotlight on Chloe Thurston’s chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power looks at how the U.S. government’s delegation of social policy goals to the markets enables and reinforces racial inequalities.

B. Nolan, J. Palomino, P. Van Kerm, and S. Morelli. Fiscal Studies. 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.