Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
N. Hérault, D. Hyslop, S. P. Jenkins, and R. Wilkins. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 44. 2021.
An Inequality on Top of Inequalities: When People Who Can’t Get Bank Accounts Turn to Prepaid Cards, They Face a Confusing Array of Options
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.
Survival of the City: Edward Glaeser and David Cutler in Conversation
Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, authors of the new book Survival of the City, discuss how cities are changing in the face of forces intensified by the pandemic.
The Great Gatsby Curve
S. N. Durlauf, A. Kourtellos, and C. M. Tan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 43. 2021.
Pathways Toward Inclusive Income Growth: A Comparative Decomposition of National Growth Profiles
Z. Parolin and J. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 42. 2021.
How Housing Wealth Plays a Key Role in Inequality in Affluent Countries: an Interview with Fabian Pfeffer
In this interview, University of Michigan sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses his recent paper, coauthored with Nora Waitkus of the London School of Economics and Tilburg University, on cross-national patterns of wealth inequality.
Measuring Poverty’s Multiple Dimensions: New Guidance for Countries Developing Multidimensional Poverty Measures
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.
Inheritance, Gifts, and the Wealth Deficit of Low-Income Households
S. Morelli, B. Nolan, J. Palomino, and P. Van Kerm. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 40. 2021.
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches
N. Deutscher and B. Mazumder. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 39. 2021.
‘We Can’t Let Go of the Efforts to Understand Why These Changes Are Taking Place’: Francisco Ferreira on the Future of Inequality Studies
In this interview, Francisco Ferreira, director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the need for a better data-driven understanding of shifts in the income and wealth distributions, and of the reasons behind these changes.