Fifteen researchers associated with the GC CUNY Stone Center, including three senior scholars, attended the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, held in Luxembourg on February 27 and 28.
A seventh cohort of postdoctoral scholars will join the Stone Center for two-year appointments that begin in August 2025: Naomi Crowther, who was selected for the position that focuses on wealth inequality; and Marai Hayes, who was selected for the position that broadly focuses on socio-economic inequalities.
Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Zhexun Mo discusses two recent papers he contributed to the Stone Center Working Paper Series that focus on perceptions of inequality and redistribution in China.
Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses her project on how older workers benefit from paid family leave and paid sick leave policies, for which she recently received a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty.
M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.
S. Morelli, T. Asher, F. Di Biase, F. Disslbacher, I. Flores, L. Giangregorio, A. Rego Johnson, M. Longmuir, G. Rella, M. Schechtl, F. Subioli, and M. Targa. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 99. 2024.
M. Belguise, N. Y. Chen, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 97. 2024.
D. Cogneau and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 96. 2024.
M. Belguise, Y. Huang, and Z. Mo. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 93. 2024.
A new working paper by Pirmin Fessler of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) and Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Severin Rapp analyzes the connection between individuals’ biased perceptions of their rank on the wealth distribution, and their savings behavior.