In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Tina Law discusses the origins and growth of computational social science, how she became a sociologist, and why receiving her doctoral degree was particularly meaningful to her.
A working paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Rafia Zafar shows that consumption expenditures can be used to accurately measure mobility in Indonesia, one of the largest lower-middle income countries in the world.
A new study by Bennett Callaghan of the Stone Center, Quinton Delgadillo, and Michael Kraus investigates how signals indicating relatively higher or lower social class are linked to helping people in need.
R. Zafar. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 55. 2022.
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality has openings for a fifth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. The two-year positions will begin in September 2023.
M. De Rosa, I. Flores, and M. Morgan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 53. 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 new study coauthored by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Jaquelyn Jahn finds that despite overall declines in arrests in the early months of the pandemic, the vast differences in policing experienced by residents of Black and white neighborhoods persisted.
M. Ranaldi. The Review of Income and Wealth. vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 139–160. 2022.
F. Alvaredo, M. De Rosa, I. Flores, and M. Morgan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 49. 2022.