The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1 – Documentation
S. Morelli, T. Asher, F. Di Biase, F. Disslbacher, I. Flores, A. Rego Johnson, G. Rella, M. Schechtl, F. Subioli, and M. Targa. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 75. 2023.
Training Computational Social Science Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
A. Kesari, J.Y. Kim, S. Shah, T. Brown, T. Ventura, and T. Law. PS: Political Science & Politics. 2023.
Applications Are Open: Two Postdoctoral Positions at the Stone Center
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality has two openings for postdoctoral scholars. The two-year positions will begin in September 2024.
The Gender (Tax) Gap in Parental Transfers. Evidence from Administrative Inheritance and Gift Tax Data
D. Tisch and M. Schechtl. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 68. 2023.
The Stone Center Welcomes Its Fifth Cohort of Postdoctoral Scholars
Maximilian Longmuir and Meredith Slopen will join the Stone Center as postdoctoral scholars in September 2023.
Tax Principles, Policy Feedback, and Self-Interest: Cross-National Experimental Evidence on Wealth Tax Preferences
M. Schechtl and D. Tisch. Socio-Economic Review. 2023.
When Rich Democracies Exacerbate Poverty: Manuel Schechtl on Fiscal Impoverishment
In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Manuel Schechtl discusses his research interests and his working paper on fiscal impoverishment, a new framework in comparative poverty research.
Tina Law on Training Computational Social Scientists and Her Own Path to Becoming One
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 Study Demonstrates a Better Method of Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in Middle- and Low-Income Countries
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 Shows That Status Signals Have Potentially Large Effects on Compassionate Giving
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.