Scholar Interviews

In this interview, Nishant Yonzan, who earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center in 2022, talks about his study, coauthored with Stone Center Scholars Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli, and Janet Gornick, that was recently published in The Journal of Economic Inequality.

In this interview, University of Chicago economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Steven Durlauf discusses his working paper on the Great Gatsby Curve and how sociology has influenced his work on poverty, inequality, and economic growth.

In this interview, Ignacio Flores discusses his work on constructing macro-consistent estimates of inequality in Latin America and a project on agricultural land distribution in France.

In this interview, Harvard Kennedy School’s Gordon Hanson, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses pandemic-related trade disruptions and some of his recent work.

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses what the writings of four classical economists reveal about their perceptions of income inequality.

In this interview, Jaquelyn Jahn discusses two of her recently published papers, which examine the effects of policing, and police violence, on vulnerable groups: teenagers and pregnant women.

In this interview, Bilyana Petrova and Marco Ranaldi discuss what they learned at the Stone Center and the new positions they will be starting this fall.

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.

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.

In this interview, the authors explain why childless households are fueling the rise in poverty in the United States, and how simple policy changes could end this problem.