Measurement & Methods

This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from nine sources. B. Milanovic. 2019.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

The week-long workshop "Inequality by the Numbers” took a broad approach to the study of socio-economic inequalities, covering disparities in income, wealth, education, social mobility, and happiness.

L.K. Nelson, D. Burk, M. Knudsen, and L. McCall. Sociological Methods & Research. 2018.

Watch Paul Krugman in conversation with Janet Gornick about inequality with a focus on New York City.

R. Nieuwenhuis, T. Munzi, and J.C. Gornick. The Review of Income and Wealth. vol. 63, no. 3. pp. 564-573. 2017.

L. McCall, D. Burk, M. Laperrière, and J.A. Richeson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 114, no. 36. 2017.

In this video, Swedish sociologist Robert Erikson delivered the first Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture.

In this video, Stone Center scholars give context to the current political debate over economic growth and inequality.

S. Morelli. In After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality. H. Boushey, J.B. DeLong, and M. Steinbaum (eds). Chapt. 17. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2017.