Our postdoctoral scholars program, launched in 2019, is an integral component of the Stone Center. Each academic year, a new cohort of two postdocs joins our team at the Graduate Center for a period of two years. The postdocs — four in residence at any given time — carry out individual research projects related to socio-economic inequality and mobility, and engage with the Center’s senior scholars, associated graduate students, and staff.
In each cohort, one postdoc is selected for a position that focuses on high-end wealth inequality in the United States, internationally, or both. In addition to doing individual research, this postdoc contributes to the Center as a member of the GC Wealth Project team. The second position is open to candidates working on various facets of socio-economic inequality. Preferred topics vary from year to year and often expand the range of the Center’s existing work in new disciplinary, methodological, and substantive directions.
In addition to a competitive salary and a comprehensive CUNY benefits package, postdoctoral scholars receive generous funding to hire Graduate Center students as research assistants, private offices with desktop computers, and additional support to help offset the costs of software, books and journals, and research-related travel. Postdocs have the opportunity to organize and participate in the Multidisciplinary Seminar Series, a forum that connects researchers from various backgrounds, both inside and outside of the Graduate Center, who are interested in inequality; to submit working papers to the Stone Center Working Paper Series; and to extend the reach of their work to both academic and general audiences through the Stone Center’s website.
Current Postdoctoral Scholars
Selected Work by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholars
The Wage Curve Across the Wealth Distribution
R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Economics Letters. vol. 196. 2020.
County-level Jail Incarceration and Preterm Birth Among Non-Hispanic Black and White U.S. Women, 1999–2015
J. L. Jahn, J. T. Chen, M. Agénor, and N. Krieger. Social Science & Medicine. vol. 250. 2020.
Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
B. Petrova. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 51, no. 1. pp. 374–393. 2020.
More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception
M. De Rosa, I. Flores, and M. Morgan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 53. 2022.
The Inequality (or the Growth) We Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes
F. Alvaredo, M. De Rosa, I. Flores, and M. Morgan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 49. 2022.
The Influence of Signs of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior: A Field Experiment
B. Callaghan, Q. M. Delgadillo, and M. W. Kraus. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 48. 2022.
Determinants of Income Composition Inequality
B. Petrova and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 38. 2021.
Global Distributions of Capital and Labor Incomes: Capitalization of the Global Middle Class
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 30. 2021.
Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality
M. Ranaldi and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 25. 2020.
The Wage Curve Across the Wealth Distribution
R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 19. 2020.
Poor Laborers and Rich Capitalists? On the Evolution of Income Composition Inequality in Italy 1989–2016
R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 13. 2020.
Income Composition Inequality
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 07. 2020.
Distributional Aspects of Economic Systems
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 05. 2020.
Looking at the Workplace as a Site to Reduce Inequality
Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently testified in Albany about why New York State should expand its paid family leave policy. Her research focuses on ways that workplace polices can reduce inequality throughout the life course.
Max Longmuir on His Path Toward Inequality Studies and His Research on Wealth
In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Max Longmuir discusses how he became interested in inequality studies, his work on The GC Wealth Project, and his research.
Stone Center’s Third Cohort of Postdocs Start Positions at GC Wealth Project and City College
The Stone Center's third cohort of postdoctoral scholars started new positions this fall: Ignacio Flores as the new data architecture expert at The GC Wealth Project, and Rafia Zafar as an assistant professor of economics in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at City College, CUNY.
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 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.
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.
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Scholar Positions
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.
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality