News and Commentary

The Business Insider highlights research by Miles Corak on the "Gatsby Curve."

In this research spotlight, a study by Janet Gornick and colleagues focuses attention on a seldom-discussed axis of inequality in the US: variation in social safety net policies across states.

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses recent political instability, trends in policy on inequality, and a way to break the 1 percent’s “quasi-automatic” increasing share of capital.

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall considers whether adjusting for family size eliminates economic benefits for families headed by couples compared to those headed by single people.

In his New York Times newsletter, Paul Krugman discusses the political debate over who should and who shouldn’t receive government aid.

In this video, experts discuss the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the predominant economic system.

In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic discusses the U.S. and China's competing brands of capitalism and what it means for future inequality.

In this spotlight on data, Leslie McCall discusses how marriage and cohabitation — relative to being single — affect where men and women fall along the income distribution.

In this video, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman discuss their recent book and why the United States needs to increase wealth taxes to combat inequality.

In this blog post, Nishant Yonzan looks at three definitions of income and finds they all show significant drops in prosperity for the bottom 50 percent.