Measurement & Methods

Fifteen researchers associated with the GC CUNY Stone Center, including three senior scholars, attended the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, held in Luxembourg on February 27 and 28.

The Stone Center's annual research workshop of socio-economic inequality, targeted to Ph.D. students and early-career scholars who work in a range of social science disciplines.

M. Longmuir and M. M. Grabka. Survey Research Methods. vol. 18, no. 3. pp. 251–261. 2024.

A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.

Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.

P. Fessler and S. Rapp. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 92. 2024.

Salvatore Morelli, the director of the GC Wealth Project and a Stone Center Senior Scholar, and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström discuss Waldenström's new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West.

Suresh Naidu, a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, discusses who is currently benefiting the most from the union premium, the data challenges in historical research on unions and how he overcame them, and the significant barriers U.S. workers still face in forming a union.

F. Alvaredo, Y. Berman, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper no. 91. 2024.

N. Cesa-Bianchi, R. Colomboni, and M. Kasy. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 89. 2024.