Measurement & Methods

Y. Berman and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 28. 2020.

N. Yonzan, B. Milanovic, S. Morelli, and J. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 27. 2020.

In this blog post, Arthur B. Kennickell, the former director of the SCF, uses the latest data to step beyond the usual summary statistics to chart the changes in wealth and income, revealing important distributional shifts.

P. Acciari and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 26. 2020.

In this interview, Marco Ranaldi discusses his work on measuring the shares of income that come from capital and labor, and what this means for the structure of the economy.

M. Ranaldi and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 25. 2020.

A. Adamou, Y. Berman, and O. Peters. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 24. 2020.

In this lecture, Branko Milanovic presents how the classical writers François Quesnay and Adam Smith discussed inequality and how their discussion may be interpreted in the terms of interpersonal inequality.

In this interview, Bhash Mazumder discusses his work on intergenerational mobility, why the subject is so difficult to study, and how race factors into mobility and inequality.

In this interview, Nora Lustig discusses the importance of accurately assessing the very top of the income and wealth distributions when analyzing inequality.