Measurement & Methods

R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

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.

B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 59. 2022.

M. Ranaldi and E. Palagi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 57. 2022.

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.

R. Zafar. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 55. 2022.

T. N. H. Albers, C. Bartels, and M. Schularick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 54. 2022.

M. De Rosa, I. Flores, and M. Morgan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 53. 2022.

In this interview, Ignacio Flores, a postdoctoral scholar at the Stone Center and a member of The GC Wealth Project team, discusses “The Weight of the Rich: Improving Surveys Using Tax Data” and the algorithm that he and coauthors invented during his Ph.D. years.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 52. 2022.