Measurement & Methods

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Data Blog, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Maria Ana Lugo and her coauthors discuss a roadmap for governments seeking to design and adopt a national measure of multidimensional poverty.

N. Deutscher and B. Mazumder. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 39. 2021.

In this interview, Francisco Ferreira, director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the need for a better data-driven understanding of shifts in the income and wealth distributions, and of the reasons behind these changes.

B. Petrova and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 38. 2021.

B. Mijatović and B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 74, no. 2. pp. 424–448. 2021.

A. B. Kennickell. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 37. 2021.

A working paper by Paolo Acciari, Facundo Alvaredo, and Salvatore Morelli uses a novel source to shed light on the wealth distribution from 1995 to 2016.​

P. Acciari, F. Alvaredo, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 36. 2021.

F. T. Pfeffer and N. Waitkus. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 35. 2021.

M. S. Emran, F. Ferreira, Y. Jiang, and Y. Sun. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 34. 2021.