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Z. Parolin and J. Gornick. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 42. 2021.

Y. Berman and S. Morelli. NBER. 2021.

In this interview, the authors explain why childless households are fueling the rise in poverty in the United States, and how simple policy changes could end this problem.

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

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

In this blog post, Charlotte Bartels and Dirk Neumann, the authors of a new Stone Center Working Paper, discuss how long-run and annual redistribution diverge in various welfare states, and the implications for policymaking.

B. Nolan, J. Palomino, P. Van Kerm, and S. Morelli. Institute for New Economic Thinking/Oxford. 2020

In this commentary, Stone Center faculty — Miles Corak, Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman, Leslie McCall, Branko Milanovic, and Salvatore Morelli — each with unique expertise in the study of inequality, offer insights on the COVID-19 crisis.

In an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, Miles Corak discusses the role of government during the COVID-19 crisis and says we should always be investing and innovating in public service delivery.

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.