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At the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality center, we could not be more pleased and proud. Tina Law & Manuel Schechtl are departing their postdocs to take up tenure-track faculty jobs at two of the best public universities in the country: UC Davis & @unc. The downside: we will miss having them in NYC.🍎

I look forward to tonight's Dissertation Showcase. Learning about our students' wide-ranging & high-quality research is an inspiration. I am especially delighted this year to see 2 former Stone Center Junior Scholars: Edwin Grimsley & Grace Flores-Robles. Congrats to all. 👇👇👇

One week from today! In person and livestream. Paul Krugman will speak with @henryfarrell & Abraham Newman about "Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy," their book on the global network of communication & finance. Register below. Henry Holt & Company The Graduate Center Presents

Kudos to these eleven The Graduate Center PhD students. Their three-minute mini-talks were mesmerizing. This event was a welcome celebration of our stunningly creative and accomplished students. To this group, and to the whole class of 2024, may the road rise up to meet you.

The Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality is out! Me and my co-authors PM Lersch and DD Schnitzlein were very pleased to contribute the chapter on Intergenerational persistence of wealth. Shout out to the editors, they did an amazing job! Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality The Graduate Center #econtwitter

My recent paper (full access) The Three Eras of Global Inequality with the Focus on the Past 30 Years stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/files/2024/01/…

Thanks to last night's panel - Paul Krugman @henryfarrell & Abraham Newman - for a fascinating discussion of Farrell & Newman's book "Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy." Presented with Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, introduced by Dir. Janet Gornick. Video coming soon!

"Chasing the Tail: A Generalized Pareto Distribution Approach to Estimating Wealth Inequality" by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur B. Kennickell is now published in The Review of Income and Wealth. Review of Income and Wealth (ROIW) bit.ly/3R3ED19

A new WP by Marco Ranaldi takes a sweeping look at research on compositional inequality — how the shares of capital and labor income vary along the income distribution — and discusses the normative implications. Available in our Working Paper Series. bit.ly/4bWtaZ4

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Today! Congratulations to the 2024 graduates of City College of NY. Nothing can stop you now. ... and, if I may, my aunt Vivian Gornick will receive an honorary degree and will give the Commencement Address. For us, The City University of New York is a family affair! @gc_cuny ccny.cuny.edu/news/vivian-go…

I am honored to join the inaugural cohort of “Nonresident Scholars” at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. I look forward to working with the other nine scholars in this cohort and with the Equitable Growth team. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @gc_cuny equitablegrowth.org/press/equitabl…

This open-access Deaton Review collection is online. I'm pleased to have contributed a commentary - "Income inequality & income poverty in cross-national perspective" - linked to "Trends in income and wealth inequalities" by Bourquin, Brewer, Wernham. Institute for Fiscal Studies LIS Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Yes! At Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, we're excited to post the call for our 7th cohort of postdocs working on #inequality. Application deadline is Oct 30; positions start Sept 2025. Two positions; qualified applicants should feel free to apply to both. The Graduate Center LIS Ecineq World Inequality Lab | WID.world

Deadline is tomorrow (Oct 30)! The Stone Center at GC-CUNY has openings for two postdoctoral scholars. One position is focused on wealth, the other more generally on economic inequality. Scholars from underrepresented groups encouraged. The Graduate Center LIS stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications-a…

Special Event: ‘Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War’ Branko Milanovic presents highlights from his most recent book followed by a discussion with Francisco Ferreira and Janet Gornick.