"Contemporary China: Demystifying Economic and Social Changes" - wrapped. Thanks to our expert panelists, and to the audience for sharp questions. The program will be shown on CUNY TV and posted online; stay tuned. @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social 👇👇

Are you a new or soon-to-be PhD? Do you work on socio-economic inequality, poverty, and/or mobility? Do you study income, wealth, or earnings? Are you passionate about research as well as policy analyses? If so, we may be the perfect home for you, starting in fall 2026? Take a look! 🍎 #postdoc 👇👇👇

Don't miss a three-part blog post by Branko Milanovic on multiple facets of the "New Capitalism in America". 👇👇👇 @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social link here: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/category/new...

This promises to be a fascinating evening! Panelists will discuss China’s remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty; the rise of economic inequality; the decline in the birthrate despite the end of the One Child Policy; and trends in access to information and technology. @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇

Last but not least! Installment #7 in Paul Krugman's recent series on #inequality. @pkrugman.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Part VI. One more in the pipeline. 👇👇👇

The GC-CUNY Stone Center invites applications for two postdocs, to join us in NYC Aug 2026-Aug 2028. One focused on wealth, one on intergenerational mobility/poverty. Deadline Nov 3! @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications...

Part V! Two more installments to come. @pkrugman.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

‪Part IV of Paul Krugman's series on #inequality. Stay tuned for three more installments, coming soon on our Stone Center website. @pkrugman.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Part III of @pkrugman.bsky.social series on #inequality. The @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social is gratified to help share this series with all who wish to read it. Stay tuned for four more installments to be posted on our Stone Center website. 👇👇👇

Summer in the city.

Check out this film which opens at the IFC Center in NYC this Thursday! Commentators in the documentary include @stone-lis.bsky.social Senior Scholar @pkrugman.bsky.social, @stone-lis.bsky.social Affiliated Scholar @darrickhamilton.bsky.social, and many more. 👇👇👇

Part II of @pkrugman.bsky.social series on #inequality. Stayed tuned. Much more to come. 👇👇👇

It's a wrap! The 11th ECINEQ conference, hosted by the World Bank & GWU, July 9-11. The conference featured 226 papers presented in 74 sessions - a colossal goldmine of high-quality empirical and theoretical research on multiple facets of #inequality. @lflopezcalva.bsky.social

I am in Washington DC, my former home city, for #ECINEQ Meeting. I'm here, first time in 2025, taking it all in. Directly in front of my hotel, on New Hampshire Ave, is a strikingly dignified oak tree. It is named #Democracy Tree and it bears this plaque. The work goes on, the cause endures. #DCVote

Part I of @pkrugman.bsky.social series on #inequality. Stayed tuned. Much more to come. 👇👇👇

LIS Workshop, Day 4. Philippe Van Kerm gave a brilliant presentation of a "toolbox" for income distribution analysis, covering decomposition, regression, & more. He interspersed equations with original illustrations. IMHO, this one's a keeper. #inequality @lisdata.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social

2025 @lisdata.bsky.social Summer Lecture. PSE Prof Marc Fleurbaey presented a rather mind-bending lecture: "Social Contagion, Inequality, and Mobility." "Contagion models are useful to describe the impact of interactions on how individuals thrive and how this shapes society." @pse.bsky.social

From Max Longmuir: “So, what would I tell a first-year Ph.D. student today? Think twice before working on #wealth, but if you do, embrace the complexity and enjoy every bit of the ride. There’s still so much we don’t know. And that’s what makes it exciting." Read on! @lisdata.bsky.social 👇👇👇

It's a wrap! The 2025 meeting of LIS' governing body, where representatives from many countries assess past work, review current projects, and plan LIS' future. These meetings demonstrate the extraordinary power and potential of international cooperation. #42years @lisdata.bsky.social

It's on! The 2025 LIS Summer Workshop. Five days of intensive learning about cross-national data, research, and methods. Another impressive group of attendees from many countries! #Luxembourg @lisdata.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

The Aldi Hagenaars Award has been granted by @lisdata.bsky.social annually since 1994 to the writer(s) < age 40 whose LIS/LWS Working Paper from the prior year best demonstrates the qualities of her excellent scholarship. Hearty congratulations to this deserving team of authors! #wealthresearch 👇👇👇

New York City makes history.

NYC needs a forward-looking mayor! Impressive turnout on the #UWS. So what if it's apocalyptically hot at 6am? We're New Yorkers, FFS! May you-know-who win! 🍎 #CUNY

Check out new empirical paper on impact of basic income on employment outcomes: "Basic Income and Labor Supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany". By Sarah Bernhard, Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter. @maxkasy.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Another fascinating historical paper by @stone-lis.bsky.social Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani (and colleagues): "Wealth Inequality and Epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)" 👇👇👇

June 14, 2025. Much unfolded in the US yesterday. Tanks rolled. Protesters rallied. And Vivian Gornick - born a good number of Flag Days ago - turned 90. Friends (some from #CCNY back in the day), comrades, and family gathered in NYC to celebrate Vivian and to usher her into the coming decade. 🥂🎈🍎

One guy down the hall talking with another guy down the hall. Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic discuss global inequality, elephants, life chances, Rawls, and more. @pkrugman.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night slows down NYC! NOTHING could dampen this enormous peaceful show of resilience.

NYC, now. Good night, and good luck!

Look what arrived today! A fantastic read - years of reflections from our very own @brankomilan.bsky.social. @stone-lis.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

Innovative and timely paper on immigrant poverty in the US. By David Brady and 4 colleagues from UC-Riverside. @davebrady72.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social 👇👇👇

PhD students studying #inequality! Check out this online PhD Workshop, scheduled for July 2, 2025. Application deadline is June 8. Call-for-papers link below. Hosted by #ECINEQ. Direct questions to [email protected]. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/phdwork...

Live. Alan Garber is doing his best to reassure: "Your journey will be full of unexpected turns but, fortified by openness and curiosity, you will bring honor to yourself, your family, and your alma mater." Stay strong, Harvard's international students. Millions support you! www.harvard.edu/live/

Welfare benefit cuts and other UK austerity measures after 2010 lowered life expectancy — and the effect was nearly twice as great on women, according to the new WP by Stone Center associated researcher @yonatanberman.com and Tora Hovland. bit.ly/4jkSc7K

Really? Someone parked this monstrosity in the middle of Greenwich Village...? Chutzpah! 🍎

Today, it's a fitting to remember Susan #Brownmiller, a warrior who exploded myths and catalyzed legal reforms. I had the opportunity to work with her on several occasions over 40+ years. She was relentless, complicated, bold. RIP. The cause endures, the work goes on. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

In April, GC-CUNY's Stone Center hosted a 2-day workshop on socio-economic inequality in China. The 20+ presentations were fascinating, covering multiple facets of inequality and assessing a vast array of Chinese & cross-national data sources. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Today I bumped into the incomparable Claudia Goldin, walking on NYC's #UWS. She is here receiving not one but two honorary degrees. I was delighted to share an impromptu dinner. As Claudia noted, our chance encounter was “very New York”. Congratulations Claudia, and welcome back to your home city! 🍎

How much inequality should be tolerated? A working paper by Francesco Colcerasa, Lorenzo Giammei, and Francesca Subioli (GC Wealth Project) proposes a new approach to measuring unfair inequalities. Check out the new WP in the Stone Center Working Paper Series stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/the...

Where have all the good jobs gone? Check out the latest WPs by GC CUNY Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Gordon Hanson in our working paper series, including papers on labor market adjustment to globalization and the U.S. place-based policy supply chain. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research-dat...

Wishing a safe Mother's Day, to all mothers with us now and to the ones who have left this earth. PS In our family, we call it Medicare Day. My mother worked for the Medicare program for decades (it's still her passion), and, well, I'm on Medicare! Here we are today, grateful for what we have.

From CUNY to SUNY! Two great public universities 🍎🍎. We're sorry to say goodbye, @mslopen.bsky.social, but excited about your next move. @cuny.edu @sunyofficial.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social

What a fabulous choice! Congratulations to @socarxiv.bsky.social and to its fearless leader @philipncohen.com. The GC CUNY Stone Center's Working Paper series is archived at SocArXiv, and we are grateful for this excellent partnership. @stone-lis.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social

Save the date! 7 May 2025 We are honoured to welcome Brian Nolan (@ox.ac.uk) for a public lecture at Roma Tre University Discussants: Elena Granaglia (@forumdd.bsky.social), Enrica Morlicchio (Università di Napoli Federico II) Registration recommended 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1LGT...

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

What are the Trends in Inheritance Across Developed Economies? Why is this important & What are the major drivers? Why has the Progressivity of inheritance tax been declining globally? I have talked about these issues in the Economist (@economist.com) podcast "Money Talks". tinyurl.com/khaekyre

Thanks @philipncohen.com, for speaking with us at @stone-lis.bsky.social. And thanks for writing this inspiring and practical book. I especially loved the defense of descriptive scholarship, the call for open science, and the critique of contemporary peer review. I highly recommend this timely book!

Congratulations @mslopen.bsky.social. Your colleagues at @stone-lis.bsky.social are super proud that you landed an excellent faculty job- and in such tough, painful times. We know you'll continue to produce crucial work on the interplay between labor market policies and employment/health outcomes.🍁🍎

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...