The Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility advances interdisciplinary research on the origins and nature of contemporary inequalities.
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Who gets rich under capitalism? The answer may lie in the law.
On Nov. 18, join the Stone Center and legal scholar Katharina Pistor to explore how capitalism's legal regime shapes wealth and inequality.
Free and open to the public; space is limited: uchicago.jotform.com/2628558…
Is India becoming more meritocratic?
Gupta, Munshi & Singh document narrowing caste gaps in education and occupations since the 1980s. Affirmative action and caste networks may both play a role, though substantial inequalities persist.
Read now: bit.ly/4A0cdck
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The Stone Centre at UCL is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a one to two year position starting on 1 September 2027. Applications close on 13 November. Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/…
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Can changing the way Medicaid is administered affect how much care people receive? This Friday, Naomi Zewde will present evidence of health gains and state savings, asking whether exiting managed care could offer a path toward reducing health inequalities.
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Critics of the SAT want to redefine merit around character and creativity.
Zwick argues that these alternatives are just as difficult to measure, just as easy to game, and equally tied to privilege. Ultimately, merit depends on an institution’s goals.
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📣Empieza #SobreMexico
Nuestra directora divisional Graciela Teruel da inicio al 12° Congreso de Economía y de Políticas Públicas #SobreMéxico
Empezamos con la conferencia magistral de Steven Durlauf (@sndurlauf ) sobre movilidad social
Siguelo online
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An interest rate reduction on your student loans?
Stone Center Affiliate Lesley Turner encourages borrowers, especially those with large loan balances, to take advantage of lower rates by signing up for autopay.
Read what she shared with @NewsHour: pbs.org/newshour/education/s…
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🟠El CEEY e @ibero_economia te invitamos a las conferencias magistrales de @sndurlauf y Santiago Levy en el 12º Congreso de Economía y Políticas Públicas #SobreMéxico
Temas: movilidad social y desigualdades
📅 22 y 23 de octubre
📍 Auditorio San Ignacio de Loyola, @IBERO_mx
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Every time you speak, you reveal something about the voices you heard as a child. But how does this shape how others judge us?
Psychologist @K_Kinzler discusses speech as an overlooked driver of inequality, from hiring to housing to court.
Listen→ bit.ly/47ptoIe
Congratulations are due to our affiliate and frequent collaborator, @guido_alfani!
I am deeply honoured to have been awarded the 2026 Serena Medal for Italian Studies by the @BritishAcademy_ !🙏
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Does teacher-facing artificial intelligence (AI) improve student learning at scale?
Tomorrow, our first Inequality Workshop kicks off with this big question. @cqcampos will present findings from his recent paper.
See you there!
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A new working paper from @JPAL_NA's Racial Equity Advisory Committee members Dania Francis, @robgillezeau, @nomadj1s, and @aviceisza explores how RCTs can (and can’t) help us understand systemic racial discrimination.
Can randomized evaluation help us understand systemic racial discrimination? Exploring how randomized controlled trials can help us understand systemic racial discrimination—and where they fall short, from Dania V. Francis, @robgillezeau, @nomadj1s, and @aviceisza nber.org/papers/w35882
Calls for merit-based college admissions assume that merit can be measured separately from privilege.
Brighouse & Collins argue that admissions cannot be meritocratic in a society that isn't, and claiming otherwise reproduces its greatest harms.
Read: bit.ly/4dAHJ8b
Their essay, Meritocracy and Higher Education in the United States, is part of the special volume Whither Meritocracy? Part Two: Meritocracy Across the Globe, published by @SageJournals.
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Explore meritocracy from a global perspective.
Dive into The ANNALs latest issue, Whither Meritocracy? Part Two: Meritocracy Across the Globe, now: ow.ly/aj2750ZQlQ1
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The Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI) at @LMU_Muenchen is hiring a Junior Research Group Leader in Wealth #Inequality Research. Applications for the full-time, three-year role close on 15 November: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting…
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Applications are open for 2 postdoctoral positions. These full-time, 2-year positions start in August 2027 and are based at @GC_CUNY One is focused on wealth inequality, the other more broadly on economic inequality. Apply by November 2! stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/appl…
Cleaner water, fewer deaths, less environmental inequality? What does federal water funding achieve?
Affiliate Bhash Mazumder w/ @DavidKeiserEcon, @davidmolitor & @josephshapiro analyze decades of U.S. drinking water pollution data to find out.
Watch: bit.ly/4hItyjP
In the last 130 years of China’s Qing Dynasty, aggregate intergenerational mobility increased.
A working paper from our postdoc and job market candidate @Butaeva_K, with @sndurlauf & Alexander Shapoval, reveals a more complicated story.
Keep reading🧵⬇️
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Before 1850, mobility was converging toward a steady state. Around 1850, that pattern broke, and instability set in until the dynasty fell, a timing that coincides with the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion.
