The tenure-track, open rank position, (Assistant or Associate Professor) includes 40% teaching, 40% research and 20% service to the department/college. The service portion includes, but is not limited...

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

Abstract. The income distribution in many developed countries widened dramatically from 1970 to 2000. Some scholars argue that income inequality contributes to a host of social ills by undermining vot...

Manuel Schechtl, a 2022–2024 Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses his Stone Center Working Paper, which combines two new sources of data to compare the extent of democratic backsliding in all ...

Here the author shows that childhood exposure to higher local wealth inequality is associated with lower upward income mobility for children from families with low incomes