Inequality & Social Policy events

Stone Inequality Book Talk Series Mehrsa Baradaran presents The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America The business of America is business, to paraphrase a famous line from a speech by Calvin Coolidge. But the business of America is also the...

To mark the publication of The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue by David Scott and Orlando Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School’s Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy hosted a discussion of the life and work of...

Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Digital Technology Susan Athey , The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford University Abstract: This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market...

Race, Racism, and American Tax Attitudes Andrea Louise Campbell , Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT Abstract: What factors explain Americans’ attitudes toward taxes? Previous research has upheld material stakes, with taxes as an...

Stronger Together: Investigating the Democratic Party's "Long Coalition" Paul Pierson , John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley Abstract: The Democratic Party has come to dominate the nation’s metropolitan centers (cities and...

Firm Pay and Worker Search Sydnee Caldwell , Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Abstract: Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay in other firms. Yet little is known about workers’ knowledge of outside pay. We use a...

"Root Causes" of Central American Migration: Cumulative Disadvantages, Enduring Inequalities, and Violence in the Migration Process Cecilia Menjí var , Professor of Sociology, UCLA Abstract: This presentation centers the structural roots of Central...

"If They Only Knew": Informing Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap Vincent Hutchings , Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan...

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence Paola Giuliano , Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management, Professor of Economics, UCLA Abstract: We examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts. Our...

The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution James Robinson , The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor, University of Chicago; Institute Director, The...