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The European Journal of Sociology has published the remarks delivered at a panel discussion on the life and work of Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. This event took place at...

Two Stone Program faculty affiliates have been appointed to leadership roles at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Stone Program faculty affiliate Jennifer Hochschild, t he Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, has published an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune...

The Law and Political Economy Blog has conducted an interview with Stone Program faculty affiliate Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. The interview, conducted by Alex Gourevitch, explores Professor Muller's work on...

Daron Acemoglu, who delivered the 2024 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality on September 17 (pictured), and James Robinson, who spoke in the Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar on September 30, are co-winners (with Simon...

Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores is the recipient of the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. The award recognizes the best dissertation in the discipline among those nominated by advisers and department chairs...

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has appointed economist David Weil as the 2024-2025 Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor of Public Policy. He is the Stone Program's third Stone Visiting...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Deirdre Bloome has been appointed Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy. Professor Bloome serves as the Peter and...

Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor Lucas Chancel co-organized the Inequality and the Environment Symposium for Early-Career Researchers, held at Sciences Po on January 18, 2024. Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Shay O'Brien presented research...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on October 9, 2023. The prize, according to the Nobel Prize press...