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Announcing the 2024 Stone PhD Scholars
The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has awarded ten fellowships to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard. Gaby Aboulafia (Health Policy) is a PhD student in...

Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellows Receive Dissertation Awards
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...

Michéle Lamont Wins Kohli Prize for Sociology
Stone Program faculty affiliate Michéle Lamont has won the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology , which honors exceptional achievement in and contributions to the field and profession of sociology. "With her path-breaking comparative research on culture, social...

Welcoming David Weil as the 2024-2025 Stone Visiting Scholar
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...
David Weil

Luis Flores Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award
Sociologist Luis Flores, Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow, won a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, granted by the University of Michigan, for his dissertation “The Regulatory Politics of Home-based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage.”...
Luis Flores

New Research by Luis Flores
Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores has published " Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation " in Theory & Society, arguing that zoning emerged not only as a property regulation but from contests over emerging labor markets, revealing intersections...
Luis Flores

Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize
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...
Claudia Goldin

Announcing the 2023 Stone PhD Scholars
The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has awarded ten fellowships to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard. Marco M. Aviña (Government & Social Policy) studies...