Inequality & Distribution
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Future of Work Industry 4.0 and the Pursuit of Social Innovation
ConferenceMay 4, 2016
Does the technology revolution require a new social policy?
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Working Paper Series
On Historical Household Budgets
May 2016
The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related to the evolution of the living standards during the last two-three centuries.
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The Unfairness of Housing Purchases Through Time
Apr 29, 2016
Amid the ongoing research interest in questions of inequality, it is important to examine the question of access to housing — and how that has changed over the decades. The specific question I have sought to answer, here, is whether the real cost (measured against income) of buying the average home has risen.
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Equity and Growth Through Knowledge Based Economies
Apr 26, 2016
Benner’s recent work with Manuel Pastor suggests the somewhat counterintuitive result that geographic regions with the most equitable distributions of wealth and influence also tend to have the highest growth.
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Three Questions with Dean Corbae
Apr 19, 2016
Dean Corbae is a leader of the Markets network and Professor of Finance, Investment, and Banking at the Wisconsin School of Business, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Economics. His current research focuses on consumer credit and bankruptcy, foreclosures, and banking industry dynamics.
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The Global Consumption and Income Project
Apr 14, 2016
We have developed over a number of years and now make publicly available a new and unprecedented data resource for understanding levels of living, poverty, inequality and inclusivity of growth and development around the world.
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Can ‘matching markets’ concept help Europe manage its refugee crisis?
Apr 11, 2016
European Union countries are facing an epic challenge of integrating more than 1 million refugees from conflict zones in the Middle East and beyond.
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Three Questions with John Eric Humphries
Apr 7, 2016
John Eric Humphries is a member of the Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP) network and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is the co-author of the book, The Myth of Achievement Tests, The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, along with James J. Heckman and Tim Kautz. Humphries is also a 2013 alum of the Summer School on Socieconomic Inequality.
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The Panama Papers: A Tropical Tip of the Hidden Wealth Iceberg
Apr 5, 2016
When billionaires pay less, we all pay more.
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What Happens When America’s Kids Confront Extreme Inequality?
Apr 5, 2016
A new film shows what economic apartheid looks like through the eyes of schoolchildren.
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Refugees and The Economy: Lessons from History
Mar 16, 2016
What can we learn from the Vietnamese, Cuban, Rwandan, and Syrian refugees crisis?
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Wealth Inequality in the US and Beyond
Mar 15, 2016
It’s no secret that wealth inequality has grown, both in the US and abroad over the past several decades. What has been particularly notable about the work of Emmanuel Saez is the quantification of that inequality.
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Three Questions with Matthew Desmond
Mar 3, 2016
HCEO’s new three-question series will regularly publish quick Q&As with members who will discuss their work, frontiers in the field of inequality that could use more knowledge, and advice for emerging scholars.
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Economic Forecasting Models & Sanders Program Controversy
Feb 26, 2016
The Romer/Romer letter to Professor Gerald Friedman marks a turning point. It concedes that there are indeed important issues at stake when evaluating the proposed economic policies of Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. These issues go beyond the political debate and should be discussed seriously between and among professional economists.
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James Heckman honored for his research on poverty
Feb 23, 2016
Nobel laureate James Heckman is one of this year’s recipients of the Dan David Prize, an international honor which encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research, for his scholarship on poverty.