Research
The Stone Center advances the study of social inequality, especially wealth inequality. We examine how between-group inequalities are shaped by geographic, political, and institutional contexts.
Research areas
Wealth inequality & redistribution
Housing inequality & justice
Political economy of inequality
Stone Working Group on Inequality and Political Economy (SWIPE) ↗
Featured project
Wealth and Mobility Study
Better evidence begins with better data. The Wealth and Mobility Study (WAM) is building a new data infrastructure to understand wealth in the United States.
Working in partnership with the Internal Revenue Service, the study uses tax and administrative records to examine the distribution of wealth and its transmission across generations.
Publications
Selected publications by Stone Center researchers.
2026
“Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction Outcomes and Access in Patients With Housing Instability: A Retrospective Cohort Study”
Natalie M. Guzman; Sharmi C. Amin; Brigit D. Baglien; Kalli K. Mulholland; Abigail L. Kappelman; Andrew M. Ibrahim; Adeyiza Olutoyin Momoh; Paige L. Myers
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
Associations between mid-life and later-life food insecurity on probable dementia in a national sample of United States adults
Cindy W. Leung; Noura E. Insolera; Heejin Lee; Julia A. Wolfson; Claire T. McEvoy; Esther M. Friedman; Steven G. Heeringa; Wei Hao
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · vol. 124; issue 3; pp. 101386
Stone Center authors: Noura Insolera
Churn in later adulthood? A gendered life course approach using short-term panel data from the US Current Population Survey
Janet Wang; Phyllis Moen; Sarah Flood
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · vol. 17; issue 1; pp. 103-128
Stone Center authors: Janet Wang
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection
Haowen Zheng; Robert Andersen; Anders Løvenskjold Holm; Kristian Bernt Karlson
Sociological Science · vol. 13; pp. 242-272
Stone Center authors: Haowen Zheng
Nationally Ahead, Locally Behind: Geographic Scale and the Asian American Income (Dis)advantage
Robert A. Manduca; Jane Furey
RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · vol. 12; issue 3; pp. 28-49
Stone Center authors: Robert Manduca
Privacy and power in the smart home: housing market conditions and exposure to smart devices in home environments
Sarah Farr; Chelsea Bruno; Denise L. Anthony
Information Communication & Society · pp. 1-28
Stone Center authors: Sarah Farr
Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Program Claim Approvals for Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault: 18 US States, 2015-2023.
Samuel Dickman; Jeremy Levine; Chalem Bolton; Anna Conway; Kelly Russell
American Journal of Public Health · vol. 116; issue 3; pp. 380–386
Stone Center authors: Jeremy Levine
Rapid earnings growth in finance concentrates top earnings in a few large cities
Nils Neumann; Olivier Godechot; Lasse Folke Henriksen; Are Skeie Hermansen; Feng Hou; Naomi Kodama; Zoltán Lippényi; Silvia Maja Melzer; Halil Ibrahim Sabanci; Max Thaning; Paula Apascaritei; Dustin Avent Holt; Nina Bandelj; István Boza; Marta M. Elvira; Gergely Hajdú; Alena Křı́žková; Andrew Penner; Andreja Poje Rožič; Anthony Rainey; Mirna Safi; Matthew Soener; Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey
Nature Cities · vol. 3; issue 5; pp. 447-457
Stone Center authors: Nils Neumann
Shift, Not Stasis: The Geography of Post–Civil Rights Racial Inequality
Robert A. Manduca
American Journal of Sociology · vol. 132; issue 1; pp. 91-138
Stone Center authors: Robert Manduca
The Program for Research on Black Americans’ Contributions to Sociology: A Review of the Literature
Robert Joseph Taylor; Krim K. Lacey; Dawne M. Mouzon; Analidis Ochoa; Brian E. Perron
Sociological Focus · vol. 59; issue 4; pp. 525-551
Stone Center authors: Analidis Ochoa
Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States
Alec P. Rhodes; Davon Norris; Jason N. Houle; Rachel E. Dwyer; Sarah K. Bruch; Lawrence M. Berger
American Sociological Review · vol. 91; issue 2; pp. 349-377
Stone Center authors: Davon Norris
Who’s a “Good” Victim of Gender-Based Violence?: Credibility, Worthiness, and Ideal Victimhood in Victim Compensation Law
Jeremy R. Levine; Paige L. Sweet
Qualitative Sociology · vol. 49; issue 3; pp. 493-518
Stone Center authors: Jeremy Levine
2025
A Racialized Engine of Anxiety? Race, Reactivity, and the Uneven Tax of Credit Scores
Davon Norris
Administrative Science Quarterly · vol. 70; issue 4; pp. 884-922
Stone Center authors: Davon Norris
Black/White disparities in low birth weight across maternal trajectories of social mobility in South Carolina
Abigail L. Kappelman; Annie E. Ro; Lindsay K. Admon; Belinda L. Needham; Nancy L. Fleischer
Social Science & Medicine · vol. 366; pp. 117675
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
But is it Elite? Organizational Status, Boundaries, and Crafting Elite and Flagship Universities
W. Carson Byrd; Brendan J Cantwell; Sanzhar Baizhanov
The Review of Higher Education · vol. 48; issue 2; pp. 201-238
Stone Center authors: W. Carson Byrd
Can a motherhood premium in public transfer income offset the Danish motherhood earnings penalty?
Therese Bay-Smidt Christensen; Alexandra A. Killewald
European Sociological Review · vol. 42; issue 4; pp. 573-589
Stone Center authors: Alexandra Killewald
College or Career Ready, But Not Both? Heterogeneity of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs and Income-Based Inequality in Access and Participation
Jane Furey
AERA Open · vol. 11
Stone Center authors: Jane Furey
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century
Catalina Anampa Castro; John Robert Warren; Jonas Helgertz
Social Science Research · vol. 126; pp. 103136
Stone Center authors: Catalina Anampa Castro
Establishing survey methodology to capture long term population level patient reported outcomes (PROs) in a surgical population
Abigail L. Kappelman; Tuba Suzer Gurtekin; Brian T. Fry; Alexander K. Hallway; Jordan Young; Michael A. Rubyan; Dana Alexa Telem
Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences · vol. 7; issue 4; pp. 98-124
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes
Pablo A. Mitnik
Sociological Methods & Research · vol. 54; issue 4; pp. 1289-1338
Stone Center authors: Pablo Mitnik
Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality
Rourke O’Brien; Manuel Schechtl; Robert A. Manduca; Atheendar S Venkataramani
SSM - Population Health · vol. 30; pp. 101791
Stone Center authors: Robert Manduca
Multicomponent Deimplementation Strategy to Reduce Low-Value Preoperative Testing
Alexis G. Antunez; Ruby J. Kazemi; Caroline E. Richburg; Cecilia Pesavento; Andrew Vastardis; Erin Kim; Abigail L. Kappelman; Devak Nanua; Hiba F. Pediyakkal; Faelan Jacobson-Davies; Shawna N. Smith; James Henderson; Valerie Gavrila; Anthony Cuttitta; Hari Nathan; Lesly Ann Dossett
JAMA Surgery · vol. 160; issue 3; pp. 304
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
New and Recurring Food Insecurity During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Elise Sheinberg; Noura E. Insolera; Nour M. Hammad; Alessandra Uriarte; Christine M. Weston; Melissa N. Laska; Julia A. Wolfson; Cindy W. Leung
JAMA Health Forum · vol. 6; issue 9; pp. e253603
Stone Center authors: Noura Insolera
Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Among Homicide Survivors in the United States
Daniel C. Semenza; Jeremy R. Levine; Tanya L. Sharpe; Kimberly Burke; Brielle Savage
Race and Justice · vol. 16; issue 4; pp. 1275-1297
Stone Center authors: Jeremy Levine
Should social insurance programs count as wealth? Augmented wealth in research and policy
Robert A. Manduca
Socio-Economic Review · vol. 23; issue 4; pp. 1863-1893
Stone Center authors: Robert Manduca
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
Robert A. Manduca; Brian Highsmith; Jacob Waggoner
Socio-Economic Review · vol. 24; issue 1; pp. 331-362
Stone Center authors: Robert Manduca
The influence of maternal life course exposure to neighborhood affluence and disadvantage on Black/White disparities in adverse birth outcomes in South Carolina
Abigail L. Kappelman; Annie E. Ro; Lindsay K. Admon; Belinda L. Needham; Nancy L. Fleischer
American Journal of Epidemiology
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
The shift to stock-based compensation and gender inequality in wealth in the United States
Angelina Grigoryeva
Socio-Economic Review · vol. 23; issue 2; pp. 541-566
Stone Center authors: Angelina Grigoryeva
The wages of investor power: shareholder exploitation in Europe
Matthew Soener; Davon Norris
Social Forces · vol. 104; issue 2; pp. 405-428
Stone Center authors: Davon Norris
Toward Clarifying Mechanisms of Racism as Fundamental Causes of Educational Inequality
David Enrique Rangel; W. Carson Byrd
Educational Researcher · vol. 55; issue 1; pp. 46-54
Stone Center authors: W. Carson Byrd
Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent victimhood in victim compensation law
Jeremy R. Levine
Law & Society Review · vol. 59; issue 4; pp. 785-821
Stone Center authors: Jeremy Levine
2024
A Multi-institutional Cluster Analysis to Identify Groups of Courses with Exemplary Opportunity Gaps for Undergraduate Students in the Biological Sciences
Kameryn Denaro; Marco Molinaro; Stefano Fiorini; Rebecca L. Matz; Chris Mead; Meryl Motika; Nita A. Tarchinski; Montserrat Valdivia Medinaceli; W. Carson Byrd; Benjamin P. Koester; Hye Rin Lee; Timothy A. McKay; Brian K. Sato
CBE—Life Sciences Education · vol. 23; issue 4
Stone Center authors: W. Carson Byrd
A Very Uneven Playing Field: Economic Mobility in the United States
Pablo A. Mitnik; Victoria L. Bryant; David B. Grusky
American Journal of Sociology · vol. 129; issue 4; pp. 1216-1276
Stone Center authors: Pablo Mitnik
Absolute Wealth Mobility in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joe LaBriola; Jake J. Hays
Population Research and Policy Review · vol. 43; issue 4
Stone Center authors: Joe LaBriola
Can fertility decline help explain gender pay convergence?
Alexandra A. Killewald; Nino José Cricco
Social Forces · vol. 103; issue 4; pp. 1329-1349
Stone Center authors: Alexandra Killewald
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: A Counterfactual Historical Simulation of Universal Inheritance
Asher Dvir-Djerassi
RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · vol. 10; issue 3; pp. 70-91
Stone Center authors: Asher Dvir-Djerassi
Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration
Peter Catron; Maria Vignau Loria; Sarah Farr
Demography · vol. 61; issue 5; pp. 1377-1402
Stone Center authors: Sarah Farr
Did the Covid-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the USA? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data
Jiaming Soh; Myrto Oikonomou; Carlo Pizzinelli; Ippei Shibata; Marina Mendes Tavares
IMF Economic Review · vol. 73; issue 1; pp. 316-337
Stone Center authors: Jiaming Soh
Does employee ownership promote workers’ wealth accumulation? The case of stock options
Angelina Grigoryeva
International Review of Applied Economics · vol. 39; issue 4-5; pp. 669-691
Stone Center authors: Angelina Grigoryeva
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap
Joe LaBriola
Social Problems · vol. 72; issue 4; pp. 1473-1491
Stone Center authors: Joe LaBriola
Pilot testing a patient decision aid as a strategy to reduce overtreatment for older women with early-stage breast cancer
Cecilia M. Pesavento; Ruby J. Kazemi; Abigail Kappelman; Jessica L Thompson; Chad Jobin; Ton Wang; Lesly Ann Dossett
The American Journal of Surgery · vol. 235; pp. 115774
Stone Center authors: Abigail Kappelman
Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime
E. Jason Baron; Joshua Hyman; Brittany Vasquez
The Review of Economics and Statistics · vol. 108; issue 3; pp. 663-680
Stone Center authors: Brittany Vasquez
Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially-Targeted Methods of Reducing Interregional Geographic Inequality
Robert A. Manduca; Catalina Anampa Castro; Analidis Ochoa
Social Service Review · vol. 98; issue 3; pp. 403-445
Stone Center authors: Catalina Anampa Castro
2023
Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities
Leon Wansleben; Nils Neumann
Urban Studies · vol. 61; issue 5; pp. 799-820
Stone Center authors: Nils Neumann
Estimating the intergenerational elasticity of expected income with short-run income measures: a generalized error-in-variables model
Pablo A. Mitnik
Empirical Economics · vol. 65; issue 6; pp. 2779-2803
Stone Center authors: Pablo Mitnik
Housing Supply as a Social Process
Joe LaBriola
The Sociology of Housing
Stone Center authors: Joe LaBriola
Migration as a Vector of Economic Losses From Disaster-Affected Areas in the United States
Jack DeWaard; Elizabeth Fussell; Katherine J. Curtis; Stephan D. Whitaker; Kathryn McConnell; Kobie Price; Michael Soto; Catalina Anampa Castro
Demography
Stone Center authors: Catalina Anampa Castro
Supporting Democracy through Content-Neutral Social Media Policies
Christopher L. Quarles
Journal of Science Policy & Governance · vol. 22; issue 1
Stone Center authors: Christopher Quarles
The Race to Exclude: Residential Growth Controls in California Cities, 1970–1992
Joe LaBriola
Housing Policy Debate · vol. 34; issue 2; pp. 180-206
Stone Center authors: Joe LaBriola
The summer parental investment gap? Socioeconomic gaps in the seasonality of parental expenditures and time with school-age children
Orestes P Hastings; Joe LaBriola
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility · vol. 87; pp. 100846
Stone Center authors: Joe LaBriola
Wealth and Divorce
Alexandra A. Killewald; Angela Lee; Paula England
Demography
Stone Center authors: Alexandra Killewald
Wisdom of Two Crowds: Misinformation Moderation on Reddit and How to Improve this Process—A Case Study of COVID-19
Lia Bozarth; Jane Im; Christopher L. Quarles; Ceren Budak
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · vol. 7; issue CSCW1; pp. 1-33
Stone Center authors: Christopher Quarles
2022
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region
Amy Quandt; Annie Jane Keeney; Luis Flores; Daniela Flores; Mercy Villaseñor
Journal of Rural Studies · vol. 95; pp. 533-543
Stone Center authors: Luis Flores
4. Problem Situation Misassessment and the Financial Crisis
Luis Flores; Neil Gross
The New Pragmatist Sociology · pp. 89-121
Stone Center authors: Luis Flores
How the term “white privilege” affects participation, polarization, and content in online communication
Christopher L. Quarles; Lia Bozarth
PLoS ONE · vol. 17; issue 5; pp. e0267048
Stone Center authors: Christopher Quarles
Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
Pablo A. Mitnik; Anne-Line Helsø; Victoria L. Bryant
Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth · pp. 317-382
Stone Center authors: Pablo Mitnik
Latina/o Postsecondary Education: Trends in Racial/Ethnic Education Gaps and the Role of Citizenship in Access to Higher Education
Shauna Dyer; Giovanni Román-Torres
Demography · vol. 59; issue 6; pp. 2053-2078
Stone Center authors: Shauna Dyer
Occupational Stressors and Access to COVID-19 Resources among Commuting and Residential Hispanic/Latino Farmworkers in a US-Mexico Border Region
Annie Jane Keeney; Amy Quandt; Mercy Villaseñor; Daniela Flores; Luis Flores
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · vol. 19; issue 2; pp. 763
Stone Center authors: Luis Flores
Open-Population Inference: An Investigation of the Underrepresentation of the Second Generation in Research on Intergenerational Income Mobility
Arthur Sakamoto; Deirdre Bloome; Ernesto F. L. Amaral; Davis Daumler; Shih-Keng Yen
International Migration Review · vol. 57; issue 3; pp. 1249-1278
Stone Center authors: Davis Daumler
The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts
Fabian T. Pfeffer; Asher Dvir-Djerassi
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World · vol. 8
Stone Center authors: Asher Dvir-Djerassi; Fabian Pfeffer
2021
Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth
Richard Rodems; Fabian T. Pfeffer
Journal of European Social Policy · vol. 31; issue 5; pp. 517-532
Stone Center authors: Fabian Pfeffer
Mediators of Racial Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake: A Cohort Study in Detroit, MI
Abram Luther Wagner; Lydia Wileden; Trina Shanks; Susan Dorr Goold; Jeffrey D. Morenoff; Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin
Vaccines · vol. 10; issue 1; pp. 36
Stone Center authors: Lydia Wileden
Multiple Imputation with Massive Data: An Application to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Yajuan Si; Steve Heeringa; David Johnson; Roderick J. A. Little; Wenshuo Liu; Fabian T. Pfeffer; Trivellore E. Raghunathan
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology · vol. 11; issue 1; pp. 260-283
Stone Center authors: Fabian Pfeffer
Resources for researchers
PSID-SHELF
A longitudinally harmonized version of social, health, and economic measures from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, designed to support research within and across generations.
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