by Nicole Bonomini | Aug 25, 2025 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
Satisfying Interdisciplinary Instincts with Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Today, Dr. Noura Insolera is the Assistant Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and an Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the...
by Nicole Bonomini | Dec 9, 2024 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
How do government policies shape inequality and influence economic decision-making? Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Student Associate Zsigmond Pálvölgyi, PhD candidate in Economics at U-M, explores this question in his job market paper, “Did Decreasing...
by Nicole Bonomini | Aug 27, 2024 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
Emerging Inequality Scholar Jasmine Simington Investigates Spatial Inequality and Heirs Property How do spatial inequalities impact the socioeconomic well-being of people? Jasmine Simington, a Stone Center Student Fellow and Emerging Inequality Scholar, has devoted...
by Nicole Bonomini | Jan 24, 2024 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
Understanding how social identities and background impact salaries Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Director and Professor of Sociology Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald has dedicated her career to studying how social identities are related to time use, pay, and wealth....
by Nicole Bonomini | Oct 16, 2023 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
Understanding the effects of place on household level outcomes When CID Student Fellow Alumni Economist Nishaad Rao was a teenager, he was convinced he wanted to be a physicist. “When I was in high school, I thought that Economics was basically what people who work...
by Nicole Bonomini | Jun 15, 2023 | Inequality Scholar Spotlight
The Regulation and Politics of “home-based moneymaking” People often think of home and work as two separate aspects of their lives, but the line continues to blur for many working Americans, particularly since the pandemic. With inflation and rising costs, more and...
