Stone Center Shares New Videos Through the Inequality Studio Sessions
Does your class background affect your wages? Does family structure affect Black and White children’s outcomes equally? In a series of newly released videos, the Inequality Studio Sessions aim to make the answers to questions like these available in an accessible format.
Released by the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, each session presents a single finding on social inequality. Using a visual aid such as a table, graph, or single sentence, invited speakers present a unique, fundamental insight on inequality dynamics – with the goal of sharing information about the most pressing issues of social inequality in a way that everyone can understand.
“The Inequality Studio Sessions aim to use film to help break down barriers to understanding, facilitating an even broader collaboration and more egalitarian solutions to social inequality,” explained founding director of the Center, Fabian Pfeffer. Pfeffer, now director of Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research, is the series creator and filmed one of the pilot episodes.
The series highlights research from top inequality scholars, including:
- Student debt by Fenaba Addo, University of North Carolina
- Family structure and its impact on educational and economic outcomes by Christina Cross, Harvard University
- Wealth inequality by Fabian Pfeffer, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
- Wealth mobility by Robert Manduca, University of Michigan
- The impact and efficiency of progressive spending by Emily Rauscher, Brown University
- Equal earnings for college graduates from unequal class backgrounds by Jessi Streib, Duke University
- Mortality and racial inequality by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota
“The Stone Center was glad to partner with such prominent inequality scholars to highlight their important work,” said Sasha Killewald, Stone Center Director. “Collaborating on these videos is one way the Stone Center hopes to lift up cutting-edge scholarship on social inequality and make its insights accessible beyond the academy.”
View the first episodes now on the Stone Center YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@umichStoneCID
