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Welcome to the Social Research Reading Room

Research Papers

  • The Dynamics of Global Inequality
  • IMF: Distribution of Gains from Globalization
  • Dynamics of Economic Inequality
  • The Role of Luck in Success and Failure
  • Dynamics of Social Inequality
  • Wealth Inequality Over Time
  • US Lifetime Incomes from 1957 to 2013
  • Decline in Intergenerational Mobility in the US
  • The Vanishing Middle Class
  • The Lasting Impact of Rapidly Rising College Costs
  • Changes in Cultural Distance in the US
  • Declining Confidence in Institutions
  • Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America
  • In Way Too Little We Trust
  • Report of the Presidential Commission on the Opioid Crisis

Recommended Books

  • Our Kids, by Robert Putnam
  • Coming Apart, by Charles Murray
  • The New Class Conflict, by Joel Kotkin
  • The Sum of Small Things, by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
  • High Wire, by Peter Gosselin
  • The Winner Take All Society, by Frank and Cook
  • The End of Affluence, by Jeffrey Madrick
  • The End of Equality, by Mickey Kaus
  • The Vanishing Middle Class, by Peter Temin
  • The Complacent Class, by Tyler Cowen
  • The Great Leveler, by Walter Scheidel

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