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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