The Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality is excited to announce this year’s recipients of the Stone Research Grants. These grants support faculty-led research projects that advance our understanding of wealth and income inequality in Canada and around the world.
We are proud to highlight the innovative projects and researchers that have been awarded funding this year:
Katherine Wagner: Labor Lock-In in the Fossil Fuel Industry
Raffaele Saggio: The Role of Caseworkers in Shaping Post-Unemployment Labor Market Trajectories
Terry Moon: The Effects of Small Business Taxation on High-Income Professionals and Income Inequality
Heather Sarsons: Understanding Drivers of Worker Organizing and Unionization in the Low-Wage Sector
Henry Siu: Occupations, Life Cycles, and Wage Inequality
Claudio Ferraz: The Fall of Unions and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right
Jiaying Zhao: Scaling Cash Transfers to Reduce Homelessness
Vince Hopkins: Negative Financial Shocks, Job Search Behaviour, and Wealth and Income Inequality
Torsten Jaccard: Correlated Migration and the Persistence of Economic Shocks
Nathan Nunn: After the Burning: The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre