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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Graduate Center, CUNY (NY, NY)   
   
Vacancy – Postdoctoral Scholar (CUNY title: Research Associate)   
Full-time, 2-year appointment, beginning August 2026
Salary: $90,000/year, plus benefits and access to funding for research-related expenses

The Stone Center is hiring a postdoctoral scholar with a recent Ph.D. to spend two years conducting research on wealth inequality in the U.S. or multiple countries. This postdoctoral scholar will join the GC Wealth Project team, an international group of researchers. The position is open to candidates who conduct research in the following areas:
• Distribution of wealth, wealth inequality, and/or wealth concentration
• Intergroup wealth disparities (e.g., by gender, race, ethnicity, migration status)
• Intersection of wealth inequality, climate policies, and climate crisis
• Determinants (including public policies) and consequences of wealth concentration
• Estate, inheritance, gift, and wealth taxation, and/or other policies that shape wealth accumulation and wealth transfers; behavioral responses to taxation; and revenue analysis.

Applications are due by November 3, 2025.

Applicants should have:   
• Ph.D. degree in economics or a related social science discipline, awarded by August 2026
• Research portfolio demonstrating experience with empirical, methodological, or theoretical scholarship on inequality
• High level of empirical and statistical skills