The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) fosters basic and applied research on social and economic inequalities, as well as the processes by which such inequalities change and persist. Learn more about our mission...
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CSI Faculty Affiliate Christopher Barrett will lead Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility, the 2008-2011 Theme Project at Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. He will be joined by CSI Director Stephen L. Morgan as a core team member, along with faculty affiliates Jordan Masudaira (Policy Analysis and Management) and Christine Olson (Nutrition Sciences).
The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) proudly sponsors the Cornell Journal of Inequality Studies (CJIS) by annually awarding a $500 "Center for the Study of Inequality Undergraduate Research Prize" to the Cornell undergraduate who writes the best article published in CJIS. The selection committee, comprised of CSI faculty affiliates, will review all Cornell undergraduate works published in CJIS to determine each year's recipient. In addition to receiving the $500 prize, each recipient will be recognized in a future issue of CJIS.
Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the conference
"Frontiers in Socioeconomic Mobility: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Conference," hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in
collaboration with the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at
Cornell University.
Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the
"Symposium on Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality,"
hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in collaboration with
the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at Cornell University.
Editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky bring together top gender scholars in sociology and economics to make sense of the recent changes in gender inequality, and to judge whether the optimistic or pessimistic view better depicts the prospects and bottlenecks that lie ahead.
Profiles of Alumni and
Current Concentrators
The Undergraduate Concentration is not a major but rather an interdisciplinary program that you can complete along with a major. If you're a Cornell undergraduate interested in government service, policy work, or related jobs in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), or want to go on to graduate work in anthropology, economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, or sociology, the Inequality Concentration may be just what you need. Obtain your enrollment form for the Inequality Concentration online. Click here to see a list of fall 2008 inequality-related courses that satisfy the concentration's electives requirement.
This course is the primary requirement for completion of the Inequality Concentration. It will be offered in the spring of 2009.
Since the program's inception in 2003, over 149 undergraduates from five of Cornell's colleges have earned the Inequality Concentration. Another 104 students are currently enrolled as concentrators.
