Zach Parolin is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University and incoming Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in Milan. His research focuses on the measurement and determinants of poverty and social inequality in high-income countries. He has published his research in Social Forces, Demography, The Lancet Public Health and elsewhere, with a forthcoming book on poverty and social policy at Oxford University Press. You can follow him here.

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

July 3, 2020

Analysis

Pandemic and Poverty

What the pandemic teaches us about poverty measurements

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, more than 40 million people have applied for unemployment benefits.