Biography

Zachary Parolin is the Director of the Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity programme at INET Oxford, as well as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality, and Opportunity in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. His research focuses on the measurement, causes, and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social mobility across the United States and European Union. Parolin has published one book and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles across top journals in economics, sociology, social policy, industrial relations, and demography.

Recent Publications

Sept 2024
INET Working Paper

No. 2024-07 - Monopsony Power and Poverty: The Consequences of Walmart Supercenter Openings
Lukas Lehner , Zachary Parolin , Clemente Pignatti , Rafael Pintro Schmitt

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Research Areas

Economic inequality

Programme Teams

Economics, Inequality & Opportunity (EIO)

Related Projects

Employment, Equity and Growth

This research programme supported by the Resolution Foundation showed that while rich countries have faced common challenges in an era of globalization and rapid technological change, institutions and policy responses mattered in the extent improvements in incomes and living standards were shared.

The Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and Prosperity

This programme on the drivers of economic inequality and how best to promoting inclusive growth was supported by Citi from 2016-21 as part of its research partnership with the Oxford Martin School.

Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts

Building bridges between distributional data from micro sources and national accounts aggregates to provide estimates of the distribution of income and wealth consistent with macroeconomic national accounts, in collaboration with the Paris School of Economics and University of California-Berkeley.