Zach Parolin studies the measurement, causes, and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social mobility across the United States and European Union. He is currently director of INET Oxford’s Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity Programme, and previously directed the ERC-funded ExpPov Project at Bocconi University.
His work has appeared in journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, AEA: Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Demography, and elsewhere. Moreover, his research has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, CNN, in a U.S. presidential debate, and in other outlets. Parolin published his first book, Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19, in September 2023.
