Ph.D. students form research group A group of LBJ School doctoral students and several of their counterparts from the UT Austin Government Department and Graduate School of Library and Information Science have formed the UT Inequality Project. Organized by LBJ School Professor James Galbraith, the research group's mission is to measure changes in industrial earnings and wage inequality, and develop new ways to measure and evaluate industrial change in the global economy. Over the past year, the group has had various work published in scholarly journals and presented papers at meetings of the American Philosophical Society and the American Economics Association. The group has also obtained a contract with Cambridge University Press to develop its research into a book. Financial support for the project is provided by the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, UT Austin, and the LBJ School. The group is housed in the Government Department. Their Web site contains working papers and other research that is in progress as well as other information about the project.

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