Manuel Schechtl
Manuel Schechtl is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His work examines the creation, persistence, and reproduction of inequality, poverty, and mobility, with substantive interests in wealth and its intersection with public policy. Schechtl’s research includes the quantitative analysis of survey data, administrative records, and experimental data. His recent work focuses on multiple facets of wealth inequality and accumulation, with a particular focus on the impact of inheritances and estate, inheritance, and gift taxes. Schechtl’s current research examines the social, political, and economic consequences of wealth inequality and wealth concentration.
Before joining the faculty at UNC, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center. Schechtl holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Economics and a master’s degree in Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Humboldt University Berlin.