The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy at the UCL Department of Economics launched on 26 May 2022.
The Stone Centre at UCL
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Tamo Halder's free AI tutor for first-generation economics students is 1–2 months from its student trial.
A year on from our first conversation, he tells us where the project stands, and what's at stake when access to AI is unequal. www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...
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Following his presentation at the Stone Centre breakfast, we sat down with UCL Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the IFS-CPP Attila Lindner to talk about minimum wages, labour markets, and inequality:
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Celebrating the work of the @ucleconomics.bsky.social team.
At this morning's Stone Centre breakfast François Gerard presented his work on how financial barriers shape access to justice in Brazil. We'll share a full research summary on the Stone Centre website soon. Thanks François!
Many thanks to Pedro Carneiro for a fascinating Stone Centre breakfast on the links between childhood victimisation, mental health and adult crime.
Stone Centre scholar Javier Boncompte on the UK sugar tax: "much of the policy's impact comes from firms reformulating their products to reduce sugar & avoid price increases, rather than consumers switching products." Javier discusses his research on our blog: www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...
Much of what we know about #inequality depends on getting the empirical methods right. Stone Centre grant recipient Liyang Sun is developing better tools for causal inference, so researchers & policymakers can draw on more reliable evidence. Find out more: www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...
Congratulations to Charyl Kong, winner of the 2026 Explore Econ Stone Centre Prize, for her dissertation on women's political empowerment in Brazil: "The policy moves women closer to political participation, but stops short of representation."
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New #inequality research co-authored by Stone Centre PhD Scholar Ararat Gocmen: "The top 0.5% wealth share would have grown by 26% less from 2010 to 2022 if U.S. HNWIs had invested in the NASDAQ 100 rather than U.S. early-stage companies." Full summary: www.stone-econ.org/research/pri...
How is AI reshaping graduate labour markets? How should disciplines, universities, and sector bodies respond? The Stone Centre & @uclpolicylab.bsky.social will bring together two expert panels to discuss.
📍 UCL Main Campus
🗓️ Fri 3 July 10am-5pm
🎟️ luma.com/nrjukkx7
#HigherEducation #AI
