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This year’s Explore Econ Stone Centre prize winner is Charyl Kong, for her dissertation on Brazil’s conditional cash transfer programme and its effect on women’s political empowerment. We caught up with Charyl sto hear about the work and what comes next.

We caught up with Stone Centre grant recipient Liyang Sun to hear more about her work evaluating one of the most widely used empirical tools in inequality research.

Stone Centre scholar Ze Wang discusses his research on how AI models evaluate job candidates, the mechanisms behind bias, and what it means for inequality.

Following his Stone Centre breakfast presentation, we spoke with UCL Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the IFS-CPP Attila Lindner about his research on inequality and the minimum wage.

LSE announces the launch of a new centre dedicated to the study of wealth inequality and entrepreneurship: The Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality

Discover three key takeaways from the INSEAD Workshop on AI and inequality, exploring how AI is impacting business practices and what this means for inequality.

Javier Boncompte was a Stone Centre PhD Scholar in 2024/2025.‍ As Javier's scholarship recently came to end, we caught up with him to get his thoughts on working with the Stone Centre, and what the future holds for him.

Following her recent presentation at the Stone Centre breakfast, our new PhD Scholar Clara von Bismarck-Osten chatted to us about her journey to the Stone Centre and her research.