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How high-net-worth investors in private capital markets are reshaping US wealth inequality: Clara Martínez-Toledano concludes her Stone Centre grant
“Private Capital Markets and Inequality”, has now been submitted to the American Economic Review and was awarded the IIPF Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize in 2025. We caught up with Clara, one of the authors, to find out more.

Stone Centre-funded research on inequality and carbon taxation becomes a new Doing Economics project
A new project in CORE Econ’s Doing Economics has been built around survey-experiment data from a Stone Centre-funded project on inequality and climate policy.
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A year of building a free AI tutor for economics students: Catching up with Tamoghna Halder
One year after we first spoke, we sat down with Tamoghna Halder to talk about how his AI economics tutor for first-generation students from disadvantaged backgrounds was coming along.

Celebrating the success of Stone Centre PhD Scholars in the job market
Our 2024/2025 PhDs Javier Boncompte Guarda, Brian Amorim Cabaço, and Eric Klemm are all about to take the next step in their careers. We spoke with each of them to offer congratulations on their successes and to find out what they'll be up to in their new roles.

Charyl Kong’s research on women’s political empowerment in Brazil wins the 2026 Explore Econ Stone Centre Prize
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 to hear about the work and what comes next.

Stone Centre postdoc Gabriela Deschamps
2025/2026 Stone Centre postdoc Gaby Deschamps follows up her Stone Centre breakfast with a chat about her research on intimate partner violence and motherhood.
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Evaluating the tools used for inequality research with grant recipient Liyang Sun
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.

Ze Wang: Independent research at the intersection of AI and inequality
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.
