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Stone Centre internal grant recipient Valérie Lechene tells us about her work on how money and time are really shared within households, and how she's extending her UK findings to the US with the Stone Centre's support.

Ahead of his move to Harvard Kennedy School's Growth Lab, we spoke with 2024/2025 Stone Centre PhD Scholar Sebastian to find out more about his research on transport investment and inequality.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.