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The Stone Centre conference on Education and Inequality, held on June 19th and 20th 2025 at UCL’s Department of Economics, brought together leading researchers from around the world to present their insights. Read the recap here.

"How is inequality linked to education?", Harvard Professor Susan Dynarski ignited 2025's Stone Centre Annual Public Lecture with the question in the title.

“If students lose trust in the ability of universities to award individually differentiated degrees, why should they come?” This challenge from UCL Vice Provost Kathleen Armour kicked off the day’s work in a packed room at the Institute of Education.

Charlie Harrison won the Explore Econ 2025 Stone Centre Prize. We caught up with Charlie following the event for a quick chat about his paper, the Stone Centre, and his hopes for the future.

We are proud to announce that Filippo Pallotti has recently completed his Stone Centre-funded research and branched out into a new sector to expand his economic expertise.

We’re delighted to say that, following a successful Stone Centre PhD scholarship, Linda Wu has accepted a job as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. We spoke with Linda to offer our congratulations and to find out more about her next moves.

We’re delighted to announce the arrival of the newest Stone Center at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.

We’re proud to see the CORE Econ project mentioned by Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen in an article for The Atlantic. Danielle commended CORE's efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities.