News and blogs

The Stone Centre is delighted to welcome four new PhD students from UCL for the 2026/2027 academic year: Vrinda Anand, Graham Mazeine, Guido Spanò, and Zeyi Xiao.

We are delighted to announce this year's Stone Centre Annual Public Lecture, given by Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance. The lecture is titled 'What's different about inequality today?'

Read our recap to find out what was discussed at The Stone Centre Workshop on AI, Analytical Disciplines, and Graduate Careers: Opportunity, Risk, and Institutional Responsibility, and what the event uncovered about the future of inequality.

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.