The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality, and the Economy.
Operating as usual
03/07/2024
Catch up with the Stone Centre Symposium! You can download the speakers' presentations ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/stone-centre-symposium-2024
Discover more about the evolution of wealth inequality, with perspectives from archaeology, economics, and history!
02/07/2024
🤝 WELCOME
Gaia joins the Stone Centre at UCL as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2024/2025 academic year.
A very warm welcome!
Find out more about Gaia's research ➡️ https://sites.google.com/view/gaiadossi
🆕 Michela Tincani, Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino explain some findings from their research on the PACE programme in Chile. Their research is partly funded by a Stone Centre grant.
Read more today ➡️ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-cent-admissions-programmes-found-boost-equity
Most recent working paper ➡️https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32525/w32525.pdf
12/03/2024
Tax evasion is not a law of nature, it’s a policy choice❗️
Gabriel ZUCMAN presenting the perspective on progress made in fighting international tax evasion in London 🇬🇧
Stone Centre at UCL
02/02/2024
📢 SAVE THE DATE
Thrilled to host Gabriel Zucman who will deliver the Stone Public Lecture 2024, joint with the UCL Policy Lab.
Gabriel will present results from the recently published Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 by the EU Tax Observatory.
Sign up ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tackling-global-tax-evasion-progress-and-proposals-tickets-818327167587?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=1c358f592c&mc_eid=c81f458838
23/01/2024
👥 How do we increase representation in economics?
Join us for an all-day event at STICERD to discover the research funded by the European Economic Association and the Hub for Equal Representation in the economy as part of the Career Structures in Economics initiative
Programme & registration ➡️ https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/event/?index=9391
👏 Congratulations to 3 academics at the UCL Department of Economics
Lucas Conwell, Attila Lindner and Stephen Hansen won a grant to support their brilliant research in the Department of Economics
Discover what they're working on ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/congratulations-to-three-academics-in-the-ucl-department-of-economics
13/11/2023
📢 2 POSTDOCS AVAILABLE
Join the Stone Centre at UCL, the UCL Department of Economics and CORE Econ! The Stone Centre is looking for 2 one-year postdocs to join the team.
We're advancing the research on, and teaching of wealth inequality and concentration.
Apply now ➡️ https://econjobmarket.org/positions/10173
🆕 What've we been up to?
Find out in our 2023 report, now online
Read ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkqLlrVzzXKKVkeCwzSSJd9gIjDE8GYr/view
2⃣ postdocs
4⃣ research grants
1⃣ new CORE Econ project
And more...
🆕 THE 2023 REPORT IS HERE
2 Postdocs, 2 Stone PhD Scholars, the first Stone Public Lecture with Philippe Aghion, new CORE Econ resources, and more... It's been busy!
Discover what we've been up to during the 2022/2023 academic year ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkqLlrVzzXKKVkeCwzSSJd9gIjDE8GYr/view?usp=drive_link
01/11/2023
👏 NEW FELLOWS
Co-directors Wendy Carlin and Imran Rasul, and Advisory Board member Richard Blundell have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Congratulations on this achievement!
Read more ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/academics-from-the-stone-centre-at-ucl-elected-as-fellows-of-the-academy-of-social-sciences
🆕 2023 UPDATE
The Stone Foundation has funded 8 programs on wealth inequality around the world.
See what the Stone Centers have been up to over the past year ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OlaxWfzrDp5zRHJvF67TOCQcFI3eycqj/view?usp=drive_link
30/10/2023
🤝 2023/2024 STONE PhD SCHOLARS
Welcome Filippo, Damian and Linda!
Brilliant PhD students at the UCL Department of Economics who join the Stone Centre at UCL as 2023/2024 Stone PhD Scholars.
We look forward to working together!
More about the Stone PhD Scholarship scheme ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/the-stone-centre-at-ucl-welcomes-the-2023-2024-stone-phd-scholars
05/10/2023
❓ What's the effect of wealth taxes on wealth accumulation?
Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven and Gabriel Zucman answer using reforms to wealth taxation in Denmark between 1989-97, which provide exogenous variation.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/wealth-taxation-and-wealth-accumulation-theory-and-evidence-from-denmark
03/10/2023
❓ Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce?
Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Fabien Petit and Tanguy van Ypersele use data from two British cohorts to shed some light on this question.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/can-workers-still-climb-the-social-ladder
28/09/2023
❓ What's the share of children with income higher than their parents?
Yonatan Berman calculates absolute mobility for ten rich economies across four continents using data from the World Inequality Database.
Read his research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/the-long-run-evolution-of-absolute-intergenerational-mobility
26/09/2023
❓ What's the impact of international students on housing markets?
Former Stone Postdoctoral Fellow Tatiana Mocanu and co-author Pedro Tremacoldi-Rossi use data from a comprehensive sample of American college towns to shed some light.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/the-impact-of-international-students-on-housing-markets
21/09/2023
❓ Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich?
David Hope, Julian Limberg and Nina Weber shed some light with data from a randomised, online, information-provision experiment.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/why-do-some-ordinary-americans-support-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-evidence-from-a-randomised-survey-experiment
15/09/2023
🪙 Anti-capitalism sentiments are on the rise. What's it being blamed for?
🤝 Co-director Wendy Carlin joined Vox's Noel King to help listeners understand first of all what capitalism is.
Listen to the podcast ➡️ https://open.spotify.com/show/3pXx5SXzXwJxnf4A5pWN2A
14/09/2023
❓ Can we capture the income share of labour and capital in an inequality index?
Marco Ranaldi thinks so, and has developed a novel lens through which we can view and understand the world. He calls it 'compositional inequality'.
Read his research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/income-composition-inequality
13/09/2023
🤝 We've kickstarted the year with Micole De Vera and Christiane Szerman, our 2023/2024 postdocs
☕️ We had a chat, and they shared with us their research plans for this year, and what urgent issues they think economics should address
Read ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/meet-the-2023-2024-stone-centre-postdocs
12/09/2023
❓ How are different racial groups are exposed to pollution?
Janet Currie, John Voorheis and Reed Walker user data from the Census and American Community Surveys to answer this question.
Read their research summary online ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/what-caused-racial-disparities-in-particulate-exposure-to-fall-new-evidence-from-the-clean-air-act-and-satellite-based-measures-of-air-quality
07/09/2023
🎓 It was great to attend the graduation of the Class of 2023
Stone Scholar Gaurav Khatri was among those admitted to the degree today. He’s now off to
🏆 Gaurav won the Stone Centre Explore Econ Award in 2022 ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/stone-centre-award-explore-econ-2022
Congrats Gaurav!
07/09/2023
❓ How do people weigh income gaps between themselves and others in particular positions in a societal income distribution?
Raymond Fisman, Ilyana Kuziemko and Silvia Vannutelli answer with a series of experiments via MechanicalTurk.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/distributional-preferences-in-larger-groups-keeping-up-with-the-joneses-and-keeping-track-of-the-tails
05/09/2023
❓ Do firms end up paying less tax than they should?
Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Semelet calculate effective tax rates for a group of countries from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/effective-tax-rates-and-firm-size
31/08/2023
❓ How did cross-border integration affect the relative taxation of labour and capital historically and globally?
Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen and Gabriel Zucman answer with data on effective tax rates covering 150 countries and half a century.
Read their summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/globalization-and-factor-income-taxation
24/08/2023
❓ Can national accounts benefit from everyday financial transactions data?
Gergely Buda, Vasco Carvalho, Stephen Hansen, Álvaro Órtiz, Tomasa Rodrigo and Jose Rodríguez Mora developed an algorithm to do so.
Read their research summary ➡ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/national-accounts-in-a-world-of-naturally-occurring-data-a-proof-of-concept-for-consumption
22/08/2023
❓ How does breastfeeding affect the development of your child?
Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernández use Millennium Cohort Study data from the the Centre for Longitudinal Studies to answer this question.
Read their research summary online ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/breastfeeding-and-child-development
17/08/2023
❓ What does racial discrimination look like in the US housing market?
Peter Christensen, Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri and Chris Timmins conducted the largest correspondence study to date in this market to find out.
Read their research summary ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/racial-discrimination-and-housing-outcomes-in-the-united-states-rental-market
15/08/2023
❓ Getting along with your sibling? So much the better!
Alessandro Toppeta uses Millennium Cohort Study data and shows that a stronger sibling bond has a positive impact on human capital formation.
Read his research summary online ➡️ https://www.stone-econ.org/research/skill-formation-with-siblings
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