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02/09/2026

What's different about wage today?
Announcing the Stone Centre Annual Public Lecture with Stephen Machin (LSE).
📅 21 October 2026
📍 Woburn House, London
🎟️ https://bit.ly/PublicLecture2026
Registrations now open.

26/08/2026

AI risks widening , not narrowing it, warned panellists at our July workshop on AI and graduate careers. Our recap covers both panels and the afternoon hackathon, read it here: https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/stone-centre-workshop-on-ai-analytical-disciplines-and-graduate-careers-recap
Thanks to UCL Policy Lab for their support.

11/08/2026

Thanks to everyone who attended last month's Stone Centre and UCL Policy Lab workshop on Al, Analytical Disciplines, and Graduate Careers. We'll share our full recap soon.

05/08/2026

What does it mean for inequality when households don't share resources equally between the people inside them? Valérie Lechene discusses her Stone Centre-funded project on inequality hidden inside households: https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/uncovering-hidden-household-inequality-with-grant-recipient-valerie-lechene

29/07/2026

Save the date: Stone Centre Annual Public Lecture 2026
📍Woburn House, London
🗓️Wed 21 October, late afternoon
🔔Speaker: Stephen Machin (LSE, Centre for Economic Performance)
Full details to follow

28/07/2026

Challenging a 50-year consensus, research from Clement Imbert & Gabriel Ulyssea suggests rural-urban migration is a route out of informality, not into it, with implications for how cities absorb climate-driven migration in the coming decades. Read their research summary:

https://www.stone-econ.org/research/rural-migrants-and-urban-informality-evidence-from-brazil

01/07/2026

Three Stone Centre PhD Scholars land three Assistant Professorships across three continents. Congratulations to Brian Amorim Cabaço, Javier Boncompte Guarda, and Eric Klemm. We caught up with them to find out more about their job market successes:
https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/celebrating-the-success-of-stone-centre-phd-scholars-in-the-job-market

30/06/2026

This Friday at UCL: the Stone Centre & UCL Policy Lab convene PwC, CFA Institute, ACCA & Jisc on AI and graduate careers. Two panels + a hackathon. A few spaces left.
📍UCL Main Campus
🗓️Fri 3 July 10am-5pm
🎟️https://luma.com/nrjukkx7

24/06/2026

Stone Centre grantee David Hope & co's new Doing Economics project tackles a policy puzzle: why are carbon taxes backed by 3,600+ US economists yet politically blocked? Perceptions of inequality and fairness are a big part of the answer. Find out more: https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/stone-centre-funded-research-on-inequality-and-carbon-taxation-becomes-a-new-doing-economics-project

10/06/2026

Congratulations to Charyl Kong, winner of the 2026 Explore Econ Stone Centre Prize, for her dissertation on women's political empowerment in Brazil:

"The policy moves women closer to political participation, but stops short of representation." Read our full interview to learn more about Charyl's work:

https://www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs/charyl-kongs-research-on-womens-political-empowerment-in-brazil-wins-the-2026-explore-econ-stone-centre-prize

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