Stone Centre at UCL

We're thrilled to announce that Charlie Harrison has won the 2025 @CTaLE_ Explore Econ Stone Centre prize for his paper 'Scaling the Easterlin Paradox: Measuring Life Events on Stretching Happiness Scales'. We caught up with Charlie to chat about his win: stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…

How can AI help address #inequality and inclusivity in economics education? Find out about Tamoghna Halder's AI tool on the stone centre website: stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…

The Stone Centre Conference on Education and Inequality featured a packed schedule of in-progress papers from the world's leading researchers. Catch up with the key takeaways on our website: stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…

Watch the Stone Centre 2025 Public Lecture in full on YouTube. Sue Dynarski explores the links between higher education and #inequality in the US. Gavin Kelly and Bethan Staton offer a UK perspective: youtu.be/y0z2-e7AfcY

"How is inequality linked to education?" Harvard Professor Sue @dynarski joined us for 2025's Stone Centre Annual Public Lecture alongside @GavinJKelly1 and Bethan Staton. Read the recap on the Stone Centre website: stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…. Big thanks also to @UCLPolicyLab.

📢Jack Britton (University of York), with Monica Costa Dias and David Goll, presents “Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility,” asking: How important is higher education sorting for earnings inequality? Using English administrative data, they employ IV with a new structural…

📢Gill Wyness (UCL), with Oliver Cassagneau-Francis, Lindsey Macmillan, and Richard Murphy, presents “University Mismatch and Teacher Leniency,” asking: What is the extent of the mismatch wage penalty? Using administrative data in England, they employ a 2SLS strategy with…

Caterina Calsamiglia Costa (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) presents “Can Single-Sex Schooling Shape the Gender Differences in Response to Pressure?” to investigate where gender differences in performance under high-stakes settings originate. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL

Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) presents “Experimental Evidence on the Effects of College Quality on Educational Outcomes”, examining how a scholarship program closes college quality gaps between low- and high-income students. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL

Anaïs Fabre (Institute for Fiscal Studies) presents “The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities” to identify the sources of spatial education gaps. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL

Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) presents “College as a Marriage Market” to examine assortative marriage by college type and its economic consequences. (1/4) @StoneEcon_UCL

📢Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), with Anh-Huy Nguyen and Zachary Bleemer, presents “Reconciling Results on Proposition 209.” They extend the structural model of Arcidiacono, Aucejo, and Hotz (AAH) (2016), using Post-Prop 209 data, modeling admissions, and constructing…

📢Michela Tincani (UCL), with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino, presents “How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions,” asking: What are the education and labor market impacts of AA on targeted disadvantaged students further down the…

📢Basit Zafar (University of Michigan), with Esteban Aucejo, Jacob French and Paola Ugalde A., presents “Understanding Gaps in College Outcomes by First-Generation Status.” They combine administrative data, panel survey on student expectations and quasi-experimental evidence…

The Stone Centre conference on Education and Inequality is underway, bringing together top economic minds to explore 12 papers across eight sessions.

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan Dynarski, Gavin Kelly, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

The Stone Centre workshop on the impact of AI on economics assessments is underway at @IOE_London in partnership with our friends at @CTaLE_

Stone Centre PhD scholar @lindaawuu and Stone Centre director Wendy Carlin held a meeting with the Singapore Ministry of Finance to discuss Linda's fantastic research on behavioural responses to estate taxation. Read her research summary: stone-econ.org/research/behav…

Final chance to register for our workshop on the impact of GEN AI on economics assessments. Registrations close 4th June. 📍 Where: UCL @IOE_London, Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL. 📅 When: Tuesday 10th June 9am-4pm. 🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/stonecentreaiw….

🎉 Filippo Pallotti @f_pallotti has recently completed his Stone Centre-funded research and branched out into a new sector to expand his economic expertise. We caught up with Filippo to find out more: stone-econ.org/news-and-blogs…