Five new Stone PhD Scholars appointed

Five PhD students from the UCL Department of Economics have been appointed Stone PhD Scholars for the 2024/2025 academic year:

• Brian Amorim Cabaço, who is documenting markup trends in France and Germany and their distributional impacts on households.
• Javier Boncompte, whose work aims to equip policymakers with new tools by leveraging firms’ product choices to address distributional concerns in using taxes to correct negative externalities.
• Sebastian Espinoza, whose research focuses on the effects of the free tuition policy on students’ decisions, educational and labor outcomes, and social mobility.
• Eric Klemm, who is investigating lifecycle earnings inequality across birth cohorts in the German labour market
• Ze Wang, who is looking at how AI technologies might perpetuate or amplify existing inequalities based on demographic characteristics such as gender, race, social class, or disability.

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The Stone PhD Scholarship is a joint scheme run with the UCL Department of Economics. All PhD students are eligible to apply from their MPhil year onwards, and have a choice to:

• have their teaching duties halved, and receive additional Stone Centre research funds, or
• keep their teaching duties, and receive the equivalent of half their teaching duties in research funds, in addition to Stone Centre research funds.

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The scheme supports economists at the very early stages of their careers and contributes towards building a pipeline of economists whose research focuses on wealth and economic inequality.

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> Discover last year's Stone PhD Scholars