Stone Centre at UCL PhD Conference

A group of PhD students from the Department of Economics organised the first Stone Centre PhD Conference, sponsored by the Stone Centre at UCL. Find here resources from the day.

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Programme

The speakers are in alphabetical order by surname:

• Francesca Arduini (UCL and IFS): Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data
• Elena Casanovas (UCL): Demographics and firm dynamics in the US and Europe
• Yannis Kastis (UCL): Immigration and technology adoption: evidence from Jewish immigration in England
• Nathan Lazarus (MIT): Irregular schedules: worker costs and employer schedule-setting power
• Romaine Loubes (PSE): Trade-displaced or trade-stuck? Self-employed workers and adaptation to trade shocks in low-income countries
• Jan Mazza (EUI): Domestic inequality and global imbalances
• Federica Meluzzi (CREST): The college melting pot: peers, culture and women’s job search
• Michael Navarrete (University of Maryland): Geospatial heterogeneity in inflation
• Sukrit Puri (MIT): Corporate kinship: political attachments of the family firm‍
• David Sturrock (UCL and IFS): Inheritances, expectations and consumption inequality
• Carmen Villa (Warwick University and IFS): The effect of community-based after-school programs in education and crime
• Hilary Vipond (LSE): Technological unemployment in Victorian Britain: a tasks based approach

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Keynote presentation

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) delivered the keynote speech on The Cold War and American inequality. Listen to it, it's free! Available on:

• Spotify
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