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.
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
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:
Authors
Stone Centre
Stone Centre at UCL.