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 London, UK
ucl.ac.uk/economics
Joined March 2012
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Has Gen AI eaten the economics major? In this week’s episode, Wendy Carlin @coreeconteam @EconUCL tells @timsvengali that students can either use AI to do their problem sets in seconds – or we can change the way to teach so they can use AI as a “cognitive sparring partner”. Find out why by listening to: cepr.org/voxeu/voxtalks
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Exciting news! Thanks to alumna Wendy Fung, the Department of Economics has a new £10,000 'Y.S and Rose Fung' bursary for MRes students. Alice Avenale is the first recipient, starting this September. Read more about the award at bit.ly/4jLegZd
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Does higher education increase or decrease economic #inequality? Join us for a Stone Centre Public Lecture by @Harvard Professor Susan Dynarski. 📍 UCL's Denys Holland Lecture Theatre, London. 📅Weds 18 June 4.30pm-6.30pm. 🎟️ bit.ly/Stone-public-lecture-… 🤝 @UCLPolicyLab
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In @EconUCL, we engage in the #globaldiscourse in #economics. Our annual Gorman Lecture (and conference) returns this May with the distinguished @ArielPakes from @Harvard discussing market counterfactuals. Register now ➡️ucl.ac.uk/economics/events/2…
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⭐ VoxDev Talks: NEW EPISODE Today ⭐ What do we know about the informal sector & do the gaps in our knowledge undermine policies to reduce its size? @GUlyssea @EconUCL & Mariaflavia Harari @Wharton talk to @timsvengali @vox_dev about the latest VoxDevLit voxdev.org/voxdevlit
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In @EconUCL, our students are our #excellence, and we value their #studentexperience. The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) takes just ten minutes to complete, and runs until Wednesday 30 April. #Students - share your story, and have your say ➡️ thestudentsurvey.com/

National Student Survey

Join the 5.3 million students who have shared their views and helped to inspire change in universities and colleges since the survey was launched in 2005.

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Happy Easter to all our friends and colleagues!
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In @EconUCL, we focus on the real life impact of #policy. Fascinating new work by Hyejin Ku & Christian Dustmann (@ucl) and Jacob Arendt in @ChicagoJournals reveals the impact of tightening refugee immigrant permanent residency eligibility criteria. Read➡️journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment | Journal of Labor Economics: Vol 43,...

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local...

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Two great researchers gave talks in our Econometrics seminar over the past few weeks: ➡️Liyang Sun @EconUCL on policy learning in the presence of estimation uncertainty ➡️Ao Wang @warwickecon on vertical bargaining with wholesale and retail price setting
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Passover begins very soon - Happy Passover to all our friends and colleagues who are celebrating over the next week!
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In @EconUCL, we engage in the discourse. #Brexit ruptured decades of deep UK-EU trade integration - how did this effect the economy, and #internationaltrade? Our own Kalina Manova has co-authored fascinating new analysis in @cepr_org. Read now ➡️ cepr.org/voxeu/columns/deep-…

Deep integration and trade: UK firms in the wake of Brexit

How does dismantling deep integration affect international trade? This column uses firm-level customs data to study the impact of Brexit on UK goods trade. The authors find that in the short term,...

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In @EconUCL, we engage with the discourse. In her #SpringBudget, the Chancellor laid out enormous benefits cuts - what are the real #economicconsequences for debt, spending and taxes? Our own @MortenORavn has shared his expertise with @BigIssue. Read now➡️bigissue.com/news/politics/s…

'Time for radical thinking': What's the bigger picture behind Reeves' dramatic benefit cuts?

Millions will be made worse off by the government's benefits cuts. But the ramifications of Labour's spring statement could be even wider.

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You can listen to my talk at 2:38:30 here 👉🏻 piped.video/watch?v=i5YBtg… @EconUCL @UCLPolicyLab @uclnews @UCLSocRes
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In @EconUCL, our students are our #excellence, and we value their #studentexperience. The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) takes just ten minutes to complete, and runs until Wednesday 30 April. #Students - share your story, and have your say ➡️ thestudentsurvey.com

National Student Survey

Join the 5.3 million students who have shared their views and helped to inspire change in universities and colleges since the survey was launched in 2005.

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Lukasz Rachel (@EconUCL) presented work quantifying drivers of the natural rate of interest (r-star), including forces beyond those normally considered: de-globalization, the end of the peace dividend, AI, and the green transition. #AMEC
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In @EconUCL, we value our #diversity. With #EidAlFitr and the end of #Ramadan approaching, @ucl has a fascinating news piece from one of our students reflecting on their experience of this important cultural event. Read now ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/dawn…
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📗 Read our responses to today's #SpringStatement2025 so far here: ifs.org.uk/collections/sprin… 📅 Sign up for our analysis event tomorrow morning here: ifs.org.uk/events/spring-sta…

Spring Statement 2025 | Institute for Fiscal Studies

All IFS analysis to date of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' 2025 Spring Statement.

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In @EconUCL, we value our #earystageresearchers. All #doctoralresearchers and early-career #academic and #researchstaff are invited to the UCL Festival of Early Stage Researchers 2025, taking place between 1 & 9 April. Register now ➡️ tinyurl.com/ah7782jn #FESR2025 @ucl
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In @EconUCL, we tackle #realliseissues. The #motherhoodpenalty is well-documented, but what of the economic costs of the #menopause? Our own @Gabri_EllaConti is co-author of a new @TheIFS report analysing the problems and potential solutions. Read now ➡️ ifs.org.uk/publications/meno…

The menopause "penalty" | Institute for Fiscal Studies

We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.

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In @EconUCL, we drill into the detail. How do factors like geographic distance and customs efficiency shape the network costs in trade activity? Our own Prof Kalina Manova and @oiperello are co-authors on new analysis in @cepr_org, w/ @m0xnes. Read now ➡️ cepr.org/publications/dp2004…

DP20044 Productivity, Matchability and Intermediation in Production Networks

This paper examines intermediation in production networks to unpack the firm attributes and matching costs that govern firm-to-firm networks and the gains from trade. Exploiting rich customs data for...

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