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News, events and research from UCL's Department of Economics. Follow us on Instagram https://t.co/vl5h4hM6hZ
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Joined March 2012
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 https://t.co/goi7NkNh62
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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. 🎟️ https://t.co/rowPvydzZq 🤝 @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 ➡️ https://t.co/T44oXZS7M9
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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 https://t.co/7FqIh9854j
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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
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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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➡️ https://t.co/dAiuaRlsHf
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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
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➡️ https://t.co/5BrFCykjCT
bigissue.com
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 👉🏻 https://t.co/qWrXFVpQNn
@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
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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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 ➡️ https://t.co/35MaFSlVHf
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📗 Read our responses to today's #SpringStatement2025 so far here: https://t.co/QmyVXU8v3v 📅 Sign up for our analysis event tomorrow morning here:
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At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's 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 ➡️ https://t.co/19uCo3nlvr
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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 ➡️
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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
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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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 ➡️ https://t.co/SSSHUc69KD
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