Professor Jan Stuhler has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project “Mobility, Sorting and Inequality with Extended Kinship Data (EXKIN).” The project will develop a new conceptual and empirical framework to better understand how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations.

Stuhler will first create a unified theoretical model that links the main measures of intergenerational mobility. He will then apply this framework to large-scale kinship networks using administrative register data and other population-wide sources.

The project is expected to deliver the first consistent framework spanning a wide range of mobility measures and to offer fresh insights into long-term inequality dynamics. Its findings may support more effective social policies by improving our understanding of how family background shapes individual outcomes.

Cuerpo de la noticia: The Julián Marías Research Award of the Community of Madrid recognizes the excellence of a scientific and professional career in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Professor of Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Jan Stuhler, has been recognized with the XXIV Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research for his empirical research in the fields of labor economics and public economics, with a particular focus on intergenerational mobility.  

The Financial Times conducts a quarterly survey known as the FT-Booth Macroeconomic Survey, which gathers insights from leading economists at top American institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UCLA, Northwestern University, and UC Berkeley. Among the few European economists participating is Professor Evi Pappa from UC3M.

Professor Pappa has twice made the front page of the Financial Times thanks to her insightful contributions. The first occasion was on March 17th, 2024, in the article “Fed will have to keep rates high for longer than markets anticipate, say economists,” where she discussed the conduct of monetary policy in the US. The second time was on June 29th, 2025, in the piece titled “Donald Trump’s fiscal policy and Fed attacks imperil US haven status, say economists,” addressing the negative consequences of Trump’s policies on US Treasury bonds.

The Department of Economics is organizing a conference for our PhD alumni to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the UC3M Economics PhD program.

The conference will take place on June 5-6, 2025 and will feature a distinguished lecture by Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna (Emory University) on new Difference-in-Differences Methods.

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The Julián Marías Research Award of the Community of Madrid recognizes the excellence of a scientific and professional career in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.