London School of Economics The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines LSE
The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)

Calendar: By Term
Lent 2012

Events scheduled for this term:

10 January 2012   16:00 - 17:30
The impact of elections on cooperation: Evidence from a lab in the field experiment in Uganda
Guy Grossman (Princeton) , joint with Delia Baldassarri
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

11 January 2012   18:00 - 19:30
About Time: Examining the case for a shorter working week
Various Speakers 
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre
New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields
Please note new venue
16 January 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
TBA 
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

17 January 2012   16:00 - 17:30
The Total Survey Error Paradigm and Pre-election Polls: The Case of the 2006 Italian General Election
Laura Fumagalli (University of Essex) , joint with Emanuela Sala
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

18 January 2012   12:45 - 14:00
Migrant and student employment and labour market opportunities for less skilled people: Insights from one local labour market
Anne Green (University of Warwick)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

23 January 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
TBA 
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

24 January 2012   16:00 - 17:30
Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: A Laboratory Experiment
Laurent Bouton (Boston University)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

25 January 2012   16:30 - 18:00
Estimating the impact of marriage on child development
Claire Crawford (IFS) , joint with Ellen Greaves
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

27 January 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Cooperation vs. non cooperation in a dynamic international environmental game
Henry Tulkens (Universite Catholique de Louvain) , joint with Parkash Chander
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

30 January 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-1913
Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

31 January 2012   16:00 - 17:30
Female representation but male rule? Elite entrenchment, gender quotas and the political glass ceiling
Olle Folke
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

01 February 2012   12:45 - 14:00
Don't even think about it! The role of automatic processes in explaining behaviour and their implications for research and policy
Paul Dolan (LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

03 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Does AIDS treatment stimulate negative behavioural response?
Plamen Nikolov (Harvard University)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

06 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
The Effects of Information on Voter Participation, Political Competition and Candidate Selection in Sierra Leone
Kate Casey (EOPP visitor, Stanford GSB)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

07 February 2012   16:00 - 17:30
Money in Judicial Politics: Individual Contributions and Collective Decisions
Matias Laryczower
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

08 February 2012   16:30 - 18:00
Does income inequality cause health and social problems?
Karen Rowlingson (University of Birmingham)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

10 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Public banks improve private banks performance: Evidence from a dynamic structural model
Fabio A. Miessi Sanches (London School of Economics) , joint with Daniel Silva Junior
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

13 February 2012   17:00 - 18:30
"Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil"
Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi)
Location: CLM 03  Ricardo Lecture Theatre
Basement, Drayton House, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX
Please note new venue
13 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
Greg Fischer (EOPP and LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

14 February 2012   16:00 - 17:30
The Treaty of Lisbon and European Union Trade Policy: A Political-Economic Analysis
Christophe Crombez (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

15 February 2012   12:45 - 14:00
The importance of independent income: Understanding the role of non-means-tested earnings replacement benefits
Holly Sutherland (ISER, University of Essex) , joint with Fran Bennett
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

17 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
Kate Casey (EOPP visitor, Stanford GSB)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

20 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
Oliver Pardo-Reinoso (EOPP)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

20 February 2012   16:00 - 17:30
TBA
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California San Diego)
Location: CLM 03  Ricardo Lecture Theatre
Basement, Drayton House, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX
Please note new venue
22 February 2012   12:30 - 13:40
"The Mirrlees Review and Public Economics in an Age of Austerity".
Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Location: IFS
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

23 February 2012   16:00 - 17:30
Who owns this firm? A theoretical foundation for the stakeholder corporation
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich and Toulouse School of Economics) , joint with M.Magill (USC) and M.Quinzii (UC Davis)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

27 February 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
Thiemo Fetzer (EOPP) , joint with Tim Besley (EOPP) and Hannes Mueller (Barcelona GSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

27 February 2012   16:00 - 17:30
"Customary Norms, Inheritance and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana"
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University) , joint with A. Milazzo
Location: CLM 03  Ricardo Lecture Theatre
Basement, Drayton House, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX
Please note new venue
29 February 2012   16:30 - 18:00
Do universal benefits have a future?
Malcolm Torry (Citizen's Income Trust and LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

01 March 2012   16:00 - 17:30
TBA
TBA 
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

02 March 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Redesigning microsavings - a substitute for microcredit?
Anett Hofmann (STICERD, LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

05 March 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
Tim Besley (EOPP, LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

05 March 2012   16:00 - 17:30
TBA
Raymond Fisman (Columbia)
Location: CLM 03  Ricardo Lecture Theatre
Basement, Drayton House, UCL, 30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX
Please note new venue
07 March 2012   12:30 - 13:40
TBA
Johannes Spinnewijn (Economics, LSE)
Location: IFS
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

07 March 2012   16:30 - 18:00
Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities
Steve Gibbons (CEP, SERC & LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

08 March 2012   16:00 - 17:30
TBA
Elchanan Ben-Porath (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

09 March 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Economies of scale in the charitable sector
Sarah Sandford (STICERD, LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

12 March 2012   13:00 - 14:00
TBA
TBA 
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

14 March 2012   12:30 - 13:40
TBA
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
Location: IFS
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE

14 March 2012   12:45 - 14:00
The changing architecture of the UK welfare state
John Hills (CASE, LSE) , joint with Dan Edmiston
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

15 March 2012   16:00 - 17:30
TBA
Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

16 March 2012   13:00 - 14:00
Panel model under cross-sectional dependence
Pedro Souza (STICERD, LSE)
Location: LRB 505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

  
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