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New Consumption Data Conference

2-3 September 2021: The University of Copenhagen, CEPR and STICERD are bringing gather together researchers working on a wave of research on consumption using new types of spending data, such as imputed consumption from administrative data, data from supermarket scanners, and high frequency spending data from banks or financial planning apps. Read more...
VoxEU and Pillars of Prosperity
State capacity and development clusters

The determinants of economic development have been debated for many years. However, some of these determinants have been hard to measure internationally. Tim Besley, Chris Dann, and Torsten Persson review evidence from 25 years of data to argue that countries form persistent 'development clusters' according to their levels of internal peace and state capacity. Read more...

Pillars of Prosperity
Pillars of Prosperity

Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data (now updated for 2021), Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson reinterpret Adam Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters--places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. Read more...

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Econometrics Paper
Nonparametric inference for extremal conditional quantiles

Daisuke Kurisu and Taisuke Otsu

This paper studies asymptotic properties of the local linear quantile estimator under the extremal order quantile asymptotics, and develops a practical inference method for conditional quantiles in extreme tail areas. By...Read more...

Tuesday 14 September 2021

CASEpaper
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK

Kitty Stewart, Aaron Reeves and Ruth Patrick

Child poverty in the UK has seen rapid change over the last two decades, broadly falling from the late 1990s until 2012/13 and rising since then. As a result, child poverty rates converged with rates of poverty for worki...Read more...

Wednesday 28 July 2021

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief
Geographical inequalities in England on the eve of the pandemic

Polina Obolenskaya

This briefing forms part of the Nuffield Foundation funded research programme, Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain (SPDO), which examines social policies and social inequalities between the ...Read more...

Tuesday 20 July 2021

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief
Ethnic inequalities on the eve of the pandemic

Kerris Cooper

This research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, evaluated the impact of changes in social policies on inequalities since 2015 up until the eve of the pandemic. This briefing focuses on the findings that relate to ethni...Read more...

Tuesday 20 July 2021

Econometrics Paper
On linearization of nonparametric deconvolution estimators for repeated measurements model

Daisuke Kurisu and Taisuke Otsu

By utilizing intermediate Gaussian approximations, this paper establishes asymptotic linear representations of nonparametric deconvolution estimators for the classical measurement error model with repeated measurements. ...Read more...

Monday 19 July 2021

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STICERD news
Xavier Jaravel awarded the Prize for the Best Young Economist of France

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been awarded the "Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France", an annual award given by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes to a French economist under the ... Read more...

Tuesday 01 June 2021

STICERD news
Xavier Jaravel awarded the Prize for the Best Young Economist of France

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been awarded the "Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France", an annual award given by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes to a French economist under the ... Read more...

Tuesday 01 June 2021

STICERD news
Professors Oriana Bandiera and Nava Ashraf receive the 29th Arrow Award

Congratulations to Professor Oriana Bandiera and Professor Nava Ashraf who, together with Edward Davenport and Scott S Lee, received the 29th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics. Nava Ashraf, Oriana B... Read more...

Monday 03 May 2021

STICERD news
Camille Landais awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

Camille Landais has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the project "GENEQUALITY". The project will run for 5 years (2021-2026) and aims to understand the root causes of the strong specializ... Read more...

Thursday 22 April 2021

STICERD news
The careers and time use of mothers and fathers - Research by Oriana Bandiera and Camille Landais

New research on the gender pay gap has been published as part of the ongoing IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The research has been conducted by STICERD Professors Oriana Bandier... Read more...

Friday 12 March 2021

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