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Morishima Lecture: Social capital and economic mobility

Raj Chetty discussed recent research using data from Facebook that identifies economic connectedness as a key predictor of economic mobility. It will then discuss what factors contribute to increasing forms of social capital most relevant for upward income mobility. Find out more...
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CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2023

14-16 June 2023 The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Find out more...
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STICERD Director appointed Head of CAE

Congratulations to @STICERD_LSE Director @landais_camille who has been appointed Head of the French Council of Economic Advisers (@CAEinfo)

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CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct on a High-Wage Labor Market

This paper proposes a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data from a U.S. job search platform, we first flexibly estimate labor supply to differentiated firms. We then use... Read more...

Nina Roussille (MIT)

Monday 05 June 2023 12:00 - 13:30
STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Understanding Port Performance and the Role of Infrastructure

We explore efficiency and optimal policy in decentralized transport markets, such as taxis, trucks, and bulk shipping. We show that in these markets, search frictions distort the transportation network and the dynamic a... Read more...

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University), joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Theodore Papageorgiou

Monday 05 June 2023 12:30 - 14:00
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Local economic inequality and household borrowing in the UK

This seminar focuses on research which investigates the relationship between economic inequality and household borrowing using the UK''''s Wealth and Assets Survey data and granular, neighbourhood-level estimates of ... Read more...

Joel Suss (Bank of England, CASE and LSE International Inequalities Institute Visiting Fellow)

Wednesday 07 June 2023 12:00 - 13:00
IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Rocco Machiavello (LSE/CEP)

Thursday 08 June 2023 13:00 - 14:00
STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
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Ao Wang (University of Warwick)

Thursday 08 June 2023 14:00 - 15:30

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CASEpaper
Making Work Pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families

Mary Reader, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

Child benefits are typically paid on a per-child basis, without restrictions on family size. In this paper we generate unique evidence on the effects of capping child benefits by family size by examining the introduction...Read more...

Thursday 01 June 2023

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper
The Conservative Governments' Record on Health from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Jarrod Hughes, Kritty Treebhoohun and Iona Wainwright

This research report examines developments in the progress that was made in promoting good physical and mental health and longevity, and reducing mortality and morbidity inequalities, over the five-year period between Ma...Read more...

Friday 28 April 2023

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper
Trends in Adolescent Disadvantage: Policy and Outcomes for Young People under Labour, the Coalition, and the Conservatives (1997 to 2019)

Moira Wallace

Over the last two decades, England has seen two enormous waves of change in the government’s approach to children and young people. The first wave of change was conducted by the 1997-2010 Labour government and involved s...Read more...

Friday 28 April 2023

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper
The Conservative Governments’ Record on Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Abigail McKnight and Polina Obolenskaya

In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of higher education policy in the period since the Conservative government took office in 2015 up until the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. We do this by fo...Read more...

Thursday 27 April 2023

CASEpaper
The sins of the parents: Conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves

A core element of a welfare state is the support that is provided to families with children, in recognition of the additional needs that dependent children create. Variation in the design, generosity and implementation o...Read more...

Thursday 27 April 2023

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STICERD News
LSE Research for the World articles by STICERD members

Research for the World, LSE's social research magazine, features two articles by STICERD members Mary Reader and Michael Callen. Mary Reader's resarch entitled 'Starting child benefits during pregnancy could help tackle... Read more...

Thursday 25 May 2023

STICERD News
Mary Reader's piece about benefits in pregnancy published in The Guardian

Mary Reader is a research officer at STICERD's Hub for Equal Representation (and previous research officer in CASE). She has published her research in the Journal of Health Economics and has written an item for The Guard... Read more...

Friday 31 March 2023

STICERD News
Renaming of the building

Our building has been officially renamed after Nobel Prize winning economist and LSE’s first black academic Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915-1991), who studied, taught and researched at the School.  Formerly kn... Read more...

Friday 31 March 2023

CASE News
New blog post: A half-baked early years funding policy risks negatively impacting children

While the Chancellor’s pledge to invest in early years childcare is a positive step, there remain serious questions about whether the resources are sufficient, and whether the current funding and provision model is... Read more...

Monday 20 March 2023

CASE News
Upcoming event: Of Boys and Men: New challenges for gender equality

Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute Thursday 23 March 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. The Auditorium, Centre Building. Speakers:Dr Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow in Economic Studie... Read more...

Thursday 16 March 2023

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