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LSE Environment Week

September 2022 The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme in STICERD, the International Growth Centre and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion will convene an Environment Week at the LSE to encourage economists from all fields of economics to work on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change. Read more...
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Research Excellence Framework 2021

Research led by STICERD members Professor Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Professor Sir Tim Besley has contributed to the Department of Economics' ranking. Read more...
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Ian Nish 1926-2022

We were sorry to hear that Ian Nish, Emeritus Professor of International History at LSE and long-time research associate in STICERD's Japanese Studies programme has passed away at the age of 96. Read more...

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Rough Sleeping in Newham: Policy into practice 2019-2022

Bert Provan

The London Borough of Newham had one of the worst records for rough sleeping in 2018, and lacked an up to date Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy. Compiled over four years of engagement with the borough, this repor...Read more...

Tuesday 20 September 2022

SPDO Research Note
Who is at risk of experiencing violence and has it changed overtime?

Kerris Cooper and Polina Obolenskaya

Published crime statistics show that following a long-term decline in violent crime there has been a flattening out in recent years and certain types of violent crime have increased. This research note examines who is mo...Read more...

Thursday 15 September 2022

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief
Layers of engagement: learning from the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes research programme public engagement exercise

Tania Burchardt, Bert Provan and Kerris Cooper

The purpose of this note is to share with the research community the lessons we feel we have learned from a public engagement exercise that we undertook, in collaboration with Sense about Science, as part of the Social P...Read more...

Wednesday 24 August 2022

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

Abigail McKnight and Kerris Cooper

In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of employment 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 followin...Read more...

Wednesday 27 July 2022

Econometrics Paper
Isotonic propensity score matching

Taisuke Otsu, Meghan Xu and Meghan Xu

We propose a one-to-many matching estimator of the average treatment effect based on propensity scores estimated by isotonic regression. The method relies on the monotonicity assumption on the propensity score function, ...Read more...

Tuesday 19 July 2022

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CASE News
CASE celebrates 25th birthday

The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) celebrated its 25th Birthday at a special event on 7 and 8 September 2022. The first day of the event reflected on Professor John Hills's contributions during his time a... Read more...

Friday 02 September 2022

STICERD News
Tim Besley elected member of Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Professor Tim Besley who has been elected a member of Academia Europaea.   The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, ... Read more...

Wednesday 17 August 2022

STICERD News
VoxTalks Economics podcast with Tim Besley and Sacha Dray

The political economy of lockdown During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries wi... Read more...

Friday 12 August 2022

STICERD News
Michael Callen discusses his research on data and policy decisions

Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan Michael Callen discusses a programme in Pakistan that equips government health inspectors with a smartphone app which channels data on rural clinics to seni... Read more...

Thursday 11 August 2022

STICERD News
Ian Nish 1926-2022

We were sorry to hear that Ian Nish, Emeritus Professor of International History at LSE and long-time research associate in STICERD's Japanese Studies programme has passed away at the age of 96. Ian Nish took a doctorat... Read more...

Wednesday 03 August 2022

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