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STICERD Atkinson Lecture: Cognitive Economics
by Andrei Shleifer

9 November 2023 A lecture by Professor Andrei Shleifer on an approach of cognitive economics that unifies theoretically a broad range of puzzling findings, and incorporates new strategies of measurement and prediction. View/listen to the recording...
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Optimally Irrational: The good reasons we behave the way we do
by Lionel Page

9 October 2023 A public lecture by Professor Lionel Page on the topic of his latest book. The lecture is hosted by STICERD and the Department of Social Policy and supported by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy. View/listen to the recording...
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LSE Environment Week 2023

11-14 September 2023 During the LSE Environment Week economists from all fields of economics and policymakers came together to discuss the latest research on environmental issues and to connect this work to policy change. View the recordings...

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CASEreport
Inclusive data: better data and evidence to understand the lives, circumstances and needs of children and young people from the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities

Chelsie Dolling, Polina Obolenskaya and Polly Vizard

This research report provides open access to the findings of the project `Testing and demonstrating the value of the Growing Up in England (GUiE) dataset: Gypsy, Traveller and Roma children case study?. The research was ...Read more...

Monday 04 December 2023

Development Discussion Paper
Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India

Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari and Maitreesh Ghatak

This study explores the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Our theoretical framework t...Read more...

Wednesday 15 November 2023

Development Discussion Paper
Organisation form and river quality: Theory and evidence from China

Linchuan Xu

Should the government set up a separate ministry for all environmental issues, or ask all the existing decentralized and regional political organizations to have an environment mandate? This paper studies how organizatio...Read more...

Wednesday 15 November 2023

CASEpaper
Inequalities in provision for primary children with special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND) by local area deprivation

Tammy Campbell

This paper explores how area deprivation-level is related to primary school children’s chances of: a) being allocated statutory support for special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND) through an Education, Hea...Read more...

Monday 13 November 2023

Development Discussion Paper
Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Virginia Minni

Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational fi...Read more...

Monday 30 October 2023

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CASE News
Children in affluent areas get more special needs support

New CASE research by Tammy Campbell finds that children with special educational needs living in affluent areas have a higher chance than those in poorer areas of being diagnosed with certain disabilities and conditions,... Read more...

Monday 13 November 2023

STICERD News
New starters

At the start of the academic year, STICERD welcomed research assistants, both pre-doc and post-doc, for our various research programmes. You can find who is who in our new starters page.  ... Read more...

Monday 02 October 2023

STICERD News
STICERD visitors

During the academic year, STICERD welcomes visiting academics, researchers and doctoral students.  In this link you can find out more about our visitors at the given moment.  ... Read more...

Friday 16 June 2023

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

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