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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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Understanding the UK Economy

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on the state of the UK economy and its future. 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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Econometrics Paper
Regression discontinuity design with potentially many covariates

Yoichi Arai, Taisuke Otsu and Myung Hwan Seo

This paper studies the case of possibly high-dimensional covariates in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) analysis. In particular, we propose estimation and inference methods for the RDD models with covariate sele...Read more...

Monday 31 October 2022

Econometrics Paper
GLS under monotone heteroskedasticity

Yoichi Arai, Taisuke Otsu and Mengshan Xu

The generalized least square (GLS) is one of the most basic tools in regression analyses. A major issue in implementing the GLS is estimation of the conditional variance function of the error term, which typically requir...Read more...

Thursday 27 October 2022

Econometrics Paper
Conditional likelihood ratio test with many weak instruments

Sreevidya Ayyar, Yukitoshi Matsushita and Taisuke Otsu

This paper extends validity of the conditional likelihood ratio (CLR) test developed by Moreira (2003) to instrumental variable regression models with unknown error variance and many weak instruments. In this setting, we...Read more...

Tuesday 11 October 2022

CASEreport
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

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CASE News
The ESRC John Hills Impact Prize 2022

The Celebrating Impact Prize awards are part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Sciences, this year the award ceremony was live streamed from the Royal Society in London on 2 November. ... Read more...

Thursday 03 November 2022

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

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