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LSE Environment Camp 2025

14-15 May 2025 This conference, organised by STICERD's EEE programme and POID, will provide economics PhD students with an opportunity to present new research on environmental issues, engage with future colleagues, and receive valuable feedback. Find out more...
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Environmental Populism Conference

15-16 May 2025 This conference, organised by STICERD's EEE programme, explores our understanding of the contentious politics of climate policy focusing on ideology, economic interests, and institutional design. Find out more...
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Hayek Programme Lecture: Stability is Overrated. Towards a Dynamic Liberalism

21 May 2025 In this talk, Alexander Schaefer attempts to resurrect the dynamic tradition in liberal theory. Find out more...

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CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions

Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we analyze the longterm effects of a Chilean po... Read more...

Michela Tincani (University College London), joint with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino

Monday 19 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30
STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Investment, Productivity, and Selection in the U.S. Shale Boom

Why was the U.S. shale oil and gas revolution so revolutionary? As the U.S. Energy Information Administration quipped in 2024, “the U.S. produces more crude oil than any country, ever”. The current, record, rate of produ... Read more...

Ryan Kellogg (Chicago), joint with Thomas R. Covert, Konan Hara, and Richard L. Sweeney

Monday 19 May 2025 16:00 - 17:30
STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
TUESDAY Seminar: Estimation and Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs

Boundary Discontinuity designs are used to learn about treatment effects along a continuous boundary that splits units into control and treatment groups according to a bivariate score variable. These research designs ar... Read more...

Matias Cattaneo (Princeton), joint with Rocio Titiunik and Ruiqi (Rae) Yu

Tuesday 20 May 2025 14:00 - 15:30
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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Joe Shapiro (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday 21 May 2025 12:30 - 13:45
STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Stability is Overrated: Towards a Dynamic Liberalism

Contemporary liberals often praise values such as cohesion and stability. Though commonplace, embracing such values marks the abandonment of a major strand in 20th century liberal thought, a strand which eschews cohesion... Read more...

Alexander Schaefer (University of Buffalo)

Wednesday 21 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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Econometrics Paper
Geodesic synthetic control methods for random objects and functional data

Daisuke Kurisu, Hans-Georg Mueller, Taisuke Otsu and Yidong Zhou

We introduce a geodesic synthetic control method for causal inference that extends existing synthetic control methods to scenarios where outcomes are elements in a geodesic metric space rather than scalars. Examples of s...Read more...

Thursday 01 May 2025

CASEreport
The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission: Report One - Learning from Experience

Ellie Benton and LSE Housing and Communities

The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission aims to explore ways of increasing co-operation and power sharing between social housing residents and landlords, and what happens when residents and social housing providers...Read more...

Thursday 06 March 2025

CASEreport
Mitigating the Impacts of Overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham

Laura Lane and Bert Provan

Between 2022 and 2024, LSE Housing and Communities conducted research into overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham, and how the harms of overcrowding can be mitigated. This final report brings together data analysis...Read more...

Thursday 27 February 2025

Econometrics Paper
Geodesic difference-in-differences

Daisuke Kurisu, Hans-Georg Mueller, Taisuke Otsu and Yidong Zhou

Difference-in-differences (DID) is a widely used quasi-experimental design for causal inference, traditionally applied to scalar or Euclidean outcomes, while extensions to outcomes residing in non-Euclidean spaces remain...Read more...

Thursday 30 January 2025

CASEpaper
Unseen Children: The hidden lives of children in families seeking asylum in the UK

Ilona Pinter

Children seeking asylum with their families in the UK face significant challenges and marginalisation, yet they are rarely acknowledged in public and policy discourses and in publicly available data. This working paper s...Read more...

Wednesday 11 December 2024

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CASE News
LSE Housing and Communities Book Launch

Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building homes, communities, and neighbourhoods by Anne Power  On 2nd April 2025, CASE and LSE Housing and Communities hosted the launch of Anne Power’s latest book, Beyond Bric... Read more...

Thursday 10 April 2025

CASE News
The challenge of ethnic wealth inequalities: Building understanding: Briefing paper and soundscape

As part of the British Academy-funded project “The challenge of ethnic wealth inequalities: Building understanding” Eleni Karagiannaki in partnership with the Equality Trust has been engaging with people from... Read more...

Wednesday 09 April 2025

STICERD News
Xavier Jaravel appointed Chairman of the French Council of Economic Advisors

STICERD are delighted to announce that Xavier Jaravel has been appointed Chairman of the French Council of Economic Advisors by the Prime Minister of France. His work has been published in various journals, including th... Read more...

Thursday 20 March 2025

CASE News
Tania Burchardt to speak in Wealth Gap event

Can we end the wealth gap?2nd April 2025 - 4:00 – 5:30pm Online The Fairness Foundation, a think tank that works to persuade politicians that tackling inequality in the UK should be a policy, political and moral p... Read more...

Monday 17 March 2025

STICERD News
Mapping ERC frontier research

Robin Burgess’s European Research Council (ERC) MANANDNATURE project was recently highlighted in a recent report by ERC: Mapping ERC frontier research – Transformative change for a sustainable future (Publica... Read more...

Thursday 13 March 2025

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