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STICERD Research Grants

Deadline 10 February 2022: STICERD awards grants to fund research and research-related activities (including dissemination of findings and public outreach) of members of the academic staff of the London School of Economics and of research students whose supervisor is affiliated with STICERD's research programmes. Find out more...
Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy launch event: Making Equality Work

14 January 2022: The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy (H.E.R.) will be officially launched this coming January. Prominent academics, business leaders and policy makers will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set the agenda for a fairer, more diverse and productive workplace. Read more...
Pillars of Prosperity
Pillars of Prosperity

Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data (now updated for 2021), Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson reinterpret Adam Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters--places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. Read more...

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Econometrics Paper
Bandwidth selection for nonparametric regression with errors-in-variables

Hao Dong, Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor

We propose two novel bandwidth selection procedures for the nonparametric regression model with classical measurement error in the regressors. Each method is based on evaluating the prediction errors of the regression us...Read more...

Tuesday 25 January 2022

SPDO Research Note
distoutc and svydistoutc: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of categorical outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any categorical variable (e.g. employment status, poverty status etc) overall and for each of the groups i...Read more...

Tuesday 25 January 2022

SPDO Research Note
distout and svydistout: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of continuous outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any continuous variable (e.g. earnings, equivalised household disposable income) overall and for each of t...Read more...

Tuesday 25 January 2022

CASEbrief
Poverty and parenting in the UK: Patterns and pathways between economic hardship and mothers' parenting practices

Kerris Cooper

This research examines to what extent there are differences in parenting across income groups, and whether these differences are unique to low-income parents. When comparisons are made across all income groups, rather th...Read more...

Tuesday 11 January 2022

Econometrics Paper
Estimating density ratio of marginals to joint: Applications to causal inference

Yukitoshi Matsushita, Taisuke Otsu and Keisuke Takahata

In various fields of data science, researchers often face problems of estimating the ratios of two probability densities. Particularly in the context of causal inference, the product of marginals for a treatment variable...Read more...

Friday 07 January 2022

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CASE News
New research project launched focusing on children's information

The Nuffield Foundation has awarded £2.8 million for an ambitious research programme to improve the lives of children and families by better understanding their needs and experiences. Over the next five years, Pr... Read more...

Thursday 14 October 2021

CASE News
New Research Assistant position

We are looking for an enthusiastic graduate Research Assistant (RA) to assist Prof Gough on his Leverhulme Foundation funded research, ‘Valuing What Matters: From efficiency to sufficiency’. The appointmen... Read more...

Wednesday 29 September 2021

CASE News
A Better State of Welfare: A symposium in honour of John Hills

A symposium was held on 9th of July 2021 in honour of John Hills as part of the Social Policy Association conference. Following opening remarks by Professor Julian Le Grand, four former doctoral students of the lat... Read more...

Friday 09 July 2021

STICERD news
Xavier Jaravel awarded the Prize for the Best Young Economist of France

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been awarded the "Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France", an annual award given by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes to a French economist under the ... Read more...

Tuesday 01 June 2021

STICERD news
Xavier Jaravel awarded the Prize for the Best Young Economist of France

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been awarded the "Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France", an annual award given by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes to a French economist under the ... Read more...

Tuesday 01 June 2021

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