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Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public.

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.

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Events on or after 13 May 2021

Thursday 13 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya's land reform programme

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Juliette Crespin-Boucaud (Paris School of Economics and LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 13 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Adaptive, rate-optimal testing in instrumental variables models

This paper proposes simple, data-driven, optimal rate-adaptive inferences on a structural function in semi-nonparametric conditional moment restrictions. We consider two types of hypothesis tests based on leave-one-out s...Read more...

Xiaohong Chen (Yale University)

ONLINE

Thursday 13 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Screening for breakthroughs

We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs at an uncertai...Read more...

Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford)

ONLINE

Monday 17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

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Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)

ONLINE

Tuesday 18 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?

Voter demand for less redistribution in the face of mass migration maps into actual outcomes insofar as politicians supplying these policies respond to it. We study whether establishing new asylum-seeker centers influenc...Read more...

Kostas Matakos (King's College London)

ONLINE

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Against the Odds: Why expecting schools to overcome disadvantage is doomed to failure

Since 2011 the government has invested £21bn into improving the academic achievements of children facing socio-economic disadvantage. The ‘pupil premium’ was intended to reduce the attainment gap between students from lo...Read more...

Sally Riordan (Education Observatory, University of Wolverhampton)

ONLINE

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Tax knowledge and tax manipulation: A unifying model

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Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

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Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

States regularly assign agents to teams and postings, yet rarely with the explicit goal of boosting public sector productivity. This paper asks whether a low-capacity state can improve performance through the optimal...Read more...

Jonathan Weigel (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
CANCELLED

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J Roderick McCrorie (St Andrews University)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Subjective Causality in Choice

An agent makes a stochastic choice from a set of lotteries. She infers the outcomes of her options using a subjective causal model represented by a directed acyclic graph, and consequently may misinterpret correlation as...Read more...

Andrew Ellis (LSE)

ONLINE

Monday 24 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The origins and content of new work, 1940-2018

Recent theory stresses the role of new job types (‘new work’) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand. We study new work by building a novel nearly century-long inventory of n...Read more...

David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

Tuesday 25 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Exposing the revolving door in executive branch agencies

We develop the first comprehensive mapping of the revolving door phenomenon in the U.S. by examining the work experience in executive branch agencies of 1,910,150 individuals covering top corporate positions in 373,011 f...Read more...

Mara Faccio (Purdue University)

ONLINE

Thursday 27 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Interest-Based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Over the last two decades, developing countries have seen a sharp increase in external demand for land and other natural resources. Despite hopes that these outside investments would spur local development, host communit...Read more...

Alessandro Toppeta (University College London)

ONLINE

Thursday 27 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Post-liberalisation India Has Become More Unequal

Bitcoin provides its users with transaction-processing services which are similar to those of traditional payment systems. This article models the novel economic structure implied by Bitcoin’s innovative decentralized de...Read more...

Jacob Leshno (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 June 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
TBC

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Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (Pompeu Fabra University)

ONLINE

Thursday 03 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor: Evidence from a Four Year Partial Population Experiment.

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Nicolas Cerkez (UCL/Oxford)

ONLINE

Thursday 03 June 2021 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Universal Prediction Band, Semi-Definite Programming and Variance Interpolation

A frequent criticism from the statistics community to modern machine learning is the lack of rigorous uncertainty quantification. Instead, the machine learning community would argue that conventional uncertainty quantifi...Read more...

Tengyuan Liang (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

ONLINE

Thursday 03 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Online Appendix to Optimal Technology Design: Risk-averse Agent

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Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics)

ONLINE

Monday 07 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data

Changes in self-employment rates may reflect changes in the structure of the labor market and the extent of entrepreneurial activity in the broader economy. Increasingly, researchers are looking to administrative tax mea...Read more...

Dmitri Koustas (Harris School of Public Policy)

ONLINE