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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 18 November 2021

Thursday 18 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Bayesian models for stable subgroup treatment effects: an analysis of six graduation studies

Broadly successful interventions such as the Graduation program may still exhibit treatment effect heterogeneity across subgroups and across study contexts. Yet effectively using estimated subgroup effects to inform targ...Read more...

Rachel Meager (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 18 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series & STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Many real-life settings of individual choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare effects of policy ...Read more...

Shin Kanaya (University of Essex)

ONLINE

Thursday 18 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Making Decisions under Model Misspecification

We use decision theory to confront uncertainty that is sufficiently broad to incorporate “models as approximations.” We presume the existence of a featured collection of what we call “structured models” that have explici...Read more...

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 22 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars & CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Achieving Scale Collectively

This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduc...Read more...

Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 23 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
TBC

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Jan Zapal (CERGE-EI)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 25 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Rural to Urban Migration, Informality and Firm Dynamics

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Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Partial Welfare Ordering

Dynamic treatment regimes are treatment allocations tailored to heterogeneous individuals. The optimal dynamic treatment regime is a regime that maximizes counterfactual welfare. We introduce a framework in which we can ...Read more...

Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Dynamic persuasion and games with Incomplete Information on one side

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Galit Ashkenazi-Golan (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 29 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
CANCELLED

Survey evidence suggests that domestic violence is widespread. However, no evidence exists to date on the impact of cohabitating with an abuser on women’s labour market outcomes. We match police records on all crime repo...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 30 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: Web 2.0 and Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts

User-generated online content changes traditional-media news on conflicts. Online posts by citizen journalists — first-hand witnesses of conflict events — change the extent, tonality, and content of traditional-media rep...Read more...

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
How to Reveal 21% of GDP in Hidden Assets: Evidence from Argentina's Tax Amnesties

Tax amnesties are a controversial and widely-used policy tool to encourage evaders to disclose income or wealth in exchange for reduced penalties and no prosecution. We investigate the effectiveness of tax amnesties leve...Read more...

Dario Tortarolo (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Thursday 02 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects

We propose improved standard errors and an asymptotic distribution theory for two-way clustered panels. Our proposed estimator and theory allow for arbitrary serial dependence in the common time effects, which is exclude...Read more...

Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

ONLINE

Monday 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Navigating Stormy Waters: Crises, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics Under Financial Frictions

We build a growth model with heterogeneous firms that endogenizes productivity growth, firm selection, and borrowing under financial frictions. In particular, facing an incomplete financial market with endogenous (firm-s...Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania)

ONLINE

Tuesday 07 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Dylan Glover (INSEAD)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 08 December 2021 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b...Read more...

Kate Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 09 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
The Geography of Structural Transformation: Effects on Inequality and Mobility

Economies transform at an uneven pace: San Jose's meteoric rise coexists with Detroit's slow decline. This paper develops a dynamic overlapping generations model of economic geography to explain variation in structural...Read more...

Kohei Takeda (CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with High-Dimensional Covariates

We study regression discontinuity designs in which many covariates, possibly much more than the number of observations, are available. In such settings, it is not feasible to feed all covariates in a standard procedure f...Read more...

Alexander Kreiss (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
CANCELLED

Much of the work on auction theory focuses on design aspects in situations motivated by formally organized auctions, like those held by government agencies. However, auction models are also convenient abstractions of les...Read more...

Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence

We study the employment and wage effects of age-dependent payroll tax subsidies for both younger (under 25) and older (over 55) workers using a policy change in Hungary. Using rich administrative data and a difference-in...Read more...

Attila Lindner (University College London)

ONLINE

Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
POSTPONED

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Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE