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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 23 September 2021

Thursday 23 September 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
AI-tocracy

Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat's power; and (ii) autocrats' spending on the n...Read more...

Noam Yuchtman (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 30 September 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Organising Development

People are poor because their labor is not paid enough to afford basic needs. To understand development we need to understand the jobs of the poor and how they change over the development path. The traditional view of de...Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 30 September 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Costly monitoring in signaling games

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Tommaso Denti (Cornell University)

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 05 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance

Most studies that examine subnational variations in public services associate low government performance with a lack of accountability. I instead offer a capacity-based explanation. Specifically, I develop a theory based...Read more...

Tugba Bozcaga (King's College London)

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 07 October 2021 11:00 - 12:00

CASE Special Events
Stick or Shift? Attitudes towards inequality, the Welfare State and social security benefits during COVID-19

What can we learn about (public) attitudes towards aspects of the welfare state in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? It is a now well-rehearsed observation that the pandemic has created unprecedented social condition...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Thursday 07 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Political Reservations as Term Limits

While political reservations aim to ensure a more equal representation for women and disadvantaged groups, they also impose effective term limits on many incumbent politicians who would otherwise have had a chance to con...Read more...

Caitlin Brown (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Thursday 07 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Efficient Investment and Search in Matching Markets

We study a two-sided search-and-matching model in which agents invest before entry. In every period, agents incur an additive search cost, pairs meet at random and bargain over prices. Inefficiencies can be caused by a p...Read more...

Michael Richter (Royal Holloway, University of London)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Tuesday 12 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Echo Chamber Elections

Elections aggregate information of citizens who gather information, in part from mainstream news, but possibly to a large extent from their different echo chambers which filter news in particular ways. We study informati...Read more...

Helios Herrera (University of Warwick)

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 14 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Relational Contracts and Development

The first part of the talk will be based on this review paper (see link below). In the second part, he hopes to receive feedback on a new, closely related, RCT he is undertaking in partnership with a coffee MNC in Rwanda...Read more...

Rocco Macchiavello (CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 14 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Conjugate Persuasion

We consider a class of persuasion games in which the sender has rank-dependent preferences. Like much of the recent Bayesian persuasion literature, we assume the receiver’s action depends only on her posterior expectatio...Read more...

Daniel Quigley (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Tuesday 19 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Political Competence and Electoral Competition

How does politician competence, conceptualized as the ability to effectively implement policies, affect campaign platforms and electoral competition? We develop a framework where politicians differ in terms of ideologica...Read more...

Zuheir Desai (IE University)

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 20 October 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
The scale and drivers of inequalities in and by mental health

In this talk, some recent evidence related to the extent of inequalities in adolescent mental health by various different socio-demographic indicators (sex/gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic) will be presented, ...Read more...

Praveetha Patalay (Centre for Longitudinal Studies and MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL)

ONLINE

Thursday 21 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Long-Run Impacts of In-Utero Ramadan Exposure: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records

Using Ramadan fasting as a natural experiment, we estimate the long-run impacts of health and nutrition shocks experienced during pregnancy on adult outcomes. We exploit administrative tax return data comprising the univ...Read more...

Mazhar Waseem (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Thursday 21 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Coasian Dynamics Under Informational Robustness

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Jonathan Libgober (University of Southern California)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
The Management of the Pandemic and its Effects on Trust and Accountability

The management of the COVID-19 pandemic represented one of the greatest challenges that policymakers had to face in recent history. The rapidly changing reality and directives may have contributed to a popular perception...Read more...

Monica Martinez-Bravo (Center for Monetary & Financial Studies (CEMFI))

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 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar & IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This paper develops a new framework to analyse the effects of labor market shocks in developing economies and their distribution across space. It incorporates some of the key features of these countries, in particular th...Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 28 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception

One-quarter of married, fertile-age women in Sub-Saharan Africa report not wanting a pregnancy and yet do not use contraceptives. The presentation will cover both our completed project on “Subjective Expectations and D...Read more...

Aureo De Paula (University College London)

ONLINE

Thursday 28 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Moderate Expected Utility

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Paulo Natenzon (Washington University in St Louis)

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

Monday 01 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars & CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

There are large differences in mean income across US cities, but little is known about the levels of standard of living in each city—defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. In...Read more...

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Tuesday 02 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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Davide Cantoni (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

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