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STICERD brings together world-class academics to put economics and related disciplines at the forefront of research and policy.

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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H.E.R. conference: The child penalty

4 September 2023 The conference, organised by Camille Landais and Nina Roussille, will feature papers and workshops on gender inequality and child penalties. It will be followed by a public lecture by Linda Scott on parenthood and the double x economy. Find out more...
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H.E.R. public lecture: Parenthood and the double x economy

4 September 2023 In this event, expert and best-selling author Linda Scott, in a conversation with academic and political leaders, will discuss how the unequal division of the burden of parenthood fuels women's systematic exclusion from economic participation. Find out more...
Morishima Lecture: Social capital and economic mobility

Raj Chetty discussed recent research using data from Facebook that identifies economic connectedness as a key predictor of economic mobility. It will then discuss what factors contribute to increasing forms of social capital most relevant for upward income mobility. Find out more...

Upcoming

Thursday 28 September 2023 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions

We study the local and aggregate welfare effects of the expansion of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in an economy with distortions. To that end, we propose a guiding general equilibrium (GE) framework that we c...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint with Vasquez (LSE) and Román David Zárate (World Bank)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Tuesday 03 October 2023 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millio...Read more...

Desmond Ang (Harvard Kennedy School), joint with Sahil Chinoy

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

Thursday 05 October 2023 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Shadi Farahzadi (LSE)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 05 October 2023 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Disclosure and Incentives in Teams

We consider a team-production environment augmented with a stage in which the team decides how to communicate their productive outcome to outside observers. In this context, we characterize equilibrium disclosure of team...Read more...

Paula Onuchic (University of Oxford), joint with João Ramos

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

Monday 09 October 2023 18:30 - 19:45

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
STICERD and the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy, and the Department of Social Policy
Optimally Irrational. The good reasons we behave the way we do

A public lecture by Professor Lionel Page on the topic of his latest book: 'Optimally Irrational. The good reasons we behave the way we do'. The lecture is hosted by STICERD and the Department of Social Policy and suppor...Read more...

Lionel Page (University of Queensland)

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM 01, Ground Floor, Clement House, LSE, 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF

Public Lectures

Photo: Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Lectures
Photo: Tony Atkinson

Atkinson Lectures

Photo: Michio Morishima

Morishima Lectures
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