Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

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.

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 12:00-13:30 in 3.05 in person.

Seminar organiser: Jörn-Steffen Pischke

For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, either by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.

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Monday 05 December 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for building technologically advan...Read more...

Michela Giorcelli (UCLA), joint with Bo Li

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 February 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 February 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Koichiro Ito (Chicago)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 06 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Mathilde Munoz (Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Simon Jaeger (MIT)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Chicago)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Domestic abuse is a common yet complex phenomenon. We use the universe of police reports filed in Finland since 2006, matched to rich register data, to identify the impact of cohabiting with an abusive spouse on labour m...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their chil...Read more...

Matthias Doepke (LSE), joint with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “Responsible Sourcing” (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and José P. Vasquez

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Education-Innovation Gap

This paper documents differences across higher education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we cons...Read more...

Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management), joint with Song Ma

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

Michela Giorcelli (UCLA), joint with Bo Li

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Education-Innovation Gap

Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management), joint with Song Ma

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and José P. Vasquez

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

Matthias Doepke (LSE), joint with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Deep learning methods to curate economic data at scale

Vast amounts of data are trapped in non-computable formats, such as document image scans and text. Deep learning has the potential to greatly expand the questions that economists can study by providing rigorous methods f...Read more...

Melissa Dell (Harvard)

ONLINE

Monday 06 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a singl...Read more...

Diana Van Patten (Yale), joint with Esteban Mendez-Chacon

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 30 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Taxing High-Income Earners: The Implications of Dynamic Compensation

Henrik Kleven (Princeton)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.05, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 23 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Walmart Workers

We present a survey-based methodology for estimating employer market power and worker valuations of job amenities. We discuss a simple model of a monopsonistic employer choosing wages jointly with non-wage working condit...Read more...

Arindrajit Dube (Massachusetts), joint with Suresh Naidu and Adam Reich

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 16 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

"Compensate the Losers?" Economy-policy preferences and partisan realignment in the US

Why have less educated voters abandoned center-left parties in rich democracies in recent decades? While much recent literature highlights the role of cultural issues, we argue that, at least in the US, the Democratic Pa...Read more...

Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University), joint with Nicolas Longuet Marx and Suresh Naidu

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 09 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

In sub-Saharan Africa, traditional supernatural beliefs, including belief in witchcraft, black magic, or fetishism, are widespread. Some have hypothesized that these beliefs help to sustain cooperative behavior in a sett...Read more...

Sara Lowes (UC San Diego), joint with Nathan Nunn and Etienne Le Rossignol

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33

This study constructs a large dataset with newly collected archival data to investigate the causes of Ukrainian mortality during the Soviet Famine, 1932-33. First, we document that the regime set higher grain production ...Read more...

Nancy Qian (Yale University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing

This paper studies the implications of low energy prices today for energy efficiency and climate policy in the future. If adjustment costs mediate manufacturing plants’ responses to increases in energy prices, incumbents...Read more...

Katherine Wagner (Berkeley), joint with Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences ...Read more...

Rema Hanna (Harvard University), joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin Olken, Elan Satriawan & Sudarno Sumarto

ONLINE

Monday 28 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a represe...Read more...

Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard), joint with Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille

ONLINE

Monday 21 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find ...Read more...

Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University), joint with Raffaele Saggio

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock i.e. transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship wit...Read more...

Nathan Nunn (Harvard), joint with Eoin McGuirk

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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 (UCL), joint with Aniko Biro, Réka Branyiczki, Lili Márk and Dániel Prinz

ONLINE

Monday 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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 (UPenn), joint with Harun Alp (FED Board) and Ege Y. Ercan (Stanford GSB)

ONLINE

Monday 29 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 22 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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