Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

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

Unless otherwise specified, current restrictions mean in-person seminars are only open to members of the LSE community (those with a valid LSE ID card).

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom.

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 16:00-17:30 ONLINE, or in meeting room 3.05 if the speaker attends in person.

Seminar organiser: Xavier Jaravel

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

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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 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 (University of Chicago) joint with Harun Alp (FED Board) and Ege Y. Ercan (Stanford GSB)

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

Attila Lindner (UCL)

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 01 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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) joint with Enrico Moretti

This event is both online and in person

Monday 08 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness

We estimate the effects of a large program of public investment subsidies to private firms in Italy. Investment projects presented by firms were ranked by numerical scores reflecting both objective measures of project qu... Read more...

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)

Monday 15 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile... Read more...

Joe Shapiro joint with Mark Jacobsen, Jim Sallee, Arthur van Benthem

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

Monday 29 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CANCELLED

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 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Navigating Stormy Waters: Crises, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics Under Financial Frictions

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago) joint with Harun Alp (FED Board) and Ege Y. Ercan (Stanford GSB)

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

Attila Lindner (UCL)

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

Vittorio Bassi

This event is both online and in person

Monday 15 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Joe Shapiro joint with Mark Jacobsen, Jim Sallee, Arthur van Benthem

Monday 08 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)

Monday 01 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford) joint with Enrico Moretti

This event is both online and in person

Monday 14 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap

In the 1960s, two landmark pieces of legislation targeted the long-standing practice of labor-market discrimination against U.S. women. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 mandated equal pay for equal work, and Title VII of the Ci... Read more...

Martha Bailey (UCLA) joint with Thomas Helgerman and Bryan A. Stuart

Monday 07 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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 (Chicago)

Monday 24 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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 (MIT)

Thursday 20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

Supreet Kaur (Berkeley) joint with Christina Brown, Geeta Kingdon, and Heather Schofield

Monday 17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

Monday 29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Employer size, referral hiring, and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil

In Brazil, nonwhite workers are less likely than white workers to be hired by high-wage employers and larger employers pay higher wages, yet nonwhite workers sort to larger employers. This pattern holds conditional on de... Read more...

Conrad Miller (Berkeley)

Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies

Roads, rail, and other public transport in a city are “place-based,” in that they are built in specific neighborhoods. Do such investments benefit the poor? If people are mobile within a city, then any such place-based i... Read more...

Melanie Morten (Stanford )

Monday 15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

The political economy of policy experimentations in China

David Yang (Harvard University)

Monday 01 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

Monday 07 December 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Digital Addiction

Digital technologies such as smartphones and social media occupy a large and growing share of leisure time. While these technologies provide obvious benefits, it is often argued that they can be addictive and harmful. We... Read more...

Matthew Gentzkow (Chicago Booth) joint with Hunt Allcott and Lena Song

Monday 23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley)

Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and “nontradable.” Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 cou... Read more...

Marcella Alsan (Harvard) joint with Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva & David Y. Yan

Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION IN ETHNICALLY MIXED SCHOOLS: AN INTERVENTION ON PERSPECTIVE TAKING

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context wh... Read more...

Sule Alan (EUI)

Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

The Birth of a Nation: media and racial hate

This paper documents the short- and long-run impacts of popular media on racial hate. I do so in the context of the first American blockbuster: the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a racist retelling of the Civil War a... Read more...

Desmond Ang (Harvard)

Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

TOP WEALTH IN AMERICA: NEW ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXING THE RICH

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We build on the capitalization approach in Saez and Zucman (2016) while accounting for heterogeneity within asset classes when mapping ... Read more...

Owen Zidar (Princeton)

Tuesday 16 June 2020 16:00 - 17:00

The Geography of New Technologies

Nicholas Bloom (Stanford & CEP) joint with Tarek A. Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun

Monday 08 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Owen Zidar (Princeton)

Monday 01 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego)

Monday 18 May 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Stringent?

This paper describes a new approach to measuring the costs of environmental regulation, which we use to study the efficiency of the U.S. Clean Air Act. We exploit regulations that force new or expanding plants to pay inc... Read more...

Joseph Shapiro (Berkeley)

Tuesday 05 May 2020 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

Monday 23 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax

Dmitri Koustas (Chicago)

Monday 16 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build inter-ethnic cohesion in schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The educational program takes place in southeastern Turkey, a hig... Read more...

Sule Alan (EUI)

Monday 09 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

An ambitious Chicago program to reduce homicides. A discussion of how we use machine learning and police/hospital data to identify active shooters, gang outreach to recruit them, and effects of a 2-year jobs and cognitiv... Read more...

Chris Blattman (Chicago)

Monday 02 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE)

Monday 24 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Labor in the Boardroom

Simon Jäger (MIT)

Monday 17 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Payday Lending, Self-Control, and Consumer Protection

Hunt Allcott (NYU)

Monday 09 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise

Petra Persson (Stanford)

Monday 02 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development

Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton )

Monday 25 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Motivated by recent work on the labor market effects of trade, we build a model of trade with labor market frictions and regulations that are not perfectly enforced by the government. Heterogeneous firms decide whether t... Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

Interventions aimed at raising agricultural productivity in developing countries have been a centerpiece in the global fight against poverty. Much of the recent evidence in this space has been based on randomized control... Read more...

Benjamin Faber (University of California, Berkeley)

Monday 11 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Allocative Efficiency in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

Monday 04 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

What do Nudges Really Do? New Evidence from Over 100 Trials

Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley)

Monday 17 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

John Van Reenen (LSE, CEP and POID)

Monday 10 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Using Equity Market Reactions to Infer Exposure to Trade Liberalization

Peter Schott (Yale School of Management) joint with the CEP/LSE International Economics Seminar Series

Monday 03 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

Emily Oster (Brown)

Monday 20 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

Monday 13 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

CANCELLED

David Card (University of California, Berkeley)

Monday 29 April 2019 12:00 - 13:30

CANCELLED

Supreet Kaur (Berkeley)

Monday 25 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS)

Monday 18 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

Martin Rotemberg (NYU)

Monday 11 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies

Orazio Attanasio (UCL)

Monday 04 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Yusuke Narita (Yale)

Monday 25 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

An Experiment in Candidate Selection

Katherine Casey (Stanford)

Monday 18 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage

Johanna Rickne (Stockholm)

Monday 10 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Local and Aggregate Effect of Agglomeration on Innovation: Evidence from High Tech Clusters

Most industries are spatially clustered and clustering is particularly strong in the high tech sector. In this paper I use longitudinal data on top patenters to estimate the productivity benefits enjoyed by scientists wh... Read more...

Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)

Monday 03 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect

Heidi L Williams (MIT)

Monday 26 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

Matt Lowe (MIT)

Monday 19 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Rage Against The Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in England, 1830-32

Hans-Joachim Voth (Zurich)

Monday 12 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right

Torsten Persson (IIES)

Monday 05 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile

Dina Pomeranz (Zurich)

Monday 18 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Marriage, Labour Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net

Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)

Monday 11 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic

Neale Mahoney (Chicago Booth) joint with John Gathergood, Neil Stewart and Jörg Weber

Monday 21 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources- Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

joint with Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, and Nina Singh

Monday 14 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

Esther Duflo (MIT) joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, and Matthew O. Jackson

Tuesday 08 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The unintended consequences of “ban the box”: Statistical discrimination and employment outcomes when criminal histories are hidden.

Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted “ban the box” (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal is to improve employm... Read more...

Jennifer Doleac (University of Virginia)

Monday 30 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Seasonal liquidity, rural labour markets and agricultural production

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to... Read more...

Kelsey Jack (Tufts University) joint with Günther Fink and Felix Masiye

Monday 23 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30