Atkinson Lectures

A lecture series held in honour of Professor Tony Atkinson, Chair of STICERD from 1980-1988, Tooke Professor at LSE from 1980-92 and Centennial Professor from 2010-2017.

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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Midlife morbidity and mortality in Europe and America: Why has the US left the herd?

After a century of nearly uninterrupted progress, all-cause mortality rates among white men and women in middle age stopped falling in the US, in the late 1990s, and began to rise. Professor Anne Case examines the reasons why. Listen to podcast...

Innovation, income inequality, and social mobility

In recent decades, there has been an accelerated increase in top income inequality, particularly in developed countries. In this lecture Philippe Aghion argues that innovation partly accounts for the surge in top income inequality and fosters social mobility. Listen to podcast...

Monday 13 November 2017 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

In this lecture Eliana La Ferrara presents some recent research done in collaboration with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Victor Orozco (World Bank). The authors test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series...Read more...

Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)

ONLINE

Monday 28 November 2016 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture- Midlife morbidity and mortality in Europe and America: Why has the US left the herd?

After a century of nearly uninterrupted progress, all-cause mortality rates among white men and women in middle age stopped falling in the US, in the late 1990s, and began to rise. While midlife mortality continued to fa...Read more...

Anne C. Case (Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University)

ONLINE

Thursday 26 November 2015 16:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Innovation, income inequality, and social mobility

Philippe Aghion (Harvard)

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

Tuesday 28 October 2014 17:00 - 18:30

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - The Economics of Beliefs and Misbeliefs

This is the inaugural STICERD Atkison Lecture in honour of LSE’s Centennial Professor and STICERD associate Sir Tony A. Atkinson. Roland Bénabou is Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princ...Read more...

Roland Benabou (Princeton), joint with Psychology and Economics Seminar

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

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