IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

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.

This seminar series is jointly organized by the IFS, STICERD, and UCL.

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress seminars are held on Thursdays in term time at 12:30-14:00, ONLINE, unless specified otherwise.

Seminar organisers: Oriana Bandiera (STICERD, LSE), Imran Rasul (UCL), Britta Augsburg (IFS) and Jonathan Weigel (LSE).

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

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Thursday 14 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Norms Replacement. A Field Experiment on Female Genital Cutting

We evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions designed to reduce the incidence of female genital cutting (FGC) among adolescent girls in Sierra Leone. In this setting, FGC is part of a ritual called Bondo, which mar...Read more...

Lucia Corno (Cattolica University), joint with Eliana La Ferrara

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 30 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Father of the Bride, or Steel Magnolias? Targeting Men, Women or both to Reduce Child Marriage

Rachel Cassidy (IFS and WB), joint with Anaya Dam, Wendy Janssens and Karlijn Morsink

This event is both online and in person

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

Thursday 23 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The Value of Collusive Relational Agreements in the Colombia Energy Sector

Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP), joint with Mario Bernasconi, Miquel Espinosa and Carlos Suarez

ONLINE

Thursday 16 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Legacies of Conflict and the Formation of Trust

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS), joint with Andrea Smurra, Markus Goldstein, and Nik Buehren

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 09 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Using third-party data to improve tax compliance in a context of low enforcement

This paper investigates a potentially cost-effective way to improve tax compliance when enforcement capacity is low, by leveraging inter-firm relationships and third-party reporting. Using rich administrative data from S...Read more...

Léo Czajka (IFS and Louvin), joint with Florence Kondylis, Bassirou Sarr and Mattea Stein

ONLINE

Thursday 26 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The intergenerational impact of violence on health and family outcomes: the case of slavery

This paper investigates the intergenerational impact of violence on health and family outcomes, using as study context slavery in the French West Indies. I first show how slaves’ living condition and exposure to violence...Read more...

Marie Leila Beigelman (University of Barcelona and STICERD)

ONLINE

Thursday 19 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Votes for Women: What drives male support?

One of the most fundamental aspects of female empowerment is the right to vote, and a considerable literature has examined the impact of female suffrage on the size of government and the share of social spending, both of...Read more...

Cecilia Garcia Penalosa (Aix-Marseille University and UCL), joint with Björn Brey

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 12 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building

This paper investigates the role of individual leaders in constructing a national identity. I study the activities and legacy of Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk”, the founder of modern Turkey. I create a novel historical database...Read more...

Lydia Assouad (LSE and Paris School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 05 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Tax Audits Under Weak Fiscal Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Senegal

Anne Brockmeyer (IFS), joint with Pierre Bachas, Alipio Ferreira, and Bassirou Sarr

ONLINE

Thursday 28 April 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Gabriella Conti (UCL and IFS), joint with Anup Malani, Phoebe Holtzman, Kosuke Imai, Cynthia Kinnan, Morgen Miller, Shailender Swaminathan, Alessandra Voena, Bartosz Woda

ONLINE

Thursday 31 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies

Input sourcing is central to the process of economic development. Using transaction-level data on the universe of formal, firm-to-firm and firm-to-foreign country trade in Uganda---a landlocked, low-income country---we f...Read more...

Jonas Hjort (Columbia Business School), joint with Alan Griffith and Yue Yu

ONLINE

Thursday 24 March 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Consumer Search and Firm Location: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda

In low-income cities economic activity is spatially concentrated, with firms in the same sector operating next to one another in informal clusters. Typical explanations for firm agglomeration relate to positive productio...Read more...

Anna Vitali (UCL)

ONLINE

Thursday 17 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

Constructive Extraction? - Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Development in Colombia

The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labor institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. And yet we show that Colombian municipalities with encomien...Read more...

Jean-Paul Faguet (LSE), joint with Camilo Matajira and Fabio Sánchez

ONLINE

Thursday 10 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Flushing out bad equilibria - Evidence from maintenance of public infrastructure in India

various speakers, joint with Antonella Bancalari, Alex Armand, Maitreesh Ghatak and Britta Augsburg

ONLINE

Thursday 03 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact inve...Read more...

Bansi Malde (Kent/IFS), joint with Harriet Olorenshaw, Zaki Wahhaj and Britta Augsburg

ONLINE

Thursday 24 February 2022 12:30 - 14:00

TBC

Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

POSTPONED

Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

The Geography of Structural Transformation: Effects on Inequality and Mobility

Economies transform at an uneven pace: San Jose's meteoric rise coexists with Detroit's slow decline. This paper develops a dynamic overlapping generations model of economic geography to explain variation in structural...Read more...

Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

Thursday 02 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

How to Reveal 21% of GDP in Hidden Assets: Evidence from Argentina's Tax Amnesties

Tax amnesties are a controversial and widely-used policy tool to encourage evaders to disclose income or wealth in exchange for reduced penalties and no prosecution. We investigate the effectiveness of tax amnesties leve...Read more...

Dario Tortarolo (IFS), joint with Juliana Londoño Vélez

ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

Rural to Urban Migration, Informality and Firm Dynamics

Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford), joint with Clement Imbert (Warwick)

ONLINE

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