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 10:00-14:00, at the IFS, 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 01 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 08 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Kim Fe Cramer (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 15 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

More Powerful Cluster Randomized Control Trials

Balanced experimental designs, in which the number of treatment and control units are the same, do not maximize power subject to a cost constraint when treatment units are more expensive than control ones. Despite this, ...Read more...

Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL), joint with Brendon McConnell

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 22 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Directed Lending and Female Entrepreneurs: Micro Evidence from Turkey

We combine microdata from the Turkish credit registry with administrative tax records on firms to trace the impacts of a large-scale directed lending program for female entrepreneurs across the whole of Turkey. We first ...Read more...

Cagatay Bircan (EBRD), joint with Halil I. Aydin and Ralph De Haas

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 29 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Crime organizations as Proto-States: Evidence from Brazil

This paper studies the relationship between organized crime, formal institutions, and economic growth. In particular, I focus on the spread of the most influential criminal organization in Brazil with two goals. First, d...Read more...

Davide Zufacchi (UCL and IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 06 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Social networks, gender norms and women's labour supply: Experimental evidence using a job search platform

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labour force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was off...Read more...

Sanchari Roy (King's College London), joint with Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Nikita Sangwan

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 20 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Learning to see the world's opportunities: The impact of visualization on entrepreneurial success

Recent work in neuroscience and psychology has explored the impact of visualizing future scenarios on decision making and suggests that there is heterogeneity in how well and how often people use mental imagery. We explo...Read more...

Gharad Bryan (LSE), joint with Nava Ashraf, Alexia Delfino, Emily Holmes, Leonardo Iacovone, Ashley Pople

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 27 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The Migration Consequences of Input Subsidies

Input subsidy programs (ISPs) aim to increase agricultural productivity. For many farmers, however, outmigration may be preferred and more profitable. Using reduced-form and structural estimations, I exploit variations i...Read more...

Binta Zahra Diop (IFS)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 03 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Access to Labour Justice: Evidence from the Universe of Labor Court Cases in Brazil

Francois Gerard (Queen Mary), joint with Diogo Britto, Joana Naritomi, Robson Tigre, Breno Sampaio

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 10 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Intrahousehold Spillovers of Early Childhood Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS), joint with Pedro Carneiro and Francesca Salvati

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 17 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Modernising Fragile States

Extreme poverty is concentrating in the parts of the world where it will be hardest to eradicate and where building state capacity is most challenging. Currently, one in three poor people live in "extremely fragile" stat...Read more...

Michael Callen (LSE), joint with Joshua Blumenstock, Anastasiia Faikina, Stefano Fiorin, and Tarek Ghani

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 24 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Personalized Information Provision and the Take-Up of Government Benefits: Experimental Evidence from India

Emergency government benefits are frequently used to mitigate the effects of severe shocks. However, there is often a gap between what people are eligible to receive and what they actually receive. This paper draws on a ...Read more...

Bansi Malde (Kent/IFS), joint with Amrit Amirapu, Irma Clots-Figueras, Anirban Mitra, Debayan Pakrashi, Zaki Wahhaj

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 01 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 08 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Kim Fe Cramer (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 24 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Personalized Information Provision and the Take-Up of Government Benefits: Experimental Evidence from India

Bansi Malde (Kent/IFS), joint with Amrit Amirapu, Irma Clots-Figueras, Anirban Mitra, Debayan Pakrashi, Zaki Wahhaj

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 17 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Modernising Fragile States

Michael Callen (LSE), joint with Joshua Blumenstock, Anastasiia Faikina, Stefano Fiorin, and Tarek Ghani

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 10 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Intrahousehold Spillovers of Early Childhood Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS), joint with Pedro Carneiro and Francesca Salvati

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 03 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Access to Labour Justice: Evidence from the Universe of Labor Court Cases in Brazil

Francois Gerard (Queen Mary), joint with Diogo Britto, Joana Naritomi, Robson Tigre, Breno Sampaio

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 27 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

The Migration Consequences of Input Subsidies

Binta Zahra Diop (IFS)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 20 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Learning to see the world's opportunities: The impact of visualization on entrepreneurial success

Gharad Bryan (LSE), joint with Nava Ashraf, Alexia Delfino, Emily Holmes, Leonardo Iacovone, Ashley Pople

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 06 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Social networks, gender norms and women's labour supply: Experimental evidence using a job search platform

Sanchari Roy (King's College London), joint with Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Nikita Sangwan

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 29 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Crime organizations as Proto-States: Evidence from Brazil

Davide Zufacchi (UCL and IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 22 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

Directed Lending and Female Entrepreneurs: Micro Evidence from Turkey

Cagatay Bircan (EBRD), joint with Halil I. Aydin and Ralph De Haas

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 15 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

More Powerful Cluster Randomized Control Trials

Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL), joint with Brendon McConnell

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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

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