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

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.

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 13:00-14:00, 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 23 September 2021 12:30 - 17:00

AI-tocracy

Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat's power; and (ii) autocrats' spending on the new... Read more...

Noam Yuchtman (LSE) joint with Martin Beraja and David Yang

Thursday 30 September 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Organising Development

People are poor because their labor is not paid enough to afford basic needs. To understand development we need to understand the jobs of the poor and how they change over the development path. The traditional view of de... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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Thursday 07 October 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Caitlin Brown (Manchester, IFS)

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Thursday 14 October 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP)

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Thursday 21 October 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Mazhar Waseem (Manchester, IFS)

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Thursday 04 November 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Sacha Dray (Department of Economics, LSE)

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Thursday 11 November 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Alison Andrew (IFS)

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Thursday 18 November 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Rachel Meager (LSE, IFS)

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Thursday 25 November 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

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Thursday 02 December 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Dario Tortarolo (IFS)

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Thursday 09 December 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Daniel Prinz (IFS)

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Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 17:00

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Michael Callen (LSE)

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Thursday 23 September 2021 12:30 - 17:00

AI-tocracy

Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat's power; and (ii) autocrats' spending on the new... Read more...

Noam Yuchtman (LSE) joint with Martin Beraja and David Yang

Thursday 24 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Ripple Effects of Conflict: Spatial Propagation through Prices in Somalia

This paper estimates spatial spill-over effects of conflict by considering food prices as a propagating mechanism for food security in Somalia. Exploiting geo-coded data on violent incidents and the food logistics networ... Read more...

Marco Alfano (University of Strathclyde) joint with Thomas Cornelissen (Essex)

Thursday 17 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

The adoption of Responsible Sourcing (RS) requirements by multinational enterprises (MNEs) include minimum standards on wages, benefits, working conditions and other production practices at their suppliers worldwide. Des... Read more...

Jose Vasquez (Princeton) joint with Alonso Alfaro-Ureńa, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and Isabela Manelici

Thursday 10 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Tax Evasion and the Minimum Wage

Can tax evasion justify high but taxed minimum wages? Exploiting a change in reporting defaults and the implied audit threat in Hungary, we demonstrate that a substantial portion of those who declare the minimum wage hav... Read more...

Daniel Prinz (IFS) joint with Anikó Bíró and László Sándor

Thursday 03 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor: Evidence from a Four Year Partial Population Experiment.

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Nicolas Cerkez (UCL) joint with Adnan Q. Khan, Imran Rasul, and Anam Shoaibsa

Thursday 27 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Interest-Based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Over the last two decades, developing countries have seen a sharp increase in external demand for land and other natural resources. Despite hopes that these outside investments would spur local development, host communit... Read more...

Alessandro Toppeta (UCL) joint with Alexandra Hartman, Darin Christensen and Cyrus Samii

Thursday 20 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

States regularly assign agents to teams and postings, yet rarely with the explicit goal of boosting public sector productivity. This paper asks whether a low-capacity state can improve performance through the optimal... Read more...

Jonathan Weigel (LSE) joint with Augustin Bergeron (Harvard), Pedro Bessone (MIT), John Kabeya Kabeya (DGRKOC), and Gabriel Tourek (MIT/JPAL)

Thursday 13 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya's land reform programme

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Juliette Crespin-Boucaud (LSE and PSE) joint with Catherine Boone and Alexander Moradi

Thursday 06 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Improving Infrastructure in Developing Cities: Experimental Evidence from India

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Antonella Bancalari (LSE) joint with Britta Augsberg and Alex Armand

Thursday 01 April 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers

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Dario Tortarolo (IFS)

Thursday 25 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Gender Norms and Adolescent Girls' Trajectories: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

We study the effects of two interventions designed to reduce the grip of highly restrictive gender norms on adolescent girls' education, marriage and well-being in rural Rajasthan, India. The first intervention comprised... Read more...

Sonya Krutikova (IFS) joint with Alison Andrew (UCL&IFS), Abhishek Gautam (ICRW), and Gabriela Smarrelli (Oxford), Hemlata Verma (ICRW).

Thursday 18 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Time, Money and Intrahousehold's Beliefs

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Suphanit Piyapromdee (UCL) joint with with Suparee Boonmanunt, Norachit Jirasatthumb, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, and Phumsith Mahasuweerachai

Thursday 11 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Competition and the Aggregate Effects of Linking Frictions in Economic Networks

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Michel Azulai (Department of Economics, LSE)

Thursday 04 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

Perceived Temperature, Trust and Civil Unrest in Africa

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Marco Alfano (University of Strathclyde) joint with Gabriel Aboyadana

Thursday 10 December 2020 12:30 - 17:00

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Suphanit Piyapromdee (UCL)

Thursday 03 December 2020 12:30 - 17:00

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Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

Thursday 26 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00

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Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank)

Thursday 19 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00

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Joana Naritomi (LSE/IFS)

Thursday 12 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00

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Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)

Thursday 29 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

Information Frictions and Small Businesses Access to Government Aid During COVID19'

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Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

Thursday 15 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

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Lucie Gadenne (Paris School of Economics) joint with Pierre Bachas and Anders Jensen

Thursday 08 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

The Accretion of Advantage in Childhood: Evidence from an 11-year Experiment in Bangladesh

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Oriana Bandiera (LSE) joint with Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul