IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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 and STICERD.

IFS-STICERD Public Economics seminars are held on Wednesdays in term time at 12.30-13.45 IN PERSON at the IFS.

Seminar organisers: Stuart Adam (IFS), Monica Costa Dias (IFS), Xavier Jaravel (LSE), Camille Landais (LSE), Attila Lindner (UCL), Joana Naritomi (LSE), and Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE).

For further information please contact Sadia Ali: s.ali43@lse.ac.uk.

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Wednesday 19 April 2023 12:30 - 13:45

What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added

Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 03 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 17 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Nicholas Bloom (Stanford & CEP)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 31 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 14 June 2023 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfer programs became ubiquitous in developing countries and have been credited for sizable reductions in poverty. However, their potential disincentive effects on labor supply have spurred a heated policy debate...Read more...

Joana Naritomi (LSE/IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 22 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence From a Field Experiment

How do households adjust their spending behaviour in response to changes in home price expectations? We conduct a field experiment with a sample of Americans that links survey data on home price expectations to actual sp...Read more...

Christopher Roth (Warwick)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 22 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Christopher Roth (Warwick)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Joana Naritomi (LSE/IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 30 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Peter Levell (IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 16 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 June 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk

This paper uses rich administrative and survey data from Sweden to study the predictability and determinants of long-term unemployment (LTU) over the period 1992-2016. We use standard machine learning techniques to predi...Read more...

Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE & CEP), joint with Andreas Mueller

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 18 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Pregnancy Loss: Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children

Pregnancy loss, which affects about 1 in 4 pregnancies, is often a traumatic, although unacknowledged, event which may alter prenatal stress and investments in subsequent pregnancies. Using Norwegian registry data, we ex...Read more...

Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 04 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Technological advances in medicine increasingly offer opportunities to target care to patients identified through screening, raising questions of how broadly to screen for potential cases of disease. We explore this trad...Read more...

Petra Persson (Stanford), joint with Peter Conner, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Heidi Williams

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 16 March 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. e...Read more...

Evan Rose (Chicago), joint with Patrick M. Kline and Christopher R. Walters

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 December 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b...Read more...

Kate Smith (IFS), joint with Helen Miller

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 17 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Where Does Wealth Come From?

Much attention has been given to rising wealth inequality in recent decades. However, understanding inequality requires an understanding of how wealth relates to the potential wealth an individual could accumulate and w...Read more...

Sandra Black (The University of Texas at Austin), joint with Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell Salvanes

ONLINE

Wednesday 17 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Where Does Wealth Come From?

Sandra Black (The University of Texas at Austin), joint with Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell Salvanes

ONLINE

Wednesday 03 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance

In the U.S., the rules commanding the rights to unemployment insurance (UI) are less generous in states with larger Black populations, which means that Black claimants systematically receive less UI than White claimants ...Read more...

Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago), joint with Daphne Skandalis and Maxim Massenkoff

ONLINE

Wednesday 03 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance

Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago), joint with Daphne Skandalis and Maxim Massenkoff

ONLINE

Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This paper develops a new framework to analyse the effects of labor market shocks in developing economies and their distribution across space. It incorporates some of the key features of these countries, in particular th...Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Structural transformation and U-shaped female employment

We build a consistent measure of female employment for the US over the last one hundred and fifty years -- encompassing intensive and extensive margins -- combining data from the US population Census and several early st...Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo (CEP), joint with Rachel Ngai and Claudia Olivetti

ONLINE

Wednesday 16 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Price Theory for Incomplete Markets

In this paper, we derive formulas expressing the elasticity of individual consumption to changes in current and future interest rates and income in incomplete market models. We generalize the existing price theory formul...Read more...

Alan Olivi (MIT), joint with with Emmanuel Farhi and Ivan Werning

ONLINE

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30