Calendar

Thursday 10 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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

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Thursday 10 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

High Dimensional Forecast Combinations Under Latent Structures

This paper presents a novel high dimensional forecast combination estimator in the presence of many forecasts and potential latent group structures. The new algorithm, which we call l2-relaxation, minimizes the squared l...Read more...

Thursday 10 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics

We study optimal minipublic design with endogenous evidence. A policymaker selects a group of citizens—a minipublic—for advice on the desirability of a policy. Citizens can discover local evidence but might be deterred b...Read more...

Monday 14 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing

This paper studies the implications of low energy prices today for energy efficiency and climate policy in the future. If adjustment costs mediate manufacturing plants’ responses to increases in energy prices, incumbents...Read more...

Tuesday 15 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States

Do U.S. municipal police departments respond to news coverage of local crime? We address this question exploiting an exogenous shock to local crime reporting induced by acquisitions of local TV stations by a large broadc...Read more...

Wednesday 16 March 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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...

Thursday 17 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Thursday 17 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects

This paper builds on Bonhomme (2012) to develop a method to systematically construct moment conditions for dynamic panel data logit models with fixed effects. After introducing the moment conditions obtained in this way,...Read more...

Thursday 17 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Auctions with Frictions

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Tuesday 22 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

CANCELLED: Building State Capacity: What is the Impact of Development Projects?

Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how to build that capacity and the role of external partners in the process. This paper estimates the impact...Read more...

Thursday 24 March 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Thursday 24 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Optimal Political Career Dynamics

e examine politicians’ career dynamics generated by political accountability, characterizing voter-optimal equilibrium play under repeated moral hazard. When moral hazard binds, equilibrium play is non-stationary: Re-el...Read more...

Friday 25 March 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Empirical regression discontinuity (RD) studies often use covariates to increase the precision of their estimates. In this paper, we propose a novel class of estimators that use such covariate information more efficientl...Read more...

Monday 28 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33

This study constructs a large dataset with newly collected archival data to investigate the causes of Ukrainian mortality during the Soviet Famine, 1932-33. First, we document that the regime set higher grain production ...Read more...

Monday 28 March 2022 18:00 - 19:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

What role does social identity play in politics?

What is social identity? What role does it play in politics? In the inaugural annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy public lecture, Moses Shayo will discuss how individuals associate themselves and identify ...Read more...

Tuesday 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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Thursday 31 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Thursday 31 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Slow Movers in Panel Data

This Panel data often contain stayers (units with no within-variations) and slow movers (units with little within-variations). In the presence of many slow movers, conventional econometric methods can fail to work. We pr...Read more...

Thursday 31 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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Thursday 28 April 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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