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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.

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Events on or after 13 May 2022

Monday 16 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
"Compensate the Losers?" Economy-policy preferences and partisan realignment in the US

Why have less educated voters abandoned center-left parties in rich democracies in recent decades? While much recent literature highlights the role of cultural issues, we argue that, at least in the US, the Democratic Pa...Read more...

Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 18 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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

Thursday 19 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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 University College London)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 19 May 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
On Local Projection Based Inference

This Montiel Olea and Plagborg-Møller (2021) recently propose robust confidence intervals for impulse responses based on the lag-augmented local projection regression, under the full mean independence assumption on the s...Read more...

Keli Xu (Indiana University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 19 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms

We study competing-mechanism games, in which several principals contract with several privately informed agents. We show that enabling the principals to engage into private disclosures—whereby a principal sends to the ag...Read more...

Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 20 May 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
CANCELLED

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Julius Vainora (University of Cambridge)

ONLINE

Monday 23 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Walmart Workers

We present a survey-based methodology for estimating employer market power and worker valuations of job amenities. We discuss a simple model of a monopsonistic employer choosing wages jointly with non-wage working condit...Read more...

Arindrajit Dube (University of Massachusetts)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 24 May 2022 11:30 - 12:45

CASE Special Events
Conscious hedonism and basic needs. A thriving life that does not cost the Earth

Our model of progress appears to fail: there is no single country on Earth that has achieved a social minimum while also remaining below the ecological ceiling. The recent International Panel on Climate Change (ICPP) rep...Read more...

Orsolya Lelkes (CASE, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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 26 May 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Bagged value-at-risk forecast combination

Recent developments in financial econometrics literature on joint scoring functions for Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall allowed for consistent implementation of statistical tests based on the Model Confidence Set (M...Read more...

Ekaterina Kazak (University of Manchester)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Incentive Compatibility in Dynamic Information Design

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Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 30 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Taxing High-Income Earners: The Implications of Dynamic Compensation

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Henrik Kleven (Princeton University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.05, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 31 May 2022 17:30 - 19:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
STICERD
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?

In exploring the persistence of racial inequality, Glenn Loury will discuss a range of conceptual frameworks that are useful for understanding racial inequality drawing on a lifetime of work on these issues, traversing d...Read more...

Glenn Loury (Brown University)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Wednesday 01 June 2022 14:00 - 15:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Quadratic Prediction Methodology and Calibration of Prediction Intervals Based on Subsampling

We consider nonlinear prediction of a stationary time series using quadratic functions of the past data. We derive explicit formulae for the best quadratic predictor and its MSPE. We also give conditions under which the...Read more...

Soumen Lahiri (Washington University in St Louis)

This event is both online and in person

Leverhulme Library, COL 6.15, 6th Floor, Columbia House, LSE, 69 Aldwych, London WC2B 4RR

Thursday 02 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
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ONLINE

Monday 06 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a singl...Read more...

Diana Van Patten (Yale University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 08 June 2022 12:30 - 13:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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 (CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Migrant-origin children in Ireland: Language and reading development in early childhood

Ireland provides a useful case study into the experiences of second-generation migrants in a ‘new immigration country’ where relatively little is known about the Irish-born children of recent migrants. This talk will dis...Read more...

Frances McGinnity (Trinity College Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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 (Institute for Fiscal Studies and Louvin)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information

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Andreas Kleiner (Arizona State University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH