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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 14 March 2022

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...

Katherine Wagner (University of California, Berkeley)

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 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...

Nicola Mastrorocco (Trinity College Dublin)

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

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...

Evan Rose (University of Chicago)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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...

Jean-Paul Faguet (LSE)

ONLINE

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...

Martin Weidner (University of Southern California)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 17 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Auctions with Frictions

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Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

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...

Stuti Khemani (World Bank)

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

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...

Anna Vitali (University College London)

ONLINE

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...

Joao Ramos (Queen Mary University of London)

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 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...

Claudia Noack (University of Oxford)

ONLINE

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...

Nancy Qian (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

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...

Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and King's College London)

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

Tuesday 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and King's College London)

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

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...

Jonas Hjort (Columbia Business School)

ONLINE

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...

Takuya Ura (University of California at Davis)

ONLINE

Thursday 31 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
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ONLINE

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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Gabriella Conti (University College London)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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 University)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 05 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Tax Audits Under Weak Fiscal Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Senegal

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Anne Brockmeyer (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Communication Under Scrutiny

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Nemanja Antic (Kellogg School of Management at 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