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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 17 April 2021

Wednesday 21 April 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Taxing high-powered entrepreneurship

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Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich)

ONLINE

Wednesday 05 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Educational Inequalities and Post-pandemic Schools

Inequalities in attainment and experiences are long-established in the state school system in England, but ever-changing, particularly in this era of school disruption. This presentation will use findings from research p...Read more...

Alice Bradbury (Institute of Education, University College London)

ONLINE

Wednesday 05 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

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Michael Stepner (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Thursday 06 May 2021 - Friday 07 May 2021 00:00

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
CANCELLED

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Amos Golan (American University)

ONLINE

Thursday 06 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Improving Infrastructure in Developing Cities: Experimental Evidence from India

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Antonella Bancalari (IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 06 May 2021 14:30 - 19:30

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Paris-London Public Economics Conference, 6-7 May 2021

The Paris-London Public Economics conference is a two-day conference organized by faculty at the London School of Economics, Sciences Po, University College London, the Institut des Politiques Publiques, the Institute fo...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Thursday 06 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Competitive Advertising and Pricing

We consider an oligopoly model in which each firm chooses not only its price but also its advertising strategy regarding how much product information to provide. Unlike most previous studies on advertising, we impose no ...Read more...

Kyungmin Kim (Emory University)

ONLINE

Friday 07 May 2021 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Learning Financial Network with Misspecification via Double Regularized GMM

Financial network analysis has gained significant attention recently. The identification, estimation and inference issues are intrinsically important in understanding the underlying network structure. We try to uncover t...Read more...

Weining Wang (University of Groningen)

ONLINE

Tuesday 11 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TBC

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Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 11 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
The Origins of Elite Persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France

This paper studies the mechanisms that allow political elites from a non-democratic regime to survive a democratic transition and argues that connections is one of them. We document this phenomenon using the transition f...Read more...

Jean Lacroix (University of Paris-Saclay)

ONLINE

Thursday 13 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya's land reform programme

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Juliette Crespin-Boucaud (Paris School of Economics and LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 13 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Adaptive, rate-optimal testing in instrumental variables models

This paper proposes simple, data-driven, optimal rate-adaptive inferences on a structural function in semi-nonparametric conditional moment restrictions. We consider two types of hypothesis tests based on leave-one-out s...Read more...

Xiaohong Chen (Yale University)

ONLINE

Thursday 13 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Screening for breakthroughs

We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs at an uncertai...Read more...

Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford)

ONLINE

Monday 17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

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Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)

ONLINE

Tuesday 18 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?

Voter demand for less redistribution in the face of mass migration maps into actual outcomes insofar as politicians supplying these policies respond to it. We study whether establishing new asylum-seeker centers influenc...Read more...

Kostas Matakos (King's College London)

ONLINE

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Against the Odds: Why expecting schools to overcome disadvantage is doomed to failure

Since 2011 the government has invested £21bn into improving the academic achievements of children facing socio-economic disadvantage. The ‘pupil premium’ was intended to reduce the attainment gap between students from lo...Read more...

Sally Riordan (Education Observatory, University of Wolverhampton)

ONLINE

Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Tax knowledge and tax manipulation: A unifying model

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Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

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Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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)

ONLINE

Thursday 20 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
CANCELLED

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J Roderick McCrorie (St Andrews University)

ONLINE