Calendar

21 April 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Taxing high-powered entrepreneurship

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5 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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5 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...

6 May 2021 00:00 - 00:00

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

CANCELLED

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6 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Improving Infrastructure in Developing Cities: Experimental Evidence from India

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6 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...

6 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...

7 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...

11 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

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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...

13 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya's land reform programme

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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...

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...

17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

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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...

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...

19 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Tax knowledge and tax manipulation: A unifying model

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20 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

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...

20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

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20 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

CANCELLED

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20 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Subjective Causality in Choice

An agent makes a stochastic choice from a set of lotteries. She infers the outcomes of her options using a subjective causal model represented by a directed acyclic graph, and consequently may misinterpret correlation as... Read more...

24 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

The origins and content of new work, 1940-2018

Recent theory stresses the role of new job types (‘new work’) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand. We study new work by building a novel nearly century-long inventory of n... Read more...

25 May 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Exposing the revolving door in executive branch agencies

We develop the first comprehensive mapping of the revolving door phenomenon in the U.S. by examining the work experience in executive branch agencies of 1,910,150 individuals covering top corporate positions in 373,011 f... Read more...

27 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Interest-Based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Over the last two decades, developing countries have seen a sharp increase in external demand for land and other natural resources. Despite hopes that these outside investments would spur local development, host communit... Read more...

27 May 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Post-liberalisation India Has Become More Unequal

Bitcoin provides its users with transaction-processing services which are similar to those of traditional payment systems. This article models the novel economic structure implied by Bitcoin’s innovative decentralized de... Read more...

1 June 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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3 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor: Evidence from a Four Year Partial Population Experiment.

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3 June 2021 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Universal Prediction Band, Semi-Definite Programming and Variance Interpolation

A frequent criticism from the statistics community to modern machine learning is the lack of rigorous uncertainty quantification. Instead, the machine learning community would argue that conventional uncertainty quantifi... Read more...

3 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Online Appendix to Optimal Technology Design: Risk-averse Agent

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7 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data

Changes in self-employment rates may reflect changes in the structure of the labor market and the extent of entrepreneurial activity in the broader economy. Increasingly, researchers are looking to administrative tax mea... Read more...

8 June 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Reelection can Increase Legislative Cohesion: Evidence from Clientelistic Parties in Mexico

It is often argued that when legislators have electoral incentives to cultivate personal votes, parties are less cohesive. This is because legislators have an alternative principal with whom they must build bonds of acco... Read more...

10 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Tax Evasion and the Minimum Wage

Can tax evasion justify high but taxed minimum wages? Exploiting a change in reporting defaults and the implied audit threat in Hungary, we demonstrate that a substantial portion of those who declare the minimum wage hav... Read more...

10 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Information Acquisition, Efficiency, and Non-Fundamental Volatility’

This paper analyzes non-fundamental volatility and efficiency in a class of large games (including e.g. linear-quadratic beauty contests) that feature strategic interaction and endogenous information acquisition. We adop... Read more...

14 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap

In the 1960s, two landmark pieces of legislation targeted the long-standing practice of labor-market discrimination against U.S. women. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 mandated equal pay for equal work, and Title VII of the Ci... Read more...

16 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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...

16 June 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Children’s Life-histories In Primary Schooling [CLIPS]: Persevering in exclusion?

This presentation explores the experiences of children designated as ‘lower-attaining’ in British primary schooling. It draws on Nancy Fraser’s (2008) conceptualisation of a global shift from government via nation-state... Read more...

17 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

The adoption of Responsible Sourcing (RS) requirements by multinational enterprises (MNEs) include minimum standards on wages, benefits, working conditions and other production practices at their suppliers worldwide. Des... Read more...

17 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Agency-Constrained Information Design: Regulating Financial Analysts

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23 June 2021 16:00 - 17:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Awakening the Giant Beast: from pandemic to economic recovery

How does the Biden-Harris Administration evaluate the current state and growth trajectory of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? How are the Administration’s plans to expand infrastructure investme... Read more...

23 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

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...

24 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Economics Work In Progress Seminar Series

Ripple Effects of Conflict: Spatial Propagation through Prices in Somalia

This paper estimates spatial spill-over effects of conflict by considering food prices as a propagating mechanism for food security in Somalia. Exploiting geo-coded data on violent incidents and the food logistics networ... Read more...

7 July 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future

Can a clear view of what’s gone wrong in the past help forge a new consensus about the policy directions of the future? In this seminar, Ruth Lupton will talk about her new book with Debra Hayes: Great Mistakes in Educa... Read more...

8 July 2021 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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