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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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Tommaso Denti (Cornell)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 05 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance

Most studies that examine subnational variations in public services associate low government performance with a lack of accountability. I instead offer a capacity-based explanation. Specifically, I develop a theory based...Read more...

Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 07 October 2021 11:00 - 12:00

CASE Special Events

Stick or Shift? Attitudes towards inequality, the Welfare State and social security benefits during COVID-19

What can we learn about (public) attitudes towards aspects of the welfare state in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? It is a now well-rehearsed observation that the pandemic has created unprecedented social condition...Read more...

Various Speakers

ONLINE

Thursday 07 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Political Reservations as Term Limits

While political reservations aim to ensure a more equal representation for women and disadvantaged groups, they also impose effective term limits on many incumbent politicians who would otherwise have had a chance to con...Read more...

Caitlin Brown (Manchester, IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 07 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Efficient Investment and Search in Matching Markets

We study a two-sided search-and-matching model in which agents invest before entry. In every period, agents incur an additive search cost, pairs meet at random and bargain over prices. Inefficiencies can be caused by a p...Read more...

Michael Richter (Royal Holloway)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Tuesday 12 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Davide Cantoni (Munich)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 03 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Broadly successful interventions such as the Graduation program may still exhibit treatment effect heterogeneity across subgroups and across study contexts. Yet effectively using estimated subgroup effects to inform targ...Read more...

Rachel Meager (LSE, IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 18 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series & STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Many real-life settings of individual choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare effects of policy ...Read more...

Shin Kanaya (University of Essex)

ONLINE

Thursday 18 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Making Decisions under Model Misspecification

We use decision theory to confront uncertainty that is sufficiently broad to incorporate “models as approximations.” We presume the existence of a featured collection of what we call “structured models” that have explici...Read more...

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Bocconi University)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 22 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars & CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Achieving Scale Collectively

This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduc...Read more...

Vittorio Bassi

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 23 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar & Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Jan Zapal (CERGE-EI)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 25 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Rural to Urban Migration, Informality and Firm Dynamics

Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Partial Welfare Ordering

Dynamic treatment regimes are treatment allocations tailored to heterogeneous individuals. The optimal dynamic treatment regime is a regime that maximizes counterfactual welfare. We introduce a framework in which we can ...Read more...

Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Dynamic persuasion and games with Incomplete Information on one side

Galit Ashkenazi-Golan (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 29 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

CANCELLED

Survey evidence suggests that domestic violence is widespread. However, no evidence exists to date on the impact of cohabitating with an abuser on women’s labour market outcomes. We match police records on all crime repo...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 30 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: Web 2.0 and Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts

User-generated online content changes traditional-media news on conflicts. Online posts by citizen journalists — first-hand witnesses of conflict events — change the extent, tonality, and content of traditional-media rep...Read more...

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 02 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

How to Reveal 21% of GDP in Hidden Assets: Evidence from Argentina's Tax Amnesties

Tax amnesties are a controversial and widely-used policy tool to encourage evaders to disclose income or wealth in exchange for reduced penalties and no prosecution. We investigate the effectiveness of tax amnesties leve...Read more...

Dario Tortarolo (IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 02 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects

We propose improved standard errors and an asymptotic distribution theory for two-way clustered panels. Our proposed estimator and theory allow for arbitrary serial dependence in the common time effects, which is exclude...Read more...

Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin-Madison University o fWisconsin-Madison)

ONLINE

Monday 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Navigating Stormy Waters: Crises, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics Under Financial Frictions

We build a growth model with heterogeneous firms that endogenizes productivity growth, firm selection, and borrowing under financial frictions. In particular, facing an incomplete financial market with endogenous (firm-s...Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit (UPenn)

ONLINE

Tuesday 07 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Dylan Glover (INSEAD)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 08 December 2021 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b...Read more...

Kate Smith (IFS)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 09 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

The Geography of Structural Transformation: Effects on Inequality and Mobility

Economies transform at an uneven pace: San Jose's meteoric rise coexists with Detroit's slow decline. This paper develops a dynamic overlapping generations model of economic geography to explain variation in structural...Read more...

Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with High-Dimensional Covariates

We study regression discontinuity designs in which many covariates, possibly much more than the number of observations, are available. In such settings, it is not feasible to feed all covariates in a standard procedure f...Read more...

Alexander Kreiss (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 December 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

CANCELLED

Much of the work on auction theory focuses on design aspects in situations motivated by formally organized auctions, like those held by government agencies. However, auction models are also convenient abstractions of les...Read more...

Stephan Lauermann (Bonn University)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence

We study the employment and wage effects of age-dependent payroll tax subsidies for both younger (under 25) and older (over 55) workers using a policy change in Hungary. Using rich administrative data and a difference-in...Read more...

Attila Lindner (UCL)

ONLINE

Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

POSTPONED

Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy will be officially launched the 14th of January 2022. Prominent academics and business leaders will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set t...Read more...

Various Speakers

ONLINE

Tuesday 25 January 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Accountability under political polarization

Political polarization, by distorting how citizens process objective information about government performance, can undermine electoral accountability. We study whether citizens in a highly polarized environment can be nu...Read more...

Alberto Simpser (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

How Does the State Replace the Community? Experimental Evidence on Crime Control from South Africa

Throughout the developing world, citizens often rely on mechanisms other than the state’s justice system to deal with crime. A common form of informal crime control is mob vigilantism, the physical punishment of criminal...Read more...

Anna Maria Wilke (Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 February 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

TBC

Michael Callen (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 24 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

TBC

We provide a decision theoretic analysis of bandit experiments. The bandit setting corresponds to a dynamic programming problem, but solving this directly is typically infeasible. Working within the framework of diffusio...Read more...

Karun Adusumilli (University of Pennsylvania)

ONLINE

Thursday 24 February 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such “non-market” mechanisms necessarily sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. In this paper,...Read more...

Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a represe...Read more...

Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Alan Wiseman (Vanderbilt)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact inve...Read more...

Bansi Malde (Kent/IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 03 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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...

Arjada Bardhi (Duke University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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 (Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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 (Chicago)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 17 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

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)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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 (UCL)

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 (QMUL)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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 (Oxford University)

ONLINE

Monday 28 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

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

Anne Brockmeyer (IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Communication Under Scrutiny

Nemanja Antic (Kellogg, Northwestern)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 09 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

In sub-Saharan Africa, traditional supernatural beliefs, including belief in witchcraft, black magic, or fetishism, are widespread. Some have hypothesized that these beliefs help to sustain cooperative behavior in a sett...Read more...

Sara Lowes (UC San Diego)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building

This paper investigates the role of individual leaders in constructing a national identity. I study the activities and legacy of Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk”, the founder of modern Turkey. I create a novel historical database...Read more...

Lydia Assouad (LSE and Paris School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 12 May 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects

Tim Armstrong (Southern California University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 12 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Mechanisms without transfers for fully biased agents

Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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 UCL)

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

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 20 May 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

CANCELLED

Julius Vainora (Cambridge University)

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 (Massachusetts)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 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

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 26 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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 (LSE & CEP)

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 (Associate Research Professor at the ESRI and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin)

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 (IFS and Louvin)

ONLINE

Thursday 09 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information

Andreas Kleiner (Arizona State University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 10 June 2022 09:30 - Saturday 11 June 2022 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

LSE-NYU Political Science and Political Economy annual conference

Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

Thursday 30 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Father of the Bride, or Steel Magnolias? Targeting Men, Women or both to Reduce Child Marriage

Rachel Cassidy (IFS and WB)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 14 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Norms Replacement. A Field Experiment on Female Genital Cutting

We evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions designed to reduce the incidence of female genital cutting (FGC) among adolescent girls in Sierra Leone. In this setting, FGC is part of a ritual called Bondo, which mar...Read more...

Lucia Corno (Cattolica University)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 15 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

More Powerful Cluster Randomized Control Trials

Balanced experimental designs, in which the number of treatment and control units are the same, do not maximize power subject to a cost constraint when treatment units are more expensive than control ones. Despite this, ...Read more...

Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Monday 19 September 2022 09:30 - Friday 23 September 2022 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID)

LSE Environment Week

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department will convene an Environment Week at the LSE ...Read more...

Various Speakers

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 22 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Directed Lending and Female Entrepreneurs: Micro Evidence from Turkey

We combine microdata from the Turkish credit registry with administrative tax records on firms to trace the impacts of a large-scale directed lending program for female entrepreneurs across the whole of Turkey. We first ...Read more...

Cagatay Bircan (EBRD)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Tuesday 27 September 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Biased Learning from Elections

A foundational premise in democratic theory is that political competition encourages parties to be responsive to voters. Parties have incentives to respond to the median voter’s preferences in order to win elections, and...Read more...

Andrew Little (Berkeley)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 29 September 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Crime organizations as Proto-States: Evidence from Brazil

This paper studies the relationship between organized crime, formal institutions, and economic growth. In particular, I focus on the spread of the most influential criminal organization in Brazil with two goals. First, d...Read more...

Davide Zufacchi (UCL and IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 29 September 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

On the principal agent model

Harmonising incentive compatibility and individual rationality can be a challenge. Let A be the finite set of possibilities and D(A) its probability simplex. With a continuous function defined on D(A) representing what t...Read more...

Robert Simon (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 04 October 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Anselm Hager (Humboldt-Universität)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 06 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Social networks, gender norms and women's labour supply: Experimental evidence using a job search platform

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labour force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was off...Read more...

Sanchari Roy (King's College London)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 06 October 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Screening with frames: Implementation in Extensive Form

We study a decision-framing design problem: a principal faces an agent with frame-dependent preferences and designs an extensive form with a frame at each stage. This allows the principal to circumvent incentive compat...Read more...

Franz Ostrizek (Sciences Po, Paris)

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32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 11 October 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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Soledad Artiz Prillaman (Stanford University)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 18 October 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 20 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Learning to see the world's opportunities: The impact of visualization on entrepreneurial success

Recent work in neuroscience and psychology has explored the impact of visualizing future scenarios on decision making and suggests that there is heterogeneity in how well and how often people use mental imagery. We explo...Read more...

Gharad Bryan (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 20 October 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Dominance and Optimality

This paper proposes a general theory of dominance among choices that encompasses strict and weak dominance among strategies in games, Blackwell dominance among experiments, and first or second order stochastic dominance ...Read more...

Tilman Börgers (Michigan)

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32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 25 October 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Liberty, Sustaining the role of law and the neoclassical fallacy

Does liberty matter for economics? To address this question, I distinguish among three different types of liberty: Adam Smith’s, the neoclassical, and the so-called “classical liberal.” They differ in that the neoclassic...Read more...

Barry Weingast (Stanford University)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 27 October 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

The Migration Consequences of Input Subsidies

Input subsidy programs (ISPs) aim to increase agricultural productivity. For many farmers, however, outmigration may be preferred and more profitable. Using reduced-form and structural estimations, I exploit variations i...Read more...

Binta Zahra Diop (IFS)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 02 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Tackling Covid-19 in East London and what we learnt about inequalities

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed a wide range of social and health vulnerabilities in more deprived areas. This session will explore the way these manifested, contributory factors and what was done locally to tackle them. ...Read more...

Jason Strelitz (Director of Public Health, London Borough of Newham)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Access to Labour Justice: Evidence from the Universe of Labor Court Cases in Brazil

Francois Gerard (Queen Mary)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 03 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00

STICERD Psychology and Economics Seminar

CEP Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar

Not Learning from Others

We provide evidence of a powerful barrier to social learning: people are much less sensitive to information others discover compared to equally relevant information they discover themselves. In a series of incentivized l...Read more...

Frank Schilbach (MIT)

MAR 4.12, 4th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Thursday 03 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Large Games using Scenarios

This paper introduces a new simulation algorithm for evaluating the log-likelihood and score functions associated with a class of supermodular complete information discrete games. The algorithm allows for payoff function...Read more...

Bryan Graham (UC Berkeley & NYU)

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32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Slow and Easy: A Theory of Browsing

Evgenii Safonov (Princeton)

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32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Domestic abuse is a common yet complex phenomenon. We use the universe of police reports filed in Finland since 2006, matched to rich register data, to identify the impact of cohabiting with an abusive spouse on labour m...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

Colluding against Environmental Regulation

We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider...Read more...

Jorge Alechilet (Universidad de los Andes)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 08 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry

We build and estimate a two-stage model of airline competition in which firms first form the networks of markets to be served and then compete in prices. We estimate our model using fares data on US domestic flights. We ...Read more...

Cristina Gualdani (QMUL)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 15 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Anderson Frey (University of Rochester)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 16 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 17 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Modernising Fragile States

Extreme poverty is concentrating in the parts of the world where it will be hardest to eradicate and where building state capacity is most challenging. Currently, one in three poor people live in "extremely fragile" stat...Read more...

Michael Callen (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 17 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Specification Testing for Conditional Moment Restrictions Under Local Identification Failure

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the specification in conditional moment restrictions model under first-order local identification failure with dependent data. More specifically, we obtain conditions u...Read more...

Nikolay Gospodinov (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 17 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Outside options, reputations, and the partial success of the Coase conjecture

A buyer and seller bargain over a good's price in continuous time, the buyer has a private value v and a positive outside option w. Additionally, bargainers can either be rational or committed to some fixed price. When t...Read more...

Jack Fanning (Brown University)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “Responsible Sourcing” (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences

We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories to estimate d...Read more...

Joel Stiebale (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 22 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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Diana Moreira (UC Davis)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 23 November 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Hosted by CASE, the London School of Economics and Political Science

Trends in spatial labour income inequality in Canada, France, Germany and the UK 1975-2020: the Linking National and Regional Inequalities project

The Linking National and Regional Inequalities project is an ongoing initiative to build an open-access, international database of statistics on regional income inequality. Initially the project examines trends in geogra...Read more...

Mark Fransham (LSE International Inequalities Institute)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 November 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Personalized Information Provision and the Take-Up of Government Benefits: Experimental Evidence from India

Emergency government benefits are frequently used to mitigate the effects of severe shocks. However, there is often a gap between what people are eligible to receive and what they actually receive. This paper draws on a ...Read more...

Bansi Malde (Kent/IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 24 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Relaxing Strict Exogeneity in Nonlinear Panel Data Models

We study nonlinear panel data models under the assumption that covariates are predetermined. Relaxing strict exogeneity is important in many applications. Our characterization yields novel moment conditions on parameters...Read more...

Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 24 November 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Martingale Embeddings: Theory and Applications

Weijie Zhong (Stanford GSB)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Education-Innovation Gap

This paper documents differences across higher education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we cons...Read more...

Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

We study the effects of intensifying competition for contracts in the context of U.S. Defense procurement. Conceptually, opening contracts up to bids by more participants leads to lower awarding prices, but may hinder bu...Read more...

Rodrigo Carril (Pompeu Fabra University)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 29 November 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Peter Buisseret (Harvard University)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 30 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

Peter Levell (IFS)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 01 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Does the Local Integration of Superstar Firms Matter? Theory and Cross-Country Evidence

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Thursday 01 December 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Noisy, Non-Smooth, Non-Convex Estimation of Moment Condition Models

A practical challenge for structural estimations is the requirement to minimize a sample objective function which is often non-smooth, non-convex, or both. This paper proposes a simple algorithm designed to find accurate...Read more...

Jean-Jacques Forneron (Boston)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 01 December 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

The comparative models of persuasion

In the canonical persuasion model, comparative statics has been an open question. We answer it, delineating which shifts of the sender's interim payoff lead her optimally to choose a more informative signal. Our first th...Read more...

Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for building technologically advan...Read more...

Michela Giorcelli (UCLA)

This event is both online and in person

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:30 - 14:00

STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

Regulation and Service Provision in Dynamic Oligopoly: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications

I study the effects of universal service regulation in oligopolistic industries with sunk investment costs, focusing on the Brazilian mobile telecommunications industry. To quantify the impact of regulation on service av...Read more...

Joao Granja (UCL)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 06 December 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

TBC

Wiola Dziuda (University of Chicago)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 07 December 2022 12:00 - 13:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

The unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people's education and wellbeing: the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO)

There is increasing evidence of the inequalities in pupils’ experiences of COVID-19 restrictions and how these have reflected and exacerbated existing gender, ethnic and socio-economic inequalities. The COVID Social Mobi...Read more...

Jake Anders (UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 08 December 2022 13:00 - 14:00