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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 19 October 2020

Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: The Conservatives' Record on Early Childhood: Policy, Spending and Outcomes from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader will present recent work examining the record of the Conservative Government (2015-2020) on services and cash benefits for young children. They examine the aims and goals of the three Conser...Read more...

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

Ben Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

TOP WEALTH IN AMERICA: NEW ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXING THE RICH

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We build on the capitalization approach in Saez and Zucman (2016) while accounting for heterogeneity within asset classes when mapping ...Read more...

Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

ONLINE

Thursday 29 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Information Frictions and Small Businesses Access to Government Aid During COVID19'

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

ONLINE

Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Birth of a Nation: media and racial hate

This paper documents the short- and long-run impacts of popular media on racial hate. I do so in the context of the first American blockbuster: the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a racist retelling of the Civil War a...Read more...

Desmond Ang (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

COVID-19 and the low paid

What are the effects of the pandemic on workers in low paid occupations? Drawing on research funded by the Standard Life Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this talk presents findings on the effects of the pa...Read more...

Dafni Papoutsaki (Institute for Employment Studies)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 November 2020 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

TBC

We present a new estimator for causal effects with panel data that builds on insights behind the widely used difference in differences and synthetic control methods. Relative to these methods, we find, both theoretically...Read more...

Guido Imbens (Stanford University)

ONLINE

Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION IN ETHNICALLY MIXED SCHOOLS: AN INTERVENTION ON PERSPECTIVE TAKING

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context wh...Read more...

Sule Alan (European University Institute)

ONLINE

Wednesday 11 November 2020 16:30 - 17:45

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

COVID-19 and BME groups - How, in 2020, can 'race' still be a social determinant of health?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Black and Minority Ethnic groups have been at the sharp end of the impact of the virus. With higher infection and mortality rates, BME groups have been hit hardest in economically, so...Read more...

Nicholas Treloar (The Runnymede Trust)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

TBC

Ruixue Jia (University of California, San Diego)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

TBC

Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

TBC

We study the welfare consequences of allowing the mechanism designer to withhold or damage resources in the optimal mechanism for bilateral trade with independent private values. We show that withholding monetary transfe...Read more...

Mihai Manea (Stony Brook University)

ONLINE

Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and “nontradable.” Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 cou...Read more...

Marcella Alsan (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 18 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 18 November 2020 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: Trends in Adolescent Disadvantage

This seminar presents an overview of twenty years of significant policy change in relation to adolescent disadvantage. Part of the Nuffield Foundation funded Social Policy Distributional Outcomes programme, this research...Read more...

Moira Wallace (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 19 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00