Calendar

Thursday 03 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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

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Thursday 03 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...

Thursday 03 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Online Appendix to Optimal Technology Design: Risk-averse Agent

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Monday 07 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Tuesday 08 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...

Thursday 10 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Thursday 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...

Monday 14 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Wednesday 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...

Wednesday 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...

Thursday 17 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Thursday 17 June 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Agency-Constrained Information Design: Regulating Financial Analysts

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Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:00 - 17:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

STICERD

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...

Wednesday 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...

Thursday 24 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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...

Wednesday 07 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...

Thursday 08 July 2021 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

STICERD

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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Thursday 23 September 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

AI-tocracy

Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat's power; and (ii) autocrats' spending on the n...Read more...

Thursday 30 September 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Organising Development

People are poor because their labor is not paid enough to afford basic needs. To understand development we need to understand the jobs of the poor and how they change over the development path. The traditional view of de...Read more...

Thursday 30 September 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Costly monitoring in signaling games

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