Calendar

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...

Tuesday 23 November 2021 14:00 - 15:30

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

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Thursday 25 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Rural to Urban Migration, Informality and Firm Dynamics

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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...

Thursday 25 November 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Dynamic persuasion and games with Incomplete Information on one side

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tuesday 07 December 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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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...

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...

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...

Thursday 09 December 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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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...

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...

Thursday 16 December 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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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...

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...

Tuesday 01 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources

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...

Wednesday 02 February 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Neurodiversity at Work - Opportunity or Exploitation?

In this talk Dr Doyle, from the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work will discuss both sides of the Neurodiversity Movement coin. A seemingly new narrative in employment and the business press, the Neurodiversity p...Read more...

Tuesday 08 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020

What role do journalists play in slanting media content? Because media bias can crucially impact political and social outcomes, we study the relative role of journalists and owners in shaping media slant. To do so, we bu...Read more...

Friday 11 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

Debiased Inverse Propensity Score Weighting for Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional Confounders

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Monday 14 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock i.e. transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship wit...Read more...

Tuesday 15 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Can We Sustainedly Inoculate Individuals Against Misinformation in the Global South

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Friday 18 February 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

Matching for causal effects via multimarginal optimal transport

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Monday 21 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find ...Read more...

Tuesday 22 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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...

Thursday 24 February 2022 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

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Thursday 24 February 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

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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...

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...

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...

Tuesday 01 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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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...

Thursday 03 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which agents with private information can simultaneously contact multiple trading partners. We highlight a ne...Read more...

Monday 07 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences ...Read more...

Tuesday 08 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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Wednesday 09 March 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Repeat performances: SEND, Exclusions and minority young people

This talk discusses the long history of children and young people from minority (especially Black Caribbean) backgrounds excluded from mainstream schooling. From the ESN scandals of the 19760s and 1970s to the numbers of...Read more...

Thursday 10 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Flushing out bad equilibria - Evidence from maintenance of public infrastructure in India

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Thursday 10 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

High Dimensional Forecast Combinations Under Latent Structures

This paper presents a novel high dimensional forecast combination estimator in the presence of many forecasts and potential latent group structures. The new algorithm, which we call l2-relaxation, minimizes the squared l...Read more...

Thursday 10 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday 17 March 2022 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Constructive Extraction? - Encomienda, the Colonial State, and Development in Colombia

The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labor institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. And yet we show that Colombian municipalities with encomien...Read more...

Thursday 17 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects

This paper builds on Bonhomme (2012) to develop a method to systematically construct moment conditions for dynamic panel data logit models with fixed effects. After introducing the moment conditions obtained in this way,...Read more...

Thursday 17 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Auctions with Frictions

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Tuesday 22 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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...

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...

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...

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...

Monday 28 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33

This study constructs a large dataset with newly collected archival data to investigate the causes of Ukrainian mortality during the Soviet Famine, 1932-33. First, we document that the regime set higher grain production ...Read more...

Monday 28 March 2022 18:00 - 19:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

What role does social identity play in politics?

What is social identity? What role does it play in politics? In the inaugural annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy public lecture, Moses Shayo will discuss how individuals associate themselves and identify ...Read more...

Tuesday 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

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Thursday 31 March 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies

Input sourcing is central to the process of economic development. Using transaction-level data on the universe of formal, firm-to-firm and firm-to-foreign country trade in Uganda---a landlocked, low-income country---we f...Read more...

Thursday 31 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Slow Movers in Panel Data

This Panel data often contain stayers (units with no within-variations) and slow movers (units with little within-variations). In the presence of many slow movers, conventional econometric methods can fail to work. We pr...Read more...

Thursday 31 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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Thursday 28 April 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Wednesday 04 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Technological advances in medicine increasingly offer opportunities to target care to patients identified through screening, raising questions of how broadly to screen for potential cases of disease. We explore this trad...Read more...

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

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Thursday 05 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Communication Under Scrutiny

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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...

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...

Thursday 12 May 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects

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Thursday 12 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Mechanisms without transfers for fully biased agents

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Friday 20 May 2022 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday 26 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Incentive Compatibility in Dynamic Information Design

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Monday 30 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Taxing High-Income Earners: The Implications of Dynamic Compensation

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Tuesday 31 May 2022 17:30 - 19:00

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?

In exploring the persistence of racial inequality, Glenn Loury will discuss a range of conceptual frameworks that are useful for understanding racial inequality drawing on a lifetime of work on these issues, traversing d...Read more...

Wednesday 01 June 2022 14:00 - 15:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop

Quadratic Prediction Methodology and Calibration of Prediction Intervals Based on Subsampling

We consider nonlinear prediction of a stationary time series using quadratic functions of the past data. We derive explicit formulae for the best quadratic predictor and its MSPE. We also give conditions under which the...Read more...

Thursday 02 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

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Monday 06 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a singl...Read more...

Wednesday 08 June 2022 12:30 - 13:30

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...

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...

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...

Thursday 09 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information

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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

The LSE-NYU conference brings together political scientists and economists to discuss recent contributions, both theoretical and empirical, to the study of institutions, political behaviour and related social phenomena....Read more...

Monday 13 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Deep learning methods to curate economic data at scale

Vast amounts of data are trapped in non-computable formats, such as document image scans and text. Deep learning has the potential to greatly expand the questions that economists can study by providing rigorous methods f...Read more...

Wednesday 15 June 2022 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

CASE

Fertility and the two-child limit: does cutting child benefits really affect fertility?

The two-child limit, introduced by the UK government from April 2017, restricts means-tested child-related social security support to the first two children in a household. It aimed to “to ensure that families in receipt...Read more...

Thursday 16 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Legacies of Conflict and the Formation of Trust

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Thursday 16 June 2022 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

How Biased are Observational Methods in Practice? Accumulating Evidence Using Randomised Controlled Trials with Imperfect Compliance

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Thursday 16 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Incentive Design for Talent Discovery

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Thursday 23 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

The Value of Collusive Relational Agreements in the Colombia Energy Sector

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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

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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...

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...