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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 20 April 2022

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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Gabriella Conti (UCL and IFS)

ONLINE

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...

Petra Persson (Stanford)

This event is both online and in person

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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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Anne Brockmeyer (IFS)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Communication Under Scrutiny

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Nemanja Antic (Kellogg, Northwestern)

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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)

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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

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Tim Armstrong (Southern California University)

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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

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Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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
Incentive Compatibility in Dynamic Information Design

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Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)

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

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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Henrik Kleven (Princeton)

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32L 1.05, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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...

Glenn Loury (Brown University)

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

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...

Soumen Lahiri (Washington University in St Louis)

This event is both online and in person

Leverhulme Library, COL 6.15, 6th Floor, Columbia House, LSE, 69 Aldwych, London WC2B 4RR

Thursday 02 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
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ONLINE

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...

Diana Van Patten (Yale)

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 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...

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

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Andreas Kleiner (Arizona State University)

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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

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...

This event is both online and in person

MAR 1.10, 1st floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

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...

Melissa Dell (Harvard)

ONLINE

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...

Mary Reader (CASE, LSE), Jonathan Portes (King’s College London), Ruth Patrick (University of York), Kate Andersen (University of York)

This event is both online and in person

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

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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Imran Rasul (UCL and IFS)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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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Jasmin Fliegner (University of Manchester)

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

Thursday 16 June 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Incentive Design for Talent Discovery

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Erik Madsen (NYU)

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 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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Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

Thursday 30 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Rachel Cassidy (IFS and WB)

ONLINE

Thursday 14 July 2022 13:00 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Lucia Corno (Cattolica University)

ONLINE