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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 27 February 2022

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 University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 01 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Alan Wiseman (Vanderbilt University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University of Kent and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

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...

Piero Gottardi (University of Essex)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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...

Rema Hanna (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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...

Sally Tomlinson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

ONLINE

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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Various speakers

ONLINE

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...

Zhentao Shi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

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...

Arjada Bardhi (Duke University)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University of California, Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University of Chicago)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

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...

Jean-Paul Faguet (LSE)

ONLINE

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...

Martin Weidner (University of Southern California)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

Thursday 17 March 2022 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Auctions with Frictions

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Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn)

This event is both online and in person

ONLINE

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...

Stuti Khemani (World Bank)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University College London)

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 (Queen Mary University of London)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University of Oxford)

ONLINE