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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 3 February 2021

Tuesday 09 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
TBC

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Alexandra Scacco (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

ONLINE

Tuesday 16 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Tara Slough (New York University)

ONLINE

Thursday 18 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Automatic debiased machine learning of causal and structural effects

Many causal and structural effects depend on regressions. Examples include policy effects, average treatment effects, causal mediation, and structural parameters of economic models. The regressions may be high dimensiona...Read more...

Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

Monday 22 February 2021 11:30 - 13:15

CASE Special Events
What needs fixing to build back better: fault lines in the British welfare state on the eve of the pandemic

Launching the publication of a new report, The Conservative Governments' Record on Social Policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020, this event will reflect on the welfare state and public services on the eve of the COVID-1...Read more...

Various speakers

ONLINE

Tuesday 23 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Left Behind Voters, Anti-Elitism and Popular Will

Two common characteristics of populism are anti-elitism and favoring popular will over expertise. The recent successes of populists are often attributed to the common people, the majority of voters, being left behind by...Read more...

Dana Sisak (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

ONLINE

Wednesday 24 February 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

This paper uses patterns in consumption from Swedish administrative data to evaluate the welfare costs of increasing incentives for later retirement. We find that increasing the steepness of the pension benefits profile,...Read more...

Camille Landais (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 February 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Two-stage majoritarian choice

We propose a class of decisive collective choice rules that rely on a linear ordering to partition the majority relation into two acyclic relations. The first relation is used to obtain a shortlist of the feasible altern...Read more...

Sean Horan (University of Montreal)

ONLINE

Thursday 25 February 2021 17:00 - 18:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
Yogurts choose consumers? Estimation of random-utility models via two-sided matching

The problem of demand inversion - a crucial step in the estimation of random utility discrete-choice models - is equivalent to the determination of stable outcomes in two-sided matching models. This equivalence applies t...Read more...

Matt Shum (California Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

Monday 01 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

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Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

ONLINE

Tuesday 02 March 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Christoph Trebesch (University of Kiel)

ONLINE

Thursday 04 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Perceived Temperature, Trust and Civil Unrest in Africa

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Marco Alfano (University of Strathclyde)

ONLINE

Thursday 04 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Global manipulation by local obfuscation

We study information design in a regime change context. A continuum of agents simultaneously choose whether to attach the current regime and will succeed if and only if the mass of attackers outweighs the regime's streng...Read more...

Fei Li (University of North Carolina)

ONLINE

Friday 05 March 2021 12:00 - 13:00

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshop
Censored Quantile Regression with Time Varying Covariates

We propose a class of quantile regression models for right censored failure time data with time varying covariates that requires only standard conditional independence. Using a quantile based transformation, a system of ...Read more...

Tony Sit (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

ONLINE

Tuesday 09 March 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Ruben Durante (Sciences Po)

ONLINE

Wednesday 10 March 2021 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1994 and 2015 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated ...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 10 March 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Blood, Threats and Fears: The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims

The need for improved support for victims of hate crime has become all the more apparent at a time when numbers of incidents have risen to record levels, both within the UK and beyond. This sharp increase – and the assoc...Read more...

Neil Chakraborti (University of Leicester)

ONLINE

Thursday 11 March 2021 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Competition and the Aggregate Effects of Linking Frictions in Economic Networks

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Michel Azulai (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 11 March 2021 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
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Xiaohong Chen (Yale University)

ONLINE

Thursday 11 March 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory

We provide a microfoundation for using aggregated data (e.g. mean purchases) when evaluating consumer choice data. We present a model of statistical consumer theory where the individual maximizes their utility with respe...Read more...

John Rehbeck (Ohio State University)

ONLINE

Monday 15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The political economy of policy experimentations in China

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David Yang (Harvard University)

ONLINE