Calendar

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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Tuesday 05 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

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

The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance

Most studies that examine subnational variations in public services associate low government performance with a lack of accountability. I instead offer a capacity-based explanation. Specifically, I develop a theory based...Read more...

Thursday 07 October 2021 11:00 - 12:00

CASE Special Events

Stick or Shift? Attitudes towards inequality, the Welfare State and social security benefits during COVID-19

What can we learn about (public) attitudes towards aspects of the welfare state in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? It is a now well-rehearsed observation that the pandemic has created unprecedented social condition...Read more...

Thursday 07 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Political Reservations as Term Limits

While political reservations aim to ensure a more equal representation for women and disadvantaged groups, they also impose effective term limits on many incumbent politicians who would otherwise have had a chance to con...Read more...

Thursday 07 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Efficient Investment and Search in Matching Markets

We study a two-sided search-and-matching model in which agents invest before entry. In every period, agents incur an additive search cost, pairs meet at random and bargain over prices. Inefficiencies can be caused by a p...Read more...

Tuesday 12 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

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

Echo Chamber Elections

Elections aggregate information of citizens who gather information, in part from mainstream news, but possibly to a large extent from their different echo chambers which filter news in particular ways. We study informati...Read more...

Thursday 14 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Relational Contracts and Development

The first part of the talk will be based on this review paper (see link below). In the second part, he hopes to receive feedback on a new, closely related, RCT he is undertaking in partnership with a coffee MNC in Rwanda...Read more...

Thursday 14 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Conjugate Persuasion

We consider a class of persuasion games in which the sender has rank-dependent preferences. Like much of the recent Bayesian persuasion literature, we assume the receiver’s action depends only on her posterior expectatio...Read more...

Tuesday 19 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

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

Political Competence and Electoral Competition

How does politician competence, conceptualized as the ability to effectively implement policies, affect campaign platforms and electoral competition? We develop a framework where politicians differ in terms of ideologica...Read more...

Wednesday 20 October 2021 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

The scale and drivers of inequalities in and by mental health

In this talk, some recent evidence related to the extent of inequalities in adolescent mental health by various different socio-demographic indicators (sex/gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic) will be presented, ...Read more...

Thursday 21 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Long-Run Impacts of In-Utero Ramadan Exposure: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records

Using Ramadan fasting as a natural experiment, we estimate the long-run impacts of health and nutrition shocks experienced during pregnancy on adult outcomes. We exploit administrative tax return data comprising the univ...Read more...

Thursday 21 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Coasian Dynamics Under Informational Robustness

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Tuesday 26 October 2021 14:00 - 15:30

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

The Management of the Pandemic and its Effects on Trust and Accountability

The management of the COVID-19 pandemic represented one of the greatest challenges that policymakers had to face in recent history. The rapidly changing reality and directives may have contributed to a popular perception...Read more...

Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar & IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This paper develops a new framework to analyse the effects of labor market shocks in developing economies and their distribution across space. It incorporates some of the key features of these countries, in particular th...Read more...

Thursday 28 October 2021 12:30 - 14:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar & IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception

One-quarter of married, fertile-age women in Sub-Saharan Africa report not wanting a pregnancy and yet do not use contraceptives. The presentation will cover both our completed project on “Subjective Expectations and D...Read more...

Thursday 28 October 2021 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars & STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Moderate Expected Utility

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