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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 4 October 2020

Wednesday 07 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
The economic impact of COVID-19: Ethnic and migrant divides in the UK

How have the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown measures affected the economic well-being of BAME and migrant groups vis-à-vis their white, non-migrant counterparts in the UK? Analysing nationwide data from th...Read more...

Yang Hu (Lancaster University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 07 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligi­bility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail recertification are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevan...Read more...

Tatiana Homonoff (New York University)

ONLINE

Thursday 08 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
The Accretion of Advantage in Childhood: Evidence from an 11-year Experiment in Bangladesh

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Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

ONLINE

Thursday 15 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

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Lucie Gadenne (Queen Mary University of London and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

ONLINE

Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 18:00

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: The Conservatives' Record on Early Childhood: Policy, Spending and Outcomes from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader will present recent work examining the record of the Conservative Government (2015-2020) on services and cash benefits for young children. They examine the aims and goals of the three Conser...Read more...

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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Ben Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ONLINE

Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
TOP WEALTH IN AMERICA: NEW ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXING THE RICH

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We build on the capitalization approach in Saez and Zucman (2016) while accounting for heterogeneity within asset classes when mapping ...Read more...

Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

ONLINE

Thursday 29 October 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Information Frictions and Small Businesses Access to Government Aid During COVID19'

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Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)

ONLINE

Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
The Birth of a Nation: media and racial hate

This paper documents the short- and long-run impacts of popular media on racial hate. I do so in the context of the first American blockbuster: the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a racist retelling of the Civil War a...Read more...

Desmond Ang (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
COVID-19 and the low paid

What are the effects of the pandemic on workers in low paid occupations? Drawing on research funded by the Standard Life Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this talk presents findings on the effects of the pa...Read more...

Dafni Papoutsaki (Institute for Employment Studies)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

ONLINE

Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

ONLINE

Thursday 05 November 2020 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
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We present a new estimator for causal effects with panel data that builds on insights behind the widely used difference in differences and synthetic control methods. Relative to these methods, we find, both theoretically...Read more...

Guido Imbens (Stanford University)

ONLINE

Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION IN ETHNICALLY MIXED SCHOOLS: AN INTERVENTION ON PERSPECTIVE TAKING

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context wh...Read more...

Sule Alan (European University Institute)

ONLINE

Wednesday 11 November 2020 16:30 - 17:45

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
COVID-19 and BME groups - How, in 2020, can 'race' still be a social determinant of health?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Black and Minority Ethnic groups have been at the sharp end of the impact of the virus. With higher infection and mortality rates, BME groups have been hit hardest in economically, so...Read more...

Nicholas Treloar (The Runnymede Trust)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Ruixue Jia (University of California, San Diego)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 15:00 - 16:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
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Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)

ONLINE

Thursday 12 November 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
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We study the welfare consequences of allowing the mechanism designer to withhold or damage resources in the optimal mechanism for bilateral trade with independent private values. We show that withholding monetary transfe...Read more...

Mihai Manea (Stony Brook University)

ONLINE

Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and “nontradable.” Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 cou...Read more...

Marcella Alsan (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Wednesday 18 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard University)

ONLINE