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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. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.

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 7 December 2020

Monday 07 December 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Digital Addiction

Digital technologies such as smartphones and social media occupy a large and growing share of leisure time. While these technologies provide obvious benefits, it is often argued that they can be addictive and harmful. We...Read more...

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford)

ONLINE

Wednesday 09 December 2020 13:00 - 14:00

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
Where does work belong anymore? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working in the UK

This seminar will consider the reality of homebased working and the implications for work during a global pandemic and beyond. The seminar will present the findings from an UKRI-COVID-19 funded study reporting on a large...Read more...

Abigail Marks (Newcastle University)

ONLINE

Thursday 10 December 2020 12:30 - 17:00

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
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Suphanit Piyapromdee (University College London)

ONLINE

Thursday 10 December 2020 14:00 - 15:30

STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series
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Edward J Vytlacil (Stanford University)

ONLINE

Thursday 10 December 2020 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
The Price of Data

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Jacopo Perego (Columbia Business School)

ONLINE

Tuesday 19 January 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 26 January 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 02 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
Electoral Campaigns as Dynamic Contests

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Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

ONLINE

Tuesday 09 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar
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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