STICERD Psychology and Economics Seminar

Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as online seminars or as online and in person. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, current restrictions mean in-person seminars are only open to members of the LSE community (those with a valid LSE ID card).

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom.

STICERD Psychology and Economics seminars are held on Tuesdays in term time at 15:30-17:00, ONLINE, unless specified otherwise.

Seminar organisers: Dr Matthew Levy and Professor Nava Ashraf

For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, either by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.

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Tuesday 24 September 2019 14:00 - 15:30

Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor

This paper measures the prevalence and consequences of sleep deprivation among the urban poor in India. We find that low-income adults in Chennai sleep little and poorly: 5.6 hours of objectively-measured sleep per nigh... Read more...

Gautam Rao (Harvard University) joint with Pedro Bessone, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, and Mattie Toma

Tuesday 28 May 2019 15:30 - 17:00

The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods

We use detailed data from a large retail panel to study the effect of participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on the composition and nutrient content of foods purchased for at-home consumpti... Read more...

Jesse Shapiro (Brown University) joint with Justine Hastings Ryan Kessler

Tuesday 05 June 2018 17:00 - 18:30

Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading

Vincent Crawford (All Souls College Oxford)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning In

Christine Exley (Harvard Business School) joint with Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund

Tuesday 08 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Deconstructing Group Bias

Rachel Kranton (Duke University)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou (Princeton University) joint with Armin Falk and Jean Tirole

Monday 27 November 2017 15:30 - 17:00

What Do Consumers Consider before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses (joint with Jason Abaluck)

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) joint with Industrial Organisation and Applications Seminar series

Monday 12 June 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Myopia and Discounting

David Laibson (Harvard University) joint with Xavier Gabaix

Tuesday 21 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand

Jonathan de Quidt (IIES)

Tuesday 07 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Bounded Reasoning: Cognition or Rationality?

Terri Kneeland (UCL) joint with Amanda Friedenberg and Willemien Kets

Tuesday 21 February 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

A frequent critique of recent models of ways people misunderstand the world is that people should figure out their mistakes after observing events they thought were extremely unlikely or impossible. This paper develops a... Read more...

Joshua Schwartzstein (Harvard Business School) joint with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch and Matthew Rabin

Monday 23 May 2016 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

Gautam Rao (Harvard University) joint with the Development and Growth Seminar

Monday 16 May 2016 16:00 - 17:30

Alcohol and self-control: A field experiment in India

Frank Schilbach (MIT) joint with the Development and Growth Seminar

Tuesday 03 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

The Making of Hawks and Doves

Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday 15 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

An empirical model of non-equilibrium behaviour in games

Brendan Kline (University of Texas at Austin) joint with the STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

Tuesday 08 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings

Matthew Levy (LSE)

Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning

Botond Koszegi (Central European University)

Tuesday 16 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Researchers as Boundedly Rational Statisticians

Uri Simonsohn (Wharton)

Tuesday 08 December 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Expert Forecasts in Field Experiments

Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00

On the “Limited Feedback” Foundation of Boundedly Rational Expectations

Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv University & UCL)

Tuesday 10 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00

The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk (IZA Bonn) joint with Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Tuesday 27 October 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Cursed Financial Innovation

Peter Kondor (Central European University and LSE) joint with Botond Koszegi

Tuesday 10 March 2015 15:30 - 17:00

Delay Functions as the Foundation of Time Preference: Testing for Separable Discounted Utility

Jawwad Noor (Boston University) joint with Keith Marzilli Ericson

Tuesday 09 December 2014 15:30 - 17:00

Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

Muriel Niederle (Stanford University)

Tuesday 25 November 2014 15:30 - 17:00

An Experiment on Deception, Credibility and Trust

Philippe Jehiel (PSE and UCL) joint with David Ettinger

Tuesday 28 October 2014 15:30 - 17:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture

Roland Benabou (Princeton University)

Tuesday 21 October 2014 15:30 - 17:00

A Model of Relative Thinking

Josh Schwartzstein (Dartmouth University) joint with Benjamin Bushong (Harvard University) and Matthew Rabin (Harvard University)

Tuesday 17 June 2014 15:30 - 17:00

Naive Observational Learning, Mislearning, and Unlearning

Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch (University of California, Berkeley) joint with Matthew Rabin

Tuesday 10 June 2014 15:30 - 17:00

Misconceptions of Chance: Evidence From an Integrated Experiment

Matthew Rabin (University of California, Berkeley) joint with Dan Benjamin and Don Moore

Tuesday 03 June 2014 15:30 - 17:00

A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

Xavier Gabaix (Stern School of Business, NYU)

Tuesday 13 May 2014 15:30 - 17:00

On the Equilibrium Effects of Nudging

Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv University & UCL)

Tuesday 29 April 2014 15:30 - 17:00

Self-deception: A model and experimental evidence

Drazen Prelec (MIT)

Tuesday 11 February 2014 15:30 - 17:00

Recruiting for the state: the selection effect of career incentives on performance

We study how career and social incentives affect who self-selects into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service. We collaborate with the Government of Zambia to experimentally vary th... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

Tuesday 10 December 2013 15:30 - 17:00