STICERD Psychology and Economics Seminar

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.

STICERD Psychology and Economics seminars are held on Tuesdays in term time at different times and in various locations. Please see details on the individual listing.

Seminar organisers: Dr Kristóf Madarász

For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.

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Thursday 15 December 2022 15:30 - 17:00

TBC

David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 11 November 2022 12:30 - 13:30

LSE STAFF & STUDENTS ONLY

Masculinity Norms and Labour Market Outcomes

We measure gender norms facing men and women and the relative strength of those norms. We find that while gender norms regarding acceptable behavior for women have progressed, norms for men are relatively homogenous acro...Read more...

Heather Sarsons (University of British Columbia)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 03 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00

CEP Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar

Not Learning from Others

We provide evidence of a powerful barrier to social learning: people are much less sensitive to information others discover compared to equally relevant information they discover themselves. In a series of incentivized l...Read more...

Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with John J. Conlon, Malavika Mani, Gautam Rao and Matthew Ridley

MAR 4.12, 4th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

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

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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

ONLINE

Tuesday 05 June 2018 17:00 - 18:30

Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading

Vincent Crawford (All Souls College, Oxford)

ONLINE

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

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 May 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Deconstructing Group Bias

Rachel Kranton (Duke University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 24 April 2018 15:30 - 17:00

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

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

ONLINE

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

ONLINE

Monday 12 June 2017 15:30 - 17:00

Myopia and Discounting

David Laibson (Harvard University), joint with Xavier Gabaix

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 21 March 2017 15:30 - 18:30

Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand

Jonathan de Quidt (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

ONLINE

Tuesday 07 March 2017 15:30 - 18:30

Bounded Reasoning: Cognition or Rationality?

Terri Kneeland (University College London), joint with Amanda Friedenberg and Willemien Kets

ONLINE

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

ONLINE

Monday 23 May 2016 16:00 - 17:30

TBC

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

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 16 May 2016 16:00 - 17:30

Alcohol and self-control: A field experiment in India

Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with the Development and Growth Seminar

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 May 2016 15:30 - 17:00

The Making of Hawks and Doves

Ulrike Malmendier (University of California, Berkeley)

ONLINE

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

ONLINE

Tuesday 08 March 2016 15:30 - 17:00

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

Matthew Levy (LSE)

ONLINE

Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00

Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning

Botond Koszegi (Central European University)

ONLINE

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