STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Monday 19 September 2022 09:30 - Friday 23 September 2022 18:00

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID)

LSE Environment Week

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department will convene an Environment Week at the LSE ...Read more...

Friday 10 June 2022 09:30 - Saturday 11 June 2022 18:00

LSE-NYU Political Science and Political Economy annual conference

The LSE-NYU conference brings together political scientists and economists to discuss recent contributions, both theoretical and empirical, to the study of institutions, political behaviour and related social phenomena....Read more...

Tuesday 31 May 2022 17:30 - 19:00

Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?

In exploring the persistence of racial inequality, Glenn Loury will discuss a range of conceptual frameworks that are useful for understanding racial inequality drawing on a lifetime of work on these issues, traversing d...Read more...

Monday 28 March 2022 18:00 - 19:00

What role does social identity play in politics?

What is social identity? What role does it play in politics? In the inaugural annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy public lecture, Moses Shayo will discuss how individuals associate themselves and identify ...Read more...

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch event: Making Equality Work

The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy will be officially launched the 14th of January 2022. Prominent academics and business leaders will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set t...Read more...

Wednesday 10 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRAC’s UPG program in rural areas of Bangladesh. The speakers, alongside a ...Read more...

Wednesday 10 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRAC’s UPG program in rural areas of Bangladesh. The speakers, alongside a ...Read more...

Thursday 08 July 2021 09:30 - 18:00

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:00 - 17:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Awakening the Giant Beast: from pandemic to economic recovery

How does the Biden-Harris Administration evaluate the current state and growth trajectory of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? How are the Administration’s plans to expand infrastructure investme...Read more...

Thursday 06 May 2021 14:30 - 19:30

Paris-London Public Economics Conference, 6-7 May 2021

The Paris-London Public Economics conference is a two-day conference organized by faculty at the London School of Economics, Sciences Po, University College London, the Institut des Politiques Publiques, the Institute fo...Read more...

Wednesday 17 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Good Economics for Hard Times

Can Economics be harnessed for the common good? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s bestselling book “Good Economics for Hard Times” makes the case for how economics can help us solve the toughest problems in some of the...Read more...

Tuesday 10 March 2020 18:00 - 20:00

LSE Presents The People Vs Social Sciences

In this mock trial, it will be debated whether the social sciences, as an area of research, commentary and investigation, has failed society. With public trust in democracy at the lowest it has been in decades, in a tim...Read more...

Thursday 19 September 2019 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR, STICERD, Marshall Institute and Rustandy Center Joint Conference

The London School of Economics (STICERD and Marshall Institute), the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Rustandy Center) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) invite you to the joint conference ...Read more...

Wednesday 08 May 2019 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Morishima Lecture: The Meritocracy Trap

Merit is not a genuine excellence but rather a pretence, constructed to rationalise an offensive distribution of advantage. Merit, in short, is a sham....Read more...

Wednesday 13 March 2019 18:30 - 20:00

Amartya Sen Lecture: Foundations of State Effectiveness

Hosted by the Amartya Sen lecture series, STICERD and the International Inequalities Institute. An effective state promotes freedom and the well-being of its citizens. This lecture will discuss the importance of norms,...Read more...

Thursday 14 February 2019 18:30 - 20:00

Netflix for Agriculture? Digital Technology for Development

The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable ex...Read more...

Wednesday 06 June 2018 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Morishima Lecture: Public Policy and Retirement Security - A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Chair: Tim Besley Retirement pension plans are a major challenge in countries with ageing populations. James Poterba will discuss how their design evolved over the last decades and how the US and UK followed strikingl...Read more...

Monday 04 June 2018 08:30 - 18:00

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar

This event will take place over 4 -5 June 2018. Income inequality has increased in both the U.S. and the U.K. in the last three decades, generating new interest in the factors that contribute to inequality and the co...Read more...

Monday 13 November 2017 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

In this lecture Eliana La Ferrara presents some recent research done in collaboration with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Victor Orozco (World Bank). The authors test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series...Read more...

Thursday 15 June 2017 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Morishima lecture: Market Places and Market Design

Nobel laureate Alvin Roth will deliver this year’s Morishima Lecture on the topics of game theory, market design and experimental economics. Alvin Roth is the Craig and Susan Shaw Professor of Economics at Stanford Univ...Read more...