STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

Friday 03 April 2020 13:00 - 14:00

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Martina Zanella (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 20 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

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Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

Friday 13 March 2020 13:30 - 14:30

Can Unemployment insurance decrease attachment to the labour market?

Alexandre Desbuquois (Economics, LSE)

Friday 06 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

What makes tax reforms successful? Evidence from 100 years of tax experimentations in the US

Sacha Dray (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 28 February 2020 13:00 - 14:00

The Role of Trademarks in International Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters in the African Tyre Industry

Since the fact that reliable quality of goods and services cannot be provided has been a great concern in developing countries, how to allow sellers to upgrade their quality has been debated in terms of a public policy a... Read more...

Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE)

Friday 21 February 2020 12:00 - 13:00

What makes a boss? Evidence from the career trajectories of 70,000 employees in a multinational firm

What is the nature and role of bosses in organizations? I analyse panel data at the employee-level from a multinational ﬁrm operating in 114 countries for the period 2011-2019. To identify the role of bosses, I ex... Read more...

Virginia Minni (Economics, LSE)

Friday 14 February 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Demand for Children and the Income-Fertility Gradient in Sub-Saharan Africa

Current and projected population growth rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) constitute a major policy concern, especially as they are highest among the poorest segments of the region’s population. Governments, internationa... Read more...

Celine Zipfel (Economics, LSE)

Friday 07 February 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, LSE)

Friday 31 January 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Workers Across Borders: Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs for Mobility Policies

This paper studies the effects of public policies that aim to enhance workers’ mobility across countries with different fiscal and social security regimes. Exploiting the unique setting provided by the largest European m... Read more...

Mathilde Munoz (LSE)

Friday 24 January 2020 13:00 - 14:00

What Makes a Good Doctor? Evidence from Random Patient-Physician Matching in Sweden

Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 06 December 2019 13:30 - 14:00

Buying and Selling Classic Cars

Wolfgang Ridinger (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 06 December 2019 13:00 - 13:30

Are Chemists Good Bankers? Returns to the Match between Training and Occupation

Dita Eckardt (London School of Economics)

Friday 29 November 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Breaking Gender Barriers: Bringing Men into the Pink-Collar Jobs of the Future

Alexia Delfino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 22 November 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Household indebtedness and mental wellbeing among older individuals in England

Aapo Hiilamo (CASE, London School of Economics)

Friday 15 November 2019 13:00 - 14:00

How much choice is enough? Comparing parents' experiences of school choice in England and Scotland

Aveek Bhattacharya (CASE, London School of Economics)

Friday 21 June 2019 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of in-service teacher training on student performance. Evidence from a developing country

There is limited research about the impacts of in-service teacher training on students' performance; more importantly, we don’t know how to incentivize the take-up of effective teacher training and continuing professiona... Read more...

Tatiana Torres (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Friday 14 June 2019 13:00 - 14:00

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Julia Philipp (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Friday 07 June 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Gender Ratios and Group Interaction: Evidence from Local Parliamentary Meetings in South Korea

How does the proportion of females aﬀect the group dynamic in a male-dominated setting? We study this question in the context of local parliamentary meetings in South Korea, exploiting the introduction of gender q... Read more...

Martina Zanella (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 31 May 2019 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Julia Philipp (Department of Social Policy, LSE)

Friday 24 May 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Motivating bureaucrats: Historical evidence on the impact of monetary incentives for tax inspectors

Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has focused on the availability of third-party information as a critical factor to improve tax enfor... Read more...

Sacha Dray (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 17 May 2019 13:00 - 14:00

The long-run consequences of war in Sierra Leone

This study investigates the long-run consequences of the civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. Using an instrumental variable strategy with geographic instruments arising as a result of the specific characteristic... Read more...

Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

Friday 10 May 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Tastes, expectations and gendered jobs: a field experiment with pink-collar men

Taste-based and statistical discrimination theories have been extensively used to explain demand-side determinants of occupational segregation by gender and race. However, evidence on the way these forces affect the supp... Read more...

Alexia Delfino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 03 May 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Evaluating the French R&D tax credit scheme

Tax credits to firms conducting R&D is a widespread fiscal incentive in developed countries. Since its major overhaul in 2008, the French "Research Tax Credit" has become the most generous of such schemes among OECD coun... Read more...

Nicholas Chanut (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 29 March 2019 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States

Child maltreatment includes the physical, sexual or emotional abuse and neglect of a person under the age of 18, and it is a widespread public health problem. In this paper we study the impact of unemployment on child ma... Read more...

Elisabetta De Cao (Department of Health Policy, LSE) joint with Dan Brown

Friday 22 March 2019 12:00 - 13:00

Endogenous markups, input misallocation and geographical supplier access

Inefficient allocation of inputs across firms has gained a prominent role in explaining development outcomes. Yet, inferring the costs of misallocation is challenging. Ignored firm heterogeneity from technology and deman... Read more...

Gregor Singer (Department of Geography and Environment, LSE)

Friday 15 March 2019 13:00 - 14:00

The aggregate productivity consequences of the marriage tax on working

What are the aggregate productivity consequences of converging labor force participation between marrieds and singles? Married individuals face different constraints in their labor force participation choice, including t... Read more...

Eui Jung (Jay) Lee (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 08 March 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Generalised Ordered Choice Models: Simulations and Empirical Example

When dealing with multiple discrete variables, it is common to run separate ordered choice models, which imposes a particular structure on the latent variable space. In this paper we generalise this structure, which all... Read more...

Will Matchem (London School of Economics)

Friday 01 March 2019 12:00 - 13:00

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Niclas Moneke (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 22 February 2019 13:00 - 14:00

Productivity of digital doctors: Evidence from quasi-random allocation in Sweden

Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 07 December 2018 12:00 - 13:00

The Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development: Sewerage diffusion and early-life mortality in Peru

Antonella Bancalari (LSE)

Friday 30 November 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Free-riders and underdogs: participation in corporate voting?

Moqi Xu (LSE)

Friday 23 November 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Knowing what's good for you: Can a repayment flexibility option in microfinance contracts improve repayment rates and business outcomes?

Giorgia Barboni (University of Warwick)

Friday 16 November 2018 13:00 - 14:00

The Role of Social Norms in Old-age Support: Evidence from China

The norm of families providing support to the elderly is common in developing countries without comprehensive pension coverage and is important; it is usually gender-specific. This paper studies the inter-generational tr... Read more...

Xuezhu Shi (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 09 November 2018 13:00 - 14:00

The values of confidential policy information: Persuasion, transparency and influence

Clement Minaudier (LSE)

Friday 02 November 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Female Genital Cutting and Education: Theory and causal evidence from Senegal

Jorge Garcia-Hombrados (LSE)

Friday 08 June 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Infrastructure Complementarity and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ethiopia

Niclas Moneke (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 01 June 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Trade-offs in Broker Remuneration: The Case of the UK Mortgage Market

Claudia Robles Garcia (Department of Economics)

Friday 18 May 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Happy Birthday? Manipulation and Selection in Unemployment Insurance

This paper documents strategic delays in the timing of layoffs around an age-at-layoff threshold entitling workers to a four months increase in potential UI benefit duration in Italy. Manipulation is quantitatively impor... Read more...

Kilian Russ (University of Bonn)

Friday 11 May 2018 13:00 - 14:00

The Role of Intermediaries in Quality Certification: Evidence from the Private Tutoring Industry

Will Matchem (London School of Economics)

Friday 04 May 2018 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Alexia Delfino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 27 April 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Labor market regulation and hospital quality. Evidence from a working hours reform in Ecuador

Tatiana Paredes (Department of Economics, LSE)

Wednesday 28 March 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Optimin points in n-person games

Mehmet Ismail (King's College London)

Friday 23 March 2018 13:00 - 14:00

"Missing" Entrepreneurs

Svetlana Chekmasova (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 16 March 2018 14:00 - 15:00

Preventing the reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment. How to get boys to not lose out?

Ruth Fortmann (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 09 March 2018 13:00 - 14:00

The Role of Grandchildren in Old-age Support: Evidence from China

Xuezhu Shi (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 02 March 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Estimating a Dynamic Auction Market for Vintage Cars

Wolfgang Ridinger (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 23 February 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Optimin points in n-person games

Mehmet Ismail (King's College London)

Friday 16 February 2018 13:00 - 14:00

Networks at work: Entry-level job links and careers of bureaucrats

Shan Aman-Rana (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 09 February 2018 11:00 - 12:00

The Origins of Populism: Evidence from the Financial Crisis and Immigration Crisis in the U.S.A.

Shuai Chen (Tilburg University (visiting LSE))

Friday 08 December 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Housing Bubbles, Offshore Assets and Wealth Inequality in Spain (1984-2014)

Clara Martinez-Toledano (Paris School of Economics)

Friday 01 December 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Leverage Regulation and Market Structure: An Empirical Model of the UK Mortgage Market

Matteo Benetton (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 24 November 2017 13:00 - 14:00

A Mechanism Design Approach to the Optimal Disclosure of Private Client Data

Konstantinos Tokis (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 17 November 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Reference Dependence in Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities

This paper documents and analyzes an important and puzzling stylized fact about retirement behavior: the large concentration of job exits at specific ages. In Germany, around 30% of workers retire precisely in the month ... Read more...

Arthur Seibold (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 10 November 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Venture Capital Funds Size and Structure in a Directed Search Model

I develop a theory of fund size and structure when fund managers add value to the companies they finance, but their human capital is scarce. I propose a matching model with directed search where managers span their nurtu... Read more...

Francesco Sannino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 03 November 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Public Good Allocation and the Welfare Costs of Political Connections: Evidence from Brazilian Matching Grants

Michel Azulai (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 27 October 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Networks at Work: How Entry-level Job Links Shape Civil Servants' Careers, Performance and Skill Investment

Shan Aman-Rana (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 09 June 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Infrastructure and Structural Transformation: Preliminary Evidence from Large-Scale Road and Electricity Network Expansions in Ethiopia

Niclas Moneke (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 02 June 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Incentives, Performance and Peer Group Segregation: Evidence from large-scale Randomised Controlled Trial in Indian Universities

Sutanuka Roy (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 26 May 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Changing collars? Social identity and selection in frontline jobs

Alexia Delfino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 12 May 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Persuasion of Heterogeneous Voters

Carl Heese (University of Bonn)

Friday 05 May 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Competition and macro-prudential regulation: An empirical model of the UK mortgage supermarket

This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the UK mortgage market and studies the effect of macro-prudential regulation on lending activity. We estimate a discrete-continuous choice demand model of mortgages... Read more...

Matteo Benetton (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 28 April 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Consumption Smoothing, Returns to Investment and Community Agency

Vesal Nourani (Cornell University)

Friday 24 March 2017 13:00 - 14:00

A Model of Risk Taking With Experimentation and Career Concerns

Gianpaolo Caramellino (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 17 March 2017 13:00 - 14:00

The Effect of Peer Observation on Consumption Choices: Experimental Evidence

Antonia Grohmann (DIW, Berlin)

Friday 10 March 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Neighbourhoods, cooperation, and local public goods: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia

Simon Franklin (CEP, LSE)

Friday 03 March 2017 13:00 - 14:00

Discretionary Grants and Political Accountability: Evidence from matching grants to Brazilian municipalities

Michel Azulai (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 24 February 2017 15:30 - 16:30

TBC

Shan Aman-Rana (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 17 February 2017 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of a wage tax in the financial sector on wages and employment

Malka Guillot (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 10 February 2017 13:00 - 14:00

The power of money: The consequences of electing a privately-funded politician

Nelson Ruiz-Guarin (International Development, LSE)

Friday 03 February 2017 14:00 - 15:00

Pharmaceutical promotion and health outcomes: Evidence from the Opioid Epidemic

Fernando Fernandez (STICERD PODER Fellow, and Pompeu Fabra)

Friday 27 January 2017 14:00 - 15:00

Multi-dimensional disadvantage among Gypsy and Traveller children in England and Wales

Tania Burchardt (CASE, London School of Economics) joint with Polina Obolenskaya and Polly Vizard

Friday 20 January 2017 14:00 - 15:00

The role of markets and governments in sustaining, increasing and reducing inequality

David Piachaud (Social Policy and CASE, LSE)

Friday 13 January 2017 14:00 - 15:00

“Universal” pre-schooling: who benefits? Analysis using the English National Pupil Database

Tammy Campbell (CASE, London School of Economics) joint with Ludovica Gambaro and Kitty Stewart

Friday 09 December 2016 13:00 - 14:00

The gender of grandchildren and its vital role in old-age support in China

Xuezhu Shi (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 25 November 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Sorting with Misperceptions: An Application to Income Inequality

Lisa Windsteiger (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 18 November 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Spying in Contests

Two players compete for a prize and their valuations are private information. Before the contest, each player can covertly acquire a costly, noisy and private signal regarding the opponent's valuation. In equilibrium, e... Read more...

Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen (LSE)

Friday 11 November 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Trust and CO2 Emissions: Cooperation on a Global Scale

Ara Jo (LSE)

Friday 04 November 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Incentives, Self-selection, and Moral Sentiments in the Labor Contract: Field Experiments in the Philippines

Jun Goto (Hitotsubashi University)

Friday 10 June 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Reference ages and retirement: Evidence from Germany

Arthur Seibold (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 03 June 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Vertical integration and knowledge: The lobbyists' case

Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Friday 27 May 2016 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Florian Blum (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 20 May 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Credit networks' responses to a natural disaster: Evidence from Roscas and the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Kristina Czura (University of Munich) joint with Stefan Klonner (University of Heidelberg)

Friday 13 May 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Estimating spillovers using panel data with a factor structure

Hao Dong (South Methodist University)

Friday 06 May 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Railroad, Technology Adoption, and Urbanization: Evidence from New Data in 1884-1920 Japan

Junichi Yamasaki (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 29 April 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Patronage and the origins of state capacity: Evidence from the British Empire

Guo Xu (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 18 March 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Taxation, information and withholding: Evidence from Costa Rica

Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank) joint with Marco Hernandez

Friday 11 March 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Behavioural response to property transaction tax: Evidence from time notches in Hong Kong stamp duty

Eddy Tam (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 04 March 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Competition and macro-prudential regulation: Evidence from the UK mortgage supermarket

Matteo Benetton (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 26 February 2016 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Practice Job Market Seminar

Friday 19 February 2016 13:00 - 14:00

Multitasking politicians and the design of transparency policies

Michel Azulai (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 11 December 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Vertical Integration & Human Capital

Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Friday 04 December 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Learning of behavioural consumers: a new explanation for cellphone contracts

Pedro Alves (London School of Economics)

Friday 27 November 2015 13:00 - 14:00

The diffusion of Production techniques

Torsten Figueiredo Walter (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 13 November 2015 13:00 - 14:00

The relationship between parental leave duration and job satisfaction of mothers: evidence from a quasi experiment in Germany

Elena Mariani (LSE)

Friday 06 November 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Delegation in Public Service Provision: Evidence from Tanzania

Florian Blum (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 12 June 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Goal Setting and Raising the Bar: a Field Experiment

We study the effect of setting goals on performance using a randomized field experiment involving first year university students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random grou... Read more...

Max Van Lent (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Friday 05 June 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Why do cellphone contracts have 'free minutes'? (A new explanation for three part tariffs)

Pedro Alves (London School of Economics)

Friday 29 May 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Board Composition and Resource Misallocation: Manager-Country Matching in World Bank Projects

Nicola Limodio (Economics, LSE)

Friday 20 March 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Incentives in office and local government behavior: an empirical application

Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)

Friday 06 March 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Absenteeism and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Firms

High absence rates are an important issue for formal manufacturing firms in India. Every year, almost 9% of working days are lost because of worker absence. The objective of this work is to estimate the impact of absente... Read more...

Giulia Zane (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 20 February 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Preference Identi?cation Under Inconsistent Choice

Behavioral economics has documented numerous settings in which behavior varies according to seemingly arbitrary features of the decision-making environment such as which option is the default, the order in which options ... Read more...

Daniel Reck (STICERD, London School of Economics)

Friday 13 February 2015 13:00 - 14:00

Citizen protest

I present a model of protest where protest earns the citizen a right to bargain with the government for redistribution. The government in power cannot commit to any redistributive policies. I examine the role of public g... Read more...

Sutanuka Roy (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 05 December 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?

This paper investigates the existence of ethnic favoritism, i.e. preferential public policies targeting the ethnic group of the political leaders. It relies on a sample of 141 countries covering all continents and region... Read more...

Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)

Friday 28 November 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Decentralized Learning in a Retail Network

A prominent explanation for why organizations delegate decision making authority is the informational advantages of a decentralized decision structure. By delegating authority, the principal can exploit agent's private i... Read more...

Kohei Kawaguchi (STICERD,LSE)

Friday 21 November 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Distributional Effects of Trade Shocks: Evidence from China's Tea Trade in the Early Twentieth-Century

How do negative trade shocks affect regional welfare? This paper examines the impact of declining tea export on input prices and civil conflicts in early twentieth-century China. I conduct a difference-in-differences ana... Read more...

Cong Liu (University of Arizona)

Friday 14 November 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Agricultural Productivity, Labour Reallocation, and Industrial Production in the Short Run: Evidence from India

This paper examines whether short-run changes in agricultural productivity results in labour reallocation into and out of the manufacturing sector, and whether adjustment costs impede this process, resulting in misalloca... Read more...

Jonathan Colmer (Virginia/CEP)

Friday 31 October 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Social insurance and conflict: Evidence from India

Can public interventions persistently reduce conflict? This paper studies whether social insurance is effective in reducing conflict. Adverse income shocks have been empirically and theoretically identified as robust dri... Read more...

Thiemo Fetzer (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 04 July 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Lone Stars or Constellations? The Impact of Performance Pay in Academia on Matching Assortativeness

In this paper I test for positive productivity spillovers in academia by studying the impact of the introduction of performance related pay in German academia on matching assortativeness. In particular, I exploit the fac... Read more...

Erina Ytsma (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 27 June 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Access to information and weather insurance take-up: an empirical investigation

The welfare of low-income agrarian households is severely constrained by risk. Weather index insurance was developed to help poor farmers address one of these risks: low crop yields from flood or drought. Yet, insurance ... Read more...

Laura Munro (Department of International Development, LSE)

Friday 20 June 2014 13:00 - 14:00

The long term consequences of the printing press in sub-Saharan Africa

This article delves into the relationship between newspaper readership and civic attitudes, and its effect on economic development. To this end, we investigate the long-term consequences of the introduction of the printi... Read more...

Valeria Rueda (Sciences Po) joint with Julia Cagé

Friday 13 June 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Patterns of household income dynamics in the EU through the Great Recession

To date, relatively little evidence is still available about the impact of the Great Recession (and its aftermath) on household incomes across EU countries. Immediate distributive impacts during GDP contraction years app... Read more...

Philippe Van Kerm (CEPS/INSTEAD)

Friday 06 June 2014 13:00 - 14:00

The power of taxation: sources of revenue and local development in Colombia

Is the limited effectiveness of decentralization in developing countries due to the lack of accountability of transfers and royalties or is it the result of more general weak administrative capacity and low levels of pol... Read more...

Luis Martinez (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 30 May 2014 13:15 - 14:30

Estimating Social Networks without Network Data

Despite growing interest in social and economic networks, most existing Econometric methods assume knowledge of true networks, and, consequently, applicability is often constrained by data availability. In contrast, this... Read more...

Pedro Souza (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 23 May 2014 13:00 - 14:00

The Value Added of Aid Projects

Aid effectiveness depends on the inputs of recipient countries and donor agencies in executing development projects. Joining the World Bank Project Database with detailed manager information, I quantify countries and man... Read more...

Nicola Limodio (Economics, LSE)

Friday 16 May 2014 13:00 - 14:00

I've got the power: granting bureaucrats discretion

Hume (1785) decreed that government should be designed as if all men were self-interested; we show this assumption leads to misguided management choices if bureaucrats value social gains but are not averse to spending pu... Read more...

Sarah Sandford (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 09 May 2014 13:00 - 14:00

How to Hire, Retain and Motivate Community Promoters? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Earning Expectations in Uganda

While there is a small but growing research on how to motivate and retain agents in the social sector, there is a lack of evidence on two questions: who are the 'right' people to recruit to perform a pro-social task? If ... Read more...

Erika Deserranno (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 02 May 2014 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Thiemo Fetzer (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 02 May 2014 13:00 - 14:00

The Changing Nature of Energy Supply and Demand in the US

I am going to present mainly correlations suggesting that the link between natural gas and electricity markets has become a lot stronger. This interdependence is driven by a distinct supply shift due to increases in natu... Read more...

Thiemo Fetzer (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 21 March 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Stimulus effect of the UK 2008 VAT rate cut

When the interest rates hit historical lows during the financial crisis, governments around the world started to use fiscal policy to stimulate the economy. In the UK, the standard VAT rate was cut from 17.5 to 15 percen... Read more...

Mohammad Vesal (STICERD, LSE)

Thursday 20 March 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Incentives in office and local government behavior: an empirical application

Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)

Friday 14 March 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Political Hierarchy, Centralization of Governance and Regional Development: Evidence from China

This project is about the effect of centralization of governance on regional development. A simple theoretical framework implies that centralization can internalize spillovers from agglomeration externalities but will br... Read more...

Shiyu Bo (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 07 March 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Insurance structure, risk-sharing and investment choices: an empirical investigation

Laura Munro (Department of International Development, LSE)

Friday 28 February 2014 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Thiemo Fetzer (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 21 February 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Does Adversity Breed Thriftiness and Diligence? The Long-Run Effects of China's Send-down Movement

During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1978), 17 million urban youths, mostly junior or senior high school graduates, were sent to countryside for farm work with an average of 3-4 years. Using data from the Chinese Hou... Read more...

Yi Fan (Department of International Development, LSE)

Friday 14 February 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Civilian-militant model

I present a model of civil war where citizens revolt against an incumbent state. The citizens are grouped as high income and low income.I will focus on the effects of public good provision, income inequality in triggerin... Read more...

Sutanuka Roy (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 07 February 2014 13:00 - 14:00

Nice work if you can get it: Temperature, occupational mobility and comparative advantage in developing countries

Jonathan Colmer (Virginia/CEP)

Friday 13 December 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Fracking Growth

Thiemo Fetzer (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 06 December 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Competing Intermediaries

We consider a trade setup between a seller and multiple buyers over the transaction of a single indivisible object and analyze a game where multiple intermediaries compete with each other to attract the seller. Agents ha... Read more...

Can Celiktemur (LSE, STICERD)

Friday 29 November 2013 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Jon de Quidt (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 22 November 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Identification of multi-dimensional adverse selection and moral hazard for multiple risks in car insurance

Delger Enkhbayar (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 15 November 2013 13:00 - 14:00

The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South America

Felipe Valencia-Caicedo (UPF)

Friday 08 November 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Knowledge for prevention: an information intervention to increase HIV testing and reduce stigma in Malawi

Laura Derksen (LSE, STICERD)

Friday 01 November 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Information Frictions and Earnings Responses to Taxes: Evidence from Firm and Individual Bunching in Pakistan

This paper provides evidence on the relevance of information frictions for firm and worker responses to individual income taxation in Pakistan. I document 'firm bunching' of salaries around kinks in the tax schedule orig... Read more...

Michael Best (LSE, STICERD)

Friday 25 October 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Examining the effects of hospital competition on care quality using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Matthew Skellern (LSE, STICERD)

Friday 05 July 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Recruiting Workers Under Framed Incentives: An Online Labor Market Experiment

Theory and experimental evidence from both the lab and field suggest that penalty-framed incentives-where a contract is presented in terms of a penalty for failure rather than a bonus for success-can have positive effect... Read more...

Jon de Quidt (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 28 June 2013 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Anett Hofmann (EOPP, STICERD)

Friday 21 June 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Can Voters Reward Prudent Managers of Public Funds in Kenya?

I will be presenting some preliminary results from a field experiment carried out during the 2013 Kenyan national elections. When the political class is widely perceived to be corrupt, can citizens distinguish between th... Read more...

Kelly Zhang (visiting PhD,Stanford)

Friday 14 June 2013 13:00 - 14:00

The take-up of Finnish Social Assistance: reaching the poor?

In this seminar, I will discuss a research plan to study the take-up of Finnish Social Assistance, an income support program. The focus is on determining which socioeconomic parts of the eligible population the benefit r... Read more...

Tuuli Ylinen (visiting PhD, Aalto University)

Friday 07 June 2013 12:00 - 13:00

Winners and Losers in the Labour Market: Heterogeneous Effects from Brazil-China Trade

China's recent growth and emergence into the world economy is one of the largest world economic events of recent times. Much of the reduced-form literature on the effects of this 'China shock' on other countries have vie... Read more...

Francisco Costa (EOPP, LSE)

Friday 31 May 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Contract Framing and Selection in the Social Sector: The Role of Earning Expectations

While there is a small but growing research on how to motivate and retain agents in the social sector, there is a lack of evidence on two questions: who are the ‘right’ people that should be recruited to perform a pro-so... Read more...

Erika Deserranno (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 24 May 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Estimating Channels of Diffusion in Networks

It is common sense that individual decisions or outcomes in a network are a function of connected peers. It is usually less clear what are the empirical dimensions that produce a link between individuals. I propose an ec... Read more...

Pedro Souza (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 17 May 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Consumer Search. Evidence from Path Data

In this paper, we analyse how in-store search varies along two dimensions: the areas of the store, and the product categories. We use a novel methodology to measure search activity. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) ... Read more...

Fabio Pinna (Economics of Industry, STICERD)

Friday 03 May 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Democratic Clubs

I present a standard model of supermodular matching, in which individuals can purchase a costly signal ('club fee') in order to be matched with a subset of the population. In such a model, there are generically an infini... Read more...

Patrick Blanchenay (Department of Economics, LSE)

Friday 22 March 2013 13:00 - 14:00

The remnants of war: Sex industry in Thailand

Abel Brodeur (Paris School of Economics (PSE))

Thursday 14 March 2013 12:30 - 15:00

Faculty presentations

Friday 08 March 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Explaining low adoption of techniques with altruism and dynamic inconsistency

Pedro Alves (London School of Economics)

Friday 22 February 2013 13:00 - 14:00

The causal impact of better transport accessibility on schooling outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Kenzo Asahi (CASE, LSE)

Friday 15 February 2013 13:00 - 14:00

The Long-Run Effects of Rustication and State Compensation: Evidence from Mao's Mass Send-Down Movement in China

Yi Fan (Department of International Development, LSE)

Friday 08 February 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Do Sanctions Matter? Exporter-level evidence from Iran

Jamal Haidar (Paris School of Economics)

Friday 01 February 2013 13:00 - 14:00

Loyalty and treason: An analysis of land reform in post-War Japan

Shuhei Kitamura (Stockholm University and STICERD)

Friday 14 December 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Demand for Conditionality

Munir Squires (EOPP, STICERD)

Friday 07 December 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Time-inconsistency and Delay in Bargaining

Sebastian Kodritsch (LSE)

Friday 30 November 2012 13:00 - 14:00

The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Francisco Ferreira (World Bank)

Friday 23 November 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Careerism and the Occurrence of Biases in Organizations

Melania Nica (LSE)

Friday 29 June 2012 13:00 - 14:00

TBA

Rod Hick (CASE, LSE)

Friday 22 June 2012 13:00 - 14:00

To Buy or Not to Buy? Three New Facts about House Prices and Rents

Philippe Bracke (Bank of England)

Friday 15 June 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Estimating Networks: Lasso for Spatial Weights

Pedro Souza (STICERD, LSE)

Friday 08 June 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Mortgage Modification and the Cost of Mortgage Credit

Michelle White (UCSD, visiting EOPP)

Friday 01 June 2012 13:00 - 14:00

The UK Country Report: Drivers of inequalities and their social, cultural and political impacts

Tiffany Tsang (CASE, LSE) joint with Abigail McKnight (CASE, LSE)

Friday 25 May 2012 13:00 - 14:00

The welfare cost of unpriced heterogeneity in insurance markets

Valentino Dardanoni (University of Palermo)

Friday 11 May 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Roger Gordon (UCSD, visiting EOPP)

Friday 27 April 2012 13:00 - 14:00

The relationship between British identity and social cohesion: Preliminary findings using data from the Citizenship Survey

Ben Richards (CASE, LSE)

Friday 09 March 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Mission: Impossible? Economies of scale and voluntary contributions to public goods

Sarah Sandford (STICERD, LSE) joint with Kimberly Scharf (University of Warwick, CEPR)

Friday 02 March 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Redesigning microsavings - a substitute for microcredit?

Anett Hofmann (EOPP, STICERD)

Friday 10 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Public banks improve private banks performance: Evidence from a dynamic structural model

Fabio A. Miessi Sanches (London School of Economics) joint with Daniel Silva Junior

Friday 03 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Does AIDS treatment stimulate negative behavioural response?

Plamen Nikolov (Harvard University)

Friday 27 January 2012 13:00 - 14:00

Cooperation vs. non cooperation in a dynamic international environmental game

Henry Tulkens (Universite Catholique de Louvain) joint with Parkash Chander

Friday 09 December 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Family Instability and Family Size as Factors in Child Well-Being: Evidence from Ireland

Tony Fahey (University College Dublin and CASE visitor)

Friday 02 December 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Middlemen, Bargaining and Price Information: Is knowledge power?

Tara Mitchell (EOPP, LSE)

Friday 25 November 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Locust. Estimating the Impact of a Plague

Abel Schumann (Stockholm School of Economics, visiting STICERD)

Friday 18 November 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Does Political Competition Reduce the Selection of Self-Serving Politicians?

Alois Stutzer (University of Basel)

Friday 11 November 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Social class and cognitive development in childhood - the debate over the Feinstein graph

Kitty Stewart (CASE)

Friday 28 October 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Advertising expenditure and consumer prices

Ferdinand Rauch (Oxford, CEP)

Friday 21 October 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Why did Africa Urbanize? Resource booms and consumption cities in Ghana and Ivory Coast

Remi Jedwab (PSE and LSE)

Wednesday 29 June 2011 13:00 - 14:00

The insurance value of a public employment program: evidence from NREGA

Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank)

Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Hyperbolic discounting: how much can uncertainty explain? Theory and preliminary evidence from Microfinance clients in rural West Bengal

Miriam Sinn (EOPP, LSE)

Wednesday 15 June 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana

Remi Jedwab (PSE and LSE) joint with Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 08 June 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Tax Me, But Spend Wisely: The Political Economy of Taxes, Evidence from Brazilian Local Governments

Lucie Gadenne (Paris School of Economics)

Wednesday 01 June 2011 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Luke Miner (LSE)

Wednesday 25 May 2011 13:00 - 14:00

The economic logic of Naxalite violence

Oliver Vanden Eynde (EOPP, LSE)

Wednesday 18 May 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Income and living arrangements of the elderly populations in Hong Kong and Singapore

Kok Hoe Ng (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 11 May 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Weather shocks, sweet potatoes and peasant revolts in historical China

Ruixue Jia (IIES, Stockholm)

Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Ethnicity Meets Politics: One Hundred Years of Road Building in Kenya

Remi Jedwab (PSE and LSE) joint with Robin Burgess, Edward Miguel and Ameet Morjaria

Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Rising claims for incapacity benefits: The fault of job strain?

Ben Baumberg (University of Kent)

Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Measuring the impact of micro-finance in Italy using a randomised evaluation: the 'Microcredito Etico-Sociale' programme

Giorgia Barboni (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 02 March 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Social Protection, Redistribution and Economic Growth

David Piachaud (Social Policy and CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 23 February 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Assessing postcode discrimination in employment in the UK: Challenges in employing a 'correspondence test' methodology in low-skilled labour markets

Simon Watmough (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 09 February 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Democratisation and representation: Italy 1909-1913

Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE)

Wednesday 02 February 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence

Stephen Jenkins (Social Policy, LSE) joint with Philippe Van Kerm

Wednesday 26 January 2011 13:00 - 14:00

Measuring mobility: A new approach

Frank Cowell (PEP, STICERD, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 08 December 2010 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

John Hills (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of microfinace: a panel study of self-help groups in India

Timothée Demont (Namur and EOPP Visitor)

Wednesday 24 November 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Coalition Formation and Political Decision Making: Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers

Janne Tukiainen (HECER and VATT, STICERD visitor) joint with Tuukka Saarimaa (VATT)

Wednesday 10 November 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Mobility Measurement

Frank Cowell (PEP, STICERD, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 27 October 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Differences in Decline. Why has relative child poverty decreased more quickly in Scotland than in England?'

Eleanor Barham (Centre for Educational Research, LSE)

Wednesday 13 October 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Selecting case studies using quantitative data: choosing typical case studies for the evaluation of the Bolsa Família Programme in four rural municipalities in Brazil

Kenia Parsons (CASE, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 23 June 2010 13:00 - 14:00

For Love AND for Money. Work motivations among childcare workers

Ludovica Gambaro (CASE, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 16 June 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Effects of childhood poverty on youth unemployment in the UK

Yuka Uzuki (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 09 June 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Performance-based incentives versus direct inputs: An experiment targeting child malnutrition in Indian slums

Prakarsh Singh (EOPP)

Wednesday 02 June 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Carrying out independent reviews for Government

John Hills (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 24 February 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Risk Attitudes and the Incidence of Informality among Workers: Evidence from a Transition Country

Melanie Khamis (IZA, Bonn)

Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Foreign Influence and the Cold War History of Democracy in Latin America

Roberto Bonfatti (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 January 2010 13:00 - 14:00

Median Independent Inequality Orderings for Ordered Response Data

Ramses Abul Naga (University of Bath) joint with Tarik Yalcin

Wednesday 09 December 2009 16:30 - 18:00

TBC

Sarah Mohaupt (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 25 November 2009 13:00 - 14:00

A term on the MPC

Rohini Pande (Harvard)

Wednesday 11 November 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Employment and wage trajectories of mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from the longitudinal UK Families and Children Study (FACS)

Francesca Bastagli (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 28 October 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Fiscal policy and the labour market: The effects of public sector employment and wages

Pedro Gomes (PEP, STICERD)

Wednesday 14 October 2009 12:30 - 13:30

The Right to Inherit: Female Education and Empowerment in India

Sanchari Roy (EOPP, STICERD)

Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Is competition between local authorities an effective way to motivate local public provision? –the experience of China

Bingqin Li (Social Policy, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 17 June 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Assessing the social sustainability of pension reforms in Europe

Aaron Grech (Department for Work and Pensions)

Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Competition between local authorities – an effective way to motivate local public provision? The case of the Hygienic City Campaign China

Bingqin Li (Social Policy, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 03 June 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Childcare workers in the UK: who are they and how much are they paid?

Ludovica Gambaro (CASE, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 20 May 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Education and Civic outcomes in Europe: quality versus quantity effects

Francesca Borgonovi (OECD) joint with Beatrice d’Hombres and Bryony Hoskins

Wednesday 18 March 2009 13:00 - 14:00

Concession and Repression in Civil Wars

Prakarsh Singh (EOPP) joint with Aki Ishihara

Wednesday 26 November 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d'Ivoire

Remi Jedwab (PSE and LSE)

Wednesday 29 October 2008 13:00 - 14:00

The Military, War and Political Power: Theory and Evidence

Gabriel Leon (EOPP and LSE)

Wednesday 22 October 2008 13:00 - 14:00

What They Don't Know Can't Hurt You: The Benefits of Limited Feedback in Organizations

Stephen Hansen (UPF)

Wednesday 15 October 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Poor Democracy? The political exclusion of poor people in Britain and Israel re-examined

Gal Alon (Dept of Policy Planning, Israel, and Dept of Social Policy, LSE)

Wednesday 08 October 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Son preference and sex ratios: How many 'missing women' are missing?

Jas Ellis (LSE)

Wednesday 25 June 2008 13:00 - 14:00

TBA

Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg)

Wednesday 11 June 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Child Well-being: A longitudinal analysis of Indonesia

Sarah Mohaupt (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 04 June 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Against Evidence-based Policy: The Damaging Effects of Misunderstanding What Social Research Can Achieve

Ben Baumberg (University of Kent)

Wednesday 28 May 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Son Preference and Culture

Jas Ellis (LSE)

Wednesday 21 May 2008 13:00 - 14:00

The Flypaper Effect Revisited

Fernando Aragon (LSE) joint with Sanchari Roy

Wednesday 12 March 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Railways and Migration: How much can infrastructure impact on urbanization and development?

Laura Ralston (EOPP)

Wednesday 05 March 2008 13:00 - 14:00

An economic approach to terrorism in Punjab

Prakarsh Singh (EOPP)

Wednesday 27 February 2008 13:00 - 14:00

The impact of the privatisation of the pension regimes in UK and Germany on social inequality

Michaela Willert (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

Wednesday 06 February 2008 13:00 - 14:00

Supply chain structures, coordination costs and trade

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne (HEC Montreal and CIRANO)

Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:00 - 14:00

The politics of culture-led housing revitalisation in Shanghai: The case of Taikang Road Creative Industry Cluster, 1998-2007

Stephen Wang (CASE)

Wednesday 05 December 2007 13:00 - 14:00

The household wealth distribution in Spain: The role of housing and financial wealth

Francisco Azpitarte Reposeiras (University of Vigo)

Wednesday 28 November 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Fiscal incentives: Testing for China's sub-national governments

Jin Wang (EOPP, STICERD)

Wednesday 21 November 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Wage inequality and education choices in Latin America: A general equilibrium approach

Chiara Binelli (UCL)

Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:30 - 14:00

Decolonization: the role of changing world factor endowments

Vikram Pathania (Department of Management, LSE)

Wednesday 24 October 2007 13:00 - 14:00

A probabalistic voting model of indirect taxation with single-minded groups

Emanuele Canegrati (UCSC Milan and DARP Visitor)

Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Wine, exchange rates and divorce: Evidence from Chile to UK exports

Rocco Machiavello (LSE/CEP)

Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Tax evasion as a global game: an experiment

Miguel Sanchez (STICERD/DARP)

Wednesday 13 June 2007 13:00 - 14:00

TBA

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (STICERD / DARP)

Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Housing choice of rural to urban migrant workers - survey results from Tianjin, PRC

Bingqin Li (Social Policy, London School of Economics)

Thursday 31 May 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Religious Pluralism, Giving and Volunteering Efforts

Francesca Borgonovi (OECD)

Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Neighbourhood and School Effects on Educational Goals and Achievement

Ann Owens (Harvard University and CASE visitor)

Wednesday 23 May 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Sustainable regeneration, sustainable communities or both? Assessing the impact of housing renewal of community sustainability - a theoretical model

Catalina Turcu (CASE)

Wednesday 09 May 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Poverty, capabilities and the welfare state

Gianluca Busilacchi (Ancona University and CASE visitor)

Wednesday 14 March 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Why decolonisation?

Vikram Pathania (Department of Management, LSE)

Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Social and economic disadvantages of workers laid off from state-owned enterprises in Northeast China

Mingzhu Dong (CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Corporate tax coordination schemes and welfare: A general equilibrium analysis

Pedro Gomes (PEP, STICERD)

Wednesday 14 February 2007 13:00 - 14:00

History, ethics and organisations' reputation

Tianxi Wang (EOPP)

Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:00 - 14:00

Is subjective goodwill excluded from accounting income?

Yuko Katsuo (Visitor to the Japanese Studies Programme)

Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Employment pathways for mothers in low skilled work: Evidence from the British Lone Parent Cohort

Kitty Stewart (CASE)

Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:00 - 14:00

The interaction between family and work histories and their impact on incomes in later life among older women in the UK

Tom Sefton (Advisor on Social Policy and Economics, Church of England)

Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Anti-evasion policy in the presence of common income shocks

Miguel Sanchez (STICERD/DARP)

Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Redistributive taxation and public expenditure

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (STICERD / DARP) joint with Joan Esteban

Wednesday 08 November 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Doing well by doing good: Formal volunteering and subjective well-being in the United States

Francesca Borgonovi (OECD)

Wednesday 01 November 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Party democracy, political competition and quality of politicians

Erlend Berg (Oxford)

Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Political economy in the early years of social security

Radu Ban (EOPP)

Wednesday 18 October 2006 13:00 - 14:00

TBC

Tianxi Wang (EOPP)

Wednesday 11 October 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Broad cross-license agreements in the semiconductor industry: Waiting to persuade?

Alberto Galasso (Economics of Industry, STICERD)

Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:00 - 14:00

National identity vs ethnic identity

Paolo Masella (EOPP)

Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Occupational choice between formality, informality and self-employment

Melanie Khamis (IZA, Bonn)

Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:00 - 14:00

tbc

Hannes Mueller (Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC))

Wednesday 07 June 2006 13:00 - 14:00

What motivates nonprofits and for-profits to compete for aid contracts? Theory and evidence

Marieke Huysentruyt (EOPP)

Wednesday 24 May 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Taking care of the elderly: Political economy in the early years of social security

Radu Ban (EOPP)

Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Economic consequences of wars: Evidence from landmine contamination in Mozambique

Ouarda Merrouche (European University Institute and IFAU Uppsala University)

Wednesday 10 May 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Cross-license agreements in the semiconductor industry: Waiting to persuade?

Alberto Galasso (Economics of Industry, STICERD)

Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Modelling vulnerability in the UK

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (STICERD / DARP) joint with Frank Cowell

Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Child poverty in the twentieth century

Lucinda Platt (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

Wednesday 08 February 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Managerial incentive, corporate control and outside finance: A theory of capital structure

Xuewen Liu (LSE - FMG)

Wednesday 01 February 2006 13:00 - 14:00

Divide and conquer: Tax evasion as a global game

Miguel Sanchez (STICERD/DARP)

Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:00 - 14:00

The social cost of near-rational investment

Tarek Hassan (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Does it pay to study far from home? Explaining the returns to geographic mobility of Italian college graduates

Mattia Makovec (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research)

Wednesday 09 November 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Organisation's self and brandname's value

Tianxi Wang (EOPP)

Wednesday 02 November 2005 13:00 - 14:00

The incidence of an earned income tax credit: Evaluating the impact on wages in the UK

Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po and CEP)

Wednesday 12 October 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Cross-country determinants of vertical integration

Rocco Machiavello (LSE/CEP)

Wednesday 29 June 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Vertical Integration and Credit Markets.

Rocco Machiavello (LSE/CEP)

Wednesday 15 June 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Qualitative Voting in Conflict Resolution Situations: An Experimental Analysis.

Rafael Hortala-Vallve (LSE)

Wednesday 08 June 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Did Decentralization Give Rise to Strategic Interactions in the Provision of Schooling? - Evidence from a Swedish Reform.

Karin Edmark (DARP)

Wednesday 01 June 2005 13:00 - 14:00

t.b.a.

Eleni Karagiannaki (CASE)

Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:00 - 14:00

On the persistence of Inequality.

David Piachaud (Social Policy and CASE, LSE)

Wednesday 18 May 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Income Distribution, Ethnic Heterogeneity and School Choice. Theory and Evidence from the UK.

Inger Munk (EOPP, STICERD, LSE)

Wednesday 11 May 2005 13:00 - 14:00

The value of participation and the effect of cheap talk in a dictator game.

Cornelius Schaub (EOPP)

Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:00 - 14:00

t.b.a.

Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia)

Wednesday 27 April 2005 13:00 - 14:00

Rainy Tuesdays: Distinguishing Strategic Voters from Naive Voters in US Elections.

Radu Ban (EOPP)

Friday 14 January 2005 12:30 - 14:00

'Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects'

Alberto Abadie (MIT) joint with Guido Imbens (UC Berkeley and NBER)

Wednesday 30 June 2004 13:00 - 14:00

The Impact of Progress on Child Health Outcomes

Carmen Huerta (OECD)

Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:00 - 14:00

The Nature of Creative Development: Thoughts about Individualism and Social Systems

Jonathan Feinstein (Yale University)

Wednesday 16 June 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Developmental Coalition and Urban Redevelopment of Inner City Residential Areas: with reference to Beijing and Seoul

Hyun-Bang Shin (CASE / FMG / LSE)

Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Girls' Educational Outcomes in Bangladesh and the Role of Non-formal Schools

Pataporn Sukontamarn (STICERD / EOPP)

Wednesday 26 May 2004 13:00 - 14:00

CANCELLED!!

Rocco Machiavello (LSE/CEP)

Wednesday 19 May 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Seven Decades of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States

Bob Plotnik (University of Washington)

Wednesday 12 May 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Poverty in Spain: 1993-2000. A static and dynamic approach

Elena Barcenae (CASE)

Tuesday 04 May 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Can Governments Change the Way People Behave?

Jake Elster (CASE)

Wednesday 28 April 2004 13:00 - 14:00

Centre-State Relations and Economic Growth across Indian States - Some Preliminary Evidence

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (STICERD / DARP)

Wednesday 20 March 2002 13:00 - 14:00

Should Prime Ministers be Elected?

Barbara Veronese (EOPP)

Wednesday 06 March 2002 13:00 - 14:00

The Fiscal Leviathan in a Multiple Equilibria Model of Sectoral Allocation

Riccardo Puglisi (Universita di Padua)

Wednesday 27 February 2002 13:00 - 14:00

Helping Communities Find Sustainable Solutions

Jake Elster (CASE)

Wednesday 13 February 2002 13:00 - 14:00

The Effect of Child Labor on Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from India

Marco Manacorda (Queen's Mary University and LSE)

Wednesday 06 February 2002 13:00 - 14:00

Preference Reversals

Frank Cowell (PEP, STICERD, London School of Economics)

Wednesday 30 January 2002 13:00 - 14:00

Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:30 - 13:30

Informed Principal and Correlation

Michela Cella (EOPP)

Wednesday 12 December 2001 13:00 - 14:00

Well-being and Exclusion in Europe's Regions

Kitty Stewart (CASE)

Wednesday 28 November 2001 13:00 - 14:00

On the Measurement of Poverty when Needs Differ

Udo Ebert (DARP Visitor)

Wednesday 21 November 2001 13:00 - 14:00

Do People Know What Makes Them Happy?

Orsolya Lelkes (CASE)

Wednesday 14 November 2001 13:00 - 14:00

Equalization and Tax Competition: Theory and Evidence

Leonzio Rizzo (EOPP)

Wednesday 31 October 2001 13:00 - 14:00

International Organizations and Welfare States at Odds? The Case of Sweden and the OECD, 1975-2000

Eero Carroll (CASE Visitor)

Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:00 - 14:00

What Makes a Revolution?

Robert MacCulloch (EOPP)