STICERD Grants - Awarded 2024

STICERD is both a thriving research community within the London School of Economics and Political Science and a source of funding for a variety of School-wide initiatives. Our centres offer small research grants for LSE academic staff, grants for PhD students, and a programme for academics to visit the LSE for an extended period.

Below you can find out more about research we have funded.

The effects of student finance on enrolment and job search
Benjamin Dahmen, supported by Johannes Spinnewijn

Race and science
Gaia Dossi, supported by Xavier Jaravel

Competition for customers and health insurers' supply of medical care
Andres Fajardo-Ramirez, supported by Kate Smith

Forced integration of immigrants - lessons from a policy reversal in the Netherlands
Johannes (Anton) Heil, supported by Oriana Bandiera

Understanding and improving the efficacy of work-based training programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nilmini Herath, supported by Francesco Nava

Spatial migrant allocation schemes: Fiscal, labour, and urban perspectives
Felix Iglhaut, supported by Vassilis Hajivassiliou

Food policies and water security: Evidence from Indian agriculture
Animesh Jayant, supported by Rocco Macchiavello

Market competition and technological upgrading: Evidence from the Indian sugar industry
Rocco Macchiavello and Animesh Jayant

Protecting capital: Economic elites, asset portfolio diversification and the politics of distribution in Latin America
Maria Victoria Paniagua

The end of bankruptcy as we know it
Johannes Matt and Stephan Hobler, supported by Philippe Aghion

The cost of identity
Maria Morando, supported by Michael Callen

Inequality and enclosure
Ellen Munroe and Gailius Praninskas, supported by Professor Maitreesh Ghatak

Environmental policies, production relocation and 'clean' technology innovation in the presence of multinational firms
Carlos Perez Cavero, supported by Robin Burgess

How does underoccupation affect London's housing supply
Anne Power, Jessica Rowan and Laura Lane

When and why do governments pay more? Evidence from Brazil
Joanna Naritomi

A new order: How food delivery platforms are reshaping urban restaurants
Mohammad Javad Shamsi, supported by Tim Besley

Electoral crime
Hamza Syed and Luiza Kunz-Aires, supported by Maitreesh Ghatak

Aquaculture as climate adaptation: The case of Bangladesh
John Thiemel, supported by Oriana Bandiera

The aggregate effects of reducing refugees' barriers to work - evidence from the Jordan compact
Sarah Winton, supported by Nava Ashraf

Migration in the face of climate change: Assessing the potential of ultra-poor graduation programmes
Sarah Winton and Sreevidya Ayyar, supported by Gharad Bryan

Trading trash: Waste markets for sustainable urban development
Yoshiki Jens Wiskamp and Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, supported by Robin Burgess