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In May 2022 Professor Glenn Loury gave the 2022 Morishima Lecture. You can read his presentation on the our website. Read more...
Research led by STICERD members Professor Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Professor Sir Tim Besley has contributed to the Department of Economics' ranking. Read more...
Overview of a ten-year update of the empirical claims in Besley and Persson's 2011 book 'Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters'. In addition to a new dataset that covers many of the themes in the book, we recreate almost all charts and tables with better data for a cross-section ten years later. Read more...
Congratulations to Professor Tim Besley who has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, ... Read more...
17 August 2022
The political economy of lockdown During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries wi... Read more...
12 August 2022
Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan Michael Callen discusses a programme in Pakistan that equips government health inspectors with a smartphone app which channels data on rural clinics to seni... Read more...
11 August 2022
We were sorry to hear that Ian Nish, Emeritus Professor of International History at LSE and long-time research associate in STICERD's Japanese Studies programme has passed away at the age of 96. Ian Nish took a doctorat... Read more...
3 August 2022
In December 2020 a shock wave went across the School, and reverberated well beyond, with the news of the premature death of our highly esteemed and greatly valued colleague John Hills. John embodied the very best of LSE ... Read more...
24 June 2022
On Tuesday 31 May 2022 Professor Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, gave the 2022 Morishima Lecture. In exploring the persistence of racial ... Read more...
7 June 2022
Overall, LSE's outstanding contribution to social science research has once again been recognised by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). LSE is shown as the top university (of multiple submissions) in the UK ba... Read more...
25 May 2022
We are proud that CASE research led to Impact Case Studies that were awarded a 4* world-leading grade in REF2021. Our research contributed to the Social Policy department (along with the Departments of Health Policy, P... Read more...
12 May 2022
Congratulations to Oriana Bandiera who received AEA's Foreign Honor Members award. The Foreign Honorary Members award is presented to foreign economists of distinction. Honorees are elected by the American Economic Assoc... Read more...
5 May 2022
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has commissioned CASE to conduct a review of the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) material deprivation measures and the questions in the Family Resources Survey (FRS) w... Read more...
