Michael Callen

Associate and Associate Professor of Economics

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+44 (0)20 7852 3554

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m.j.callen@lse.ac.uk

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Latest

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Environmental Populism Conference

15 May 2025

Robin Burgess (LSE), Michael Callen (LSE), Various speakers , Torsten Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

This conference, organised by STICERD's EEE programme, explores our understanding of the contentious politics of climate policy focusing on ideology, economic interests, and institutional design.... Read more...

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Can Revolution Work? Evidence from the Birth of Nepal's Federal Democracy

06 June 2024

Michael Callen (LSE)

Can revolutions in ethnically segregated societies create inclusive democracies? Nepal, a multi-ethnic country that had been a monarchy for 240 years, became a federal democratic republic in 2015 after a ten-year People'... Read more...

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Modernising Fragile States

17 November 2022

Michael Callen (LSE)

Extreme poverty is concentrating in the parts of the world where it will be hardest to eradicate and where building state capacity is most challenging. Currently, one in three poor people live in "extremely fragile" stat... Read more...

Michael Callen

Latest

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Environmental Populism Conference

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Can Revolution Work? Evidence from the Birth of Nepal's Federal Democracy

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Modernising Fragile States

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

TBC

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

POSTPONED

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar

Tailoring Intertemporal Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan