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Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars take place on Mondays, 12pm - 1:30pm, unless otherwise stated.

This series is part of the CEP's Labour Markets programme.

This seminar series brings together research at the frontier of applied microeconomics in the fields of labour and development economics, public finance and social policy. It replaces CEP/LSE Labour Seminar Series and STICERD-UCL Development and Growth Seminar Series that used to run in previous academic years.

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Monday 22 May 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments fo...Read more...

Seema Jayachandran (Princeton), joint with B. Kelsey Jack, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 15 May 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrolling: Experimental Evidence from Urban India

We implement a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of the world’s largest street patrolling program targeting sexual harassment in public space on women’s victimization in Hyderabad, India. Using a novel ...Read more...

Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University ), joint with Sofia Amaral Girija Borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, Nishith Prakash

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Friday 05 May 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Effects of caste-based affirmative action in governance on socio-economic networks and resource provision

We study the impacts of political affirmative action for historically disadvantaged caste groups in Bihar, India on village social and economic networks. These networks shape the socio-economic landscape, serving many fu...Read more...

Emily Breza (Harvard), joint with Sumhith Aradhyula, Arun Chandrasekhar and M.R. Sharan

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Middle Men or Innovators? The Role of Insurers in Cost and Productivity in Health Care

Health insurers play a central role in the function of any health care system. In practice, whether a single payer system or a managed marketplace, insurers function as the platform aggregating information and determinin...Read more...

Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Mechanism design for personalized policy: A field experiment incentivizing behavior change

Personalizing policies can theoretically increase their effectiveness. However, personalization is difficult when policies are vertically-differentiated and beneficiaries' types are unobservable, since beneficiaries may ...Read more...

Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Chicago)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Voice at Work

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory,...Read more...

Simon Jaeger (MIT), joint with Jarkko Harju and Benjamin Schoefer

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 06 March 2023 12:00 - 13:30

International Trade Responses to Labour Market Regulations

This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations (“social standards”) shape countries' comparative advantage in services, using administrative data on cross-border supply of services within Europe from 2004...Read more...

Mathilde Munoz (Berkeley)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 February 2023 12:00 - 13:30

The Dynamic Impact of Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile

We study the static and dynamic impacts of market integration on renewable energy expansion. Our theory highlights that statically, market integration improves allocative efficiency by gains from trade, and dynamically, ...Read more...

Koichiro Ito (Chicago), joint with Luis Gonzales and Mar Reguant

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 February 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Where is standard of living the highest? Local prices and the geography of consumption

Income differences across US cities are well documented, but little is known about the level of standard of living in each city - defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. We pr...Read more...

Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley), joint with Rebecca Diamond

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the “156 Projects” in China for building technologically advan...Read more...

Michela Giorcelli (UCLA), joint with Bo Li

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Education-Innovation Gap

This paper documents differences across higher education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we cons...Read more...

Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management), joint with Song Ma

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “Responsible Sourcing” (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ...Read more...

Isabela Manelici (LSE), joint with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and José P. Vasquez

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their chil...Read more...

Matthias Doepke (LSE), joint with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:00 - 13:30

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Domestic abuse is a common yet complex phenomenon. We use the universe of police reports filed in Finland since 2006, matched to rich register data, to identify the impact of cohabiting with an abusive spouse on labour m...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Deep learning methods to curate economic data at scale

Vast amounts of data are trapped in non-computable formats, such as document image scans and text. Deep learning has the potential to greatly expand the questions that economists can study by providing rigorous methods f...Read more...

Melissa Dell (Harvard)

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Monday 06 June 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a singl...Read more...

Diana Van Patten (Yale), joint with Esteban Mendez-Chacon

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 30 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Taxing High-Income Earners: The Implications of Dynamic Compensation

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Henrik Kleven (Princeton)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 1.05, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 23 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Walmart Workers

We present a survey-based methodology for estimating employer market power and worker valuations of job amenities. We discuss a simple model of a monopsonistic employer choosing wages jointly with non-wage working condit...Read more...

Arindrajit Dube (Massachusetts), joint with Suresh Naidu and Adam Reich

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 16 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

"Compensate the Losers?" Economy-policy preferences and partisan realignment in the US

Why have less educated voters abandoned center-left parties in rich democracies in recent decades? While much recent literature highlights the role of cultural issues, we argue that, at least in the US, the Democratic Pa...Read more...

Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University), joint with Nicolas Longuet Marx and Suresh Naidu

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 09 May 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

In sub-Saharan Africa, traditional supernatural beliefs, including belief in witchcraft, black magic, or fetishism, are widespread. Some have hypothesized that these beliefs help to sustain cooperative behavior in a sett...Read more...

Sara Lowes (UC San Diego), joint with Nathan Nunn and Etienne Le Rossignol

This event is both online and in person

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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