Education and Skills Seminars

Education and Skills Seminars are an ad-hoc series which take place on Tuesdays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, unless otherwise stated.

This series is part of the CEP's Education and Skills programme.

Click on an individual seminar to find more details and add the event to your calendar.

Participants are expected to adhere to the CEP Events Code of Conduct.

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Tuesday 28 January 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Breaking the Barriers to Higher Education: The Long-Term Benefits of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students.

France ranks among the OECD countries with the lowest levels of intergenerational social mobility. To address this issue, the “Boarding School of Excellence” initiative aims to provide adolescents from low socio-economic...Read more...

Marc Gurgand (Paris School of Economics), joint with Luc Behaghel and Clément de Chaisemartin

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 14 January 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Autonomous Schools, Achievement and Segregation

We study whether autonomous schools, which are publicly funded but can operate more independently than government-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our ...Read more...

Felix Weinhardt (European University Viadrina)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 03 December 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Joint with the Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPPRH)

Gender, language and performance in an international organisation

Men are more likely than women to be described as analytical, competitive and agentic, all attributes associated with leadership and power. Organisations, therefore, often aim to address this bias by adopting the same la...Read more...

Marina Della Giusta (University of Turin), joint with Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading), Giovanni Razzu (University of Reading) and Almudena Sevilla (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 19 November 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Tracking with Friends: Experimental Evidence on Students' Valuation of Peers

In this study, we build on the existing peer-effect literature, specifically examining how peers, particularly close friends, influence key educational decisions. We conduct a randomized experiment among 9th-grade stude...Read more...

Pedro Freitas (University of Oxford), joint with Cátia Batista, Wayne Sandholtz and Ana Balcão Reis from Nova SBE

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 12 November 2024 16:00 - 17:00

A new approach to measure systematic gaps in teacher judgements

The extent and consequences of teacher biases against immigrants

We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teac...Read more...

Ellen Sahlström (Aalto University), joint with Mikko Silliman

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 07 February 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education

A test for recognising bias in educational contexts

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