Events
CEP's events and seminars are a mix of online and hybrid (online and in-person) meetings. We recommend signing up to relevant mailing lists and checking our website listings and Twitter feed @CEP_LSE for updates.
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Thursday 01 October 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
What Makes Life Meaningful?
It has been argued that the search for meaning is among the strongest drivers of human behavior. We ran a survey on a large representative sample to assess how important it is for people to lead a meaningful life, what m...Read more...
Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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
Friday 02 October 2026 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
Ethnic Representation in the Police Force: Effect on Minority Youth
We study how ethnic representation within the police force affects the outcomes of youth in minority communities. Using Swedish administrative data, we identify the first police officer from a given ethnic group and neig...Read more...
Ulrika Ahrsjo (Uppsala Universitet)
This event is both online and in person
SAL B.07, Basement, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 08 October 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
What Is the Public's Social Welfare Function?
Optimal public policy requires a social welfare function defined over individual utilities. While there is substantial research on income-based social welfare functions, no published study has directly elicited public ...Read more...
Ekaterina Oparina (CEP, 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
Thursday 15 October 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
Estimating Trends In Mental Distress Using Survey Data
One way of examining how mental health has changed over time is to use information available in large national surveys. While these survey-based measures are valuable in principle, and have been widely employed in prior ...Read more...
Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia )
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
Friday 16 October 2026 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
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Michel Marechal (University of Zurich)
This event is both online and in person
SAL B.07, Basement, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 22 October 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood
Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains controversial sin...Read more...
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)
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
Thursday 29 October 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker Online
The Rise of Anger: Emotions and Policy Views
In this paper, we document the rise of anger in U.S. political communication and study its effects on policy views. We combine online and offline data, including the full record of congressional floor speeches since the ...Read more...
Yann Algan (HEC)
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
Friday 30 October 2026 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
Network Spillovers and the Social Returns to Crime-Reduction Interventions
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are influential in shaping policy to address the massive social harm from crime. Yet crime-prevention experiments typically ignore the possibility of peer spillovers, which could misre...Read more...
Sara Heller (University of Michigan)
This event is both online and in person
SAL B.07, Basement, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 02 November 2026 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
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Harsh Gupta (LSE)
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 02 November 2026 13:30 - 14:45
Labour and Education Seminars
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Eduard Boehm (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
Wednesday 04 November 2026 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
Rare Earth Supply Chains: Predatory Pricing for Strategic Dominance
Rare earth elements are critical inputs for high-technology industries, yet their global supply chain, particularly in the processing stage, is dominated by China. We develop a quantifiablemulti-countrygeneralequilibri...Read more...
Jaedo Choi (UT Austin)
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 09 November 2026 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
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Achyuta Adhvaryu (UCSD)
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
Wednesday 11 November 2026 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
Multinational Production and Trade Policy
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Agustin Gutierrez (Wisconsin-Madison)
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
Thursday 12 November 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
The Educational Consequences of an Autism Diagnosis
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David Frayman (CEP, 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
Friday 13 November 2026 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
A Few Bad Apples? Academic Dishonesty, Political Selection, and Institutional Performance in China
Honesty is perceived as fundamental to societal functioning, motivating education systems worldwide to enforce strict oversight and impose heavy penalties for dishonest behavior. Yet much academic misconduct remains unex...Read more...
Wenwei Peng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
This event is both online and in person
SAL 4.10, 4th Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 16 November 2026 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
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Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne)
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
Tuesday 17 November 2026 13:30 - 14:45
Labour and Education Seminars
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Sandra McNally (CEP), Mimosa Distefano (CEP)
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 18 November 2026 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
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Diego Puga (Center for Monetary & Financial Studies (CEMFI))
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
Thursday 19 November 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
The Daughter Penalty
Looking at the earnings profiles of men and women after their first child is born, a number of studies establish that women suffer a larger penalty in earnings than men?a child penalty. Leveraging randomness in the sex o...Read more...
Damian Clarke (University of Exeter, Universidad de Chile)
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
Monday 23 November 2026 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
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Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
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
Tuesday 24 November 2026 13:30 - 14:45
Labour and Education Seminars
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Jan Stuhler (UC3M)
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SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 25 November 2026 12:30 - 14:00
Trade and Urban Seminars
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Daniel Xu (Duke University)
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
Thursday 26 November 2026 16:00 - 17:00
Wellbeing Seminars
Speaker In-Person
Growing the Civic Mind: Civic Education, Civic Behavior, and Political Institutions
Declining civic engagement increasingly strains welfare state institutions. This paper asks whether civic values can be shaped through early educational investments. I study Tax and School, a large-scale program implem...Read more...
Enrico Rubolino (ENSAE Paris)
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
Friday 27 November 2026 13:00 - 14:00
European Seminars on the Economics of Crime (ESEC)
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Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)
This event is both online and in person
SAL B.07, Basement, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 30 November 2026 12:00 - 13:30
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
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Tim Layton (UVA)
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
Public events: Martin Hannon
Communications and events officer
+44(0)20 7955 7517
m.hannon@lse.ac.uk
Seminars: Lia Bergin
Communications and Events Assistant
l.bergin@lse.ac.uk