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All past 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 09 June 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

We study the effects of reparations for victims of gross human rights violations in Colombia. Victims of forced displacement, homicide, and other atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict receive a lump-sum...Read more...

Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA), joint with Arlen Guarin and Christian Posso

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 30 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

FRIDAY Seminar: The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discove...Read more...

Carolyn Stein (Berkeley), joint with Josh Lerner (Harvard), Henry Manley (Stanford) and Heidi Williams (Dartmouth)

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 19 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

How far can inclusion go? The long-term impacts of preferential college admissions

Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we analyze the longterm effects of a Chilean po...Read more...

Michela Tincani (University College London), joint with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino

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

Monday 12 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Pushing the Envelope The Effects of Salary Negotiations

Salary negotiations are a widespread phenomenon that can shape important labor market outcomes such as worker welfare, inequality, and the gender pay gap. Using survey and experimental data from job seekers in the U.S....Read more...

Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School), joint with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson (Brown University) and Ricardo Perez-Truglia (UCLA)

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 09 May 2025 12:00 - 13:30

FRIDAY: Who Pays for Unions?

If unions raise worker wages, who pays? Do consumers pay through higher prices, firm owners through lower profits, other workers through reduced employment, or does it pay for itself through productivity gains? This pape...Read more...

Anna Stansbury (MIT), joint with Samuel Dodini and Alex Willen

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 31 March 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India

This study examines the long-term social and political impacts of mass media exposure to religious content in India. We study the impact of “Ramayan,” the massively popular adaptation of the Hindu epic televised in 1987...Read more...

Dean Yang (University of Michigan), joint with Resuf Ahmed, Paul Brimble, Akhila Kovvuri and Alessandro Saia

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

Monday 24 March 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Collusion Among Employers in India

This paper evidences collusion among employers in the textile and clothing manufacturing industry in India. I develop a simple comparative static test to distinguish collusion from standard forms of imperfect competition...Read more...

Garima Sharma (Northwestern)

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 17 March 2025 12:00 - 13:30

TBC

TBC...Read more...

Claudia Allende (Stanford)

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 10 March 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Female Labour Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility

Women's labor force participation increased dramatically over the post-WWII, especially among mothers of young children. How did the entry of mothers in to the labor force impact the transmission of economic status acros...Read more...

Daniele Paserman (Boston University), joint with Jorgen Modalsli, Claudia Olivetti and Laura Salisbury

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 03 March 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Movies

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core beliefs? To answer these questions, we analyze international movie data and local tales...Read more...

Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), joint with Chris Rauh

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 24 February 2025 12:00 - 13:30

Reveal or Conceal? Employer Learning in the Labor Market for Computer Scientists

How does employer learning affect the allocation of talent in the market for research scientists? I study this question using the job histories of 40,000 Ph.D.'s in computer science (CS) matched to their scientific publi...Read more...

Alice Wu (Harvard)

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 December 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Paternalistic Discrimination

TBC...Read more...

Nina Buchmann (Yale)

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 25 November 2024 12:00 - 13:30

The Social Construction of Race after Emancipation: US Census Racial Assignment Based on Skin Tone, Wealth, and Literacy

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Richard Hornbeck (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with Anjali Adukia, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi

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 18 November 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Firm Premia in Pay vs. Amenities: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey of Job Movers

No abstract available....Read more...

Evan Rose (University of 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 11 November 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis

The process of diagnosis in medicine depends on high dimensional, complex belief formation, repeated experimentation and data aggregation from multiple sources (e.g. labs, images, discussions with patients). In this pape...Read more...

Ben Handel (University of California, 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 04 November 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Flowers of Invention: Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture

Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops differentially depending on their reproductive structures. Exploiting this unique feature of plant physiology a...Read more...

Jacob Moscona (Harvard)

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 10 June 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Robustly estimating heterogeneity in factorial data using Rashomon Partitions

Many statistical analyses, in both observational data and randomized control trials, ask: how does the outcome of interest vary with combinations of observable covariates? For example, how do various drug combinations af...Read more...

Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford 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

Monday 03 June 2024 12:00 - 13:30

CANCELLED: What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

Firms are allowed to use aggregate data on market salaries to set pay, a practice known as salary benchmarking. Using national payroll data, we study firms that gain access to a tool that reveals market benchmarks for ...Read more...

Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School), joint with Shengwu Li (Harvard) and Ricardo Perez-Truglia (Berkeley)

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

Friday 31 May 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Cultural Capital and Economic Opportunity in Rural India

Cultural capital — defined in this paper as specific human capital that lowers the cost of cooperating with the people who control resources — has long been a major field of research in sociology. Economics has been slow...Read more...

Sam Asher (Imperial)

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 20 May 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender composition of an organization can persistently shift the gender norms. We exploit city-by-departme...Read more...

Guo Xu (University of California, Berkeley)

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

Monday 13 May 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Heuristic Reasoning Distorts Police Predictions of Domestic Abuse

Police in England and Wales are asked to predict the likelihood of serious recidivism in domestic abuse cases, without being given much support. We find variation in their skill levels, but at the same time, their predic...Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger (University of Chicago, CEP, LSE), joint with Andrew Jordan (Washington) and Tom Kirchmaier (LSE)

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

Friday 10 May 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Place-Based Policy

Firm location decisions are a key managerial decision, optimizing factors such as proximity to customers or labor. These decisions also have externalities on other firms due to competitive or agglomerative forces, and on...Read more...

Namrata Kala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

Monday 25 March 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Big Push in Distorted Economies

Why don't poor countries adopt more productive technologies? Is there a role for policies that coordinate technology adoption? To answer these questions, we develop a quantitative model that features complementarity in f...Read more...

Hugo Hopenhayn (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Francisco J. Buera, Yongseok Shin and Nicholas Trachter

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

Monday 18 March 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Training Within the Firm

Training investments are critical for firm and worker productivity. However, the implementation of these generally centrally designed programs is fraught with difficulties, starting with low take-up and low worker engage...Read more...

Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School), joint with Julian Ramirez and Jorge Tamayo

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

Monday 11 March 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare

We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the Great Recession across the United States to examine its impact on mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an...Read more...

Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Matt Notowidigdo, Frank Schilbach, and Jonathan Zhang

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

Monday 04 March 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Food Policy in a Warming World

This paper studies the interaction between climate change and agricultural policy. Using a model of tax policy in an open agricultural economy, we show that the effect of climate shocks on policy is theoretically ambiguo...Read more...

Allan Hsiao (Princeton University), joint with Jacob Moscona (Harvard) and Karthik A. Sastry (Princeton)

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

Monday 26 February 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Voter Misperceptions and Preferences for Democratic Institutions

Whether voters appreciate and support democratization in countries with persistent democratic backsliding and authoritarian leadership is unclear. After years of worsened democratic institutions, censorship, and state re...Read more...

Ceren Baysan (Univeristy of Toronto), joint with Daron Acemoglu, Cevat Aksoy, Carlos Molina, and Gamze Zeki

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

Monday 19 February 2024 12:00 - 13:30

Interest groups, ideology, and indirect lobbying: The rise of private health insurance in the United States

This study examines the rise of private health insurance (PHI) in the United States in the post-World War II era (1946-1954). We examine the role of the American Medical Association (AMA) which financed a campaign agains...Read more...

Marcella Alsan (Harvard Kennedy School), joint with Yousra Neberai and Xingyou Ye

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

Monday 04 December 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Right-to-Counsel and rental housing markets: quasi-experimental evidence from New York

TBC...Read more...

Winnie van Dijk (Yale University)

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

Monday 27 November 2023 12:00 - 13:30

The Effect of Child Endowment on Fertility Choices

Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents’ fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand fo...Read more...

Victor Lavy (University of Warwick), joint with Yeshaya Nussbaum

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

Monday 20 November 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump's Trade War

The primary motivation behind quantitative modeling in international trade and many other fields is to shed light on the economic consequences of policy changes. To help assess and potentially strengthen the credibility ...Read more...

Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Rodrigo Adao and Arnaud Costinot

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

Monday 13 November 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Medical technologies can target care to patients identified through screening, raising questions of how broadly to screen for potential use. We explore this empirically in the context of a non-invasive prenatal screening...Read more...

Liran Einav (Stanford University), joint with Peter Conner, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Petra Persson, and Heidi Williams

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

Monday 06 November 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Work Over Just Cash: Informal Redistribution among Employers and Workers in Kampala, Uganda

This paper examines informal redistribution in the form of work in small and medium enterprises in Kampala, Uganda and its drivers. Using a field experiment, we show that employers and workers systematically choose givin...Read more...

Elisa Macchi (Brown University), joint with Jeremia Stalder

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

Monday 12 June 2023 12:00 - 13:30

How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes

We use three sources of variation in childhood SSI receipt to identify the effects of receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in childhood on adult outcomes and to estimate a model of human capital development. Usin...Read more...

Manasi Deshpande (University of Chicago), joint with Alessandra Voena and Jason Weitze

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

Monday 05 June 2023 12:00 - 13:30

Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct on a High-Wage Labor Market

This paper proposes a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data from a U.S. job search platform, we first flexibly estimate labor supply to differentiated firms. We then use...Read more...

Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

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 University), 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 University), 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 (University of California, 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 (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

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 Jäger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 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 (University of California, 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 (Harris School of Public Policy), 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 (University of California, 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 (University of California, Los Angeles), 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 University)

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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 University), 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 University)

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 (University of 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 (University of California, 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

Monday 28 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33

This study constructs a large dataset with newly collected archival data to investigate the causes of Ukrainian mortality during the Soviet Famine, 1932-33. First, we document that the regime set higher grain production ...Read more...

Nancy Qian (Yale University)

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 14 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing

This paper studies the implications of low energy prices today for energy efficiency and climate policy in the future. If adjustment costs mediate manufacturing plants’ responses to increases in energy prices, incumbents...Read more...

Katherine Wagner (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot

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 07 March 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences ...Read more...

Rema Hanna (Harvard University), joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin Olken, Elan Satriawan & Sudarno Sumarto

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Monday 28 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a represe...Read more...

Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard University), joint with Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille

ONLINE

Monday 21 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find ...Read more...

Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University), joint with Raffaele Saggio

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

Monday 14 February 2022 16:00 - 17:30

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock i.e. transhumant pastoralists in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship wit...Read more...

Nathan Nunn (Harvard University), joint with Eoin McGuirk

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Monday 13 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence

We study the employment and wage effects of age-dependent payroll tax subsidies for both younger (under 25) and older (over 55) workers using a policy change in Hungary. Using rich administrative data and a difference-in...Read more...

Attila Lindner (University College London), joint with Aniko Biro, Réka Branyiczki, Lili Márk and Dániel Prinz

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Monday 06 December 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Navigating Stormy Waters: Crises, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics Under Financial Frictions

We build a growth model with heterogeneous firms that endogenizes productivity growth, firm selection, and borrowing under financial frictions. In particular, facing an incomplete financial market with endogenous (firm-s...Read more...

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Harun Alp (FED Board) and Ege Y. Ercan (Stanford GSB)

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Monday 29 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

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Survey evidence suggests that domestic violence is widespread. However, no evidence exists to date on the impact of cohabitating with an abuser on women’s labour market outcomes. We match police records on all crime repo...Read more...

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

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

Monday 22 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Achieving Scale Collectively

This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduc...Read more...

Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California)

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

Monday 22 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Achieving Scale Collectively

This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduc...Read more...

Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California)

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

Monday 15 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile...Read more...

Joseph Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Mark Jacobsen, Jim Sallee, Arthur van Benthem

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Monday 08 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness

We estimate the effects of a large program of public investment subsidies to private firms in Italy. Investment projects presented by firms were ranked by numerical scores reflecting both objective measures of project qu...Read more...

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)

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Monday 08 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness

We estimate the effects of a large program of public investment subsidies to private firms in Italy. Investment projects presented by firms were ranked by numerical scores reflecting both objective measures of project qu...Read more...

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)

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Monday 01 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

There are large differences in mean income across US cities, but little is known about the levels of standard of living in each city—defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. In...Read more...

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University), joint with Enrico Moretti

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Monday 01 November 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

There are large differences in mean income across US cities, but little is known about the levels of standard of living in each city—defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. In...Read more...

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University), joint with Enrico Moretti

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Monday 14 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap

In the 1960s, two landmark pieces of legislation targeted the long-standing practice of labor-market discrimination against U.S. women. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 mandated equal pay for equal work, and Title VII of the Ci...Read more...

Martha Bailey (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Thomas Helgerman and Bryan A. Stuart

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Monday 07 June 2021 12:00 - 13:30

New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data

Changes in self-employment rates may reflect changes in the structure of the labor market and the extent of entrepreneurial activity in the broader economy. Increasingly, researchers are looking to administrative tax mea...Read more...

Dmitri Koustas (Harris School of Public Policy)

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Monday 24 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

The origins and content of new work, 1940-2018

Recent theory stresses the role of new job types (‘new work’) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation on labor demand. We study new work by building a novel nearly century-long inventory of n...Read more...

David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 20 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

What does schooling do? Cognitive endurance as human capital

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Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Christina Brown, Geeta Kingdon, and Heather Schofield

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Monday 17 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Family spillovers in high school majors | High school majors, comparative (dis)advantage, and future earnings

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Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)

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Tuesday 11 May 2021 12:00 - 13:30

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Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University)

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Monday 29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Employer size, referral hiring, and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil

In Brazil, nonwhite workers are less likely than white workers to be hired by high-wage employers and larger employers pay higher wages, yet nonwhite workers sort to larger employers. This pattern holds conditional on de...Read more...

Conrad Miller (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies

Roads, rail, and other public transport in a city are “place-based,” in that they are built in specific neighborhoods. Do such investments benefit the poor? If people are mobile within a city, then any such place-based i...Read more...

Melanie Morten (Stanford University )

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Monday 15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

The political economy of policy experimentations in China

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David Yang (Harvard University)

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Monday 01 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

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Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

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Monday 07 December 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Digital Addiction

Digital technologies such as smartphones and social media occupy a large and growing share of leisure time. While these technologies provide obvious benefits, it is often argued that they can be addictive and harmful. We...Read more...

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford), joint with Hunt Allcott and Lena Song

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Monday 23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

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Ellora Derenoncourt (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and “nontradable.” Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 cou...Read more...

Marcella Alsan (Harvard University), joint with Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva & David Y. Yan

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Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION IN ETHNICALLY MIXED SCHOOLS: AN INTERVENTION ON PERSPECTIVE TAKING

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context wh...Read more...

Sule Alan (European University Institute)

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Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

The Birth of a Nation: media and racial hate

This paper documents the short- and long-run impacts of popular media on racial hate. I do so in the context of the first American blockbuster: the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," a racist retelling of the Civil War a...Read more...

Desmond Ang (Harvard University)

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Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

TOP WEALTH IN AMERICA: NEW ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXING THE RICH

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We build on the capitalization approach in Saez and Zucman (2016) while accounting for heterogeneity within asset classes when mapping ...Read more...

Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

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Tuesday 16 June 2020 16:00 - 17:00

The Geography of New Technologies

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Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University and CEP, LSE), joint with Tarek A. Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun

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Monday 08 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

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Monday 01 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)

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Monday 18 May 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Stringent?

This paper describes a new approach to measuring the costs of environmental regulation, which we use to study the efficiency of the U.S. Clean Air Act. We exploit regulations that force new or expanding plants to pay inc...Read more...

Joseph Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley)

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Tuesday 05 May 2020 12:00 - 13:30

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Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University)

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

Monday 23 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax

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Dmitri Koustas (Harris School of Public Policy)

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Monday 16 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking

We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build inter-ethnic cohesion in schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The educational program takes place in southeastern Turkey, a hig...Read more...

Sule Alan (European University Institute)

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Monday 09 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

An ambitious Chicago program to reduce homicides. A discussion of how we use machine learning and police/hospital data to identify active shooters, gang outreach to recruit them, and effects of a 2-year jobs and cognitiv...Read more...

Chris Blattman (Harris School of Public Policy)

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Monday 02 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

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Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

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Monday 24 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Labor in the Boardroom

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Simon Jäger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 17 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Payday Lending, Self-Control, and Consumer Protection

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Hunt Allcott (New York University)

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Monday 09 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise

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Petra Persson (Stanford University)

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Monday 02 December 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development

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Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University)

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Monday 25 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Motivated by recent work on the labor market effects of trade, we build a model of trade with labor market frictions and regulations that are not perfectly enforced by the government. Heterogeneous firms decide whether t...Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)

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Monday 18 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

Interventions aimed at raising agricultural productivity in developing countries have been a centerpiece in the global fight against poverty. Much of the recent evidence in this space has been based on randomized control...Read more...

Benjamin Faber (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 11 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Allocative Efficiency in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Test Using Procurement Lotteries

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Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 04 November 2019 12:00 - 13:30

What do Nudges Really Do? New Evidence from Over 100 Trials

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Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 17 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

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John Van Reenen (LSE)

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Monday 10 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Using Equity Market Reactions to Infer Exposure to Trade Liberalization

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Peter Schott (Yale School of Management), joint with the CEP/LSE International Economics Seminar Series

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Monday 03 June 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

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Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

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Tuesday 28 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

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Emily Oster (Brown University)

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

Monday 20 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

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Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

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Monday 13 May 2019 12:00 - 13:30

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David Card (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 29 April 2019 12:00 - 13:30

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Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 25 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

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Imran Rasul (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

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Monday 18 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

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Martin Rotemberg (New York University)

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Monday 11 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies

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Orazio Attanasio (University College London)

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Monday 04 March 2019 12:00 - 13:30

Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

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Yusuke Narita (Yale University)

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Monday 25 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

An Experiment in Candidate Selection

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Katherine Casey (Stanford University)

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Monday 18 February 2019 12:00 - 13:30

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage

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Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University)

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Monday 10 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Local and Aggregate Effect of Agglomeration on Innovation: Evidence from High Tech Clusters

Most industries are spatially clustered and clustering is particularly strong in the high tech sector. In this paper I use longitudinal data on top patenters to estimate the productivity benefits enjoyed by scientists wh...Read more...

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 03 December 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect

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Heidi L Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 26 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

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Matt Lowe (University of British Columbia)

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Monday 19 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Rage Against The Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in England, 1830-32

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Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)

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Monday 12 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right

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Torsten Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

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Monday 05 November 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile

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Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich)

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Monday 18 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Marriage, Labour Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net

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Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)

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Monday 11 June 2018 12:00 - 13:30

How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic

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Neale Mahoney (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with John Gathergood, Neil Stewart and Jörg Weber

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Monday 21 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources- Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

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Monday 14 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

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Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, and Matthew O. Jackson

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Tuesday 08 May 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The unintended consequences of “ban the box”: Statistical discrimination and employment outcomes when criminal histories are hidden.

Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted “ban the box” (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal is to improve employm...Read more...

Jennifer Doleac (University of Virginia)

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

Monday 30 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Seasonal liquidity, rural labour markets and agricultural production

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to...Read more...

Kelsey Jack (Tufts University), joint with Günther Fink and Felix Masiye

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Monday 23 April 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-experimental Data

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Peter Hull (Brown University)

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Monday 19 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth

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Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University), joint with Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso and Davide Malacrino

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Monday 12 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

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Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg, and Kaveh Majlesi

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Monday 05 March 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification

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Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)

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Monday 26 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

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Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University), joint with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer

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Monday 19 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

The Impact of State Budget Cuts on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment

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David Deming (Harvard Kennedy School)

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Monday 12 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits

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Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago)

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Monday 05 February 2018 12:00 - 13:30

Information Frictions and Policy

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Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford University)

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Monday 04 December 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate

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Gregor Jarosch (Princeton University), joint with Laura Pilossoph

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Monday 27 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

What Do Consumers Consider before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses (joint with Jason Abaluck)

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Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)

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Monday 20 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application

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Alwyn Young (LSE)

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Monday 13 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Atkinson Memorial Lecture - Media and behaviour change: Unpacking social effects

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Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)

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Monday 06 November 2017 12:00 - 13:30

The Incidence of Carbon Taxes in U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons from Energy Cost Pass-Through

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Reed Walker (Haas School of Business)

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Monday 30 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

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Richard Blundell (University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies)

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Monday 23 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Alternative Work Arrangements, Labor Supply, and the Value of Non-Work Time

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Amanda Pallais (Harvard University)

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Monday 16 October 2017 12:00 - 13:30

Economic Applications of Machine Learning

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Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

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