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23 January 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

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Suanna Oh (Columbia)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

29 January 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Anti-Bunching: A New Test for Signaling Motives in Prosocial Behavior

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David Birke (Berkeley)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

30 January 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Evidence Acquisition and Voluntary Disclosure

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Denis Shishkin (Princeton)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

3 February 2020 18:00 - 20:00

Public Events
LSE Public Event: Can We Be Happier?

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Richard Layard (CEP)

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

5 February 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
International Financial Flows and Misallocation

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Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy and CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

6 February 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior

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Stefano Florin (UCSD)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

12 February 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Can Training Grants Improve Firm Performance? Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

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Pedro Martins (QMUL)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

12 February 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Unravelling trade integration: local labor market effects of the Brexit vote

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Katherine Stapleton (Oxford)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

13 February 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and Psychotherapy on Psychological and Economic Well-being

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Johannes Haushofer (Princeton)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

17 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
Payday Lending, Self-Control, and Consumer Protection

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Hunt Allcott (NYU)

ONLINE

18 February 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias

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Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE & CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

19 February 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Experimental Evidence from FDI Firms

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Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

20 February 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
A Happy Possibility About Happiness (And Other) Scales: Understanding Why the Cardinality Assumption Is Both Defensible and Unnecessary

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Michael Plant (Oxford)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

21 February 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

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Monica Langella (LSE & CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

24 February 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
Labor in the Boardroom

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Simon Jäger (MIT)

ONLINE

25 February 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Eyes Down for a Full House. Labour Market Dynamics of Households

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Jonathan Wadsworth (CEP and Royal Holloway)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

26 February 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trade and welfare (across local labor markets)

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Jonathan Vogel (UCLA)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

26 February 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The Role of Trademarks in International Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters in the African Tyre Industry

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Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

27 February 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Teens, Screens and Well-Being: Where Is the Evidence on Social Media Use and Its Impacts on Well-Being?

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Amy Orben (Cambridge)

32L LG.04, Lower Ground Floor, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

2 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
3G Internet and Confidence in Government

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Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE)

ONLINE

3 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History

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Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

4 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

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Paula Bustos (CEMFI) joint with CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

4 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

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Paula Bustos (CEMFI) joint with CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminar

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

4 March 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
China Shock, Misallocation, and the Evolution of Aggregate Productivity

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Daniele Verdini (UC Louvain)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

5 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
The Asymmetric Effect of Gains and Losses in Job Security on Health

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Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

5 March 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The Industrial Revolution in Services

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Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chicago Booth)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

9 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (Chicago)

ONLINE

10 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Tax and Mobility of Top Earners: Estimates from UK Tax Records

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Felix Koenig (Princeton & CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

11 March 2020 15:30 - 17:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
SEMINAR CANCELLED

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Thijs Bol (University of Amsterdam)

Venue to be Confirmed,

11 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trucks

High transportation costs in developing countries are often cited as a key hindrance to economic growth, and billions upon billions of dollars have been invested in infrastructure in order to reduce these costs. If the t... Read more...

Treb Allen (Dartmouth)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

11 March 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The spatial biased growth: structural change, misallocation, and spatial linkages

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Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

12 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Take the Highway? Paved Roads and Wellbeing in Africa

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Andrew Clark (CEP & PSE Paris)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

12 March 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Popularity vs Quality: Does Social Media Bias Editorial Decisions?

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Julia Cage (Sciences Po Paris)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

13 March 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

This paper uses the property market to examine the magnitude of indoor air pollution costs. We focus on radon, an indoor air pollutant which is the largest source of exposure to natural ionising radiation and the leading... Read more...

Nikodem Szumilo (UCL)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

16 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (EUI)

ONLINE

17 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labour Supply

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Anna Raute (Queen Mary)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

18 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
All aboard: The aggregate effects of port development

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Reka Juhasz (Columbia)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

18 March 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Agglomeration, International Trade, and the Comparative Advantage of Cities

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Jan Bakker (UCL and CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

19 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
The Effect of Broadband Internet on Mental Health: Evidence From Germany

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Marta Golin (Oxford)

ONLINE

19 March 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
TBC

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Romain Wacziarg (UCLA Anderson)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

20 March 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Decomposing Local House Price Dynamics in England

We test to what extent the extraordinary growth in real house prices in England—especially in London and the South East of the country—is driven by local fundamentals vis-à-vis macroeconomic factors. Employing a unique p... Read more...

Andreas Mense (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

ONLINE

23 March 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
Is Gig Work Replacing Traditional Employment? Evidence from Two Decades of Tax

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Dmitri Koustas (Chicago)

ONLINE

24 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892-2015

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Pawel Bukowski (CEP, LSE)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

25 March 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
CANCELLED

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Torje Hegna (Oslo & CEP)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

26 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Performative Social Media as a Measure of Wellbeing

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Margarida Madaleno (LSE)

ONLINE

26 March 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Not All Management Is Created Equal: Evidence from the Training Within the Industry Program

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Michela Giorcelli (UCLA)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

27 March 2020 13:00 - 14:30

International Economics Seminars
Spatial economics for granular settings

We study the application of the "gravity" theoretical framework to empirical settings in which the pattern of economic activity is granular. In settings with fine spatial units or finite samples of the population, indivi... Read more...

Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) joint with CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminar and UB Barcelona

ONLINE

27 March 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Spatial economics for granular settings

We study the application of the "gravity" theoretical framework to empirical settings in which the pattern of economic activity is granular. In settings with fine spatial units or finite samples of the population, indivi... Read more...

Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth) joint with CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars and UB Barcelona

ONLINE

31 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Monitoring hiring discrimination through online recruitment platforms

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Dominik Hangartner (LSE (Methodology Institute))

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

1 April 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and the Global Implications of Local Shocks

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Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe (University of Oslo)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

1 April 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The UK's Great Demand Recession.

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Giordano Mion (Sussex & CEP)

32L.G.09, Ground Floor, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

2 April 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

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Robb Rutledge (UCL & Yale University)

ONLINE

2 April 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
TBC

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Esther Ann Bøler (Imperial)

NAB 3.21, 3rd Floor, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

3 April 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Cities and the Sea Level

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Guy Michaels (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

22 April 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Vocational Education Research Seminars
POSTPONED

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Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

24 April 2020 09:00 - 18:00

Public Events
CANCELLED: 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

2-day conference to be held at LSE... Read more...

Various Venues,

5 May 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

6 May 2020 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops
The UK's Great Demand and Supply Recession

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Giordano Mion (Sussex & CEP)

ONLINE

7 May 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
TBC

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Reto Odermatt (CEP and Basel)

32L 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

11 May 2020 18:00 - 20:00

Public Events
POSTPONED: CEP Annual Conference

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Off Campus,

13 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Disputes in International Investment and Trade

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Robert Staiger (Dartmouth)

ONLINE

13 May 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Managing Global Production: Theory and Evidence from Just-in-Time Supply Chains

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Frank Pisch (St.Gallen & CEP)

ONLINE

14 May 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
How Should We Measure Well-Being in the Digital Economy?

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Avinash Collis (MIT)

ONLINE

15 May 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure

Environmental conditions during gestation shape human capital at birth and have also been shown to have persistent effects on later-life economic outcomes. However, little is known about whether prenatal environmental ex... Read more...

Jonathan Colmer (Virginia/CEP)

ONLINE

18 May 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (Berkeley)

ONLINE

19 May 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Sibling Effects on College and Major Choice: Evidence from Chile, Croatia, Sweden and the United States

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Andrés Barrios - Fernandez (VATT, CEP)

ONLINE

20 May 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Vocational Education Research Seminars
The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System

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Shaun Dougherty (University of Connecticut)

ONLINE

20 May 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Immigration and R&D: A Firm level Approach

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Torje Hegna (Oslo & CEP)

ONLINE

21 May 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Delayed Negative Effects of Pro-Social Spending on Happiness

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Thomas Graeber (Harvard)

ONLINE

22 May 2020 14:00 - 15:30

International Economics Seminars
Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam

This paper argues that the endogeneity of amenities plays a crucial role in the welfare distribution of a city's residents by reinforcing location sorting. We quantify this channel by leveraging spatial variation in tour... Read more...

Milena Almagro Garcia (NYU) joint with LSE Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

ONLINE

22 May 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam

This paper argues that the endogeneity of amenities plays a crucial role in the welfare distribution of a city's residents by reinforcing location sorting. We quantify this channel by leveraging spatial variation in tour... Read more...

Milena Almagro Garcia (NYU) joint with LSE International Economics Seminars

ONLINE

27 May 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks

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Kirill Borusyak  (UCL)

ONLINE

28 May 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Happy Caregivers, Better-Off Children? An Analysis Using the Young Lives Longitudinal Survey

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Lajos Kossuth (Warwick)

ONLINE

29 May 2020 09:30 - 17:30

Public Events
POSTPONED: Youth Trade Workshop

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CEP, LSE,

29 May 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality

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Naomi Hausman (Hebrew University)

ONLINE

1 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego)

ONLINE

2 June 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
The Rise of the Precariat? Trends in Subjective Job Security

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Alan Manning (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

3 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Globalization in the time of COVID-19

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Alessandro Sforza (University of Bologna)

ONLINE

4 June 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Association Between Religious Service Attendance and Mortality, Depression, and Suicide: Is it Causal? What Are the Mechanisms?

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Tyler VanderWeele (Harvard)

ONLINE

5 June 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Gentrifying cities, amenities and sorting: evidence from San Francisco

After decades of suburbanization in the U.S., there is a recent movement of the most educated people back to city centers. In this paper, we provide evidence of the effects of gentrification on local amenities and sortin... Read more...

Federico Curci (Carlos III de Madrid)

ONLINE

8 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
TBC

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Owen Zidar (Princeton)

ONLINE

9 June 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

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Clare Leaver (Oxford University)

ONLINE

10 June 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
All aboard:The aggregate effects of port development

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Reka Juhasz (Columbia)

ONLINE

10 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Agglomeration, International Trade, and Regional Inequality

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Jan Bakker (UCL and CEP)

ONLINE

11 June 2020 10:00 - 18:00

Public Events
ONLINE: CEPR/LSE Annual Symposium in Labour Economics

This 2-day symposium brings together leading economists working in any area of labour economics.... Read more...

ONLINE

11 June 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Peer Gender Composition and Mental Health

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Armando Meier (Chicago)

ONLINE

12 June 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Early Impact of COVID-19 on Local Commerce: Changes in Spend Across Neighborhoods and Online

We document a number of striking features about the initial impact of the pandemic on local commerce across 16 US cities. There are two novel contributions from this analysis: exploration of neighborhood-level effects an... Read more...

Lindsay Relihan (LSE)

ONLINE

15 June 2020 09:30 - 18:00

Public Events
POSTPONED: Management and Productivity workshop

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32L 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

16 June 2020 16:00 - 17:00

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
The Geography of New Technologies

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

ONLINE

18 June 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Eudaimonic Well-Being and the Trump Vote: Unearthing the Psychological Roots of Racialized Economics

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Mark Fabian (Cambridge)

ONLINE

19 June 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Tasks, cities and urban wage premia

Combining rich administrative data for Germany with representative workforce surveys, I find that job task content is robustly predictive of differences in urban wage premia across otherwise observationally equivalent in... Read more...

Anja Grujovic (CEMFI)

ONLINE

1 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Conditionality, Administrative Discretion, and Psychological Well-Being: the Case of UK Benefit Sanctions

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Liam Delaney (LSE)

ONLINE

8 October 2020 14:15 - 15:45

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Academic Talent and Firm Creation in China

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Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)

ONLINE

8 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Which Occupations Are Best for Wellbeing?

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Maria Cotofan (CEP)

ONLINE

14 October 2020 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

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Guglielmo Ventura (CVER and CEP) joint with Steve Machin, Sandra McNally and Camille Terrier

ONLINE

15 October 2020 14:30 - 16:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Making the Most of Limited Government Capability: Theory and Experiment

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Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)

ONLINE

15 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

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Clemens Hetschko (University of Leeds)

ONLINE

21 October 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio

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Sam Norris (Chicago)

ONLINE

22 October 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Leaders in Labor Movements: Experimental evidence from Myanmar

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Laura Boudreau (Columbia) joint with Virginia Minni (LSE)

ONLINE

22 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes

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Maarten Lindeboom (Free University of Amsterdam)

ONLINE

26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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)

ONLINE

27 October 2020 15:30 - 18:00

Public Events
Workshop on alternative work arrangements, with policy panel

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Various Speakers

ONLINE

28 October 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Trade and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from France

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Jan Bakker (UCL and CEP)

ONLINE

29 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Does Being Angry Limit Your Ability to Think Strategically?

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Eugenio Proto (University of Glasgow)

ONLINE

2 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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)

ONLINE

3 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Imperfect Signals and the Efficiency of Educational Investments

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Georg Graetz (Uppsala University and CEP)

ONLINE

4 November 2020 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Labour Market Returns to Vocational Education: The Role of Counterfactual Choices

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Sönke Hendrik Matthewes (WZB Berlin) joint with Guglielmo Ventura

ONLINE

4 November 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks

This paper examines the structure of the shipping network and its implications on global trade and welfare. Using novel data on the movements of container ships, we calculate optimal travel routes. We then estimate the i... Read more...

Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe (University of Oslo) joint with Inga Heiland, Andreas Moxnes ​and Yuan Zi

ONLINE

4 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

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Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)

ONLINE

5 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing

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Alex Bryson (UCL) joint with David Blanchflower (Dartmouth)

ONLINE

9 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (EUI)

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10 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Making Giants? Oil discoveries and Intergenerational Mobility

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Stephan Maurer (University of Konstanz and CEP) joint with Diego Battiston, Sevi Rodriguez Mora and Andrei Potlogea

ONLINE

11 November 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Exports, Imports, and Earnings Inequality: Micro-Data and Macro-Lessons From Ecuador

The earnings of individuals depend on the demand for the factor services they supply. International trade may therefore affect earnings inequality because either: (i) foreign relative factor demand is different from dome... Read more...

Dave Donaldson (MIT) joint with Rodrigo Adao, Paul Carrillo, Arnaud Costinot and Dina Pomeranz

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12 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments

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Jordi Blanes i Vidal (LSE)

ONLINE

12 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Physical Pain, Gender, and the Business Cycle in 146 Nations

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Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick)

ONLINE

13 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

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Laurent Gobillon (PSE)

ONLINE

16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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) joint with Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva & David Y. Yan

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17 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Paid Parental Leave Benefits and Paternity Acknowledgement

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Anna Raute (Queen Mary)

ONLINE

18 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Women in Policing and Domestic Violence

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Sofia Amaral (IFO)

ONLINE

18 November 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Permanently Scarred? The Long-Run Consequences of Civil War in Sierra Leone

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Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

ONLINE

19 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Task Based Discrimination

We introduce a new model of task based discrimination to understand the evolution of the racial wage gap since 1960. We highlight a new task measure - Contact tasks - which measures the extent to which individuals intera... Read more...

Yona Rubinstein (CEP and LSE) joint with Erik Hurst and Kazuatsu Shimizu

ONLINE

19 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Responsibility Utility and the Difference between Preference and Desirance: Implications for Welfare Evaluation

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Leonhard Lades (University College Dublin)

ONLINE

20 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Job Growth from Opportunity Zones

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Morris Davis (Rutgers) joint with Alina Arefeva, Andra Ghent and Minseon Park

ONLINE

23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley)

ONLINE

24 November 2020 14:00 - 15:15

Public Events
Covid-19 and business technology adoption

At this event we will be discussing what we know about the barriers to technology adoption and how policy can address these, in the context of Covid-19.... Read more...

Various Speakers joint with the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID)

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24 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Local Monopsony Power

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Nikhil Datta (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

25 November 2020 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the U.S.: Insights From Well-Being During COVID-19 (With Some Minor Insights on the 2020 Election Outcome)

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Carol Graham (University of Maryland)

ONLINE

25 November 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The Value of Trademarks: Micro Evidence from Chinese Exports to Africa

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Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE)

ONLINE

26 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Consumer Search and Choice Overload

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Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) joint with Patrick Rey

ONLINE

26 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

Public Events
Make wellbeing the goal

This 30th Anniversary CEP event will ask can wellbeing become the focus for social science? How would this change economics and policy analysis? How would it change policy priorities for a post-Covid-19 world?... Read more...

Richard Layard (CEP)

ONLINE

27 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Borders within Europe

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Marta Santamaria (Warwick) joint with Jaume Ventura and Ugur Yesilbayraktar

ONLINE

1 December 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Retirement Consumption and Optimal Pension Design

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Camille Landais (LSE) joint with Jonas Kolsrud, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn

ONLINE

2 December 2020 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education

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Jeni Ruiz Valenzuela (CEP, LSE) joint with Esteban Aucejo and Claudia Hupkau

ONLINE

2 December 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Industrialization without Innovation

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Paula Bustos (CEMFI) joint with Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

ONLINE

2 December 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing

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Jonathan Mummolo (Princeton)

ONLINE

2 December 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Markups and Quality: Evidence from Colombian Coffee Exports

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Rocco Macchiavello (LSE and CEP) joint with Nicolas de Roux, Pepita Miquel-Florensa & Eric Verhoogen

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3 December 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Procrastination Market

We develop models of markets with procrastinating consumers when competition operates - or is supposed to operate - both through the initial selection of providers and through the possibility of switching providers. Para... Read more...

Paul Heidhues (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics) joint with Botond Koszegi and Takeshi Murooka

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3 December 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
What Do Happiness Data Mean? Evidence from a Survey of Happiness Respondents

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Ori Heffetz (Hebrew University and Cornell University)

ONLINE

7 December 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (Chicago Booth) joint with Hunt Allcott and Lena Song

ONLINE

8 December 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Job Loss, Divorce and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Denmark

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Ria Ivandic (LSE and CEP) joint with Tom Kirchmaier and Anne Sophie Lassen

ONLINE

9 December 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Gender Biases in Police Decisions

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Anna Bindler (Cologne)

ONLINE

9 December 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

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Swati Dhingra (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

10 December 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China

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Noam Yuchtman (LSE) joint with Martin Beraja and David Yang

ONLINE

10 December 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Do Time Constraints Worsen our Health and Well-being? Daylight Saving Time as a Quasi-Natural Experiment

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Sarah Flèche (Aix-Marseille School of Economics and CEP)

ONLINE

11 December 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws

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Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) joint with International Economics Seminars

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16 December 2020 12:00 - 13:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Management Practices in Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges

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Luis Schmidt (CVER and CEP, LSE) joint with Sandra McNally and Anna Valero

ONLINE

16 December 2020 13:40 - 19:00

Public Events
Technology and the labour market: conference

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Various Speakers joint with LSE Department of Economics

ONLINE

16 December 2020 17:45 - 19:00

Public Events
Technology and the labour market: public panel

A public event to mark 10 years of Chris Pissarides’ Nobel Prize.... Read more...

Various Speakers joint with LSE Department of Economics

ONLINE

3 February 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops
The Legacy of Conflict: Aggregate Evidence from Sierra Leone

This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war... Read more...

Tillman Hoenig (LSE)

ONLINE

4 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
What Drives Wellbeing in Schools and of Students?

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Jose Marquez Merino (Cambridge)

ONLINE

8 February 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Public Events
Going for growth

How can the UK and the world get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic?... Read more...

John Van Reenen (LSE, CEP and POID)

ONLINE

10 February 2021 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

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Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago)

ONLINE

11 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
The Long-Term Impact of School Privatization on Wellbeing: Evidence from the 1981 Reform in Chile

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Martín Fernández-Sánchez (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

ONLINE

17 February 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Inequality in US Criminal Justice and Economic Outcomes

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Mike Mueller-Smith (Michigan)

ONLINE

18 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Using Memories to Assess the Intrapersonal Comparability of Wellbeing Reports

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Caspar Kaiser (Oxford)

ONLINE

23 February 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Banning the Boston Mechanism in Britain: Effects on School Segregation and Student Achievement

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Camille Terrier (HEC Lausanne and CEP)

ONLINE

24 February 2021 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Assessing the Implementation and Impact of CTE in NYC – Early Impacts on Short-term Academic Outcomes

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Rebecca Unterman (MRDC)

ONLINE

24 February 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity

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Christopher Roth (Warwick)

ONLINE

25 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Does Inequality Affect the Perception of Needs?

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Clément Bellet (Erasmus and CEP)

ONLINE

1 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

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Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

ONLINE

2 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
School Types – Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Different School Arrangements

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Olmo Silva (LSE and CEP) joint with M. Bertoni (Padova) and T. Klein (ZEW)

ONLINE

3 March 2021 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Trade Protection Along Supply Chains

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Paola Conconi (ULB, CEPR, CESifo and CEP) joint with Chad Bown (Peterson Institute and CEPR), Aksel Erbahar (Erasmus and Tinbergen Institute) and Lorenzo Trimarchi (Universit´e de Namur)

ONLINE

3 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
The Labour Market Effects of Services Trade

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Josh De Lyon (Oxford and CEP)

ONLINE

4 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Does Growing up in a Recession Increase Compassion? The Case of Attitudes Towards Immigration

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Maria Cotofan (CEP)

ONLINE

5 March 2021 14:00 - 15:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities

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Alessandra Fogli (FRB Minneapolis)

ONLINE

9 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Minimum wages and the wage policy of firms

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Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University and CEP) joint with Stephen Machin (LSE CEP)

ONLINE

10 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Misdemeanor Prosecution

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Amanda Agan (Rutgers) joint with Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M) and Anna Harvey (NYU)

ONLINE

10 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
Import Competition and Trade Credit: Evidence and Theory

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Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy and CEP) joint with Federico Esposito (Tufts University)

ONLINE

11 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
The Welfare Effects of Social Media

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Sarah Eichmeyer (LMU Munich)

ONLINE

11 March 2021 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

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John Van Reenen (LSE, CEP and POID)

ONLINE

12 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

International Economics Seminars
European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier

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Costas Arkolakis (Yale) joint with Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

ONLINE

12 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier

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Costas Arkolakis (Yale) joint with International Economics Seminars

ONLINE

15 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
The political economy of policy experimentations in China

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David Yang (Harvard University)

ONLINE

16 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes

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Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF and CEP/CVER) joint with Ingo Isphording (IZA) Stephen Machin (LSE and CEP) and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (CEP)

ONLINE

17 March 2021 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars
Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare

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Davin Chor (Dartmouth)

ONLINE

17 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops
GVC Tariffs and Trade Elasticities

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Rebecca Freeman (Bank of England and CEP)

ONLINE

18 March 2021 16:00 - 17:00

Public Events
The policy implications of recent globalisation research: The future of economic development strategies

An online seminar series aiming to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment on developing and emerging countries.... Read more...

Dani Rodrik (Harvard University) joint with CEPR and the German Development Institute

ONLINE

18 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Let’s Face It: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Calorie Labelling Using Facial Expressions

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Kate Laffan (University College Dublin )

ONLINE

19 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Judge Dread: Court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets

We study the impact of the likelihood that a house is repossessed – conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court – on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on the severity of courts that adjudicate on ... Read more...

Nikodem Szumilo (UCL) joint with Piero Montebruno (CEP), Olmo Silva (LSE, SERC and CEP)

ONLINE

22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 )

ONLINE

23 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Unequal Learning and Labour Market Losses in the Crisis: Consequences for Social Mobility

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Stephen Machin (LSE and CEP) joint with Lee Elliot Major (Exeter and CEP) and Andrew Eyles (CEP)

ONLINE

24 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops
Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States

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Thomas Sampson (LSE and CEP) joint with Holger Breinlich (Surrey and CEP), Elsa Leromain (UCLouvain and CEP) and Dennis Novy (Warwick and CEP)

ONLINE

24 March 2021 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
The Effect of College Capital Projects on Students' Outcomes

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Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF and CEP/CVER)

ONLINE

24 March 2021 17:00 - 18:30

International Economics Seminars
Becoming a Multinational: An Analysis of Market Access and Risk through Mergers

How do foreign direct investment dynamics affect the risk premium of a firm? To answer this question, we examine foreign affiliate opening and foreign acquisitions in a large sample of US firms over time. Our analysis fo... Read more...

Stefania Garetto (Boston University) joint with Jose L. Fillat (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

ONLINE

24 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Corruption under Austerity

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP le... Read more...

Gianmarco Daniele (University of Milan)

ONLINE

25 March 2021 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
Going Viral: Nazi Marches and the Spread of Extremism

Can extremism become contagious? Many papers have shown that social control of public actions can lead to sudden transitions from ‘extreme to mainstream’. What is not clear is whether social spillovers can also have firs... Read more...

Hans-Joachim Voth (Zurich)

ONLINE

26 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets

Using transaction records on housing sales and leases, we estimate the effect of Toronto’s imposition of a land transfer tax in 2008. We find two novel effects of an increase in land transfer tax: (1) a rise in buy-to-le... Read more...

Lu Han (Wisconsin School of Business) joint with Rachel Ngai (LSE) and Kevin Sheedy (LSE)

ONLINE

29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars
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 (Berkeley)

ONLINE

29 March 2021 17:00 - 18:15

Public Events
Brexit's economic impact: early evidence and future prospects

An online panel event discussing the early evidence of the impact of Brexit on UK-EU trade, and how economic performance will affect British politics.... Read more...

Various Speakers joint with the Centre for European Reform, and UK in a Changing Europe

ONLINE

30 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

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John Van Reenen (LSE, CEP and POID) joint with Philippe Aghion (College de France and LSE CEP), Antonin Bergeaud (Banque de France and CEP)

ONLINE

31 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops
On the Geography of Industrial Transition and Inequality

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Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

31 March 2021 17:00 - 18:30

International Economics Seminars
Unequal Expenditure Switching: Evidence from Switzerland

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Ariel Burstein (UCLA) joint with Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

ONLINE

31 March 2021 17:00 - 18:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars
Unequal Expenditure Switching: Evidence from Switzerland

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Ariel Burstein (UCLA) joint with International Economics Seminars

ONLINE

1 April 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Volunteering Improves Wellbeing: Evidence from a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme

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Christian Krekel (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

1 April 2021 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The Misallocation of Women’s Talent Across Countries: Evidence from Personnel Data

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Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

ONLINE

20 April 2021 16:00 - 17:00

Public Events
The policy implications of recent globalisation research: The future of GVCs

Part of an online seminar series aiming to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effect on developing and emerging countries.... Read more...

Pol Antras (Harvard) joint with CEPR and the German Development Institute

ONLINE

28 April 2021 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
Worker Skills and Organizational Spillovers: Evidence from Linked Training and Communications Data

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Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

ONLINE

4 May 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

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Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po and CEP)

ONLINE

5 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Public Services Access and Domestic Violence: Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner (Surrey)

ONLINE

6 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Geographical Differences in Wellbeing

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Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

11 May 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
A Multisector Perspective on Wage Stagnation

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Rachel Ngai (LSE) joint with Orhun Sevinc (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

ONLINE

12 May 2021 14:00 - 15:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars
TBC

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Hanna Virtanen (ETLA Economic Research)

ONLINE

12 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
The Punishment Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant

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Emily Nix (USC Marshall)

ONLINE

18 May 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
Labour market returns to vocational education: the role of counterfactual choices

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Guglielmo Ventura (CVER and CEP) joint with Soenke Matthewes (WZB)

ONLINE

19 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Stealing to Make Ends Meet: Monthly Social Assistance and Crime in Vancouver, B.C

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Kevin T. Schnepel (Simon Fraser University)

ONLINE

20 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Crime and Wellbeing

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Thomas Kirchmaier (CEP and CCG)

ONLINE

24 May 2021 09:00 - 18:00

Annual Conference
CEP Annual Conference 2021

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TBC

Off Campus,

26 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

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Diego Battison (University of Edinburgh)

ONLINE

27 May 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Migration and Wellbeing

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Alan Manning (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

1 June 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
tbc

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Maria Cotofan (CEP)

ONLINE

2 June 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Displacement in the Criminal Labor Market: Evidence from Drug Legalizations

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Heyu Xiong (Case Western Reserve University)

ONLINE

3 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Moving Behaviour and Geographical Differences in Wellbeing

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Christian Krekel (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

4 June 2021 15:00 - 20:00

Public Events
Chicago/LSE conference: The economics of crime and justice

A two-day conference (Fri 04 & Sat 05 June) discussing recent work on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system.... Read more...

Various Speakers

ONLINE

8 June 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
tbc

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Junius Oliver (LSE)

ONLINE

9 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Public Events
Moving on up?

Stephen Machin asks what are the longer-term consequences for social mobility in the UK?... Read more...

Stephen Machin (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

9 June 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
On Mass Incarceration and Educational Attainment

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Sitian Liu (Queen's University)

ONLINE

15 June 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops
tbc

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Guy Michaels (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

16 June 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization

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Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

ONLINE

17 June 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars
Geographical Differences in Wellbeing and Their Political Implications

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Maria Cotofan (CEP)

ONLINE