CEP Events - Calendar

23 January 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

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

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

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

LSE Public Event: Can We Be Happier?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hunt Allcott (NYU)

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

18 February 2020 12:55 - 14:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

Simon Jäger (MIT)

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

25 February 2020 12:55 - 14:00

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE)

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

3 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

10 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Tax and Mobility of Top Earners: Estimates from UK Tax Records

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

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

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

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?

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)

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

17 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labour Supply

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

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

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

Marta Golin (Oxford)

ONLINE

19 March 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

TBC

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

Dmitri Koustas (Chicago)

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

24 March 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Robb Rutledge (UCL & Yale University)

ONLINE

2 April 2020 13:45 - 15:00

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

TBC

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

Guy Michaels (LSE/CEP)

ONLINE

22 April 2020 14:00 - 15:30

Vocational Education Research Seminars

POSTPONED

Miguel Espinosa (STICERD, LSE)

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

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

Giordano Mion (Sussex & CEP)

ONLINE

7 May 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

TBC

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

Off Campus,

13 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars

Disputes in International Investment and Trade

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

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?

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

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

Shaun Dougherty (University of Connecticut)

ONLINE

20 May 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Immigration and R&D: A Firm level Approach

Torje Hegna (Oslo & CEP)

ONLINE

21 May 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Delayed Negative Effects of Pro-Social Spending on Happiness

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

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

Lajos Kossuth (Warwick)

ONLINE

29 May 2020 09:30 - 17:30

Public Events

POSTPONED: Youth Trade Workshop

CEP, LSE,

29 May 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality

Naomi Hausman (Hebrew University)

ONLINE

1 June 2020 12:00 - 13:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

TBC

Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego)

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

2 June 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

The Rise of the Precariat? Trends in Subjective Job Security

Alan Manning (LSE,CEP)

ONLINE

3 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Globalization in the time of COVID-19

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?

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

Owen Zidar (Princeton)

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

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

Clare Leaver (Oxford University)

ONLINE

10 June 2020 12:30 - 14:00

International Economics Seminars

All aboard:The aggregate effects of port development

Reka Juhasz (Columbia)

ONLINE

10 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Agglomeration, International Trade, and Regional Inequality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)

ONLINE

8 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Which Occupations Are Best for Wellbeing?

Maria Cotofan (CEP and LSE)

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

Guglielmo Ventura (CVER and CEP, LSE) 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

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

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

Sam Norris (Chicago)

ONLINE

22 October 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Leaders in Labor Movements: Experimental evidence from Myanmar

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

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

Various Speakers

ONLINE

28 October 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Trade and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from France

Jan Bakker (UCL and CEP)

ONLINE

29 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Does Being Angry Limit Your Ability to Think Strategically?

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

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

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

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)

ONLINE

5 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing

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)

ONLINE

10 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Making Giants? Oil discoveries and Intergenerational Mobility

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

ONLINE

12 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments

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

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

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

ONLINE

17 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Paid Parental Leave Benefits and Paternity Acknowledgement

Anna Raute (Queen Mary)

ONLINE

18 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops

Women in Policing and Domestic Violence

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

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

Leonhard Lades (University College Dublin)

ONLINE

20 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

Job Growth from Opportunity Zones

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

ONLINE

23 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

TBC

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)

ONLINE

24 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Local Monopsony Power

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)

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

Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE)

ONLINE

26 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Consumer Search and Choice Overload

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Mummolo (Princeton)

ONLINE

2 December 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Markups and Quality: Evidence from Colombian Coffee Exports

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

ONLINE

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

ONLINE

3 December 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

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

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

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

Anna Bindler (Cologne)

ONLINE

9 December 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

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

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

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

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

ONLINE

16 December 2020 12:00 - 13:00

Vocational Education Research Seminars

Management Practices in Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges

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

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?

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 (MIT, LSE and CEP)

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

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

Mike Mueller-Smith (Michigan)

ONLINE

18 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Using Memories to Assess the Intrapersonal Comparability of Wellbeing Reports

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

Camille Terrier (HEC Lausanne and CEP)

ONLINE

24 February 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops

Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression

Christopher Roth (Warwick)

ONLINE

25 February 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Does Inequality Affect the Perception of Needs?

Clément Bellet (Erasmus and CEP)

ONLINE

2 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

School Types – Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Different School Arrangements

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

ONLINE

3 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

tbc

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

Maria Cotofan (CEP and LSE)

ONLINE

9 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Minimum wages and the wage policy of firms

Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University and CEP)

ONLINE

10 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops

tbc

Amanda Agan (Rutgers)

ONLINE

10 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

tbc

Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy and CEP)

ONLINE

11 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

The Welfare Effects of Social Media

Sarah Eichmeyer (LMU Munich)

ONLINE

16 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

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

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

ONLINE

17 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

tbc

Rebecca Freeman (Bank of England and CEP)

ONLINE

18 March 2021 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

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

Kate Laffan (University College Dublin )

ONLINE

23 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

tbc

Stephen Machin (CEP and LSE)

ONLINE

24 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops

tbc

Thomas Sampson (LSE and CEP)

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 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Collective Action and Wellbeing in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the NHS Volunteer Responders

Christian Krekel (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

30 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

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

ONLINE

31 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshops

tbc

Diego Battison (Univeristy of Edinburgh)

ONLINE

31 March 2021 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

tbc

Kohei Takeda (LSE and CEP)

ONLINE

24 May 2021 09:00 - 18:00

Annual Conference

CEP Annual Conference 2021

TBC

Off Campus,

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

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Can Training Grants Improve Firm Performance? Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

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

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The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and Psychotherapy on Psychological and Economic Well-being

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Payday Lending, Self-Control, and Consumer Protection

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

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Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Experimental Evidence from FDI Firms

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

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Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

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Labor in the Boardroom

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

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Trade and welfare (across local labor markets)

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

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

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3G Internet and Confidence in Government

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

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Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

International Economics Seminars

Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

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China Shock, Misallocation, and the Evolution of Aggregate Productivity

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

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The Industrial Revolution in Services

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

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Tax and Mobility of Top Earners: Estimates from UK Tax Records

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International Economics Seminars

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The spatial biased growth: structural change, misallocation, and spatial linkages

Wellbeing Seminars

Take the Highway? Paved Roads and Wellbeing in Africa

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Popularity vs Quality: Does Social Media Bias Editorial Decisions?

Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

Applications (Applied Micro) Seminars

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

Labour Markets Workshops

Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labour Supply

International Economics Seminars

All aboard: The aggregate e&#64256;ects of port development

International Economics Workshops

Agglomeration, International Trade, and the Comparative Advantage of Cities

Wellbeing Seminars

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

All aboard: The aggregate eﬀects of port development

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