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Events on or after 20 March 2021

Monday 22 March 2021 12:00 - 13:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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 University )

ONLINE

Tuesday 23 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

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

Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 24 March 2021 12:30 - 13:30

International Economics Workshops

Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States

Thomas Sampson (CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 24 March 2021 14:00 - 15:00

CVER Seminar

The Effect of College Capital Projects on Students' Outcomes

Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF University; CVER and CEP, LSE)

ONLINE

Wednesday 24 March 2021 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshop

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

Thursday 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 (University of Zurich)

ONLINE

Friday 26 March 2021 13:00 - 14:30

CEP/Geography 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)

ONLINE

Monday 29 March 2021 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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 (University of California, Berkeley)

ONLINE

Monday 29 March 2021 17:00 - 18:15

ONLINE

Tuesday 30 March 2021 12:55 - 14:00