Events Calendar

Monday 26 October 2020 14:00 - 15:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Tuesday 27 October 2020 15:30 - 18:00

CEP Public Events

Hosted with the Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University

Workshop on alternative work arrangements (with policy panel)

New findings on the characteristics, constraints and preferences of gig-economy workers, the self-employed and others in non-standard work...Read more...

Wednesday 28 October 2020 17:00 - 18:00

International Economics Workshops

Trade and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from France

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Thursday 29 October 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Does Being Angry Limit Your Ability to Think Strategically?

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Monday 02 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Tuesday 03 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Imperfect Signals and the Efficiency of Educational Investments

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Wednesday 04 November 2020 14:00 - 15:00

CVER Seminar

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

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Wednesday 04 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshop

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

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Thursday 05 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing

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Monday 09 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Tuesday 10 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Making Giants? Oil discoveries and Intergenerational Mobility

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Thursday 12 November 2020 13:00 - 14:00

Wellbeing Seminars

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

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Thursday 12 November 2020 14:15 - 15:30

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

The Effect of Advisors' Incentives on Clients' Investments

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Friday 13 November 2020 13:00 - 14:30

CEP/Geography Urban and Regional Economics Seminars

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

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Monday 16 November 2020 16:00 - 17:30

CEP/STICERD Applications 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...

Tuesday 17 November 2020 12:55 - 14:00

Labour Markets Workshops

Paid Parental Leave Benefits and Paternity Acknowledgement

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Wednesday 18 November 2020 15:00 - 16:00

Policing and Crime Workshop

Women in Policing and Domestic Violence

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Wednesday 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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Thursday 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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Thursday 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...