Audio and video

Thursday 11 December 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

The Company You Keep: The Positive Peer Effects of Kindergarten on Learning and Mental Health

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Thursday 04 December 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Aid

Why is in-kind aid a prominent feature of welfare systems? We present a lab-in-the-field experiment involving members of the general U.S. population and SNAP recipients. After documenting a widespread desire to limit rec...Read more...

Thursday 27 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

The Impacts of Austerity on Workplace Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

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Thursday 20 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

How Everyday Threats Undermine Trust and Hope: Experimental Evidence

Trust in others is vital for the well-functioning of societies. While economists often study its longer-term determinants—through culture, past shocks or state interventions—short-term fluctuation may be equally critic...Read more...

Tuesday 18 November 2025 18:00 - 20:00

POID External Event

Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Award Ceremony for Distinguised CES Fellow, David Autor: Laudation by John Van Reenen

Professor John Van Reenen was invited to give the laudation in honour of David Autor's distinguised CES fellow award....Read more...

Thursday 13 November 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Special on universal basic income | Does income affect health? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a guaranteed income

This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, w...Read more...

Thursday 30 October 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Special on universal basic income | Basic income and job guarantee: two field experiments

How does basic income (a regular, unconditional, guaranteed cash transfer) impact labor supply? We show that in search models of the labor market with income effects, this impact is theoretically ambiguous: Employment an...Read more...

Thursday 23 October 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Do People Report Happiness Accurately?

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specifie...Read more...

Thursday 09 October 2025 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Reskilling and Resilience

This paper shows that effective reskilling can have profound mental health benefits for workers and their partners. Using institutional variation in access to higher education after work accidents in Denmark, we find tha...Read more...

Wednesday 25 June 2025 18:30 - 20:00

CEP Public Events

Skills in the age of AI

How can we shape engaging work environments that foster productivity and enable workers to flourish?...Read more...

Friday 20 June 2025 13:30 - 14:30

CEP Public Events

Hosted with the LSE Festival 2025

Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress

The panel explore how we can identify cost-effective policies to improve societal wellbeing — and why it will be key to shaping the future of the UK and beyond...Read more...