For more information on how to attend, please contact @email.
Please contact the organisers listed below if you wish to present a paper.
- Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) seminars; Organisers: Antonella Bancalari, Christine Farquharson, David Sturrock, and Tom Waters.
- IFS-STICERD seminars on public economics: topics relating to public economics; co-organised by CPP at IFS and STICERD at LSE. Organiser: Xavier Jaravel, Camille Landais, Peter Levell and Johannes Spinnewijn .
- Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) seminars: topics relating to econometrics; Organiser: Daniel Wilhelm
2023/2024 Seminar Programme
Unless otherwise specified, these seminars will take place in person at the IFS and online. For more information on how to attend, please contact @email.
| Date | Time | Seminar | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ||||
| Wed 29 Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | David Green (University of British Colombia) | The Impact of Unions on Nonunion Wage Setting: Threats and Bargaining (with Ben Sand, Iain Snoddy, and Jeanne Tschopp) |
| Wed 6 Dec | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Ingrid Huitfeldt (BI Norwegian Business School) | Distributional Consequences of Cost-Sharing in a Universal Healthcare System (with Simon Bensnes and Victoria Marone) |
| 2024 | ||||
| Wed 6 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Damian Clarke (University of Exeter) | |
| Wed 13 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Bram De Rock (KU Leuven) | |
| Wed 20 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Sefi Roth (LSE) | |
| Wed 27 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | David Seim (Stockholm University) | |
| Wed 3 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Alex Willen (Norwegian School of Economics) | |
| Wed 17 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank) | |
| Mon 29 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School) | |
| Wed 1 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Dmitri Koustas (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy) | |
| Wed 8 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School) | |
| Wed 15 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS - STICERD Seminar | Peter Ganong (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy) | |
| Wed 29 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS - STICERD Seminar | Michael Best (Columbia University) | |
| Wed 5 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS - STICERD Seminar | Chris Roth (University of Cologne) | |
| Wed 12 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University) | |
| Wed 26 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Northwestern University) |
Past Seminars:
2023
Wednesday 8th March, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Joana Naritomi, LSE
Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil
Monday 20th March, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Courtney Coile, Wellesley College
How Post-Secondary Earnings Affects Earnings, Disability, and Longevity: Evidence from the Social Security Student Benefit Program.
Wednesday 12th April, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar - Yujung Hwang
Bounding omitted variable bias using auxiliary data with an application to estimate neighborhood effects
Wednesday 19th April, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Jon Kolstad, Berkeley
What Drives Health Inequality? Social Determinants of Health and Health Care Access.
Friday 28th April, 14:00 - 15:00
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Simeon Duckworth
Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Vlad Pavlov
Wednesday 3rd May, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA
Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
Friday 5th May, 14:00 - 15:00
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Milena Almagro
Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago Public Housing Demolitions
Wednesday 10th May, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Yiqun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department (with David Chan)
Friday 12th May. 14:00 - 15:00
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Kirill Borusyak
Exogeneity and Efficiency in BLP-style Demand Estimation
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Ivan Olszak
Teacher-pupil sorting, learning, and inequality
Wednesday 17th May, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
The diffusion of disruptive technologies
Monday 22nd May, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Tom Zohar, CEMFI
Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility (joint with Cauê Dobbin)
Friday 26th May, 14:00 - 15:00
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Peter Lambert
Working in Space
IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar: Anna Vitali
Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda
Wednesday 31st May, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin
Firm Accommodation and the Design of Social Insurance
Wednesday 7th June, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan
Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education
Wednesday 21st June, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Jochem de Bresser, Tilburg University
Heterogeneity in default effects on retirement saving (joint with Marike Knoef)
Friday 23rd June, 15.30 - 17.00
IFS STICERD Seminar: Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University
The Economics of Financial Stress
Wednesday 28 June 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Tarun Ramadorai
A Bad Bunch: Asset Value Under-Reporting in the Mumbai Real Estate Market
Abstract: Real-estate values are often under-reported to evade taxes and hide illicit wealth. We develop a new method to estimate under-reporting, and employ it on large, granular administrative data from the Mumbai real-estate market. The approach compares bunching of reported values around government-assessed guidance values with the distribution of a third-party measure of market values. We estimate that 11 percent of Mumbai real-estate value is under-reported between 2013 and 2022. Bunching declines post-demonetization, but there is no discernible change in the overall under-reporting rate. Properties with mortgages from banks with high non-performing assets and from public-sector banks exhibit greater under-reporting.
Wednesday 11 September 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Jonathan Skinner, Oxford University
Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals
Wednesday 11 October 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Sarah Clifford, Dartmouth University
The multinational capital advantage
Wednesday 25 October 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Andrew Foster, Brown University
Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities
Wednesday 8 November 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Martin Hackmann (UCLA)
Health Insurance as Economic Stimulus? Evidence from Long-Term Care Jobs
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Matt Shapiro (University of Michigan)
Monday 20 November 2023, 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar - Martin Halla (Linz)
2022
Friday 18th February, 15:30 - 17:00 (Online only)
Micro Macro Household Finance Seminar: Mark Aguiar, Princeton
Who are the hand-to-mouth?
Wednesday 23rd February, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Max Kellogg, University of Chicago
Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States
Monday 14th March, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics
The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
Wednesday 16th March, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS/STICERD Seminar: Evan Rose, University of Chicago
Systemic Discrimination among large U.S. Employers
Friday 18th March, 15:30 - 17:00 (Online Only)
Micro Macro Household Finance Seminar: Matthieu Gomez, Columbia
Asset-Price Redistribution
Monday 21st March, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Naomi Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity
Wednesday 30th March, 16.30 - 17.45 (Online Only)
IFS/STICERD Seminar: Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University
Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States
Monday 25th April, 14.30 - 15.45 (Online Only)
IFS Seminar: Heather Sarsons, University of Chicago
National Wage Setting
Wednesday 4th May, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS/STICERD Seminar: Petra Persson, Stanford University
Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening
Monday 9th May, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Jonathan Colmer, University of Virginia
Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Wednesday 18th May, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS/STICERD Seminar: Aline Bütikofer, Norwegian School of Economics
Pregnancy Loss: Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children
Monday 23rd May, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Diane Alexander, The Wharton School
Provider Payments and the Direction of Innovation: The Case of the Wearable Artificial Kidney
Wednesday 8th June, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS/STICERD Seminar: Johannes Spinnewyn, LSE
Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk
Monday 13th June, 12.30 - 13.45
IFS Seminar: Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, University of California Santa Cruz
How Much Is a Formal Job Worth? Evidence from Mexico
Wednesday 15th June, 16.00 - 17.15
IFS Seminar: Attila Lindner, UCL
Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes
Wednesday 28th September , 12:30 - 13:45
IFS Seminar: Cauê Dobbin, Stanford University
The Equilibrium Effects of Subsidized Student Loans
Wednesday 26th October , 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Jo Blanden, University of Surrey
Do non-monetary interventions improve staff retention? Evidence from English NHS hospitals
Wednesday 16th November , 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Xavier Jaravel, LSE
Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Wednesday 23rd November , 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: Helen Simpson, University of Bristol
The Ties that Bind: Social Networks and Boardroom Appointments
Wednesday 30th November , 12:30 – 13:45
IFS STICERD Seminar: Peter Levell, IFS
Housing supply and worker misallocation in the UK
Wednesday 7th December, 12:30 – 13:45
IFS Seminar: John Gathergood, University of Nottingham
Does Pension Automatic Enrolment Cause Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment