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
2024 Seminars 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 |
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2024 | ||||
Wed 13 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Bram De Rock (KU Leuven) | A spouse and a house are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle |
Wed 20 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Sefi Roth (LSE) | Making the Invisible Visible: The Effects of Real-Time Indoor Air Pollution Information and the Demand for Clean Indoor Air (Joint with Robert Metcalfe) |
Wed 27 Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | David Seim (Stockholm University) | Deadwood labor: The effects of eliminating employment protection |
Wed 3 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Alex Willen (Norwegian School of Economics) | How do firms respond to unions? |
Wed 10 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Damian Clarke (University of Exeter) | Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from Constitutional Reform in Brazil (with Rudi Rocha and Michel Szklo) |
Wed 17 Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank) | Becoming Legible to the State: The Role of Identification and Collection Capacity in Tax Compliance |
Wed 1 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Dmitri Koustas (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy) | Consumption and Employment Responses to Beliefs about Student Loan Repayment |
Wed 8 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School) | Social Security Disability Reform and Implications for Employment |
Fri 17 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS - STICERD Seminar | Peter Ganong (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy) | Earnings Instability |
Wed 29 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS - STICERD Seminar | Michael Best (Columbia University) | Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance* |
Wed 12 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University) | Moving to Opportunity, Together |
Wed 26 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Northwestern University) | Income Support Programs in the U.S. and Their Impacts on Child Nutrition |
Wed 18 Sept | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Ben Moll (LSE) | Putting the ‘Finance’ into ‘Public Finance’: A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation∗ |
Wed 25 Sept | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) | The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood |
Wed 2 Oct | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota) | Health Inequality and Health Types |
Wed 16 Oct | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Cormac O'Dea (Yale) | Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation by Race and Parental Income∗ |
Wed 30 Oct | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Rob Metcalfe (USC) | A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change |
Wed 6 Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern/Bocconi) | Gender Disparities in the Welfare Effect of the Minimum Wage∗ |
Wed 13 Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Anna Russo (MIT) | |
Wed 20 Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Ceren Ozgen (University of Birmingham) | |
Wed 4 Dec | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | David Deming (Harvard Kennedy School) |
Date | Time | Seminar | Speaker | Title |
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2025 | ||||
Wed 26 Feb | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Christian Hilber (LSE) | |
Wed 5 March | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Chris Roth (University of Cologne) | |
Wed 12 March | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Francois Gerard (UCL) | |
Wed 19 March | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Augustin Bergeron | |
Wed 26 March | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) | |
Wed 2 April | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Patrick Bayer (Duke) | |
Wed 30 April | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Laura Hospido (Bank of Spain) | |
Wed 7 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Helene Ollivier (PSE) | |
Wed 21 May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Joe Shapiro (UC Berkeley) | |
Wed 4 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago) | |
Wed 11 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Susan Dynarksi (Harvard) | |
Wed 18 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Irem Guceri (Oxford) | |
Wed 25 June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Jason Sockin (Cornell) |
Past Seminars:
Date | Time | Seminar | Speaker | Title |
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2023 | ||||
Wed 8th Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Joana Naritomi (LSE) | Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil |
Mon 20th Mar | 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. |
Wed 12th Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Yujung Hwang | Bounding omitted variable bias using auxiliary data with an application to estimate neighborhood effects |
Wed 19th Apr | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Jon Kolstad (Berkeley) | What Drives Health Inequality? Social Determinants of Health and Health Care Access. |
Fri 28th Apr | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Simeon Duckworth | Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising |
Fri 28th Apr | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Vlad Pavlov | |
Wed 3rd May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) | Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal |
Fri 5th May | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Milena Almagro | Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago Public Housing Demolitions |
Wed 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) |
Fri 12th May | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Kirill Borusyak | Exogeneity and Efficiency in BLP-style Demand Estimation |
Fri 12th May | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Ivan Olszak | Teacher-pupil sorting, learning, and inequality |
Wed 17th May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) | The diffusion of disruptive technologies |
Mon 22nd May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Tom Zohar (CEMFI) | Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility (joint with Cauê Dobbin) |
Fri 26th May | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Peter Lambert | Working in Space |
Fri 26th May | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS/LSE/UCL IO Seminar | Anna Vitali | Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda |
Wed 31st May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin) | Firm Accommodation and the Design of Social Insurance |
Wed 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 |
Wed 21st June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Jochem de Bresser (Tilburg University) | Heterogeneity in default effects on retirement saving (joint with Marike Knoef) |
Fri 23rd June | 14:00 - 15:00 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Dmitriy Sergeyev (Bocconi University) | The Economics of Financial Stress |
Wed 28th June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Tarun Ramadorai | A Bad Bunch: Asset Value Under-Reporting in the Mumbai Real Estate Market |
Wed 11th Sept | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Jonathan Skinner (Oxford University) | Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals |
Wed 11th Oct | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Sarah Clifford (Dartmouth University) | The multinational capital advantage |
Wed 25th Oct | 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 |
Wed 8th Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Martin Hackmann (UCLA) | Health Insurance as Economic Stimulus? Evidence from Long-Term Care Jobs |
Wed 15th Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Matt Shapiro (University of Michigan) | |
Mon 20th Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Martin Halla (Linz) | |
Wed 29th 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 6th 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) |
Date | Time | Seminar | Speaker | Title |
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2022 | ||||
Fri 18th Feb | 15:30 - 17:00 | Micro Macro Household Finance Seminar | Mark Aguiar (Princeton) | Who are the hand-to-mouth? |
Wed 23rd Feb | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Max Kellogg (University of Chicago) | Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States |
Mon 14th Mar | 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 |
Wed 16th Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Evan Rose (University of Chicago) | Systemic Discrimination among large U.S. Employers |
Fri 18th Mar | 15:30 - 17:00 | Micro Macro Household Finance Seminar | Matthieu Gomez (Columbia) | Asset-Price Redistribution |
Mon 21st Mar | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Naomi Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity |
Wed 30th Mar | 16:30 - 17:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) | Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States |
Mon 25th Apr | 14:30 - 15:45 | IFS Seminar (Online only) | Heather Sarsons (University of Chicago) | National Wage Setting |
Wed 4th May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Petra Persson (Stanford University) | Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening |
Mon 9th May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia) | Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States |
Wed 18th May | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics) | Pregnancy Loss: Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children |
Mon 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 |
Wed 8th June | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Johannes Spinnewyn (LSE) | Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk |
Mon 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 |
Wed 15th June | 16:00 - 17:15 | IFS Seminar | Attila Lindner (UCL) | Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes |
Wed 28th Sept | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Cauê Dobbin (Stanford University) | The Equilibrium Effects of Subsidized Student Loans |
Wed 26th Oct | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Jo Blanden (University of Surrey) | Do non-monetary interventions improve staff retention? Evidence from English NHS hospitals |
Wed 16th Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Xavier Jaravel (LSE) | Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment |
Wed 23rd Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | Helen Simpson (University of Bristol) | The Ties that Bind: Social Networks and Boardroom Appointments |
Wed 30th Nov | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS STICERD Seminar | Peter Levell (IFS) | Housing supply and worker misallocation in the UK |
Wed 7th Dec | 12:30 - 13:45 | IFS Seminar | John Gathergood (University of Nottingham) | Does Pension Automatic Enrolment Cause Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment |