School of Social Sciences

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 13:50 10 May 2023
Title: Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

MET Seminar - Andrew Ellis (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 10 May 2023
Title: Equilibrium Effects of Machine Learning (joint with Michele Piccione and Shengxing Zhang) Abstract: We introduce a tractable framework for studying the equilibrium effects of…

Applied Seminar - Michael Poyker (Nottingham)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2023
Title: Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System Abstract: I study the economic spillovers of convict labor on local labor markets and firms. Using newly collected panel…

College Behind Bars: Film Screening and Discussion on Justice and Education

18:00 - 20:30 11 May 2023
Join us for a film screening and discussion of College Behind Bars, an Emmy-nominated documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, which tells the story of a small group…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Melanie Xue (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 11 May 2023
Title: TBC

The Moral Duty to Vote (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 11 May 2023
Cecile Fabre (All-Souls, University of Oxford) Abstract: As of 2022, 27 democracies make it compulsory for all or most of their citizens to vote in local or national elections. In…

Econometric workshop in honour of Jack Johnston's centenarian

10:00 - 17:00 12 May 2023
The Econometrics group at the University of Manchester is happy to announce a workshop in honour of Jack Johnston's centenarian. The workshop takes place on Friday the 12th of May 2023…

How affinities matter in the lives of European transnational families: Studying intra-European mobility through the lens of potent connections (Anna Simola)

12:00 - 13:00 16 May 2023
Dr Anna Simola (Université Catholique de Louvain & University of Helsinki) shares her research on transnational families. The presentation introduces on-going research that advances…

Macro Seminar - Cecilia Garcia Penalosa (Aix-Marseille)

16:00 - 17:00 16 May 2023
Title: The Dynamics of Lifetime Earnings in France

Brownbag - Manuel Mosquera Tarrio

13:00 - 13:50 17 May 2023
Title: Information, Savings, and Income: Experimental Evidence

Brownbag - Tatiana Komarova

13:00 - 13:50 23 May 2023
Title: Multivariate ordered discrete response models

Democracy and Election Seminar

09:00 - 17:00 24 May 2023
Joint workshop held with Cathie Marsh Institute

MET Seminar - Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 24 May 2023
Title: Incentives for Collective Innovation Abstract: Agents exert hidden effort to produce randomly-sized innovations in a technology they share. Returns from using the technology…

The Vienna Circle and Beyond: A Workshop Inspired by the Work of Thomas Uebel

24 May 2023
A workshop in honour of and inspired by the work of Professor Thomas Uebel. 09.00 - 09.30: COFFEE/ARRIVAL 09.30 - 09.45: Graham Stevens - Introduction 09.50 - 11.05: Andre Carus…

The Muslim, State and Mind: Islamophobia in Mental Health and Psychology (Tarek Younis)

13:00 - 14:15 25 May 2023
Please join the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tarek Younis (Middlesex University). Mental health is placed as the cure for all of society’s…

MET Seminar - Gabriel Carroll (Toronto)

17:00 - 18:00 31 May 2023
Title: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments Abstract: Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period.…

Political Economy Seminar with Ilias Alami "Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization"

15:00 - 16:30 6 June 2023
Abstract. Technologically advanced states and large emerging economies increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms (FISM) to block inward foreign investment targeting sectors…

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