Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Vardges Levonyan, University of Zurich, presenting "BBC, Brexit, and Balanced Reporting". Media organizations can shape news via their choice of coverage and slant. We measure the aggregate slant of the BBC from 2014-18, benchmark it against UK newspapers of known political leaning, and show that it took a sharp turn to the right in the runup to the Brexit vote.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Shubhaa Bhattacharyya, SSE, presenting "Non-cooperative Technology Transfer under Credit Market Imperfections".

We invited students interested in this year's Social Innovation Scholarship for a launch event.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Jonas Hjort, University College London presenting "Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies". (Please note earlier than usual start time at 15:15.)

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Kajsa Hansson, Linköping University, presenting "How Confidence Affects Beliefs About Procedural Fairness and Preferences for Redistribution". We investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence on i) beliefs about procedural fairness and ii) preferences for redistribution. The findings suggest that confidence shapes views on how fair the world is, while the experience of success and failure affect preferences for redistribution above and beyond the influence of confidence.

The seminar with Jörgen Weibull has been cancelled. How much and when should we limit economic and social activity to ensure that the health-care system is not overwhelmed during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained and suppression is costly. Providing a fully analytical solution we show that the common wisdom of “flattening the curve” is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal suppression is discontinuous.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Pedro Guimarães Naso, Henan University, presenting "Heterogeneous Impacts of Schools Fee Elimination in Tanzania: Gender and Colonial Infrastructure". We investigate the impacts of the 2002 elimination of primary school fees in Tanzania. We explore how the magnitude of these effects depends on differences in gender and colonial investment in educational infrastructure.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Salil Sharma, SSE, presenting "Costly Sequential Screening".

Welcome to the 2022 Ohlin Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Adam Altmejd, SSE, presenting "Inheritance of Fields of Study". Swedish children are often three times more likely than the average child to attain the degree that their parent holds. To estimate how much of this association is caused by the choices of the parent, I employ a regression discontinuity design to study the choices of individuals who applied to Swedish universities between 1977 and 1999 and evaluate if their enrollment in fields increase the probability that their children later study the same topic.