Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with David de la Croix, Universite Catholique Louvain, presenting "Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088-1800)". Exploiting multi-generation correlations and parent-child distributional differences, we identify the structural parameters of a Markov process of intergenerational transmission with nepotism.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a webinar with Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS, presenting "Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events". Using administrative data on Italian social security records, we construct measures of local labor market tightness for executives that vary by industry and location. We then show that firm performance is negatively affected by executive death.

This paper investigates the role of sorting between students and higher education programmes in driving social mobility in the UK. A model of education, labour supply and earnings allows for a rich characterisation of heterogeneity in the skills that different educational programmes provide.

This fall the SSE Alumni Office, in collaboration with the UK Friends of SSE, are delighted to invite you to join us for a guided walking tour through Shoreditch with Annika Hall, a qualified Blue Badge Guide for London and fellow SSE alum.

Join this webinar on October 21 to listen to academics and industry experts discuss how shareholders can play a role in tackling climate change.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics together with the Ministerial meetings of the Swedish-Russian Steering Committee, the Stockholm School of Economics, and The Russian Trade Representation in Sweden, will host a high level panel discussion on “Circular Economy and Innovation” on Friday October 15, 2021.

The Department of Economics welcomes you to the Seminar in Economics with Jonathan de Quidt, Associate Professor at Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University, presenting a paper titled "Implicit Preferences". We prove a representation theorem and show that implicit preferences can have diverse psychological foundations: rule-driven decision-making, signaling, and implicit knowledge. We apply the theory to two recent experimental datasets, finding evidence of implicit selfishness, implicit risk aversion, and implicit racial bias.

What are the economic impacts of environmental change and water scarcity? Researcher Nick Hagerty provide evidence on this question by studying surface water and compare the long-run and short-run effects of water scarcity on agriculture. Join the online seminar to learn more!

On 8 October Misum hosted our second Annual Forum as a full-day virtual event. With a cohort of global researchers, this academic and stakeholder conference examined key issues in sustainable markets research and practice connected to the climate crisis.

The Department of Economics welcomes you to an online seminar with Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics at University College London, presenting a paper titled "Pro-Poor Transfers and Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor". We study the impact of pro-poor transfers on the economic preferences of households in the context of small village economies in Pakistan and document the impacts of asset transfers and equivalent valued unconditional cash transfers.