Professor Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale.

Pande is an economist whose research examines the economic costs and benefits of informal and formal institutions in the developing world and the role of public policy in effecting change.

Her work has examined how institutions - ranging from electoral to financial - can be designed to empower historically disadvantaged groups; how low-cost improvements in information collection and dissemination can enable flexible regulation and more efficient outcomes in areas as diverse as environmental protection and elections; and how biased social norms, unless challenged by public policy, can worsen individual well-being and reduce economic efficiency.

Pande earned her undergraduate degree from Delhi University, her M.A. from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

May 2020

This event will also be live streamed for which no registration is required.

Professor Gina Neff: Based on critical data studies and organisational ethnography, this talk will argue that while advances in AI have sparked scholarly and public attention to the challenges of the ethical design of technologies, less attention has been focused on the requirements for their ethical use. Unfortunately, this means that the hidden talents and secret logics that fuel successful AI projects are undervalued and successful AI projects continue to be seen as technological, not social, accomplishments.

Read more here.

Over the last few years the government has introduced a number of policies aimed at altering people's diets - with the most notable new addition being the soft drinks levy. In this talk, we'll explore whether or not there is an economic rationale for such interventions and how economics can inform the design of policy in this area.

This IFS Public Talk will be given by Rebekah Stroud, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. This talk is jointly organised with the University of Manchester.

As with other public talks in this series, everyone is welcome to attend, and there will be plenty of time allowed for audience questions and debate.

If you have any questions about this event, or you would like to book more than one ticket, please contact economics-events@manchester.ac.uk. For more information on how to get to the venue, or if the button below doesn't work when trying to book your place, please visit the Eventbrite page.

With public trust in democracy at the lowest it's been in decades; in a time of mounting social discontent and increasing inequality particularly between the rich and poor, the healthy and sick, old and the young, the homed and the homeless; who is it we can look to for help in such uncertain times?

It's said knowledge is power, yet what do the economists, political scientists, policy makers, lawyers and social science researchers offer us in terms of a way forward? What information and tools, can, or should they have provided us, the people, with in order to tackle some of the complex problems arising in society today?

STICERD and the Department of Economics, in partnership with the Department of Law and School of Public Policy, will look to answer some of these questions by putting the social sciences on trial for the crime of failing society.

In the form of a mock trial, presided over by a 'judge', the prosecution will argue the case on behalf of the people, while the professors will defend their science. The jury (the live audience) will also have the opportunity to question witnesses. The trial will decide whether the social sciences, as an area of research, commentary and investigation has failed society.

This is a free public event. Register here.

A keynote speech from Andy Haldane (Chief Economist, Bank of England) on Income insecurity in the 21st Century.

Date: 23 February 2020, 16:30

Damn Lies, Fake News and Statistics