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Coverage from 2021

BBC Radio 4
Today

Lee Elliot Major talks about the implementation of the National Tutoring Programme and the need to support disadvantaged children in post-pandemic recovery plans. ... Read more...

6 October 2021

The Economist
England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling

Remembering Richard Layard's research on the need for evidence-based therapies, the Economist looks at developments in mental health provisions over the 15 years. ... Read more...

2 October 2021

BBC
In need of modernisation? The UK’s housing crisis close up

Paul Cheshire speaks on some of the wider problems of the UK housing market. ... Read more...

1 October 2021

The Economist
How German bombs shape London’s gangs

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin and Carmen Villa-Llera examine the relationship between areas of London that were bombed in the Second World War and crime rates. Discovering that the probability of finding a ga... Read more...

28 August 2021

The Observer
A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure

A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...

15 August 2021

The Economist
Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

A study by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas finds that a “considerable amount of domestic abuse” could be mitigated by arranging football fixtures on weekdays or... Read more...

9 July 2021

The Telegraph
Pupils missed more than half of classroom time during Covid pandemic

Amid calls to allow the option to repeat the entire school year, a major study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds Pupils have missed out on more than half ... Read more...

7 July 2021

LBC
Schoolchildren missed out on a third of learning during coronavirus pandemic

A study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds evidence that pupils across the UK have lost out on a third of their learning time amid Covid-19, even when home lessons a... Read more...

7 July 2021

The Independent
Day drinking and early kick-offs linked to rise in domestic abuse after football matches

Researchers find alcohol consumption - rather than heightened emotions - is to blame for rises in male-on-female violence following matches, and this could be reduced by more evening and weekend games. ... Read more...

5 July 2021

The Guardian
Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home

Researchers at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance find alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game and suggest that... Read more...

4 July 2021

Bloomberg
Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...

2 July 2021

The Telegraph
Scarred by Covid: As infections subside, India now faces a difficult road to recovery

Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... Read more...

24 June 2021

Forbes
Happiness Is Not ‘Out There.' It's Something You Create

Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... Read more...

1 June 2021

ITV
Covid volunteering surge can be ‘positive legacy’ for NHS in future

Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found Volunteering for the NHS during the pandemic felt as good as getting a £1,800 bonus from work. ... Read more...

31 May 2021

Financial Times
The 2020s are set to be a decisive economic decade for the UK

The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...

31 May 2021

The Telegraph
Replace stamp duty with tax raid on southern property wealth, Sunak told

An new annual property tax on the value of each home, proposed by economists Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, would be fairer than current system, according to a new report by think tank Bright Bl... Read more...

20 May 2021

The Guardian
UK economy could resemble that of Italy by end of 2020s – report

A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...

18 May 2021

The Independent
UK faces ‘decisive decade’ of change and risks falling further behind other nations, report warns

The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...

18 May 2021

The Independent
Brexit causes difficulties for more than 60 per cent of UK firms - report

Study by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds higher prices and reduced competitiveness due to EU withdrawal. ... Read more...

6 May 2021

iNews
Brexit has hits UK firms as border delays and bureaucracy add to costs, says study

Report by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with ... Read more...

6 May 2021

The Independent
Almost three-quarters of a million businesses ‘at risk of failure over next three months', economists warn

Warnings of widespread business failure comes in an analysis by the John Van Reenen and Peter Lambert, using the latest Business Insights and Impact survey. ... Read more...

4 May 2021

Financial Times
We’re still in the dark about insecure work

The Financial Times cites research by Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine while analysing the dabate around improving job security as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

20 April 2021

Financial Times
UK business groups call for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap

Amid criticism of a government-commissioned race report for downplaying the extent of problems in the labour market, Alan Manning explains there's no evidence for pay gaps being smaller than they we... Read more...

18 April 2021

Financial Times
Detached homes close to central London enjoy biggest price rises

LSE study says there has been little exodus to rural areas in past year but buyers have sought space, with detached houses close to the centre of London seeing the biggest price increases over the past year. ... Read more...

30 March 2021

The Telegraph
London risks house price crunch as Covid boom ends

House prices could fall when the stamp duty holiday comes to a close. London is particularly vulnerable because the price of houses rose particularly sharply over 2020, while the population of the capital... Read more...

30 March 2021

Freakonomics
Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

Ferdinand Rauch explains how temporary events, such as the London Tube strikes and recent pandemic restrictions, can lead to positive long-term change - a fresh start - on Stephen Dubner's Freakonomic... Read more...

17 March 2021

The Telegraph
Two-thirds of self-employed lose out financially to Covid

A study by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds almost two-thirds of Britain’s self-employed workers are suffering financially from Covid-19, as the latest lockd... Read more...

2 March 2021

The Guardian
How do we ensure disadvantaged kids don't lose out in England's new exam system?

Lee Elliot Major explains how teachers have a chance to address the inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

1 March 2021

The Conversation
Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way to help workers and preserve FDR’s legacy

In light of the Biden adminstration's Covid-19 Relief Bill, Felix Koenig analysis the historical impact of minum wage bills on jobs and wages. ... Read more...

26 February 2021

BBC Radio 4
Sounds: Today Programme

Lee Elliot Major is invited onto BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [1:15:20] to talk about pupil catchup funding, the national tutoring programme and inequalities. ... Read more...

24 February 2021

Quartz
How much more stimulus will the UK economy need?

A report by Nicolás González-Pampillón, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Katharina Ziegler shows that footfall in restaurants increased by 5-6% during the UK government's Eat Out to Help O... Read more...

18 February 2021

The Independent
Brexit disruption in first weeks of year is sign of more to come, economists warn

Thomas Sampson, associate economics professor at the London School of Economics, has predicted a 36 per cent fall in exports to the EU over the next decade. He said it was too early to claim that economists... Read more...

13 February 2021

Forbes
Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report by Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura shows that jo... Read more...

12 February 2021

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth
New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences

Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis analyse the importance of environmental quality in shaping economic opportunity, and how improvements in health associated with lower prenatal pollution exposure may have... Read more...

11 February 2021

The Times
Pandemic turns up pace of workplace innovation

Research by Capucine Riom and Anna Valero finds the Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to adopt new technologies and ways of working that will increase the breadth of economic productivity. ... Read more...

8 February 2021

Bloomberg
‘Tough’ Isn’t the China Question Biden Has to Answer on Trade

In a recent working paper, Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi calculate the higher cost of imported inputs caused by those tariffs leveled at China caused the U.S. economy to create ... Read more...

8 February 2021

The Times
Why your weekly shop costs a lot more than you think

Study by LSE's Richard Davies finds price volatility during the Covid-19 pandemic has been higher than in any comparable period since 1991. ... Read more...

5 February 2021

The Herald
People would be up to £2,800 a year worse off in independent Scotland, claims new research

Study by Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider concludes independence would hit the Scottish economy harder than Brexit because Scotland’s trade with the rest of the UK is around f... Read more...

3 February 2021

BBC
Scottish independence trading costs calculated

Study into trade concludes that the costs of Scottish independence would be two to three times greater than the impact from Brexit, and that joining the European Union would do little to offset that cost. ... Read more...

3 February 2021

Financial Times
Independence would cost Scotland far more than Brexit, study finds

Independence from the UK would cost Scotland’s economy up to three times as much in lost trade as Brexit will, according to analysis by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...

3 February 2021

The Scotsman
Independence would hit Scottish economy harder than Brexit, say researchers

Academics from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance say the economic costs of independence are two or three times greater than Brexit due to the volume of Scotland’s trade with the rest of the... Read more...

3 February 2021

The Guardian
Independence could cost Scotland's economy £11bn a year, forecast suggests

Economists say impact of leaving UK’s common market would hit two to three times as hard as leaving EU. ... Read more...

3 February 2021

The Independent
Independence would hit Scotland's economy ‘two to three times' harder than Brexit, say economists

Independence would damage Scotland’s economy and leave the country “considerably poorer” than staying inside the UK, according to a study by economists Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson ... Read more...

3 February 2021

The Telegraph
Economic hit to Scotland from independence three times bigger than Brexit

Trade barriers with the rest of the UK would deal a hit to the Scottish economy far greater than Brexit, warns report by Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider. ... Read more...

3 February 2021

BBC
Firms at risk: 'We are worried about how we can survive'

More than 900,000 small businesses are at risk of going under, according to research from Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen, and backed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ... Read more...

27 January 2021

The Guardian
Gordon Brown calls for urgent budget help as 1 in 7 UK firms face collapse

Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next thre... Read more...

27 January 2021

The Independent
Around 900,000 small firms at risk in ‘cruel spring of bankruptcy’ if Covid help stopped, Rishi Sunak warned

Research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warns around 900,000 small firms – employing 2.5 million workers – are at risk of going bust if Covid-19 rescue schemes are wound up. ... Read more...

27 January 2021

The Daily Telegraph
Why Britain's falling population equals economic trouble

Alan Manning considers the possible outcomes of a drop in immigration and population growth on productivity, economic growth and the labour market. ... Read more...

21 January 2021

Hindustan Times
Farm laws: What India can learn from Kenya’s agri experiment

Swati Dhingra examines a decade of high-quality farmer-buyer data from Kenya during a period when it introduced radical farm laws to encourage agri-businesses to determine impacts on small farmers. ... Read more...

15 January 2021

The Independent
Exports to EU to plunge by more than one-third because of Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal, study warns

Research by Thomas Sampson suggests UK exports to the EU may fall by over a third, and income per capita is forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure. ... Read more...

15 January 2021

Financial Times
UK economists’ survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries

A survey of nearly 100 economists revealed that most of them expect the size of the economy not to return to pre-pandemic levels until the third quarter of 2022, despite the expectation of a strong consumer-le... Read more...

3 January 2021