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The EU has a transformative mechanism to reduce carbon leakage, but challenges loom ahead

Despite addressing carbon pricing challenges, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism may hinder the growth and green transition of developing countries.
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Britain needs nerds

STEM skills are key to AI adoption in the UK, but disparities in skills are causing uneven technology uptake across the country.

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LSE Business Review:
Advice to young women economists: learn to say no and protect your time

How are women making their mark in economics? To celebrate Women's History Month, Swati Dhingra shares her experiences, from India to British academia and the Bank of England. It took her a while to learn to say no and p...Read more...

Swati Dhingra

21 March 2025

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The Conversation:
Why sharing meals can make people happier - what evidence from 142 countries shows

The importance of sharing meals is recognised across cultures, from the Jewish Shabbat meal to the fast-breaking Iftar meals during Ramadan. The known link between food and social relationships is ancient. The English wo...Read more...

Alberto Prati

20 March 2025

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Bruegel:
Pitfalls to avoid as the EU ramps up defence investment

The European Union's push to rearm in the face of growing external threats and the increasing disengagement of the United States has, so far, been primarily a push to spend more on defence and to find ways to facilitate ...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Marco Buti, Giancarlo Corsetti, Marcello Messori and Andre Sapir

19 March 2025

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MIT Sloan Management Review:
Reskilling the Workforce With AI: Harvard Business School's Raffaella Sadun (podcast)

Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun's research has historically focused on digital reskilling. Now, rapid technological changes - like AI - are reshaping the nature of work. Raffaella's research has explore...Read more...

Raffaella Sadun

18 March 2025

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Vox EU:
Income, wealth, and environmental inequality in the US

Economic disparities have long been suspected to be a root cause of environmental inequality. But is this really the case? This column links data on income and wealth with data on air pollution exposure over 40 years to ...Read more...

Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis and Reed Walker

18 March 2025

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Vox EU:
The price of power: Why rising markups hurt innovation and widen inequality

Over the past four decades, the US has seen rising market power, slowing productivity growth, and deepening wealth inequality. This column explores how declining competition may be the common culprit. Weak competition le...Read more...

Giammario Impullitti and Pontus Rendahl

13 March 2025

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LSE Business Review:
Gender gaps are reduced in family-friendly workplaces

The arrival of children is one of the primary reasons for gender inequalities in the labour market. Anna Raute shares her findings on how firms can help alleviate gender gaps through family-friendly policies....Read more...

Anna Raute

6 March 2025

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IMF Finance and Development magazine :
Innovation's Unseen Frontier

Notwithstanding Plato's 2,400-year-old proverb, necessity alone is not the mother of invention. It also requires opportunity. An individual's likelihood of becoming an innovator reflects parental background in terms of i...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel

1 March 2025

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What works centre for local economic growth:
Do cities and regions gain from public sector relocation?

In this guest blog, Dr. Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, and Maria Sanchez-Vidal set out evidence on the impact of BBC (partial) relocation to Salford on wider employment in the area. This blog was originally pu...Read more...

Max Nathan

27 February 2025

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Academy of Social Sciences:
Policies to promote productivity and wage growth for less educated workers

In this piece, Professor Richard Blundell FAcSS, Professor Rachel Griffith FAcSS and Professor Sally McNally explore how improving educational outcomes for children growing up in deprivation, including social skills in t...Read more...

Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Sandra McNally

26 February 2025

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LSE Euro PP:
A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities

People like to live in certain places, even when higher wages are on offer elsewhere. Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel show that once you take into account people's preferences, large cities o...Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel

24 February 2025

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LSE USA Politics and Policy:
The lasting impact of 9/11 on Muslim integration in America

With ongoing global debates on immigration, integration, and rising Islamophobia, understanding the long-term social impacts of historical events is more important than ever. Shadi Farahzadi studies the effects of the 9/...Read more...

Shadi Farahzadi

21 February 2025

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What works centre for local economic growth:
Thinking through multipliers: small numbers, big value

Last week we held the second in our current series of breakfast briefing webinars - Thinking through multipliers: Learning from BBC relocation. The event focused on what multipliers are and why local growth policymakers ...Read more...

Will Brett-Harding

20 February 2025

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LSE Impact of Social Sciences:
The next innovation revolution should be democratisation

Innovators are most likely to be men from privileged backgrounds. Xavier Jaravel argues that democratisation and widening of access to innovative careers worldwide is key to boosting long-term growth and addressing today...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel

20 February 2025

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The We Society:
Improving social mobility through education and language with Lee Elliot Major (podcast)

Professor Lee Elliot Major joins Will Hutton to discuss the decline of social mobility in the UK and advocates for a broader understanding of systemic barriers, including arguing for a new approach towards language to im...Read more...

Lee Elliot Major

19 February 2025

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LSE Business Review:
The confidence gap influencing who applies to top colleges and careers

Students' choice of which university and programme to apply to isn't a simple financial decision. There's more at stake in the decision than finance and information gaps. Behavioural constraints play an important role. C...Read more...

Camille Terrier

17 February 2025

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What works centre for local economic growth:
Effective devolution: why evidence and evaluation are key to success

Last week we held the first in our latest series of breakfast briefing webinars. This event focused on how local governments can prepare themselves to make the most of the devolution of local growth policy. Our remaining...Read more...

Will Brett-Harding

13 February 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
How to make Labour's National Wealth Fund work

Labour's plans for growth include the creation of a National Wealth Fund. A closer look at the proposals reveals that this is not like other Sovereign Wealth Funds, but is in fact more like a Green Investment Bank, meant...Read more...

Cassandra Chong and Neil Lee

12 February 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy:
Using people's feelings to value time

People hate wasting time commuting. But translating that into a monetary value to help government policy isn't that straightforward. Christian Krekel, George MacKerron and Iven Stead present a new method to put a value o...Read more...

Christian Krekel, George MacKerron and Iven Stead

7 February 2025

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Lives well lived:
Richard Layard: the science of wellbeing (podcast)

Richard Layard is a British Labour Economist, a member of the House of Lords, and co-editor of the World Happiness Report. Layard highlights the role of life satisfaction and wellbeing in government policy, and the impo...Read more...

Richard Layard

6 February 2025

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