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Economists from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance found that the UK’s departure from the EU caused a 6 per cent increase in British food prices. ... Read more...
20 July 2022
Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...
12 May 2022
Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...
27 April 2022
Research published by the London School of Economics estimated that the spike in inflation that followed the 2016 referendum was costing the average household £7.74 a week - a figure equivalent to £404 a year... Read more...
03 September 2019
LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England risks substantially underestimating the upward inflationary pressure from sterling's depreciation due its practice of using trade weights to assess the impact of currency movements, a s... Read more...
30 August 2019
What is the mechanism of the impact of the size of a native city on an individual's adult income? A general "level solidification" is obviously not fully explained. Therefore, the two authors of the above study, French e... Read more...
20 August 2019
That's the question at the heart of a new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics. In the study, economists Cleement Bosquet of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France and Henry G. Overman of the London Scho... Read more...
30 July 2019
"But all UK households lose from a depreciation that pushes up the cost of imported goods, raising prices in the shops and eroding the real value of their earnings and savings. Research published by the London School of ... Read more...
Yet a new study from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics (LSE), suggests that the capital is £4.5 billion a year better off because of the raids. Dr Hans Koste... Read more...
06 August 2018
By Maria Molina-Domene Why do small establishments pay employees less than large establishments? The final pieces of this puzzle have not been found yet. This paper suggests the joint role of the division o... Read more...
27 July 2018
Silicon Valley and the City of London should give up some of their massive gains from globalization to ensure workers in cities like Detroit and Hull do not continue to fall behind. But… &ldqu... Read more...
29 May 2018
In his latest work ‘The Origin of Happiness’, British economist Richard Layard notes how relationships play a critical role. Globally, as incomes have risen, happiness has not. This is because of b... Read more...
15 May 2018
The Economist's Soumaya Keynes continues her quest to find out why the study of economics is so dominated by men. Does that affect the kind of economics we get, and why does that matter? In her second prog... Read more...
08 May 2018
The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...
07 May 2018
Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...
09 April 2018
Disruption to trade caused by Brexit could cost the average Briton as much as £1,700 a year, with Remain-backing areas bearing the brunt, a report has claimed. The research suggested many of the worst-af... Read more...
27 March 2018
In this blog, Josh De Lyon (LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance) discusses some of the concerns with the economic forecasts of the effects of Brexit and suggests that the available reports are inf... Read more...
13 March 2018
As March 2019 draws closer, the UK government remains divided over the type of trade relationship it wants to achieve in the ongoing negotiations with the EU. Paola Conconi (ULB/LSE) explains why Japanese... Read more...
28 February 2018
The survey was made by Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, London School of Economics and the Institute of Business Research. Teachers in independent primary schools, and especially in company-owned independent school... Read more...
Dominique Steiler, professor of management, proposes in a tribune to the "World" to break with the paradigm of the hyper-competitiveness and the economic war to make the company a factor of individua... Read more...
14 February 2018
Findings suggest that a mother’s personality has a big impact on the academic performance of teenagers, regardless of other factors. Academics assessed women’s “internal locus of control&rdqu... Read more...
08 February 2018
Related publications Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329) The Economic Journal Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018 Warn N. Lekf... Read more...
05 February 2018
Anna Valero, Beverley Skeggs, Connson Locke, Emily Jackson, Shani Orgad, Sonia Livingstone and Susanna Khavul Budget 2017: productivity is the focus, but ‘fixes’ are unlikely to be enough ... Read more...
26 December 2017
According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...
24 November 2017
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20 October 2017
While talk of a sudden exodus might be overblown, there is a danger that jobs in the sector could gradually slip away from the capital. Barclays’ Peter Gordon says that, over the next decade, ‘we m... Read more...
19 October 2017
Awarded an European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the NCore project, which aims to develop a mobile app which facilitates access to mental health services and treatments for young peopl... Read more...
12 October 2017
A 2015 study by Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom and others on management practices across 1,800 high schools in eight countries, including India, showed that better management produced better educat... Read more...
05 October 2017
A growing body of research shows the role that school leaders play at influencing student outcomes. After studying headmasters in India and abroad, Stanford University Professor Nick Bloom and his colleag... Read more...
04 October 2017
…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...
16 August 2017
Basically the only American-born group that you could even plausibly argue are harmed is high school dropouts. This is a fairly tiny group, but it’s not even clear they are harmed. Research by the Univer... Read more...
03 August 2017
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10 July 2017
Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...
08 July 2017
As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...
26 June 2017
“There will be a lot of political pressure to get as much of the finance industry moved to the EU as possible,” said Tom Kirchmaier, a fellow in the financial-markets group at the London School of ... Read more...
23 June 2017
Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin Related publications ‘in brief… What can be done to help low-Achieving teenagers?’ Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin.&... Read more...
06 June 2017
‘Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls’, Wouter Vermeulen, Journal of Economic Geography Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2017 http://bit.ly/2n719tK Related publications Agglome... Read more...
09 March 2017
During the debate on 'Building more homes' in the Economic Affairs Committee, Lord Layard mentioned LSE: "Professor Cheshire at the London School of Economics has suggested a levy on the final ... Read more...
28 February 2017
Health and friends: the formula of happiness according to science According to researcher Lord Richard Layard, people have not increased their levels of happiness in the past 50 years, while the average inc... Read more...
12 January 2017
The old folk saying "If you've got your health you've got your wealth" is finding new proponents from a recent study done by the London College of Economics, under the direction of Lord Richa... Read more...
10 January 2017
A compilation of surveys show that millennial's happiness is closely tied to having close friends at work. Good working relationships seem to make people more productive and satisfied with life. … ... Read more...
Professor Paul Charles Cheshire. Economist. For services to Economics and Housing. (London) Professor John Van Reenen. Economist. For services to Economics and Public Policy Making. (Abroad) ... Read more...
31 December 2016
Paul Cheshire, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography, was awarded a CBE for Services to Economics and Housing. In 2004 Professor Cheshire won the Royal Economic Society's Prize for the best paper in ... Read more...
Five housing executives and a professor of economics and housing policy have been awarded medals in the New Year honours list. … Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of... Read more...
30 December 2016
Professor John Van Reenen, who predicted ahead of the referendum that Brexit would cost up to £1,700 per household per year, has been given an OBE for services to economics and public policy making. Othe... Read more...
An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...
20 December 2016
Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. Others argue that immigrants benefit the economy because they take risks and start businesses. In three short videos be... Read more...
29 November 2016
Brexit and the uncertainties surrounding it present an unprecedented challenge, writes Anna Valero In his first Autumn Statement (and last – since he has decided to abolish them in favour of an annua... Read more...
24 November 2016
“I’m pretty skeptical Trump’s policies will reverse this process,” said John Van Reenen, a professor of economics at MIT who studies how technology and innovation affect profits and wag... Read more...
20 November 2016
The book flies over aspects featured of the cases of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, countries that are located well above in rankings that measure development, welfare or happiness. The report on 2016 wo... Read more...
17 November 2016
The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful. The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth of the... Read more...
Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about the potential international implications of a Trump White House as well as initial reactions from (Brexit) UK. The interview was broadcast by CKWX News on the Ne... Read more...
16 November 2016
Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect huge numbers of people - a third of all over-80s have some form of dementia, estimates the US CDC. This has two key effects. Firstly, Alzheimer's is a major killer in its o... Read more...
23 September 2016
Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...
22 September 2016
The average cost of full-time childcare across the UK for a child under the age of two is £217.57 a week. Part-time care (25 hours, as opposed to the full 50) costs £116.77 a week. Assuming both parents work ... Read more...
23 August 2016
Britain's statistics office has recruited a group of economic heavyweights to boost its ability to crunch numbers on the health of the economy. ... Three economics professor have also been recruited to the working group... Read more...
18 August 2016
New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...
15 August 2016
Data to calculate Gross National Happiness (GNH) includes asking respondents to measure their perceived quality of life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing the worst and 10 the best possible outcome. The latest r... Read more...
06 August 2016
New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...
12 July 2016
''You're going to see in increase in consumer prices from Brexit and most of that is going to hit the middle income,'' Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at LSE's Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...
24 June 2016
Numbers are being thrown around by the Vote Leave and Vote Remain campaigns like they're going out of fashion - but what do the experts say and can we trust them? Six out of seven reports predict a Brexit will hurt us ... Read more...
06 June 2016
Brexit uncertainty ''would tend to push up risk premia'', as InFacts has already pointed out. Funding costs for banks could go up, as would borrowing costs for homeowners and consumers. The UK's current account deficit i... Read more...
12 May 2016
Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of economic inequality has been the role that firms play in it. It's safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the lat... Read more...
11 May 2016
The Panama Papers have helped expose just how big the problems of offshore tax havens are. Professor Gabriel Zucman, from the London School of Economics, had already estimated the amount of offshore money by measuring di... Read more...
19 April 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
18 April 2016
There's no doubt that smartphones have remarkable capabilities which, in theory, could promote student learning. But the truth is that kids - in spite of the best efforts of parents and teachers - use their phones prima... Read more...
12 April 2016
Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Lecturer with the Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), is among the final shortl... Read more...
07 April 2016
David Cameron has mocked eurosceptics for failing to work together as a new report claims each British family pays £200 a year less thanks to the European Union. ... Meanwhile a report produced by the Centre for E... Read more...
31 March 2016
For over two years, a research team at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has been studying the likely impact of the UK leaving the European Union. Their latest report focuses on the impact of 'Brexit' through cha... Read more...
21 March 2016
''The fiscal target should be on balancing the books on current spending over the business cycle - just as it was when the Office for Budget Responsibility was first set up in 2010. Otherwise there will always be too mu... Read more...
17 March 2016
The Danes are the happiest people on Earth, followed by the Swiss, while Britons are comparatively miserable among the rich nations, but happier than the French and Italians. The only European countries happier than the ... Read more...
16 March 2016
John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, gives his reaction to the 2016 Budget. The austerity approach continues, despite it having little economic sense. Fuel duty is frozen as a sweetener to hi... Read more...
In the latest State of Working Britain blog, editor Professor Jonathan Wadsworth writes: Common Mis-Perceptions About Recent UK Labour Market Performance No 1. A Record number of people in work The opening sentenc... Read more...
01 March 2016
Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...
09 February 2016
[David] Blanchflower and [Stephen] Machin argue labour market must tighten further before pay growth picks up, something Bank of England consistently fails to acknowledge. This article was published by The Guardian on F... Read more...
02 February 2016
In the first of a new blog from LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Jonathan Wadsworth comments on the issue of full employment in the UK. This article was published online by the CEP's The State of Working Britain b... Read more...
26 January 2016
The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has released research that suggests the banning of mobile phones at school could lead to better academic results. The research paper, titled Ill Comm... Read more...
20 May 2015
A paper newly published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics tests the size of these effects on achievement by looking at the random component of sorting that occurs when most British children transition fr... Read more...
16 February 2015
It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees' wellbeing through improvements in job quality - but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employee... Read more...
17 November 2014
Tiger mothers predestine their children to do well at school even before they are born, research has suggested. Babies born to highly competitive women who believe that they have the power to shape their children's prosp... Read more...
19 August 2014
Babies born to mothers who hold a stronger belief that their fate is in their own hands and not down to luck tend to perform better in their GCSE exams 16 years later. That is the central finding of new research by the C... Read more...
18 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression ... Read more...
15 August 2014
Martin Knapp discusses cost of autism to the UK. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 News on July 20, 2014 [No link available.] Related links Martin Knapp webpage Wellbeing Programme webpage ... Read more...
20 July 2014
Stavolta il pezzo mancante non sembra tuttavia nascondersi sotto il divano - come nelle piu consuete scenette ricreative familiari - ma trovarsi tra le pagine di Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapie... Read more...
18 July 2014
Letter page Sir, In his very timely commentary, Martin Wolf addressed the increasingly urgent issue of personal misery and its social impact caused by our failure to treat depression and crippling anxiety, now affectin... Read more...
Article by Henry Overman Our latest evidence review on the economic impact of cultural and sport projects might make for uncomfortable reading for some local decision makers. We looked at these programmes' effects on wa... Read more...
16 July 2014
Film of the July 10 book launch for Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies. David Clark, Richard Layard in conversation with the BBC's Andrew Marr. The video was posted online to the LSE You Tu... Read more...
''I've been hugely influenced by my co-author David Clark, one of the world's leading clinical psychologists. He always stressed to me that the aim of therapy is not to help people manage their condition but to recover a... Read more...
14 July 2014
A new study adds some empirical firepower to the idea that poor patent laws are crushing innovation in the technology industry. Researchers from the London School of Economics studied citations from patents that were inv... Read more...
12 July 2014
According to research from the London School of Economics published in June of this year in the Journal of American Medical Association of Paediatrics the cost of autism to the UK economy is £32 billion. This a... Read more...
03 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard Nearly 40 percent of all illness in this country is mental illness, but most of it is untreated. It is the greatest injustice in our society and every party's manifesto needs a plan to redress ... Read more...
01 July 2014
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language ''is known or believed to be other than English'' according to the latest government figures. ... Chinese students are our highest performi... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark Treating mental health problems produces extraordinary savings - fewer people on welfare benefits, and fewer people being treated for physical illnesses made worse by mental ... Read more...
Henry Overman, a London School of Economics professor who authored the report, has continued to lobby for ''agglomeration'' of big northern cities. Prof Overman said recently that reducing travel time between Leeds and M... Read more...
23 June 2014
The team, which included investigators from Penn and the London School of Economics, analyzed existing literature in both countries, updating and supplementing as needed to estimate the cost of accommodation, medical and... Read more...
11 June 2014
Professor Martin Knapp, lead researcher of the study, believes that the discrepancy is caused mainly by a lack of awareness about how the money is spent. ''It's partly because the prevalence and impacts of the disease ha... Read more...
10 June 2014
The team, which also included investigators from the London School of Economics, analyzed existing literature in both countries, updating and supplementing as needed to estimate the cost of accommodation, medical and non... Read more...
Autism is the most costly medical condition in Britain, say researchers. It costs the UK £32 billion a year - more than heart disease, cancer and stroke combined. Researchers at the London School of Economics and ... Read more...
Today's findings, by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science, look beyond age 18 to include the costs of a potential lifelong disability. T... Read more...
09 June 2014
The figures showed a clear need for more effective interventions to treat autism, ideally in early life, to make the best use of scarce resources, said lead researcher Prof Martin Knapp, of the London School of Economics... Read more...
Paul Cheshire discusses need for more housing on greenbelts. This interview was broadcast by BBC Berkshire on May 14, 2014 No link available. Related publications Turning houses into gold: the failure of Britis... Read more...
14 May 2014
When the London School of Economics looked at the issues that hold people in long-term unemployment, common mental health difficulties like anxiety and depression were the largest cause. This operates as feedback loop. T... Read more...
13 May 2014
Economist Alan Manning of the London School of Economics also found that the pace of the declines in the pay gap has slowed down, and that working women could make less than men for the next 150 years due to discriminati... Read more...
02 April 2014
An online network aims to bring policymakers together with academics studying higher education, potentially stimulating new research on neglected areas such as the effectiveness of access spending. The ''Economics of Hig... Read more...
21 November 2013
John Van Reenen analyses the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher. In the late 1970s, when the UK was behind other developed nations in terms of material wellbeing, her supply side policies spurred economic revival. Ther... Read more...
10 April 2013
New SERC/Grantham project launched: an investigation of the Carbon Footprint of the Retail Sector LSE's Spatial Economics Research Centre and Grantham Research Institute have begun a new collaborative project expl... Read more...
27 September 2012