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Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
In a recent study, Ana Valero and John van Reenen tell us how much the economic benefits of the presence of a university in the region amount to by studying 15 thousand universities located in 1,500 different regions in ... Read more...
26 August 2019
"This plays out over and over, at every scale and within every state," says Muro. And while major coastal metros may attract a higher concentration of elite firms and global talent, midsize cities with universities benef... Read more...
22 August 2019
Research productivity – measured by number of papers produced per head of population – also correlates reasonably strongly with economic development measures. So do enrolment levels in tertiary edu... Read more...
31 May 2018
It is widely known that the Protestant Reformation, which was launched by popular reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century, brought about an abrupt end to the massive and unquestioned p... Read more...
08 May 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
In accordance with the theory of skill-biased technological change, many researchers are convinced that automation predominantly threatens low-skilled workers, who are at risk of being substituted for intellig... Read more...
19 December 2017
Other research confirms that the beneficial effect of universities isn't just correlation. A 2015 paper by economist Shimeng Liu found that areas where the U.S. federal government made land grants to unive... Read more...
14 November 2017
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20 October 2017
At the G7delle University, which took place recently in Udine, "I talked about the role of universities – concluded sun-in the development of the economic revival of the internal areas, as demonstra... Read more...
06 July 2017
Anna Valero, the London School of Economics, and John Van Reenen of MIT assessed exactly how much universities contributed to GDP. A total of 78 countries were examined over six decades, looking... Read more...
18 November 2016
Must-Read: Anna Valero and John Van Reenen: 'The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe' This article was published online by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on September 22, 2016 Li... Read more...
22 September 2016
Article by Anna Valero In 1900, just 1% of young people in the world were enrolled at university. Over the course of the next century this exploded to 20%, as recognition of the value of such an education became widespr... Read more...
15 September 2016
A recent research paper by Anna Valero and John Van Reenen of the LSE takes a statistical look at universities around the world, asking whether they seem to boost their regional economies. (Examples of a ''region'' inclu... Read more...
31 August 2016
''We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP per capita (and this relationsh... Read more...
23 August 2016
Most of the work on the value of college has focused on whether the return is worth the student's considerable investment. (Thus far, the yeas still have it.) But more and more research lately has asked whether colleges ... Read more...
19 August 2016
Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin of the Centre for Economic Performance argue that crowdfunding engages a wider pool of entrepreneurs and investors than traditional venture capital markets did. This article was published ... Read more...
30 March 2016
Article by Gianluca Benigno, Nathan Converse and Luca Fornaro In the aftermath of the Global Crisis, policymakers have adopted policies to limit, or at least manage, capital inflows. This column explores episodes of cap... Read more...
11 October 2015
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
Londoners show a greater willingness than the rest of the country to pay for broadband, reflecting very high usage in the capital city for both work and personal reasons. ''Speed matters,'' says Gabriel Ahlfeldt, associa... Read more...
05 August 2014