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OK Diario
Garicano advierte de que si no se distribuye la riqueza, la clase media se ira al populismo/Garicano warns that if wealth is not distributed, the middle class will go to populism

The economic brain of Citizens, Luis Garicano, has warned that "things (the economic situation) are about to be twisted by the rise of populism" and predicts that if the current system is not able to... Read more...

18 May 2018

The Guardian
What Americans can learn from British class guilt

Numbers bear out this pessimism. As economist Raj Chetty explained in a 2016 lecture at the London School of Economics, the probability of a child born to parents in the bottom fifth of the incomes reaching th... Read more...

28 March 2018

El Comercio (Peru)
Kindernomics: ?Como combatir desigualdad en la innovacion?/Kindernomics: how to comabat inequality in innovation?

In a paper he signed with John Van Reenen, Neviana Petkova, Xavier Jaravel and Alex Bell it was discovered that people with parents who are among the richest 1% of the United States are ten times more likely t... Read more...

14 February 2018

Univision
Los `Einsteins perdidos?: como se desperdicia el potencial de los ni?os mas brillantes de familias pobres y como solucionarlo / The 'lost Einsteins': how the potential of the brightest children of poor families is wasted and how to fix

Article by by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how much the socioeconomic status of a student's family influences whether he becomes an inventor a... Read more...

11 February 2018

Smithsonian.com
Expose talented kids from low-income families to inventors and they're more likely to invent

...Our first finding is that there are large differences in innovation rates by socioeconomic class, race and gender. Using new de-identified data that allows us to track 1.2 million inventors from birth to ad... Read more...

25 January 2018

The Conversation
How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'lost Einsteins'

Article by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more ... Read more...

24 January 2018

LSE News
What can Brexit tell us about the white working class?

In the July episode of the #LSEIQ podcast we ask, ‘What can Brexit tell us about the white working class?’ One year on from the European Referendum, this demographic has been scrutinised for their ... Read more...

05 July 2017

Herald Scotland
Agenda: Business has a key role to play in helping the next generation acquire the skills required to meet future challenges

...UK-wide, we have increased our school leaver intake by 47 per cent because we have already started to see the positive results that increased social mobility and diversity can have on both your bottom line and wider ... Read more...

25 August 2016