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To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... Read more...
25 April 2022
About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...
15 December 2021
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...
05 February 2021
Thomas Sampson If Brexit is a divorce, then Northern Ireland is a child at the centre of a messy custody fight. The new Brexit deal seeks to solve the Irish border problem through joint custody. Whether Northern Ireland... Read more...
26 October 2019
A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...
02 October 2019
Work by the OECD and Oxford Martin School also notes widening gaps in productivity and profit mark-ups between the leading businesses and the rest. This suggests weakening competition and rising monopoly rent. Moreover, ... Read more...
18 September 2019
On Brexit and the potential future trading options for the UK and the EU27. This interview was part of a larger piece for the 6 o'clock news programme. ... Read more...
17 September 2019
The winners of the 2019 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists are Jan Bakker of Oxford University and Federico Huneeus of Princeton University, who were ranked in equal first place by the Selection Panel. They will share ... Read more...
12 September 2019
More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...
09 September 2019
Supporters of the ban cite research undertaken by the London School of Economics which shows that limited phone use in schools directly correlates to exam success, partly because of an increase in concentration. The same... Read more...
30 August 2019
By Barbara Petrongolo, Felix Koenig, and John Van Reenen Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In ... Read more...
24 August 2019
As Brexit nears (again), are British firms choosing to invest in the UK or in other European markets? Are European firms investing in the UK to preserve access to its markets? And has "global Britain" got off the drawing... Read more...
16 August 2019
It can be seen from the strikes in Taiwan in recent years that for the company's top management, only shareholders are the most important targets for care. It is like giving them more benefits. But the British media The ... Read more...
12 August 2019
The study conducted by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve tries to shed light on the relationship between well-being and company performance. ... Read more...
22 July 2019
This week's guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford Unive... Read more...
17 July 2019
John Van Reenen, MIT, discusses work he has done on how 'superstar firms' such as Google and Apple have changed the global economy. The superstars, although big, employ relatively few workers and this has contributed to ... Read more...
16 July 2019
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford made an analogy with a quite different arena: "Barcelona does not pick its team based on being born in Barcelona—if it did it would not win anything. The ECB should also pick the best." So to... Read more...
05 July 2019
Free trade is not necessarily efficient when larger, more productive firms can charge higher markups than smaller, less productive ones, write Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Matteo Salto. ... Read more...
24 June 2019
"The striking fact is that over time, people simply do not adapt to being unemployed," says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, an associate professor of economics and strategy at Oxford University and associate editor of th... Read more...
17 June 2019
Dr Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, specialising in globalisation and industrial policy, says there's not enough trained staff to power it. "Compared to other creative or tech-based ... Read more...
20 May 2019
Brexit affects domestic firms, too. In January Barclays bank received legal approval to move €190bn ($213bn) of assets to Dublin, fearing no-deal. The London School of Economics recently found the Brexit vote had ca... Read more...
09 May 2019
Dr Anna Valero, innovation fellow at the London School of Economics, said the results of the funding would inform local and national governments to improve access to technology.... Read more...
06 May 2019
Workers in the agricultural sector are among the most vulnerable to being paid below the minimum wage and HMRC needs to be more proactive in punishing non-compliant businesses, a leading employment expert has warned. ... Read more...
03 May 2019
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01 May 2019
Economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, who wrote one of the first papers to bring attention to the phenomenon of rising concentration, also endorse a story of so-calle... Read more...
26 April 2019
A growing number of companies place a high priority on the wellbeing of their workers, assuming that happier workers will lead to improved productivity. This column examines this link based on a meta-analysis of independ... Read more...
21 April 2019
Less efficiency and lower profitability for firms carry lessons for Britain and the US, write Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger. Talented individuals are often excluded from leadership positions if th... Read more...
16 April 2019
A company's performance during and after a recession depends not just on the decisions it makes but also on who makes them. In a 2017 study, Raffaella Sadun (of Harvard Business School), Philippe Aghion (of College de Fr... Read more...
Original information: Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen. Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy. American Economic Review, 2019, 109(1): 48-85. Governments around the world provide la... Read more...
14 April 2019
Snippet: ...according to a study by the London School of Economics British companies have delivered almost 11 billion dollars worth of new investment away from Britain through the EU since the Brexit vote so UK firms hik... Read more...
01 April 2019
Snippet: ...A fall in the pound increases the costs of UK imports, and in the year after the vote consumer prices rose rapidly. Analysis from 2017 by researchers at the Centre for Economic Performance estimated that the ... Read more...
Snippet: ... so what does the investment picture look like in the UK since the referendum in June 20 16th government figures show that last year business investment fell slightly by 0.4% to around 247 billion dollars acc... Read more...
Secondly, workers are not being displaced by new technology. Business investment has fallen since 2016. There are countless reasons for this, many of them longstanding structural ones. One, which might have become more i... Read more...
29 March 2019
Meanwhile, a very interesting new paper by economists Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Remy Lecat and Helene Maghin looks at the relationship between credit constraints and productivity at the level of i... Read more...
27 March 2019
25 March 2019
Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...
10 March 2019
09 March 2019
But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolun Yu of the London School of Economics, the clearest impact of Help to Buy has been to raise house prices, potentially by as much as 5 ... Read more...
Ben Chu, Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight, showed a graph on FDI outflows from the UK (actual vs. expected) on BBC2 Newsnight on 07 March 2019. This graph is taken from CEP Brexit Analysis No. 13, Figure 2. 19:20min ... Read more...
07 March 2019
By Nicholas Bloom Scott Ohlmacher Cristina Tello-Trillo Melanie Wallskog For 2010 and 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau fielded the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) in partnership with a research team of... Read more...
06 March 2019
Economists believe "firms are more productive if they're in larger cities" says Henry Overman, a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth ... Read more...
04 March 2019
"One of the features of these very big firms is that they've got high profits but they have low labor shares," said John Van Reenen, an economics ... [paywall] ... Read more...
23 February 2019
UK companies have increased their investments into the EU by $10.73bn due to Brexit uncertainty diverting investment from the domestic market, says a recent study from the London School of Economics' (LSE) Centre for Eco... Read more...
21 February 2019
But recent research by economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin suggests that undesired zero-hours contracts may have become more prevalent because of minimum wage hikes. [paywall] ... Read more...
15 February 2019
The fall is more pronounced among companies that enjoy high market power, write Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...
11 February 2019
The referendum result led to a 12 percent increase in foreign direct investment transactions from Britain into the EU between mid-2016 and September 2018, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Econo... Read more...
A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing has significantly decreased between 2001 and 2016, particularly among companies that enjoy m... Read more...
08 February 2019
One little-known study could, however, help shed light on where the problem really lies. According to Professors Bell and Van Reenen of the LSE, the real issue is not that CEO pay has been inflated, but that worker pay h... Read more...
29 January 2019
A British study estimated the impact of public subsidies in regions in difficulty. If a gain for the job was found but the big companies, first beneficiaries, do not change their behavior, notes the professor of economy ... Read more...
14 January 2019
John Van Reenen argues that competent managers are desperately undervalued in the UK. The MIT economics professor, who until recently headed the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, concedes that most studies ... Read more...
08 December 2018
The majority of businesses in the UK report that Brexit is a source of uncertainty. This column uses survey responses from around 3,000 businesses to evaluate the level and impact of this uncertainty. It finds that Brexi... Read more...
25 November 2018
The danger of nepotism Professor John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks nepotism is a key risk. A 2011 study authored by Reenen, with Nicholas Bloom and Raffaella Sadun, found that those fa... Read more...
22 November 2018
There is a rise of an innovative elite that is an engine of efficiency. Its members are companies that have mastered digital technologies and enjoy network effects that help them fend off slower competitors, says John Va... Read more...
15 November 2018
Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... Read more...
07 November 2018
Research by CEP Economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin. "A report recently undertaken by three labour market economists has found that 44% of workers on zero-hours contracts would like more workin... Read more...
13 October 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
There is a “lack of self-awareness among lots of firms,” says John Van Reenen, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Some think they are awesome. But they are ... Read more...
15 July 2018
09 July 2018
One problem in assessing the impact of management is that it is an amorphous and multifaceted category, including a variety of possible activities. This problem has been addressed by the work of economists lik... Read more...
07 July 2018
Article by Maria Molina-Domene: Reputation plays an important signalling role in an imperfect information world and companies endeavour to preserve it. In this study, I evaluate empirically the role of reputat... Read more...
21 June 2018
Parents seeking a school cellphone ban for grades five through eight also spoke in Open Forum. “I’m here representing 612 families … asking for reforms to the district’s middle school ... Read more...
30 May 2018
We must go back in time to grasp this issue, both economic and societal. According to researcher Nicholas Bloom, the profound technological and structural change that has transformed business operations in rec... Read more...
22 May 2018
Article by Stephen Machin. As Director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE, I am delighted that the Centre has been named as one of the two inaugural ESRC Research Institutes. This is tes... Read more...
10 May 2018
Economic publications show that these effects would have a strong impact on the level of macroeconomic equilibrium and consequently on that of structural unemployment. A recent article by Luis Garicano, Claire... Read more...
04 May 2018
America’s patents and research spending have soared alongside its trade deficit with China. Article in the Economist refers to the research paper ‘ Related publications Trade Induced Te... Read more...
03 May 2018
Pointing out the weaknesses of the small business, Professor Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues developed a survey instrument for measuring business quality. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Ind... Read more...
02 May 2018
Scholars from the London School of Economics and Political Science found cellphone bans in classrooms had a neutral effect on high achievers, but had a positive impact on low-achieving students. ... Read more...
26 April 2018
Smartphone disruption is an issue in schools too. A study by the University of Texas has suggested that just having a smartphone within eyeshot can reduce productivity, slow down response speed and reduce grad... Read more...
17 April 2018
SWINDON, United Kingdom – The Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC) has announced that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Loca... Read more...
16 April 2018
The Economic and Social Research Council is delighted to announce that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth Centre (L... Read more...
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
22 March 2018
Even customs duties, which will help US companies in the short term, can be detrimental in the long run. This protection of the domestic market can lead to a decline in qualitative competitiveness. In this con... Read more...
06 March 2018
Using tariffs to restore American competitiveness could easily backfire. If U.S. companies can hunker behind trade barriers and sell to a captive market, many will lose their edge. Research by economists Nicho... Read more...
05 March 2018
A 2017 University of Texas study found that simply having a smartphone within one’s view can reduce productivity, response speeds and grades. The results of another study , by the London School of Econom... Read more...
03 March 2018
All in the Family? CEO Choice and Firm Organization, by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, is the first study showing a causal link between dynastic family firms and poorer ... Read more...
01 March 2018
Researchers at University of Texas last year claimed that smartphones could negatively affect attention span by just being in someone’s line of sight. Another study, conducted by the London School of Eco... Read more...
28 February 2018
The share of start-ups in employment in the United States has been declining since 1980. This is in line with that of David Autor and his coauthors on the rise of superstars, David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence ... Read more...
24 February 2018
MOBILE phones in schools should be banned because they pose a much graver risk to children's education than previously considered, the author of a flagship report on their use says. Increasing phone ... Read more...
18 February 2018
Other studies have come to similar conclusions. In 2015 researchers at the London School of Economics studied results at 91 secondary schools in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester that banned mobile ... Read more...
10 February 2018
With technology such as mobile phones in some classrooms increasing distractions, the ability to improve self-control and delayed gratification has become a particularly important skill. Perhaps it’s not... Read more...
08 February 2018
Snippet: ... to answer Facebook calls, to answer Facebook messages.' She added that the gadgets are having a negative impact on the children's ability to concentrate in class, a key finding of recent r... Read more...
29 January 2018
Rankings inform the world who is the biggest, the richest, the happiest, the saddest, the most powerful or the most successful. In the 1990s, Stephen Nickell at the Centre for Economic Performance in the Londo... Read more...
28 January 2018
24 January 2018
Research shows the first causal evidence that dynastic family firms have worse management practices, writes Daniela Scur We push the literature forward in two main ways: first, we show the first causal evid... Read more...
18 January 2018
Today on Freakonomics Radio, we’re launching “The Secret Life of C.E.O.’s,” a special series that’ll get inside the minds of these rare and rarified creatures. Some of the questio... Read more...
17 January 2018
A recent British study by the Centre for Economic Performance compared student results across schools based on cellphone-use policies and concluded, "Schools that restrict access to mobile phone... Read more...
Trovato il segreto della felicita per I bambini di oggi: parola di esparto/Found the secret of happiness for today's children: word of esparto After investigating the factors that in a person's life... Read more...
16 January 2018
Students scored almost seven percent higher following strict phone bans at school, according to a 2015 study published by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. ... Read more...
15 January 2018
The first criticism of Ms Greening was that she was insufficiently radical in pursuing structural reform — more academies, free schools and grammar schools. Research by the LSE, the Education Policy Inst... Read more...
14 January 2018
Snippet: ... there has been a study by the London School of Economics which found where mobiles were banned test scores improved. Richard Murphy, one of the authors, is interviewed o... ... Read more...
11 January 2018
Fortunately, in an age when data is king, there are increasing amounts of facts and figures to illustrate the problem. A paper published earlier this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology'... Read more...
27 December 2017
24 December 2017
A study published in 2015 by the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics found that after a telephone ban, students had nearly 7 percent higher test scores. ... Read more...
21 December 2017
Article by Jennifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clémentine Van Effentererre Principal quality matters for educational performance, argue researchers from the Centre for Vocational Education ... Read more...
19 December 2017
A recent study by the London School of Economics found that banning mobiles can improve academic results ... Read more...
16 December 2017
According to research carried out by the London School of Economics, students of schools where cell use is forbidden achieve better results by more than 6.4 percent. in relation to those studying in institutio... Read more...
15 December 2017
The debate about access to mobile phones in schools is ongoing in the UK, where more than 90% of teenagers have mobiles. A recent study by the London School of Economics found that in schools where mobiles wer... Read more...
According to a London School of Economics study of 2015, schools that have banned mobile phones in class have reported improved performance for their students. ... Read more...
14 December 2017
However, research is on the French side, and in line with a study conducted in 2015 and published by the London School of Economics, school students who began to prohibit the use and even the presence of mobil... Read more...
The French education minister said it is a matter of "public health," and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of 7." A 2015 ... Read more...
According to researchers from the London School of Economics, who carried out research in schools in Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester, where the ban was imposed on the use of cells, teens had bette... Read more...
According to a study by the London School of Economics, even a performance improvement of 6.4 percent was identified. A potential problem could be emergency situations where parents need to reach their childre... Read more...
Research is on Bloomberg—and the French government’s—side. According to a 2015 working paper (pdf) published by the London School of Economics, schools that banned mobile phones saw test scor... Read more...
A study by the London School of Economics found that the test results of 16-year-old students after a complete ban on mobile phones in the school by 6.4 percent better than before. In France, one wil... Read more...
13 December 2017
Educators do not see it that black. Thus, the teacher and author Arne Ulbricht already spoke in 2015 to the "mirror" for a smartphone ban in schools: "Otherwise, we breed a generation that panic... Read more...
Teachers and parents have expressed skepticism at the new plan, as already existing classroom phone bans are commonly broken. However, the government is basing their plan on research conducted by the London Sc... Read more...
However, according to a London School of Economics study on mobile phone issues, after the ban on mobile use, test scores improved by 6.4%. The impact on bad students was even more important, with their own sc... Read more...
The French education minister said it is as a matter of "public health" and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven." A... Read more...
There's evidence that forcing students to put their phones away during school can help reverse some of the negative side effects. A 2015 study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the L... Read more...
12 December 2017
While Vincent does have a point, I think Blanquer deserves praise for his decision. There is no reason for children and young teens to be handling mobile phones at any point throughout the school day. They'... Read more...
Snippet: ...ist, but if for the sake of argument Leonardo had imagined them as aides to scholastic culture and attainment he would have been laughed out of the Renaissance. Now that they do exist, the evidence... Read more...
On Sunday, France’s education minister announced that mobile phones will be banned from primary, junior, and middle schools, calling it a matter of “public health.” Research is on Bloom... Read more...
11 December 2017
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03 December 2017
Is it possible, as Trump’s statement suggests, to compare two countries’ economies and which indicators would we use to do so? GDP per capita is considered a baseline when comparing two economies. ... Read more...
09 November 2017
The Centre for Economic Performance has published a discussion paper entitled 'Product Diversification in Indian Manufacturing.'The abstract states: The presence of global value chains challenges ... Read more...
08 November 2017
With Swati Dhingra, Martin Donnelly and Sam Lowe - Chaired by Soumaya Keynes Trading places: #BrexitTrade conference video: What types of trade barriers are most important for UK firms with an eye ... Read more...
02 November 2017
A growing body of evidence supports Mr Phillips’s stance. Schools where phones are banned saw scores improve 6.4 per cent for 16-year-olds and by 12.2 per cent for lower achieving students, according to ... Read more...
Study in 2015 published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. showed that across multiple schools, when mobile phones were banned, tests scores went up an average of 6.4% in... Read more...
31 October 2017
Sie hat zur Folge, dass der Anteil der Arbeitseinkommen am Gesamtprodukt schrumpft und die Ungleichheit zunimmt. Die Grafik unten zeigt für ausgewählte Länder, wie der Anteil der Arbeitseinkomme... Read more...
30 October 2017
The standard metric of monopoly power is the concentration ratio, or the share of the market accruing to the top four (or 20) firms. In a 2017 paper, MIT’s David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van ... Read more...
26 October 2017
An excellent study published last month by a research group at the London School of Economics looks at the differences in economic activity in varying parts of the UK. The finding are intriguing and sometimes ... Read more...
An LSE study two years ago found that schools that banned phones did 6.4 per cent better in exams. ... Read more...
21 October 2017
Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...
18 October 2017
The South-East is not the country’s productivity engine, rather a band stretching west from the capital towards Bristol is, according to a new LSE report which challenges prevailing wisdom on the uneven ... Read more...
12 October 2017
But why is IT leading to winner-take-all competition? Bessen’s paper can’t answer that, however he raises two possibilities. It could be because “software development typically requires large... Read more...
05 October 2017
Financial services aren’t as London-centric as the creative industries, and the coast-inland divide is growing, write Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies, and Anna Valero. The UK’s financial services... Read more...
02 October 2017
For instance, as reported by the Guardian, a 2015 study called “Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance” found that, after schools banned mobile phones, the test scores... Read more...
Another study, published by a journal of the London School of Economics and Political Science, found that student test scores rose in four schools that banned cell phones, with most of the rise occurring among... Read more...
Whether students are better off under more lax phone rules is yet to be determined, according to some school officials who said their policies are still too new to properly evaluate. But some recent studies ha... Read more...
01 October 2017
"There have always been, but the increase in numbers seems to have started about 30 years ago," says MIT researcher John Michael Van Reenen, one of the proponents of this theory and co-author of the ... Read more...
29 September 2017
Article by Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero: The UK’s financial services industry is not nearly as London-centric as the creative industries. Rather than the South East of England being the... Read more...
25 September 2017
Recently, a lot of attention has focused on the idea that monopoly power might be causing the shift. But the famous paper that draws this connection — by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina... Read more...
The M4 corridor is more productive for the British economy than the southeast, report finds A study into the industrial breakdown of the country by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London Sc... Read more...
22 September 2017
Article by John Van Reenen What are the costs and benefits of regulation? Most countries treat smaller firms more generously when it comes to business regulation, exempting them from some of the burdens on ... Read more...
20 September 2017
Effects would seem to be beneficial: a report from the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, published in 2015, estimated 6.4% improvements following bans, a week more than "r... Read more...
14 September 2017
According to research by economists Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy published in 2015 on the British Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics in four English cities, combining... Read more...
13 September 2017
Great Yarmouth High isn’t the only school in the county stepping up its strictness in attempt to improve its reputation. Tim Gibbs, headteacher of Reepham High, hopes the school’s new ban on mobile... Read more...
11 September 2017
A paper published by the London School of Economics in 2015 found banning mobile phones in schools resulted in a 6.41 per cent improvement overall in the school's' performance. ... Read more...
10 September 2017
Snippet: .Is using a smart phone at school really that bad? Schools with an embargo on mobiles saw the test scores of 16-year-olds improve by 6.4 per cent on average, while the results of lower-achieving stude... Read more...
09 September 2017
There's some evidence that banning phones correlates with better academic outcomes: A 2015 study released by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School for Economics and Public Policy found t... Read more...
31 August 2017
The Conservatives have called for a national ban following a 2015 study by the London School of Economics which found that schools which banned mobile phones saw an increase in test scores – with improve... Read more...
25 August 2017
Academics at the London School of Economics found schools which restrict access to mobile phones “subsequently experience an improvement in test scores”. They also found banning phones “impro... Read more...
24 August 2017
But the Scottish Government seem intent on leaving the question of mobile phones in the classrooms up to head teachers. A spokesman said: “Head teachers can already ban phones in school if they wish to, ... Read more...
Mention of LSE study that found banning mobile phones from classrooms improved test scores. Click to open ... Read more...
16 August 2017
Mobile phones should be banned from primary schools, according to the Scottish Conservatives. Scottish Conservative MSP Michelle Ballantyne urged the government to overhaul this guidance, calling for an out... Read more...
Snippet: ...Scottish MSP Michelle Ballantyne highlighted research by academics at the London School of Economics into the impact of banning mobile phones in schools. The authors concluded schools that restrict... Read more...
Headteachers should have the power to ban mobile phones in schools, a Tory MSP has said. South Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne has urged the Scottish Government to overhaul its 2013 guidance on the use of mob... Read more...
15 August 2017
New research suggests that too little competition deters investment Concentration may also hurt workers. Recent research by David Autor of MIT and four co-authors finds that “superstar” firms pa... Read more...
31 July 2017
The digital economy is exacerbating the capital-labour disparity in global markets. A new competition authority with global remit is needed to reset the balance And, as the economists David Autor, David Dor... Read more...
20 July 2017
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new paper examining the impact of academies on educational outcomes. The comprehensive report brings together EPI’s own analysis, along with research ... Read more...
19 July 2017
A similar trend can be observed at the organizational level. A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman has shown that the spread of individual wages since the 1970s is linked ... Read more...
14 July 2017
Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz ... Read more...
02 July 2017
Article by John Van Reenen with Christina Patterson Perhaps the cause is the "robbery-Apocalypse Now," that companies are replacing expensive people with cheaper machines. We suggest another... Read more...
26 June 2017
There are other consequences of using mobile phones as well. A research published by London School of Economics argues that banning pupils from carrying mobile phones in schools showed a sustained improvement ... Read more...
25 June 2017
In a recent working paper presented by MIT, John Van Reenen and his co-authors document a clear global trend towards the fall in the share of income from Labour in total income. ... Read more...
23 June 2017
A new paper – by David Dorn of the University of Zurich, Lawrence Katz of Harvard University, and David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology &ndash... Read more...
06 June 2017
Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650. Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...
25 May 2017
As the economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen show, the US industries with the fastest-growing market concentration have also seen the largest drop in la... Read more...
24 May 2017
Today’s superstar companies owe their privileged position to digital technology’s network effects, whereby a product becomes even more desirable as more people use it. And although software plat... Read more...
22 May 2017
Article by John Van Reenen and Christina Patterson In most countries, labor’s share of the national income has declined for about three decades. Why? Maybe the cause is “Robocalypse Now”&m... Read more...
21 May 2017
As the economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen show, the US industries with the fastest-growing market concentration have also seen the largest drop in lab... Read more...
18 May 2017
17 May 2017
New research shows that the rise of ever-larger firms means that workers are getting a shrinking slice of a slower-growing economic pie. Increasingly, labor accounts for less and less of GDP in most co... Read more...
11 May 2017
Article by John Van Reenen and Christina Patterson In America, labor’s share has been on the decline for about three decades, and it has accelerated since the turn of the century. The fall has al... Read more...
Article by John Van Reenen. Managers are more frequently the butt of jokes from TV shows like “The Office” to “Horrible Bosses,” than seen as drivers of growth. But maybe things ar... Read more...
09 May 2017
A brake to the concentration. Still, according to a study of 2015 to the United Kingdom by the London School of Economics, the use of the current mobile phone impair concentration. The study, which looked at t... Read more...
03 March 2017
Research by the London School of Economics in 2015 calculated that at maturity, in schools where the mobile phone is banned, the boys get ratings of 6.4% higher. Related Publications In brief ... Phone h... Read more...
According to a study published in the journal of the London School of Economics in may 2015, the ban on mobiles in schools would be beneficial for the academic performance of students. Researchers have shown t... Read more...
02 March 2017
Exporters to Angola that hired managers with specific types of experience were more likely to succeed, write Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza. The enormous variation in firm perform... Read more...
26 January 2017
La inestabilidad de los contratos y el desempleo de los padres tienen efectos negativos en el rendimiento educativo de sus hijos. Es una de las principales conclusiones de un estudio elaborado por la investiga... Read more...
23 January 2017
Article by Swati Dhingra No access to EU’s single market and replacement deals potentially decades away heightens uncertainty for UK businesses. Theresa May’s speech on Tuesday was the govern... Read more...
18 January 2017
Investors should brace themselves for more profit warnings in 2017. This isn't simply because economic growth will slow this year: economists expect an expansion of only 1.2 per cent this year after 2 p... Read more...
04 January 2017
In the study’Job Loss at Home: Children’s School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain’, researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London Sch... Read more...
03 December 2016
More than 90 per cent of teenagers have mobile phones, but a study by the London School of Economics claimed schools where they were banned saw test scores rise by an average of 6 per cent. ... Read more...
30 November 2016
WE were told that the drive to convert schools into academies would boost choice, results and quality. However, a new study by the London School of Economics casts doubt on the Government’s determinat... Read more...
22 November 2016
The conversion of primary schools into academies has not boosted pupils' performance, according to research. All primary and secondary schools in England were given permission to be run independently of lo... Read more...
21 November 2016
NEW research shows the conversion of primary schools into academies has not boosted pupils' performance. All primary and secondary schools in England were given permission to be run independently o... Read more...
Pupils in primary academies do no better in key stage 2 tests than comparable local authority schools, study finds Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Ec... Read more...
Pupils at early conversters to academy status did not outperform children at schools that converted later, according to LSE research. “The results cast doubt on whether further expansion of the academ... Read more...
Professor Manning appointed for a 3 year term. Professor Manning has been appointed for a 3 year term following a rigorous recruitment process regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Home ... Read more...
16 November 2016
The studies, by the Treasury, the thinktank NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics, predicted the effect on the British economy if the UK was to opt for a Norway-style model. That wo... Read more...
18 October 2016
Last year, a study by the London School of Economics claimed schools where mobile phones were banned saw test scores rise by an average of 6%. Perhaps a study should look at the gains such a move could make when it comes... Read more...
25 September 2016
A paper by Nicholas Bloom and others, from Stanford University, finds that well-managed firms perform better than their peers and make a greater contribution to a nation's total-factor productivity. ... Bloom and colleag... Read more...
18 September 2016
For the past decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and a rotating crew of co-authors (most consistently MIT's John Van Reenen) have been documenting that the management best practices developed at high-performing com... Read more...
22 August 2016
Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...
05 August 2016
Three short paragraphs to explain the Brexit vote: The British people have suffered tremendously since the financial crisis. The real wages of the average person fell by about 10 per cent between 2007 and 2015. This... Read more...
04 August 2016
A new CFM survey discusses the implications of Brexit for the economics profession, write Wouter Den Haan, Ethan Ilzetzki, Martin Ellison and Michael McMahon Before the referendum, there was near unanimity in the profe... Read more...
03 August 2016
Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have carried out a similar exercise looking at top bosses' pay at 500 large listed UK companies between 1999 and 2014. Unl... Read more...
27 July 2016
This finding is mirrored at least in part by a study of sponsored academies established under the previous Labour government, conducted by the London School of Economics, which argues that the impact of conversion should... Read more...
22 July 2016
... University and the London-based Centre for Economic Performance. ''Health insurance coverage and ... This article was published by Dubuque Telegraph Herald (USA) on July 13, 2016 Link to article here [Subscrip... Read more...
13 July 2016
Article by Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer Gender gaps in earnings exist in high-skill industries despite male and female workers having similar educational backgrounds. This column uses evidence from the legal industry t... Read more...
12 July 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...
For example, I have obtained an internal Scottish Enterprise document circulated last week among senior managers declaring the consequences of Brexit for the Scottish manufacturing sector ''to be overwhelmingly negative'... Read more...
09 July 2016
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Centre for Economic Performance have all predicted lower real wages in the event of Brexit, higher prices for goods and ser... Read more...
22 June 2016
In a dramatic escalation of Tory infighting earlier, Mr Cameron told Sky News: 'To hear the Leave campaign today sort of comparing independent experts and economists to Nazi sympathisers - I think they have rather lost ... Read more...
Today Morning Trade talks Brexit and the future of U.K. trade policy with Swati Dhingra, a lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics and a member of the trade research program of the Institutions's Center f... Read more...
21 June 2016
Things to read about Brexit Below is a selection of informative things to read about Brexit that can help you decide. Please suggest your own in comments, but you cannot post links there. You can send links to editor... Read more...
16 June 2016
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
11 June 2016
Economists for Brexit group claims that downturn would be avoided if Britain removed all trade barriers after leaving EU Economists campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union have accused the Treasury and inter... Read more...
02 June 2016
The frustrating thing is that politicians seem quite happy to ignore evidence - even when they have helped to support the researchers who produced it. For example, when the chancellor George Osborne announced in his bud... Read more...
16 April 2016
14 April 2016
If you're reading this you probably don't need convincing, but one of the most significant milestones in economic research over the last several years was documenting empirically that it really is true. A new paper buil... Read more...
11 April 2016
The article is an in depth summary of Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen's research on the difference in management practices. Ideally, this summary highlights the key points of focus as established by the authors. Th... Read more...
07 April 2016
Management is thought to play a key role in explaining this gap. In 2012, the results of a decade-long worldwide study carried out by academics at Stanford, Harvard and the LSE found the UK had more badly managed firms t... Read more...
03 March 2016
The Treasury's top civil servant, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, is set to stand down in April, having led the Government department for over a decade. George Osborne, the Chancellor, said he would ''miss'' Sir Nicholas, 56,... Read more...
04 January 2016
The size of the current account deficit and the UK's reliance on household consumption are among the main worries for Britain's leading economists. John van Reenen, Director, Centre for Economic Performance: First... Read more...
03 January 2016
We said in reporting official Labour Market Statistics that ''Three in four new jobs go to migrants from EU countries'' (News, Nov 12). This was wrong. The Office for National Statistics has stated that its estimates of ... Read more...
10 December 2015
Article by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Private tutoring is booming and elite universities remain preserve of middle classes; something must change, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Social mobility is t... Read more...
09 December 2015
Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muuls, Laure B. De Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner have received the 2015 Erik Kempe Award for their paper 'Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading... Read more...
29 June 2015
As the economy recovers, wages should rise and the relative cost of capital to firms should fall, which would increase the appeal of investing in productivity-enhancing technology. This, at least, is what Professors Joao... Read more...
29 January 2015
The UK government's goal of cutting public spending so public finances are back in the black by 2018-19 with a large annual surplus by the end of the next parliament will not be delivered, most economists believe. How... Read more...
01 January 2015
The United Kingdom has discovered that its Information Economy industries could be 42 per cent larger than current estimates, with at least 70,000 extra ICT-producing companies recently captured in a recent data find ope... Read more...
28 November 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...
01 July 2014
Com'è la giornata tipo di un manager nel mondo? Quante ore lavora e cosa fa in quelle ore? Uno studio su amministratori delegati europei, americani, indiani e brasiliani condotto da Raffaella Sadun (che insegna Bu... Read more...
03 June 2014
Meanwhile, justification for rapid academisation is scant. A 2009 report by LSE academics Stephen Machin and Joan Wilson signals there was little proof that New Labour's academies raised the attainment of poorer students... Read more...
14 May 2014