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The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...
18 May 2021
A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...
Amidst increasing levels of money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier suggests a three-step solution to the issues faced by banks. ... Read more...
21 September 2020
The Economist examines the benefits of working from home in light of lockdown, and cites findings made by Nick Bloom that those who worked from home were more productive. ... Read more...
12 September 2020
Max Nathan is an associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London's technology ecosystem is thriving. The city has more than 50,000 tech firms, with over 260,000 employe... Read more...
29 October 2019
A large empirical literature documents that the adoption of IT requires changes in the company organization and induces greater productivity gains in the best managed companies, because managerial and IT practices are co... Read more...
22 October 2019
Every city wants a cluster, a concentration of high-productivity firms and workers beavering away in a particular industry in a particular place. Proximity means ideas and productivity growing and spreading. Who doesn't ... Read more...
20 October 2019
Another widely cited study - by Georg Graetz at Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics - also uses the IFR data but a different methodology, and shows that industrial robots increase produc... Read more...
17 October 2019
Another, Swati Dhingra, lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics, said that since the EU referendum, "the number of foreign investments and expansions… are showing disconcerting reductions."... Read more...
23 September 2019
Ignore for a moment, the horrendous costs involved in this wholesale re-direction of human work. The question is which jobs are most at risk in which sectors. According to MIT economist David Autor, automation will subst... Read more...
19 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
There is an almost complete pass-through of tariffs into prices paid by US importers; consumers pick up the tab, write Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David E. Weinstein.... Read more...
24 July 2019
Write David Jacks, Dennis Novy Against the backdrop of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and retaliation from targeted countries, notably China, the trade wars of the 1930s have received renewed attention... Read more...
23 July 2019
Since the advent of industrial robots, various studies have been published on "How industrial robots affect manufacturing". For example, according to an industry survey of 17 countries from 1993 to 2007 (Graetz, G and G ... Read more...
12 July 2019
In an article for Bloomberg last month, Noah Smith notes that the hubbub about technological unemployment and falling wages is largely a lot of scary hand-wringing over what is possible rather than clear-headed analysis ... Read more...
11 July 2019
Described as a "game-changing event" by London School of Economics Dr. Richard Layard, New Zealand's budget has set a new standard for progressive policy "no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being ... Read more...
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10 July 2019
In a 2015 Centre for Economic Performance study in Britain, researchers found that a school smartphone ban improved the academic performance of students in the bottom quarter of the test group significantly (14%) in high... Read more...
04 July 2019
Tito Boeri interviews Raghuram G. Rajan With industrialized countries beset by a political backlash against trade, technology, migration, and other hallmarks of the modern global economy, expert solutions are needed now... Read more...
28 June 2019
Reaffirming this idea, John Van Reenen, economist at MIT, explained that this division could point to a scenario in which the only one harmed is the global economy. "Given the assault of Trump and the growing band of 'st... Read more...
26 June 2019
Workers facing occupational decline earn 2-5 per cent less over their careers; low earners can lose 10 per cent, write Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas and Guy Michaels. ... Read more...
25 June 2019
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas, Guy Michaels As new technologies replace human labour in a growing number of tasks, employment in some occupations invariably falls. This column compares ou... Read more...
24 June 2019
One of these efforts can be found in an article by economists Francesco Caselli and Alan Manning. Its mathematical model is quite flexible: it allows many types of workers and many different consumer and capital goods.... Read more...
23 June 2019
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"One thing is really clear: There has got to be a reset in the world trading system," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "It's all breaking at the seams at this point."... Read more...
21 June 2019
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A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that banning phones could give low-achieving and low-income pupils an additional hour a week in school.... Read more...
The introduction of an extra robot for a thousand workers reduces the employment rate by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percentage points. Looking at a sample of 17 countries, Georg Graetz and Gu... Read more...
The achievements of the Chinese and Vietnamese economies lead to a debate on state capitalism as a viable model of further development. Economists Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund Malesky present on VoxE... Read more...
19 June 2019
Workers facing occupational decline earn 2-5 per cent less over their careers; low earners can lose 10 per cent, write Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas and Guy Michaels.... Read more...
18 June 2019
In a fascinating new paper, economists David Jacks and Dennis Novy argue that today's contentious trade disputes recall what happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Led by Great Britain and Germany, competing ... Read more...
06 June 2019
"At the moment, we have not witnessed a wholesale collapse of the modern trading system. This is partially for the fact that policymakers seem to have learned some of the lessons of interwar history by not responding in ... Read more...
Who compromises most in such cases? Generally, size matters: big trading economies are usually in a position to dictate terms to smaller partners. In the words of professor Dennis Novy of the University of Warwick: "Th... Read more...
05 June 2019
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To help us sort out the prospects of a bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. and to look at the historical context, we're joined by Professor Dennis Novy. He's an economist at the University of Warwick. Welc... Read more...
In this sense, one of the most complete studies to date was carried out by the economists Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (in Robots at Work, The Review of Economic... Read more...
20 May 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...
Snippet: ...have they can bring them into school was on was switched off and kept in lockers or somewhere safe and there's also an academic research Katie you're aware of which is linked to banning phones to better GCSE ... Read more...
19 May 2019
Snippet: ...school? According to this group of head teachers yes, they should be. The reason they make this argument is they think mobile phones are a complete distraction in school, and there has been evidence from a st... Read more...
18 May 2019
Snippet: ...nd the head teacher who bans mobile phones", adding: "Children in school should not be being distracted by their phones." Banning phones in schools delivers an average 6 per cent increase in test scores, acco... Read more...
To try to anticipate the impact of the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, beyond the anecdotal that the newspaper headlines may be about layoffs caused by automation, it is useful to analyze the real experie... Read more...
The economic losses from Trump's trade war compound that burden. A study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University and Princeton University found that trade warfare was costing Americans... Read more...
17 May 2019
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Research from Mary Amiti of the New York Fed, Stephen Redding of Princeton University and David Weinstein of Columbia University in March found that the "full incidence" of the tariffs has fallen on domestic consumers so... Read more...
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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
There is growing concern that human jobs are being replaced by the rapid technological progress of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation (Acemoglu and Restrepo 2017, Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014, Ford 20... Read more...
14 April 2019
A widely cited 2015 paper from the London School of Economics and Political Science found "student performance in high stake exams significantly increases" if mobile phones are banned.... Read more...
10 April 2019
Robots are already driving productivity. Investment in robots contributed to 10 percent of GDP growth per capita in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1993 to 2016.5 There is also... Read more...
08 April 2019
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Robots increase productivity when used for tasks that perform more efficiently and at a higher and more stable level of quality than people. In a research focused on robotics for the Center for Economic Performance at th... Read more...
04 April 2019
Figure of the week - $1.4bn a month. The hit to US prices and welfare produced by Mr Trump's trade policies in 2018, according to research by Mary Amiti of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Stephen Redding of Princet... 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
Johannes Gutenberg died in 1468, a little over a decade after inventing movable type. But he had already set in motion a gold rush-like frenzy of European entrepreneurs who flung open print shops to cash in on his techno... Read more...
28 March 2019
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In 2010, along with two other colleagues at MIT and the University of California at San Diego, he had already observed that the productivity of former star coworkers decreased by 5% to 8% after such a fatal event. "Since... Read more...
From Dr Guy Michaels, London School of Economics, UK Joseph Cotterill, in "Aid groups battle to reach cyclone survivors" (March 21), describes the terrible devastation that recent floods have wreaked in Mozambique and n... Read more...
26 March 2019
However, the phenomenon that has promoted the economic viability of new technology around the world has been the reduction of prices. According to Graetz and Michaels [5], the price of industrial robots has been reduced ... Read more...
However, women inventors made up only 12% of all inventors on patents granted in 2016 - the most recent year for which data is available - according to the patent office. That disparity is not a good sign and even hurts... Read more...
A new analysis suggests a trajectory and policy recommendations, write Adeline Pelletier, Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin. In the past decade, mobile payment systems (MPS) have rapidly emerged in many developing economies... Read more...
25 March 2019
Abi Adams, a specialist in behavioral economics at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, UK, tells the BBC that new websites and online shopping applications "are changing our relationship with money."... Read more...
To what extent does the way we bank affect the way we spend, or don't spend, our money? Guest: Abi Adams, Behavioural Economist at the University of Oxford.... Read more...
24 March 2019
In a similar spirit, I of course know that the introduction of a printing press with moveable type by to Europe in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg is often called one of the most important inventions in world history. However... Read more...
22 March 2019
Book prices fell, the salaries of university professors rose, and revolutionary religious ideas spread, write Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold.... Read more...
14 March 2019
"It's important to remember that China started with a much more broad-based and educated workforce when it embarked on its economic transition," says Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics. "India has seen m... Read more...
13 March 2019
Bans on mobile phones significantly increases student performance in high-stakes exams, according to a 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science paper.... Read more...
12 March 2019
...which are designed to create positive learning environments." They note that many school boards have policies that allow students to bring their own devices into the classroom for educational purposes. A 2015 London S... Read more...
The Toronto District School Board dropped its ban in 2011, and last summer, it also lifted its ban on Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix. A 2015 London School of Economics study found that ... ... Read more...
Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...
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Phlippe Aghion (College of France, LSE, and CEPR) discusses work on merged datasets from the UK - one detailing occupation & wages, the other looking at R&D and investment. ... Read more...
03 March 2019
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These conclusions are consistent with not only theoretical models of economics featuring AI in general equilibrium (Aghion, Jones, and Jones 2017) but also with evidence on how the introduction of robots raised labor pro... Read more...
01 March 2019
Graetz, Georg and Guy Michaels (2017): "Robots at Work," Discussion Paper 1335, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science. ... Read more...
23 February 2019
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Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford studied ... [paywall] ... Read more...
17 February 2019
Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and ... [paywall] ... Read more...
14 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...
12 February 2019
Media reports suggest that some UK firms have started to move production abroad in anticipation of Brexit. Using data on announcements of new foreign investment transactions, this column reports evidence that the Brexit ... Read more...
Dennis Novy, one of the report's authors, told CNBC: "The economic risk of Brexit is larger on the UK side of the Channel.... Read more...
A study published this morning by the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE dissects how foreign investment has changed behaviour since the referendum. According to the LSE researchers, UK firms appear to have star... Read more...
Are firms moving investment abroad because of Brexit? Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson (LSE) use a 'doppelganger method' to estimate how foreign direct investment would have evolved without... Read more...
11 February 2019
A study conducted by academics from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) looked into how the vote to leave the EU has affected outward investment by U.K. companies. ... Read more...
Mention of CEP report showing British firms investing outside of the UK because of Brexit. ... Read more...
10 February 2019
The UK needs a new era of policy activism with a 'future of good work' focus, write Christopher Pissarides, Anna Thomas and Josh De Lyon.... Read more...
06 February 2019
Klaus Desmet, David Krisztian Nagy, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Nathaniel Young The economic geography of transition economies has changed dramatically over the last quarter century, with large urban areas growing fast and ... Read more...
04 February 2019
Almost all schools are thought to have some controls over mobile phone use. Some ban them outright and others restrict their use in lessons or during playtime. A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that ba... Read more...
02 February 2019
These machines are defined by The International Federation of Robotics as "an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, and multipurpose [machine]" (IFR 2014; see also Graetz and Michaels, 2015). ... Read more...
01 February 2019
Long term is worse. "Our best estimate is that GDP per capita will be 6.3 to 9.5 per cent per year lower than it would be if we were to remain in the EU," wrote John Van Reenen, today an economics professor at MIT. "At t... Read more...
18 January 2019
Snippet: ... A new ESRI study shows smartphone ownership among children has a detrimental impact on their education. And a 2015 study by the Centre of Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that aft... Read more...
17 January 2019
Autor and Salomons acknowledge that because they used such a general measure of technological change, they couldn't assess the impact of robotics specifically. They do cite work by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels that did ... Read more...
04 January 2019
19 December 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
The OECD estimated before the referendum that a WTO Brexit could cost the UK up to 5.1 percent of GDP over 15 years. A study by the London School of Economics estimated a 9.5 per cent hit. ... Read more...
20 July 2018
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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
But among the export panel, Alex [sic] Manning, professor of economics, London School of Economics, believes the net impact on jobs of AI, robotics and other automation technologies will be zero, as new jobs w... 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
22 March 2018
Opinion – Letters to the Editor: Alastair Hamilton must acknowledge Brexit realities Writing in the Huffington Post Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton has described the concern that Brexit... Read more...
07 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...
05 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
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
Extreme polarisation is not persistent over time; people are more likely to react to specific events or news, writes Maria Molina-Domene. Social media facilitates communication and an appealing question i... Read more...
16 February 2018
In a similar session titled ‘What Makes People Happy?’, Paul Dolan, Head of Department and Professor of Behavioral Science in Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics ... Read more...
11 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
Researchers at the ESRC Centre for Economic Performance have explored the impact of stamp duty on different types of mobility, by comparing mobility rates of otherwise similar homeowners with self-assessed hou... Read more...
01 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
…nearly six years. The Centre for Economic Performance says that the vote has cost the … ... Read more...
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With the UK due to leave the EU at 11pm on 29 March 2019, countries on both sides of the channel are figuring out what Brexit will mean for their economies. We speak to Panmure Gordon’s David B... Read more...
19 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
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
The cut in stamp duty for first-time buyers was good news but more needs to be done to help overcome the housing crisis, according to the chief executive of the Family Building Society, Mark Bogard. It foll... Read more...
10 January 2018
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
Swati Dhingra of the Center for Economic Performance at London School of Economics (LSE) said "Inflation data provides the most useful information." She said the overall impact of uncertainty is more... Read more...
20 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...
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“The inflation figures are the most informative,” says Swati Dhingra, at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She says the impact of broad uncertainty has been har... Read more...
13 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...
02 November 2017
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
Earlier this year, a report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research said the rate of home moving would be 27 per cent higher without stamp duty. Related publications ... Read more...
30 October 2017
Tory whip writes to every vice-chancellor to ask for syllabus and any online material Academics are accusing a Tory MP and government whip of “McCarthyite” behaviour, after he wrote to all unive... Read more...
24 October 2017
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
A major impediment to clarity has been the weight of advice from what Michael Gove calls ‘organisations with acronyms’ suggesting that a ‘no deal’ on trade will greatly damage the... Read more...
13 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...
02 October 2017
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
But the exploitation of currently available knowledge is far from complete A recent paper by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones and Michael Webb of Stanford University, and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts I... Read more...
29 September 2017
Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit has the potential to provide economic benefits to the UK. Before the referendum, Treasury economists assured the public that a vote to le... Read more...
28 September 2017
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb: The rate of productivity growth in advanced economies has been falling. Optimists hope for a fourth industrial revolution, while p... Read more...
20 September 2017
Professor of Finance and Economics, Kevin Dowd (Durham University), Professor David Paton (Nottingham University) and Professor David Blake (University of London) discuss how the UK can benefit from a free tra... Read more...
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
The great majority of the economic forecasts have concluded that Brexit will damage the UK economy. In the case of ‘no deal’ between the UK and the EU, the majority view is that the loss of GDP cou... Read more...
08 September 2017
The government has commissioned independent advisers on migration (the Migration Advisory Committee) to complete a detailed assessment of the social and economic impact of international students... Read more...
04 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...
The LSE quartet – professors Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen – do concede that there is, potentially, a very minor boost to going it alone. Their own model... Read more...
21 August 2017
Mention of LSE study that found banning mobile phones from classrooms improved test scores. Click to open ... Read more...
16 August 2017
Stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing, it has been claimed. A report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Resea... Read more...
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
A recent paper by Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics suggests that stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by about a fifth. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mo... Read more...
14 August 2017
Academics have claimed that the housing market is being adversely affected by stamp duty. According to research from the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, the duty is det... Read more...
The Center for Economic Performance estimated that in the case of such a scenario over the decade, trade would have fallen by 40 percent and average income by 2.6 percent. ... Read more...
Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Stamp duty discourages young expanding families from moving to more adequate, larger housing and it discourages the elderly from downsizing. ... Read more...
11 August 2017
Current stamp duty rates are deterring older buyers from downsizing and therefore freeing up homes for those further down the housing ladder, but the research from the London School of Economics and the VATT I... Read more...
Present rates of Stamp Duty are putting older buyers off downsizing and stopping more homes coming onto the market for those at the bottom of the housing ladder. Research from the London School of Economics an... Read more...
By raising the costs of moving home, stamp duty is likely to have “very substantial detrimental effects” on the property market, according to research released this week by academics from the Londo... Read more...
Snippet: ... A report by the London School of Economics also claimed that stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing. Related publications ... Read more...
10 August 2017
Snippet: ... "The important message for our paper is that the taxation has significantly hurt the liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. Related publications &lsq... Read more...
Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly’… Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes ... Read more...
The tax is stopping young families from moving to a larger home, a report says, and deterring older people from downsizing. Snippet: ...Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Th... Read more...
"The important message of our paper is that the taxation is significantly damaging to liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. "" If a young family adds a filia... Read more...
09 August 2017
A cabinet minister, who apparently wishes to remain anonymous, has told the Daily Telegraph that stamp duty must be reformed as it is exacerbating the housing crisis, stopping older homeowners from downsizing.... Read more...
A study by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research found Stamp Duty, or property transfer taxes, were making households less likely to move, particularly over shorter distan... Read more...
Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, of the London School of Economics, tells the paper the key message from the research is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Tra... Read more...
Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and... Read more...
Snippet: ... Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report told the Daily Telegraph: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications &... Read more...
Snippet: ... Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes a... Read more...
Snippet: ... LSE Professor Christian Hilber said: "If you are a young family and you have an additional child, you'll need an additional room, but the stamp duty is discouraging this kind of move beca... Read more...
The academic paper, published jointly by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, estimates the level of home moving would increase by 27 per cent if the levy was abolished ... Read more...
However, research from the LSE and the VATT Institute for Economic Research suggests the human cost of stamp duty is even higher. It artificially reduces the rate at which people move by nearly one-third, it s... Read more...
08 August 2017
Snippet: ... A report from academics said stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by nearly a third and meant that large homes were not being freed up for young, growing families. Related publications ... Read more...
in the last decade, the average amount of stamp duty charged per residential transaction has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly for some). The need to pay thousa... Read more...
05 August 2017
A little-noticed change in Britain’s housing market spells trouble for everybody Snippet: ...n has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly). The need to pay ... Read more...
These two narratives needn’t be completely at odds. As I concluded in a piece last year on the debate over too much versus too little competition: There’s a pessimistic synthesis between the com... Read more...
25 July 2017
The average employee in the finance industry loses more than 20 minutes per day of productive time to faulty IT. This is ironic in a sector which has always been proud of its trail-blazing attitude to be an ea... Read more...
30 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
High-speed rail has triggered a wave of innovation , according to a London School of Economics and Political Science discussion paper by Lin Yatang, Qin Yu and Xie Zhuan, which describes a 20 per cent increase... Read more...
21 June 2017
But the greatest potential trouble is on Brexit, with the constitutional uncertainty growing and economists laying out this week just what a hard or chaotic Brexit could mean for the economy: the pound droppin... Read more...
According to Professor Jeremiah Dittmar of the London School of Economics, writing in 2011, European cities which adopted the printing press experienced 60% higher economic growth than those which didn’t... Read more...
14 June 2017
Researchers Maarten Goos and Alan Manning posit in “Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Great Britain” that there is a general “hollowing out of middle income routine jo... Read more...
10 March 2017
Yatang Lin, a researcher from the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, enthused that "there were ambitions to get everything done pretty quickly. Of course, there were politi... Read more...
04 March 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
China is the world leader in the deployment of high-speed rail infrastructure but how much of this is because of the extensive technology transfer deals that were struck with foreign companies during the early... Read more...
01 March 2017
Dr Hilary Steedman, senior research fellow at The London School of Economics, speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, said: “I think the IFS has really overstated their case here. We have a really s... Read more...
31 January 2017
Not surprisingly, when an index for global political uncertainty, compiled records so unsafe level, inter alia by the Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, on a high, (Stanford). And Austria's foreign trade m... Read more...
27 January 2017
Britain’s manufacturing heritage is told through faded photos of workers on assembly lines, or operating basic tools. But that was the 1970s, and in the 21st century, a factory has a lot more robots. Usi... Read more...
26 January 2017
A multitude of studies weaken the prophecy of universal income advocates: that of researchers Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels (2015) , who found, by analyzing seventeen countries over fifteen years, the robot ha... Read more...
In a new paper called “Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?,” economists George Graetz and Guy Michaels looked at 17 different developed countries, from 1970 through 2011. The t... Read more...
23 January 2017
Most rich countries hire back workers after a recession. The U.S. replaces them with machines Economists have recently discovered that it’s middle-skill routine jobs -- think of cashiers, telemarketer... Read more...
However another study from the London School of Economics suggests a ban on phones has the effect of an extra week of classes over a pupil’s school year. Also in: Retford Today Should ... Read more...
21 January 2017
A recent study found a ban on phones generally helps classroom performance research by the London school of economics found that after schools outlawed mobiles test scores of pupils aged 16 impr... Read more...
19 January 2017
Evidence published in 2015 by Michaels and Graetz from a dataset of companies in 17 countries gathered between 1993 and 2007, suggests that while productivity increases with robotic innovation and some semi-sk... Read more...
16 January 2017
Using national level data on worldwide robot shipments across 17 countries, George Graetz and Guy Michaels show that robots may have been responsible for about a tenth of the increases in those countries&rsquo... Read more...
11 January 2017
So, the White House cites a study of 2015 by George Graetz and Guy Michaels made in 17 countries, that concluded that the robots helped to increase the wealth of those countries by 0.4% between 1993 ... Read more...
30 December 2016
Educationalists, psychologists and authors also call for a minister for children to try to address ‘toxic’ nature of childhood “Without concerted action, our children’s physical and ... Read more...
25 December 2016
We have seen signs that the companies which manage to exploit the robots and the Internet of Things (IoT) in their production machinery can compete with factories in the distant economies. This trend is furthe... Read more...
23 December 2016
In fact the industry 4.0 represents a great opportunity for our manufacturing and for once never catches us completely off-guard. According to a recent study carried out by economists George Graetz and Guy Mic... Read more...
02 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
Given the increased usage of robotics and other automation, how will that impact the productivity numbers? In July of 2015, Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels published a paper, “Estimating the Impact of Robo... Read more...
07 November 2016
Pupils make substantially more progress in literacy if they follow a pen-and-paper course than if they take a similar programme online, new research has found. Researchers working with pupils in 51 primary schools found ... Read more...
28 October 2016
Article sources a figure from 'Guessing game: Actual job losses due to robots may not be as bad as anticipated for most countries' (Source: George Graetz and Guy Michaels, “Robots at Work”.... Read more...
27 October 2016
Foreign direct investment is also much more economically potent than the domestic variety. It brings with it new technological and managerial knowhow that can dramatically boost productivity, according to London School o... Read more...
17 October 2016
CEP research article previously published by Vox referenced in article published in PRC: [8]Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson: UK-EU relations after Brexit: What is best for the UK economy? This article was published onlin... Read more...
16 October 2016
The rate of growth in technological innovations in China has increased significantly in the past two decades (see Figure 1). What's more, it is widely believed that the ability to learn from foreign technology and chase ... Read more...
13 October 2016
In today's interview, we sat down with Alan Manning, Professor of Labour Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a leading author in his field, particularly in understanding the imperfections of labour markets... Read more...
27 September 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
With a major question mark: foreign groups continue to invest in the country? The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics estimated that membership of the EU has indeed increased foreign direct ... Read more...
21 September 2016
A 2015 research paper by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that student test scores improve by 6.4 percent when cell phones are banned at schools and that there are no... Read more...
06 September 2016
In a 2015 study, ''Robots at Work'', economists at Sweden's Uppsala University and the London School of Economics looked at the economic impact of robots from 1993 to 2007. They found that the use of robots in advanced e... Read more...
06 August 2016
The 23 June 2016 Brexit vote saw British voters reject membership in the European Union. This column introduces a new VoxEU eBook containing 19 essays written by leading economists on a wide array of topics and from a br... Read more...
01 August 2016
However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...
30 July 2016
British people are at their least happy while at work - except when they are sick in bed - according to a study forthcoming in the Economic Journal. The researchers Alex Bryson and George MacKerron analysed more tha... Read more...
27 July 2016
A couple of thoughtful pieces to throw into the melee post-referendum. First Tim Harford in today's FT And to the idea that economists don't know what they are talking about (a new broadly held myth scaled up by the fac... Read more...
20 July 2016
The evidence is that foreign managers improve the companies they acquire A paper by Nick Bloom of Stanford University and others shows that the David Brents can learn from the Jack Welches: when they take over British f... Read more...
Artificial intelligence is bound to exacerbate inequalities but why are economists still for it platforms That is to say, technical parts of the economy made great contribution to productivity growth. In 2015 a 17-count... Read more...
16 July 2016
Article by CVER Director, Sandra McNally, on some of the recommendations of the recent Sainsbury Report The incoming British prime minister Theresa May has outlined a vision of a country that ''works not for the privile... Read more...
15 July 2016
Research findings A new study on students' test performance and smartphones found kids who attend schools with smartphone bans did better on tests - even more so if they were struggling academically before the ban was ... Read more...
13 July 2016
John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said that Britain's Brexit decision will have both short-term and long-term consequences. ''There is a lot of uncertainty ab... Read more...
01 July 2016
Foreign investment brings many benefits to the UK, including higher pay and productivity. But a Brexit vote could end it all, write Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen. First, not being... Read more...
22 June 2016
And while some experts argue that FDI is high in the UK due to a favourable business environment, others, such as the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, suggest that ''being fully in the s... Read more...
The big bluff of robotisation Numerous studies announce us that Automation is going to lead to a massacre of jobs. At the same time, the productivity slowdown worries official economists and Christiane Lagarde, Presiden... Read more...
10 June 2016
Intuitively, automation would lead to higher labour productivity. For instance, with labour-assisting technology such as autonomous drone waiters by local firms, we would expect a fall in the number of waiters serving th... Read more...
08 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
A very awkward fact for the Brexit campaign is that in the last quarter of 2015, Britain's current-account deficit hit a record 7 per cent of GDP. That needs to be financed. But the risk of Brexit is already acting like ... Read more...
19 April 2016
Article by John Van Reenen Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union cou... Read more...
15 April 2016
Whether Britain loses access to the single market depends on the terms of any exit. Under the optimistic scenario, Britain would join the European Economic Area as non-member countries like Norway and Switzerland have do... Read more...
Article by Swati Dhingra Last week's Brussels visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started speculations that there will now be a renewed push for talks on the stalled EU-India broad-based trade and investment agree... Read more...
04 April 2016
London School of Economics and Political Science recently produced a report that found that grades improved in schools that banned mobile phones. This effect was most pronounced for struggling students; however, trying t... Read more...
08 March 2016
In the period 1993-2007, manufacturing employment in this country fell by around 55%, while the use of robots rose by around 80%. By contrast, Germany’s deployment of robots rose by around 165% and its m... Read more...
15 February 2016
The opportunity to automjate UK workplaces does not necessarily mean huge unemployment and lower pay as machines take over. The claims came in presentations ahead of the Automatica Robotics Trade Show, and aimed to highl... Read more...
08 February 2016
Article by Linda Yueh My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43 to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opp... Read more...
09 December 2015
Earlier this year in a blog entitled ''Robots are infiltrating the growth statistics,'' the Brookings Institution commented on jointly conducted new research from Uppsala University and the London School of Economics, wh... Read more...
The primary focus of this incident is on police brutality and the disproportionate levels of school discipline that put young Black girls across America at risk every day. But those who explain the incident away, such as... Read more...
29 October 2015
Robots are gradually becoming a part of everyday life, and as a result are impacting on the economy. To look at the influence robots are having, Joe Aldridge speaks with Guy Michaels, Associate Professor at the London Sc... Read more...
12 October 2015
Debate on banning mobile phones from classrooms mentions LSE [CEP] research. The news item was broadcast by BBC Radio Suffolk on September 30, 2015 Link to broadcast here See also BBC Radio Shropshire News Discussi... Read more...
30 September 2015
Richard Murphy interviewed about research into effect in schools of banning mobile phones. The interview was broadcast by BBC Essex Radio on September 29, 2015 Link to interview here Related publications In brief... ... Read more...
29 September 2015
In May, the London School of Economics found that banning mobile phones from classrooms could benefit students' learning by as much as an additional week's worth of schooling over an academic year. The report found that ... Read more...
27 September 2015
The new Cottenham principal said research by the London School of Economics found that on average schools that have a ''hard ban'' on mobile phones see a 6 per cent increase in their results. This article was published ... Read more...
17 September 2015
... the wrong person. Expert on happiness, Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics, believes that ... This article was published by the Birmingham Post on September 16, 2015 [No link available to the ar... Read more...
16 September 2015
An increase in market concentration in the mobile communications industry generates a true economic trade-off. This is the important finding of a new, original report. The CERRE report is co-authored by Tommaso Valletti... Read more...
15 September 2015
Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has raised concerns about secondary pupils using their phones at school. LSE academics released a study in May suggesting that restricting mobile phone use could improve results. This a... Read more...
14 September 2015
Behaviour expert Tom Bennett is to look into the impact of devices used by pupils under an expansion of his investigation into how to train teachers to tackle poor behaviour, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said. It follows ... Read more...
13 September 2015
...the role of smart phones in the classroom its after research from the London school of economics suggested exam results improve in schools... This broadcast was made by BBC Radio Glouchestershire on September 3, 2015... Read more...
03 September 2015
Mention of research from London school of economics about mobile phones in the classroom. The research was mentioned on LBC Radio's James O'Brien show on September 2, 2015 Link to the broadcast here Related Publicat... Read more...
02 September 2015
Two economics professors have studied the impact the machines have had on employment, and their findings painted a positive picture. Uppsala University's Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels from the London School of Economics ... Read more...
A recent study by the Centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics is quite the supporters of cell phone bans. The authors Louis-Philippe BELAND and Richard Murphy had compared student performance be... Read more...
01 September 2015
The economic benefits of industrial robots installed since the early 1990s have been similar to those of the railways in the 19th century, US highways in the 20th century, and information and communications technologies ... Read more...
Discussion of LSE research on robots. HOST: THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DID A STUDY ON THE USE OF ROBOTS. SOME OF THE THINGS THEY FOUND OUR THAT IN 17 COUNTRIES THE USE OF ROBOTS INCREASED... The filmed interview wa... Read more...
Mention of research on mobile phones in the classroom. Broadcast on BBC Radio Newcastle on September 1, 2015 [No link available] Related publications In brief ... Phone home: should mobiles be banned in schools?, Lou... Read more...
A recent large-scale study found that banning mobile phones improved exam results by 2%, even when gender and class had been accounted for. At first glance it seems an insignificant rise but the impact is equivalent to o... Read more...
Guy Michaels of the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, discusses the use of robots in industry. This interview was broadcast by Share Radio on August 2, 2015 [No link available] Related publications Robots at work... Read more...
02 August 2015
So if innovation seems to be booming, why has productivity growth been muted? A common argument is that the effect of innovation is being incorrectly measured. The advent of the Sharing Economy, which forms a chapter in ... Read more...
30 July 2015
Article by Max Nathan Despite the recent hype, London's digital sector appears to have shrunk since 2010, with much of the 2000s surge wiped out, and has only recently turned the corner. This article was published onl... Read more...
06 July 2015
A paper by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics in February revealed that industrial robots do increase labor productivity and raise a country's average growth rate by 0.37 percentage points. The ar... Read more...
23 June 2015
The study 'Robots at Work' (Robots at work), published in February 2015 analyzes the impact of the growing automation in the economic development of 17 countries. Its authors Georg Graetz of the University of Uppsala and... Read more...
21 June 2015
Scientists Georg Graetz of the Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics come to the following conclusion: the average over 10 percent of increase of the gross domestic product and 15 percent ... Read more...
19 June 2015
In fact, there is not much evidence on how even today's automation is affecting employment. Guy Michaels and his colleague Georg Graetz at the London School of Economics recently looked at the impact of industrial robots... Read more...
16 June 2015
Provided in a new paper from London's Center for Economic Research [sic], the analysis offered by George Graetz and Guy Michaels of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics, respectively, offers some of the ... Read more...
Humans and robots: together unbeatable The current study ''Robots at Work'' by Graetz and Michaels (Uppsala University and London School of Economics), which examines the impact of increasing automation on the economic ... Read more...
13 June 2015
Dr Keyu Jin was interviewed about China's industrial output gains. The interview was published online by Bloomberg's The Pulse on June 11, 2015 [No link available.] Related links Keyu Jin webpage Globalisati... Read more...
11 June 2015
In fact, according to academics at the London School of Economics, the effect of banning mobile phones from school premises adds up to the equivalent of an extra week's schooling across the academic year. This artic... Read more...
10 June 2015
About 85 per cent of Canadian high school students have a mobile phone, but two economics researchers have concluded cellphones are distracting in class. Their research paper concludes high school students score higher m... Read more...
25 May 2015
The London School of Economics showed that test scores of 16-year-old students were 6.4 percent higher after schools banned students from using mobile phones. This article was published by the Guardian - Teacher Netwo... Read more...
20 May 2015
The study by the London School of Economics found a link between banning smartphones in schools and increased test scores. This article was published online by WFXG FOX 54 on May 19, 2015 Link to article here A... Read more...
19 May 2015
Article by Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland How does the presence of mobile phones in schools impact student achievement? This is an ongoing debate in many countries today. Some advocate for a complete ban, whil... Read more...
12 May 2015
''Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world's great technology centres,'' Mr Cameron said in ... Read more...
05 May 2015
As far as the government is concerned, London's Tech City is a success. But what effect has it had on employment in the area - and what are the downsides? The LSE's Dr Max Nathan is trying to find out what has worked a... Read more...
21 April 2015
According to one academic paper, about a quarter of Britain's productivity gap with America can be put down to poor management. The main weakness is that too many of Britain's family-owned firms still prefer primogenitur... Read more...
11 April 2015
Alan Manning, an economist at the London School of Economics, takes issue with the assertion that economic trends observed in the US are caused by technological unemployment. While he agrees US data shows rising producti... Read more...
09 February 2015
History teaches us that labour markets are able to recover from the changes wrought upon them by technological change, said Alan Manning, professor of economics at the London School of Economics. ''If I take an historica... Read more...
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