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Project Syndicate

Why is Europe's economy falling short?

MIT's Simon Johnson sits down with fellow Nobel laureate economist Philippe Aghion to examine what ails Europe and how to revive its dynamism. ... Read more...

Financial Times

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Peter Lambert and Yannick Schindler's research into reasons for a fall in entry-level hiring, shows the drop off began after Covid and before AI, John Burn-Murdoch discusses their findings in his Data Points column. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

CEP is partner in Economics of Education Research Centre

A new Economics of Education Research Centre (EERC) to develop a robust evidence base for education and skills policymaking, is being established by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), UCL’s Centre for Educa... Read more...

Schools Week

'No excuses' doctrine means zero insight into barriers a child faces

Lee Elliot Major writes about the use of vulnerability indices in schools to find a way to identify the barriers that may hinder children's learning. ... Read more...

The Guardian

No, private schools aren?t victims of `reverse discrimination? ? and Cambridge should know better

In an article for The Guardian, Lee Major Elliot writes how Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the ba... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion wins Nobel Prize in economic sciences

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, professor at the College de France and INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics, who has been awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Rethink ... summer holidays

Lee Elliot Major is a guest on this edition of Rethink, talking about research recommending that the summer holidays should be cut by a week and that break taken instead in the autumn term. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Jo Blanden awarded OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Jo Blanden, professor of economics at the University of Surrey and an associate in CEP’s education and skills programme, who has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025. P... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Funding for Centre for Economic Performance to boost economic growth

The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) £9.2mn for its five-year programme of work from 2025. This renewed funding will enable CEP to co... Read more...

CEP announcement

Daniel Chandler awarded the Voltaire Lecture Medal

Congratulations to Daniel Chandler who has been awarded the 2024 Voltaire Lecture Medal for his work on how to create a fair society. Chandler, research director of the LSE’s Programme on Cohesive Capitalism and a... Read more...

TES

School mental health teams? impact outweighs costs, say experts

Spending money on mental health support teams in schools saves more money than it costs within two years, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have said. Lord Layard, who led t... Read more...

The Guardian

Extra for mental health would help UK more than new roads, study says

Spending extra cash on mental health services would boost economic growth and improve the nation’s wellbeing more than building new roads, according to an academic analysis from the London School of Economics. Rich... Read more...

BBC

Ucas to reform university personal statements

Ucas is reforming personal statements from next year. Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said he believed the reform was a "significant step in making the university admissions ... Read more...

Financial Times

The workplace under Labour: employers braced for biggest shake-up in a generation

From ending zero-hours contracts to boosting benefits, Britain's new government wants to shift power back to staff. Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth explain how the power balance stands now. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Pupils in England 'facing worst exam results in decades' after Covid closures

Lee Elliot Major's research predicts a steady decline in GCSE results of key subjects until 2030, attributing it to the failure to address the academic and social legacies of school closures during the pandemic. ... Read more...

The Times

A new educational dawn should focus on pupils' wellbeing

Lee Elliot Major outlines how the learning loss suffered by pupils during Covid-19 and the resulting decline in social mobility could be the most enduring legacy of the pandemic, explaining why policies that help level t... Read more...

The Guardian

Warning over unconscious bias against working-class pupils in English schools

Schools in England must do more to challenge unconscious bias in the classroom against children from working-class backgrounds - Lee Elliot Major discusses practical recommendations schools and policymakers can take to h... Read more...

The Guardian

Equality depends on education. England's class of 2023 have suffered a grave injustice over A-level results

Lee Elliot Major explains why England's 2023 school leavers have been unfairly treated over their A-level results. Just under half of A-level entries in the private sector in 2023 were graded A* and A grades, compared wi... Read more...

Financial Times

Make wellbeing central to public policy

Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Stephen Machin gives flagship British Academy lecture

Stephen Machin, director of CEP, is due to give a flagship British Academy lecture on wage controversies at the Bristol Ideas Festival of Economics. Professor Machin will address topics including how does high inflation... Read more...

Schools Week

Profile: Lee Elliot Major

Donna Ferguson interviews Lee Elliot Major to find out why he made the move to academia - and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. ... Read more...

Die Welt (German)

'Toxic Mixture' - UK's weak income fuels inequality in the country

High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...

Bloomberg UK

Are workers more productive at home?

Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England's monetary policy committee

Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...

The New Statesman

How poor mental health costs the economy billions

Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...

Financial Times

Growth is still the answer to the world's economic problems

Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...

Research Professional News

Intangible economy demands a broader view of R&D

Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

University personal statements 'favour' middle class students, admits minister

The written part of university applications could be changed to provide more support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the universities minister has said. The proposal comes after Lee Elliot Major criticise... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...

The New Statesmen

One in six children have mental health issues but school support is lacking

With only a quarter of pupils having access to counsellors, Richard Layard suggests that a well-being unit be set up within the Department for Education, to provide guidance to schools and help with interventions. ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Today

Lee Elliot Major talks about the implementation of the National Tutoring Programme and the need to support disadvantaged children in post-pandemic recovery plans. ... Read more...

The Economist

England?s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling

Remembering Richard Layard's research on the need for evidence-based therapies, the Economist looks at developments in mental health provisions over the 15 years. ... Read more...

Forbes

Happiness Is Not `Out There.' It's Something You Create

Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... Read more...

ITV

Covid volunteering surge can be `positive legacy? for NHS in future

Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found Volunteering for the NHS during the pandemic felt as good as getting a £1,800 bonus from work. ... Read more...

The Guardian

How do we ensure disadvantaged kids don't lose out in England's new exam system?

Lee Elliot Major explains how teachers have a chance to address the inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth

New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences

Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis analyse the importance of environmental quality in shaping economic opportunity, and how improvements in health associated with lower prenatal pollution exposure may have... Read more...

The Times

Happiness has its place in economics again ? but what matters more is wellbeing

Philip Aldrick contemplates the importance of wellbeing as economic policy, citing research by Richard Layard and George Ward. ... Read more...

The Big Issue

It is time for Britain to create its own New Deal

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin remember the drive behind Roosevelt's New Deal which created millions of jobs during America's Great Depression in the 1930s and examine how government policy could ... Read more...

Financial Times

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? makes FT best books list

The book What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? has been named as one of the best books on economics this year by the Financial Times. The book by Lee Elliot Major, professor of s... Read more...

The Telegraph

Only six in ten pupils are getting full education despite schools reopening, report finds

During late September and early October, just 59 per cent of pupils benefitted from “full schooling”, says new report. ... Read more...

BBC

'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals

BBC Panorama reports on CEP research, fiding people aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job, while six in 10 saw their earnings fall, according to new research. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Only radical reform can fix Britain's broken ladder of social mobility

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin argue how political reform is needed to solve issues with social mobility resulting from Covid-19. They explain that the findings of their review of evidence on social mobil... Read more...

ESRC

Professor John Van Reenen to lead #5m research programme into boosting UK productivity

A multi-million-pound research programme to help boost UK productivity is to be led by Professor John Van Reenen, associate and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance. The Programme on Innov... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Pay rather than visa system will tackle social care recruitment

Employers are not vocal enough about the need for higher pay, writes Alan Manning, former chair of the government's Migration Advisory Committee and professor of economics aat LSE. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE News

How to stop UK?s declining social mobility amid COVID-19

With evidence emerging that Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor. Steve Machin and Lee Elliot Major consider reform to avoid a decline in social mobility and e... Read more...

The Express

Schools reopening UK: Why school days may be LONGER post-lockdown; SCHOOLS in the UK may reopen with longer days to prevent a "dark age" of low social mobility.

CEP's director Professor Stephen Machin, co-author of the report, Covid-19 and social mobility, notes how: "We need to develop bold policies for now and the longer term to ensure the economic rec... Read more...

The Financial Times

Aid for UK self-employed in doubt despite pledge of `parity? with furloughing

A report on self-employed workers mentions the survey conducted by Jack Blundell and Professor Stephen Machin, of the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, which showed self-e... Read more...

The Telegraph

Schools need to be open longer to allow 'Covid generation' to catch up after lockdown

Intervention is needed to prevent children entering a 'dark age' of declining social mobility due to social inequalities, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major... Read more...

The Guardian

Pandemic damages life prospects of all young Britons, report says

The "Covid generation" of under-25s is less likely to fulfil its potential, regardless of background, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major and Professor Stephen ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

The surprising health benefits of the coronavirus lockdown; Despite the gloom, there are reasons to be positive, say Helen Chandler-Wilde and Luke Mintz

"It's not just core relationships that matter, it's also the peripheral ones," says Professor Lord Richard Layard, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics. "People never... Read more...

Express and Star

Covid-19 `could leave disadvantaged children with learning loss of six months?

More than 50 northern MPs and peers have called for a ‘catch-up premium’ for poorer pupils Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, and Stephen Machin, professor ... Read more...

TES

Disadvantaged pupils face six-month 'learning loss'

School closures during the coronavirus lockdown could leave disadvantaged children six months behind their peers, researchers find. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Education

Teacher turnover: does it matter for pupil achievement

This paper looks at the effects of changing teachers on children's GCSE grades. Published 2018. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Wellbeing

Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?

Published 2015, this paper takes household data to analyse links between unemployment, life-satisfaction and mental health. Finding evidence that mental illness is a significant cause of deprivation. ... Read more...

CentrePiece

Does school spending matter?

Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Wellbeing

The key determinants of happiness and misery

This CEP discussion paper, published in June 2017, provides evidence from survey data on USA, Australia, Britain and Indonesia which indicate the things that matter most to people’s life satisfaction are social relations... Read more...

Bloomberg

How low UK unemployment masked holes exposed by pandemic

Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, helps explain how many workers are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than the record-high employment figures suggest. "The last 12 ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4 Analysis

Unequal England

Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, and Henry Overman, research director of CEP, contribute to an investigation into the differences in wages and opportunities across the country and why some towns and ... Read more...

New Statesman

The long and winding road to HS3

Transport upgrades are a key part of the Northern Powerhouse strategy, but there is some criticism about how much large-scale public investment in transport can act as a panacea for economic development. Profe... Read more...

London Review of Books

What?s fair about that?

Adam Swift, professor of political theory at UCL, writes about three books on social mobility: Social Mobility And Its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin, Social Mobility and Education in Britain by Erzs&e... Read more...

Bloomberg

Plunging Social Mobility in U.K. Was a Brexit Factor, Study Says

Britain has become much less socially mobile in recent decades, especially in areas that voted for Brexit in 2016, according to a new report by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.... Read more...

The Guardian (London)

'Downward mobility' a reality for many British youngsters today; Social policy experts call for educational, tax and pay reforms to beat economic slide

Downward mobility - the phenomenon of children doing less well than their parents - will become a reality for young people today unless society makes dramatic changes, according to two of the UK's leading experts on soci... Read more...

The Independent

Just believing you are trapped by a lack of opportunity can impact economic growth

If, as Aiyar and Ebeke argue, low intergenerational mobility is a good proxy for inequality of opportunity, then its steep decline in Britain has alarming implications for the economy. According to researchers at the Uni... Read more...

05/11/2019

The Independent - Daily Edition

Political forecasting is a thankless task, especially so in today's Britain. Even still, it's worth looking at what may improve a particular party's chances in the 12 December election. One factor ... Read more...

telegraph.co.uk

The #160,000 reason why your children will vote Labour in the general election

Millennials, many of whom came of age during the 2008 financial crisis, are the first generation ever to be less well-off than their parents. The reasons for this, according to a report released last week by the Institut... Read more...

The Times (London)

Young 'worse off than their parents were'

A decade of wage stagnation since the financial crisis has left young people financially worse off than their parents were at the same age, according to a report. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School... Read more...

The Print

Development is now all about Modi coining new terms, not Indians? well-being: Shashi Tharoor

In order to tackle this, we must first accept that a well-being budget is not an 'either-or' proposition. It need not be a substitute for conventional economics, but rather, as a project that will help us develop tools a... Read more...

Varsity

What?s the secret to a meaningful life? Chasing happiness

Jacob Dabb sits down with Lord Richard Layard, who in the early 2000s successfully doubled NHS spending on talking therapy and expanded the provision of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy across the UK. Given Layard's occupa... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The ABCD of social mobility: four game-changing policies

How can social mobility be improved? Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin write that merely tweaking existing policies will not transform society. They outline four major changes that have the potential to actually do so.... Read more...

The Conversation ? France

Debate: Does free education guarantee the accessibility of higher education?

Snippet: For example, since 1989, Australia has introduced the system of contingent repayment loans (PARCs) which allow higher education to benefit from public funding supplemented by funding provided by the beneficiarie... Read more...

Irish Independent

US economy relies on innovation that needs helping hand; OPINION

Meanwhile, some studies suggest that research productivity is slowing down, so that it takes more scientists to glean each new insight across a variety of fields. Fighting this slowdown is a worthy goal, but a difficult... Read more...

The Times

Breathing polluted air on exam day can lower students' grades; CLEAN AIR FOR ALL Pollution link to exams

Researchers warned that pollution exposure before "high stakes" tests such as A levels risked serious consequences, as one poor day could cost pupils a university place. Sefi Roth, of the London School of Economics, who ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Book Review: Social Mobility and its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin

In Social Mobility and its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin offer a thought-provoking assessment of the state of social mobility in Britain. In the context of much social and political change and rising level... Read more...

CVER Blog

Is there a socio-economic gap in students? academic match?

Young people from less well-off backgrounds are more likely to pursue lower ranked upper-secondary qualifications than their prior attainment would suggest that they can achieve. Recent research from Konstantina Maragko... Read more...

El Financiero

La economia politica de la felicidad / The political economy of happiness

Remember, for example, the pioneering work of Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, Happiness. Lessons of a new science (2005), which explored the links between social sciences, moral philosophy and people... Read more...

El Diario

GDP or life?

One of the main references of this school is Richard Layard, of the London School of Economics. In his work - among which Happiness stands out. Lessons from a new science (Taurus, 2005) - is convinced that happiness is p... Read more...

EALE

Young Labour Economist Prize Winner 2019

2019 winner: Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics) Do skilled migrants compete with native workers? Analysis of a selective immigration policy ... Read more...

Business in Vancouver

How Canada can up the country?s lacklustre innovation game

A new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams canvasses the principal policies that governments have used to nurture innovation. A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation, Nicholas Bloom... Read more...

BBC News 24

The Week in Parliament

Jo Swinson speaking at the Lib Dem conference. "Two brilliant questions and to take the first one about talking therapy, you say it is expensive. I get there are upfront costs but there is also excellent research. Richa... Read more...

MENAFN

The AI road to serfdom?

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...

The London Economic

Lib Dems follow in the footsteps of Jacinda Ardern by prioritising happiness and well-being

Her government will instead put an emphasis on goals like community and cultural connection and equity in well-being across generations in what has been described as a "game-changing event" by LSE professor Richard Layar... Read more...

LSE Business Review

How management structures can help firms hire and keep their best people

More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe

What the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade

Dr Thomas Sampson explains what the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade. Professor Thomas Sampson from @CEP_LSE explains what the immediate impacts of a #nodeal will have on UK trade.#Nodealexplain... Read more...

Metro

What does the pound falling mean for you?

Research published by the London School of Economics estimated that the spike in inflation that followed the 2016 referendum was costing the average household £7.74 a week - a figure equivalent to £404 a year... Read more...

Die Welt

The dream of a better life for children is in danger; Not even half of the 30-year-old British reach the salary level of their parents. The phenomenon is less pronounced in Germany

Just 41 percent of all 30-year-olds earned more in 2017 than their parents did when they were the same age. Two decades earlier, the proportion had been two-thirds higher: in 1995, 69 percent of the age group were better... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

By Felipe Carozzi In a recent paper we study how air pollution - as measured by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration - is shaped by cities' population density in the United States. In particular, we want to fin... Read more...

OUPblog

How helping disabled people find employment affects the job market

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...

LSE Business Review

Compact cities have many advantages ? clean air isn't one of them

Despite shorter commutes and better access to commercial and recreational activities, dense cities create environmental pollution, write Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Is the big-box store killing Main Street?

City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...

New QQ

Will the size of the city be born affecting personal income?

What is the mechanism of the impact of the size of a native city on an individual's adult income? A general "level solidification" is obviously not fully explained. Therefore, the two authors of the above study, French e... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Why banning the construction of second homes in St. Ives and elsewhere has been a bad idea and what to do instead

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Tech Bang

Want to make the company more successful? Start with improving employee benefits

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...

CityLab

Why Children Born in Big Cities Earn More As Adults

That's the question at the heart of a new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics. In the study, economists Cleement Bosquet of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France and Henry G. Overman of the London Scho... Read more...

Emirates-Business.ae

America cannot shake the Baumol cost disease

But looking at the details of health-care pricing casts doubt on this explanation. For example, economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen have uncovered a number of odd anomalies in the way ... Read more...

BNN Bloomberg

America Can?t Shake the Cost Disease

But looking at the details of health-care pricing casts doubt on this explanation. For example, economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen have uncovered a number of odd anomalies in the way ... Read more...

The Economist

How phonics took over English schools

Last year research by academics at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance found that phonics improved children's reading. Sandra McNally, one of the authors, notes that, whereas the boost faded with time for better-of... Read more...

News Medical.net

New curriculum to improve soft skills in schools boosts children?s health and behaviour

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LSE News

New soft skills training in schools improves children?s health and behaviour

An evaluation by LSE's Centre of Economic Performance found "robust evidence" that the Healthy Minds curriculum improves physical health of participants. The report's authors, Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavio... Read more...

TES (Online)

What if schools valued wellbeing more than results?

However, at this point in time, even some economists want a change in focus. For example, Professor Lord Richard Layard, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, recently proposed that ... Read more...

Mind Matters

The Smartest Phone Is Silent in Class

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...

CVER blog

Changing Aspirations and Outcomes in Post-16 Education

In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. Individual Consequences... Read more...

Prospect Magazine

Five reasons inequality is among the most pressing issues of our times

What about in the UK? Stephen Machin, Jo Blanden and friends pointed out that those born in the 1950s were more socially mobile than those born in the 1970s, who entered the labour market at the UK's peak of inequality. ... Read more...

The Independent

Could a smartphone ban in schools curb cyberbullying?

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...

Fast Company

Hate your job? Being unhappy at work might have long-term health effects

"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...

The Economist

Four years after its steelworks shut, Redcar is recovering

It is harder to quantify the emotional impact of losing a plant where generations of the same families had worked for a century. From the beach, the idle works hulk over the skyline. Research by Sascha Becker, Thiemo Fet... Read more...

L' Adige

Festival, serve un rilancio non la rivoluzione / Festival, we need a revival, not a revolution

Populism has been used by right-wing forces as a lever to undermine the ruling elite, exploiting discontent. The solution? "The European Union now has the task of working on a new idea of sovereignty, which goes beyond n... Read more...

LBC

LBC (5/19/2019 7:27:22 AM)

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...

BBC News Channel

BBC News

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...

BBC Wales Television

Breakfast

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...

The Daily Telegraph

School mobile phone ban will help pupils focus

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...

FE News

#MentalHealthAwareness: Challenging the stigma and ending discrimination

One of the country's top experts on the condition, Richard Layard in his important work, called the Depression Report, recommended training an extra 10,000 clinical psychologists and therapists to provide cognitive behav... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Millennials are some of the worst hit by social mobility decline in the UK

Young people are now less likely to 'do better' than their parents. Lower wage growth is a key factor, write Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin and Sumaiya Rahman. This blog post is based on 'Falling Absolute Intergeneratio... Read more...

Washington Post Blogs

Trump's latest scam: Defining poverty out of existence; The administration doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

What makes this idea particularly absurd is that studies repeatedly find that lower-income households experience greater inflation than higher - earning ones. (Researcher Xavier Jaravel dubbed this "inflation inequality"... Read more...

The Conversation AU

Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough

Exbibit C: Inequality is increasing, a point recently acknowledged by the Productivity Commission. At the top it seems to be driven more by the seeking of favours than by productivity, a point persuasively argued by Gigi... Read more...

The Guardian

Poorer children 'twice as likely to be out of work in later life'

Disadvantaged children who qualify for free school meals are twice as likely to be out of work in later life than their better-off peers, and even when they get good qualifications at school the employment gap... Read more...

The Times

Change UK offers a clean sheet to tackle injustices that have plagued our society for too long

by Heidi Allen MP, interim leader of Change UK "I’ve had early sight of research released today that magnifies how the most disadvantaged young people in our country are held back because of... Read more...

Finance.co.uk

GENERATION GAP: Evidence that young Brits are now less likely to `do better? than their parents

Doing better financially than your parents is an important marker of success, and for much of the last half century, real earnings growth in the UK was strong enough that most young people achieved this milestone. But ne... Read more...

The Guardian

Can going to therapy become as straightforward as going to the gym?

A decade ago, one in six people had depression or chronic anxiety, but only a quarter of them were receiving treatment - mostly drugs. The government's then happiness tsar, the economist Richard Layard, suggested that co... Read more...

Phys.org

Parental influence on educational attainment much greater than previously thought, new research finds

Dr. Federico Rossi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Warwick University and Dr. Marta De Philippis of the Bank of Italy's Department of Economics and Statistics investigated the school performance of... Read more...

Dawn

Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

Researchers at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance found that the "subjective well-being," or happiness, of Britons has declined since the 2016 referendum regardless of a person's position on ... Read more...

The Times of Israel

`Brexhaustion?: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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ABC News

Brexhaustion: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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GENERATION GAP

Evidence that young Brits are now less likely to `do better? than their parents

Doing better financially than your parents is an important marker of success, and for much of the last half century, real earnings growth in the UK was strong enough that most young people achieved this milestone. But ne... Read more...

Daily Mail

Young people are doing WORSE than their parents: Just a THIRD of 30-year-olds are earning more than their dads

Jo Blanden, co-author of the study, said: 'Research and political debate have focused on relative social mobility - that is, whether those with higher incomes are likely to have children who are also relatively well-off'... Read more...

Abbotsford News (Newspaper)

Brexhaustion: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out

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NIHCM Foundation

Announcing the Winners of the 25th Annual Research Award

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Toronto Star Online

Schools struggle with phone bans: `These devices continue to cause major problems?

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...

DIAL podcast

Jo Blanden: How well are youngsters getting on compared with mum and dad?

In Episode 4 of the DIAL Podcast, Dr Jo Blanden from the University of Surrey talks about her research using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to look at home ownership and earnings for younger... Read more...

The HuffPost Canada

Cell Phones In Classrooms Are So Distracting, U.S. Teacher Shows In Viral Experiment

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...

London Free Press

TVDSB welcomes proposed cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms

...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...

Vice

Doug Ford is Banning Cell Phones in Schools

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...

BBC Radio Scotland

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Unherd

Do police numbers really affect knife crime?

But Prof Will Jennings, a political scientist at the University of Southampton, and Prof Tom Kirchmaier, who lectures on crime and policing at the LSE, both tell me that the increase in knife crime is probably real. What... Read more...

Business Day (SA)

UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST - Happiness is easy to venerate but much harder to generate

Just as with GDP, it is only when we move to the specifics that gross national happiness becomes useful. Richard Layard, a leading happiness researcher, argues mental illness is a leading cause of misery, and it can be t... Read more...

Financial Times

Happiness is easy to venerate but much harder to generate

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Alternatives Economiques

La pub ne fait pas le bonheur CLAIMS Advertising does not make happiness

From Thorstein Veblen to Richard Layard, to Richard Easterlin and others, several economists have spent the last century trying to ... [paywall] Happiness: Lessons from a new science, Richard Layard, Penguin 2011 IS... Read more...

The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation

Rising Hospital Prices Are Driving Up Health Care Spending

A new study found that hospital prices paid by private insurers for inpatient and outpatient care grew much more quickly than the prices paid to the physicians who provide care in these settings. For all inpatient care, ... Read more...

Harper's Bazaar Online

Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You?

Ross Levine and Yona Rubenstein, economists at University of California, Berkeley, and The London School of Economics, wrote a paper about the shared traits of entrepreneurs in 2013. Guess what? Most were white men who w... Read more...

Sky News (2/10/2019 8:39:03 PM) Broadcast

Mention of LSE study re banning mobile phones in schools

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Health Affairs

Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster than physician prices from 2007 to 2014

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Health Affairs

Variation in Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 To 2014

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The Times

Ban mobile phone use in schools

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...

Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Price Ain?t Right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured

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Huff Post

The Real Problem Isn't Executive Pay, It's That Everyone Else Is Underpaid

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...

The Financial Times

Three strategies for left-behind places

The first is a strategy of reversal. This consists of interventions that aim to offset or compensate for the technological and market dynamics that cause cost disadvantages for value creation in left-behind places - plac... Read more...

The Times

The force of gravity on Britain's trade

But economists at the LSE argue that Mr Minford made no allowance for differences in quality among the manufactured goods being considered (Economists for Brexit: A Critique, Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Otta... Read more...

The Times Higher Education Supplement

French university admissions: the creme de la creme?

One irony is that just as France has scrapped admissions lotteries, some in the UK and US are beginning to wonder whether they might be a good idea - albeit in a much more limited form than the pre- system. In a book pub... Read more...

Irish Daily Mail

Studies show range of detrimental effects

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...

LSE British Politics and Policy Blog

David Cameron, David Beckham, and the UK?s social mobility problem

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin explain how Britain has become less mobile, particularly at the top and bottom of society. Social Mobility And Its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major & Stephen Machin, Pelican, October 2018... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

Do foreign migrants `grease the wheels? of the labour market? [by Michael Amior]

Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 ? Today (11/30/2018 8:05:03 AM)

Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

The tale of two Davids (Cameron and Beckham) and our social mobility problem

The British are destined to stay on the same rungs of the economic or social ladder for successive generations, write Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin.... Read more...

LSE (video)

Promoting Healthy Minds in Schools

Healthy Minds is a unique curriculum that redefines personal, social and health education in secondary schools. It aims to develop emotional resilience and self-efficacy in students. The London School of Economic and the... Read more...

YouthToday

Opinion: How Talented Kids From Low-income Families Become America?s `Lost Einsteins?

Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly wit... Read more...

New York Times

When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More

Numerous studies by economists and others have underscored how hospital consolidation is driving up the cost of medical care. “Within the academic community, there is near unanimity,� said Zack Cooper, a health econo... Read more...

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

New Labour's Domestic Policies: Neoliberal, Social Democratic or A Unique Blend?

Labour's move towards greater competition between hospitals where it was allowed may well have helped. Mortality rates for some illnesses appear to have declined faster where patient choice was expanded. CEP work cite... Read more...

Talk Radio

Discussion about the living wage

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discusses the living wage with @EamonnHolmes on @talkRADIO Listen to @talkRADIO at 5.15pm this evening to hear Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discuss the #livingwage with @EamonnHolmes! @jedeneve pic.twitte... Read more...

Daily Mail

The hidden depression injustice

Work by the Wellbeing Programme cited: "...showed that only a quarter of those who need treatment for mental illness actually get it."... Read more...

Daily Mail

'Pushy parents' are hiring private doctors to give medical reasons why their child has to be top of the list for their chosen school, charity warns

Dr Major was told about abuses while researching his book Social Mobility And Its Enemies, with Professor Stephen Machin, director of the Centre for Economic Performance. They talked to parents and teachers in... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement

Why we should take a gamble on social mobility

We cling on to the hope that education can act as the great social leveller, enabling children from poorer backgrounds to overcome the circumstances they are born into. But in our book Social Mobility and Its Enemies, St... Read more...

The Guardian

Social mobility requires far more than a good education

Opinion by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin "Britain is stuck. Too many of us are destined to end up in the same positions occupied by our parents – particularly if we sit on the lowest or ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How the Blitz enhanced London's economy

The German bombing offensive brings lessons about worker density and zoning restrictions in London - and perhaps New York and Tokyo, write Gerard Dericks and Hans Koster.  ... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

Brexit is still a hot topic on Twitter, but public sentiments remain largely unchanged

Article by Josh De Lyon, Elsa Leromain and Maria Molina-Domene:  The Brexit debate is intense and continues to dominate the UK policy agenda. It concerns the entire population. The authors use Twitter dat... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Call time on this unfair union

By sticking with the UK, the London School of Economics estimated Scotland will be £30bn worse off after Brexit, and the Bank of England reckoned incomes will be 900 a year less  . ... Read more...

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

MEP calls on Labour to act to prevent north-east from being `hardest-hit? by Brexit

  “If Jeremy Corbyn fails to back this and lets Theresa May drag us out of the Single Market our party will be abandoning workers in Aberdeen, Inverness and towns and cities across Scotland. That... Read more...

Kuwait?Daily News

Moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...

FT.com

How to stay mentally fit

You may not want to hear this: retirement is a new opportunity for work. There is a strong argument for abolishing the concept of retirement and thinking instead of finding a different kind of work to keep our... Read more...

Bilan

Businesses are widening income inequalities

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...

#LetsTalkMentalHealth Channel

Mental Health Awareness:Lord Richard Layard

Lord Richard Layard discusses the relation between happiness and mental health - can your financial status determine your happiness? The interview explores the battle to get money from the Government for child... Read more...

Liberation (France)

Annabelle Allouch: "This is the moment when individual value can be recognized"

Examination is therefore a democratic tool of social climbing? Examination is the tool that makes it possible to establish the symbolic value of the graduate from the certification of his apprenticeships. This... Read more...

Vrij Nederland (Holland)

Minder moeten, meer leven, deel III: wanneer heb je genoeg geld?/Less need, more life, part III: when do you have enough money?

This is the view of the British economist Richard Layard, quoted here from the Volkskrant, who investigates why more prosperity does not bring forth happy people anymore. Satisfaction with money and possession... Read more...

Spatial Economics Research Centre (blog)

The `Bedroom Tax?: How did families react? Did the policy achieve its objectives?

By Steve Gibbons The ‘Bedroom Tax’ – or ‘under occupancy penalty’ or ‘removal of the spare room subsidy’ as it has been called officially – is a highly contro... Read more...

Forsal.pl (Poland

Finland is not one of the happiest countries in the world at all

Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...

AOL.com

You?ll be happiest during these two years of your life, according to science

According to new research, we’re happiest at two points in our lives—not just one. Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science asked 23,000 German volunteers aged 17 to... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Finland?s rank as the world?s happiest country is very upsetting in Finland

Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

You & Yours Radio 4?s Consumer Affairs Programme

Interview with Stephen Gibbons. “Did the bedroom tax or 'under-occupancy charge' actually work?” ... Read more...

YouTube - ESRC Mental health

#LetsTalkMentalHealth series

Katy is a musician and a Young Ambassador for the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, Beat. During the interview Professor Layard discussed his primary research focus on happiness and mental health (an... Read more...

YouTube - ESRC Mental health

#LetsTalkMentalHealth series

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Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

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MSN

You?ll be happiest during these two years of your life, according to science

According to new research, we’re happiest at two points in our lives—not just one. Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science asked 23,000 German volunteers aged 17 to 85 t... Read more...

Pacific Standard

Health-care costs are growing in the U.S., thanks in large part to private insurers

Health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricing for privately ins... Read more...

Pacific Standard Magazine

Health-Care Costs are Growing in the U.S., Thanks in Large Part to Private Insurers

On a related note, health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricin... Read more...

Vox

The absurdity of American health care pricing, in one chart

We’ve known for decades now that there is widespread variation in what different hospitals charge for the same medical procedures. Study after study confirms this finding (one of my favorite studies show... Read more...

Entrepreneur

Your team wants to work from home. All you have to do is keep them connected

Although telecommuting is not yet universal, its adoption by technology giants and startups is very telling. Accordingly, many perks account for the meteoric rise of this nascent shift. On the employees’... Read more...

New Statesman

Tiny flats won?t solve the housing crisis, but they can help

This is hardly a fringe view. Economists Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen point out that house prices would be 35 per cent lower if the most restrictive parts of the country (the South-East) were merely a... Read more...

FE News

Making #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek a priority in education

Richard Layard has recommended training an extra 10,000 clinical psychiatrists and therapists to deliver CBT for those who have depression, through 250 centres, providing courses costing £750. This, he a... Read more...

Vietnambiz

If you keep the habit of arbitrary, business people themselves 'take the foot kicking'

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...

Elite Daily

Here?s how to get a free flight from NYC to Hawaii through Hawaii?s tourism contest

More industries have embraced remote positions in response to the desires of an evolving workforce, with a study by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom finding that working remotely was directly tied to increase... Read more...

RT.com

Rich and powerful distract us with imagined threats to cling onto their gains

In the UK, real wages are still below their pre-2008 recession levels. The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance revealed that during 2007-2015 British workers saw their wages fall by an average of five pe... Read more...

TechNews (Taiwan)

Low turnover at home, high efficiency, research indicates no loss to the company

As urban traffic gets more and more jammed, housing prices in urban centers are getting higher and higher, commuting distances are getting longer and longer, and professional women have family burns in their h... Read more...

Forbes

A growing number of Indian Americans are leading America?s best business schools

But beyond just the numbers, the onset of globalization and its impact on international finance and global commerce has forced American business schools to seek new ways to burnish their “international&r... Read more...

Healthcare-News

Mental health and relationships `key to happiness? (Article first published 12 December 2016)

Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people o... Read more...

Ad.nl

According to this study, everyone could work better at home/ Volgens dit onderzoek zou iedereen beter thuis kunnen werken

"The management of the company was a bit pessimistic," says  researcher Nicholas Bloom  in a Ted Talk about the research. "They expected the homeworkers to go to bed.&nb... Read more...

The Week

The hidden dangers of flexible work hours

One notable study was conducted in 2015 by Stanford University researcher Nicholas Bloom, who wanted to test whether the belief that workers slack off more when working from home was valid. Bloom and his crew ... Read more...

Lifehacker

Research shows working from home is better, as long as you can handle the isolation

Mautz cites a two-year study conducted by Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom, where 250 of 500 employees from China-based travel agency Ctrip volunteered to work from home. Then, over the 24 months, t... Read more...

Harvard Business School

Press Release: Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun Wins Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award for Best Article

Harvard Business School associate professor Raffaella Sadun and coauthors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of MIT have been named the first-place winners of the 59th Annual HBR McKinse... Read more...

IBS Instytut Badań Strukturalnych (YouTube)

Top incomes during wars, communism and capitalism: Poland 1892-2015

Pawel Bukowski (LSE) about the research presented at the IBS seminar “(Un)equal wages, incomes and wealth in Poland?” (Warsaw, 23/10/2017).  ... Read more...

Pro Bono Economics via YouTube

Nudge-u-cation: can behavioural science boost education and social mobility

Nudge-u-cation: Can behavioural science boost education and social mobility? Pro Bono Economics' Annual Lecture featuring Dr David Halpern, Professor Sandra McNally and Chris Brown. Over the last decade, g... Read more...

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Win silver, or lose gold? Why second is the worst place

A team of researchers at London's Centre for Economic Performance employed 800 volunteers to analyse athletes' faces as they stood on the medal podiums during the London Games, in order to assess their... Read more...

ESRC press release

ESRC Research Institutes launched

   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...

LSE Brexit blog

Britain is already paying a price for voting to leave the EU

  Article by Thomas Sampson.  The full economic consequences of Brexit will not be realised for many years. But 21 months after the referendum, we can start to assess how the Brexit vote ha... Read more...

The Guardian

What Americans can learn from British class guilt

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

BBC Radio 4

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Sputnika

Wann bringt Homeoffice eigentlich etwas?/when does home office bring something?

The creators of NEUARBEITEN explain why working from home in this country is still a niche topic and how it can still benefit employees and employers. … Home office offers employees one thing above all:... Read more...

The Economist (online)

How and why to search for young Einsteins

Snippet: ...tests in the third year of primary school are many times more likely than the other 95% to file patents in later life. But the likelihood is still much greater among smart kids from rich families. ... Read more...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

What local socio-economic conditions can tell us about the patterns of support in Italy?s election

The 2018 Italian election had a notable geographic split in voting behaviour, with Lega having more support in the north of the country and the Five Star Movement proving more successful in the south. Monica L... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Analysing the distributional effects of higher education funding reforms in the UK

Free Higher Ed wouldn't enhance equity: students are disproportionately from high-income households, write Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion. ... Read more...

Honk Kong 01

[Happy age] 23 is the happiest with 69 year old life

Hannes Schwandt, a Centre For Economic Performance scholar at the Centre for British Studies, published a study on the happiness index and studied 23,161 German respondents aged 17 to 85 years. They expect lif... Read more...

Chronicle Live (Northumberland)

Here's what the North East needs to hear from Theresa May on Brexit

That’s helped to boost growth and employment, but now it means that regions like the north east are vulnerable to any increase in barriers to trade, as demonstrated by recent research at the University o... Read more...

Iowa State Daily

Editorial: Mental health isn't the real problem

The mentally ill are overall less violent than the rest of the population. Given the funding proposed by the president, they are also unlikely to receive the medical and psychiatric care they so badly need and... Read more...

Promarket.org

Guns and votes: the victory of an intense minority against an apathetic majority

Article by Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino, Maurizio Zanardi This column on the “gun-control paradox”—the fact that gun regulations continually fail in the US Congress d... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Does social media foster polarisation? A close look at the handle @realdonaldtrump

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...

Forsal (Poland)

"Optimal" would be to tax happiness in life [FELIETON]

The approach to happiness and bad luck translates into expectations regarding the social security system, including taxes and benefits. If we assume that nobody is fully responsible for their achievements, soc... Read more...

Financial Times

The old normal - Your weekly briefing on the UK economy

Last week’s highlights - Assessing the impact assessments - Almost all of the interesting results you get out of modelling Brexit are down to the judgments and assumptions you put in, said Robert Chote, ... Read more...

El Mercurio de Tamaulipas (Mexico)

La salud mental como estrategia para la sostenibilidad economica/Mental health as a strategy for economic sustainability

We no longer speak only of the individual situation of the people affected, we speak of the economic situation of a whole country. Referring to the research done by one of the most illustrious economists of th... Read more...

Centre for Cities ? blog

Aberdeen?s economic slowdown highlights the dangers of being a one-sector city

Moreover, when we consider these findings in light of research published last July by Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance, which suggested that Aberdeen’s economy would be hit harde... Read more...

Diario responsible

Mental health as a strategy for the economic sustainability of Spain

We no longer speak only of the individual situation of the people affected, we speak of the economic situation of a whole country. Referring to the research done by one of the most illustrious economists of th... Read more...

The Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018

Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities (pages 1-33)

DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12429   Related publications Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman, SERC Discussion Paper No.171, Febru... Read more...

Financial Times

Like great coffee, good ideas take time to percolate

A decade ago, economists at Berkeley, Stanford and the World Bank conducted a randomised trial in which the bank paid for some textile factories in Mumbai to receive consulting advice from a global company. Th... Read more...

ESRC news, events and publications

Stamp duty impact on the housing market

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...

The Times

Housing crisis: Green belt brand is `hiding ugly truth?

The green belt is associated in most people’s minds with England’s “green and pleasant land” immortalised by William Blake in his poem Jerusalem. But according to Paul Cheshire, profess... Read more...

The Times

We must act now to prevent the skills gap becoming unbridgeable

The Federation of Master Builders reports that “skyrocketing” skill shortages mean that there are not enough workers available in all the key construction skills. The Black Country Chamber of Comme... Read more...

The Mental Elf

The Origins of Happiness: can we predict life satisfaction?

  The prospect of this book did make me happy. The idea that a group of well-respected, eminent economists would be making the case that government should focus its efforts on increasing the happiness ... Read more...

CEP/LSE Press Release

The Origins of Happiness: A book on the science of wellbeing over the life course

Schools and individual teachers have a huge effect on the happiness of their children. Indeed, the school that children attend affects their happiness nearly as much as it affects their academic performance. W... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Happiness is a warm Gus

Lord (Richard) Layard, the economist, hosted a dinner at the London School of Economics last week to celebrate the publication of a new book by him and his colleagues, called The Origins of Happiness. It is de... Read more...

IG

What is the economic impact of Brexit?

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...

VoxDev

Management and the wealth of nations

Article by John Van Reenen A 15-year survey of 12,000 firms across 34 countries shows that management practices explain a large share of productivity gaps. Income differences between rich and poor countries... Read more...

The Irish Times

Does Ireland need a dedicated minister for loneliness?

He told The Irish Times that the impact of loneliness on physical health was “equivalent to 15 cigarettes a day and a study by the London School of Economics found that it cost the UK state an average of... Read more...

New Statesman

Ed Miliband's speech on mental health: full text

Politics: 29 October 2012 The extra physical healthcare necessitated by mental illness costs the NHS a further £10 billion a year, according to the London School of Economics. ... Read more...

Universommma.it (Italy)

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

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...

Original 106 FM

(1/15/2018 9:00:24 AM)

Type: Broadcast Mention of LSE report which said that Aberdeen would be the UK city worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...

Original 106 FM

Original 106 FM (7:00:48 AM)

Mention of LSE report which found Aberdeen would be worst hit by a hard Brexit. ... Read more...

The Gleaner (Jamaica)

In-school productivity campaign/millennials & telecommuting ? productivity myths busted by recent research

A study conducted in 2013 by Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at Stanford University, and graduate student James Liang, who is a co-founder of Chinese travel website Ctrip, proved that working at home in... Read more...

Handbook of the economics of education vol 3

Handbook of the economics of education vol 3

The Government and Public Sector Report has been published today. It provides updated in 2018 year analysis of Government and Public Sector Industries. How does education affect economic and social outcomes... Read more...

European Union News

New education secretary must focus on improving quality of early childhood education

Guildford: University of Surrey, of United Kingdom has issued the following news release: Researchers from the University of Surrey, Dr Jo Blanden and Professor Sandra McNally, and University College London, D... Read more...

European Union News

New education secretary must focus on improving quality of early childhood education

Guildford: University of Surrey, of United Kingdom has issued the following news release: Researchers from the University of Surrey, Dr Jo Blanden and Professor Sandra McNally, and University College London, D... Read more...

Nuffield Foundation

Early childhood education has had little impact on outcomes since the inception of the free entitlement and politicians must now focus efforts on quality

Authors of a comprehensive study on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) funded by the Nuffield Foundation have called on the Secretary of State for Education to focus on improving the quality of the free... Read more...

Guardian

Does London mayor Sadiq Khan's Brexit report stack up?

A no-deal Brexit would leave Britain’s economy diminished and its people poorer. That is the conclusion of the economic forecast commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan from Cambridge Econometric... Read more...

Mortgage Introducer

Stamp duty changes won?t loosen market

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...

Vox Video

Brexit and living standards

The average British household is already worse off than it was before the Brexit vote. Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson discuss how much of the rise in inflation is due to Brexit. Higher prices are costing the a... Read more...

Sputnik News ? Education (Russia)

Thousands of EU professors left Britain because of Brexit

According to the calculations of the Center for Economic Performance (CEP), Brexit will significantly affect inflation, the national currency rate, as well as the income level of the British and the overall qu... Read more...

The Western Mail

Blair think-tank expert?s bleak Brexit predictions

AREPORT written by a Welsh political consultant for a thinktank set up by Tony Blair paints a bleak picture of a post-Brexit future. Dafydd Rees, who has held senior positions with the BBC, Sky and Bloomberg, ... Read more...

Institute for Global Change

Tony Blair: Brexit ? what we now know ? briefing

Executive summary: This document sets out some of the key things we have learnt since the referendum. These include: The Office for Budget Responsibility has downgraded UK growth expectations for the ... Read more...

States News Service

Brexit ? what we now know

The following information was released by the Office of Tony Blair: Executive summary The Centre for Economic Performance says that the Brexit vote has cost the average household 404 a year. ... Read more...

Forbes

Six ways to succeed at remote work

IBM recently made headlines for dismantling its policy that allowed remote work. The technology giant was following in the footsteps of Yahoo Inc., which in 2013 also called its employees back to the office, s... Read more...

Portfolio (Hungary)

Pesszimistak a britek a Brexit kellős kozepen/Pessimists are the British in the middle of Brexit

The latest forecasts from major London economic research houses seem to provoke pensive respondents. The renowned London Economics University, a study by the London School of Economics (CEP), has shown that th... Read more...

The Scotsman

Leader comment: Let's not jump off a Brexit cliff in 2018

The London School of Economics has estimated that failing to agree a trade deal could cost the UK economy up to £430 billion over five years. ... Read more...

Nap.hu (Hungary)

Will big pay rise come next year in Hungary?

Large London think tanks have also drawn attention to the real wage erosion in Great Britain. The recent London-based Economics Research Center (CEP), the London-based Economics University of London, has shown... Read more...

Napi.hu (Hungary)

That?s half of every fifth British employee

The recent study of the London School of Economics (CEP) in London has demonstrated with various model calculations that the unexpected market and real economy shock of a British EU member, who won a narrow ma... Read more...

Arah (Indonesia)

Usia Berapa yang Paling Membahagiakan Dalam Hidup? Ini Jawabannya/What age is most joyful in life? This is the answer

A study published by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics says the happiest age in human life, statistically, is 23 and 69 years. Based on data from 23,161 people aged 17 and 8... Read more...

Vox

Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and  John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over... Read more...

International Business Times

What's the point of blue passports if we can't even afford holidays after Brexit?

Brexit analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance recently found that the living standard of every income group in the UK would decrease after Brexit, with those on middle incomes suffering slightly mor... Read more...

Adevarul.ro (Romania)

The real cost of Brexit for Great Britain: 350 million pounds a week

According to a study by the Financial Times, which analyzed a wide range of estimates and predictions, output in the UK is about 0.9% below the potential for remaining in the single market. In a complementary ... Read more...

Adevarul (Rumania)

The real cost of Brexit for Great Britain: 350 million pounds a week

According to a study by the Financial Times, which analyzed a wide range of estimates and predictions, output in the UK is about 0.9% below the potential for remaining in the single market. In a complementary ... Read more...

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

For better mental-health care in Canada, look to Britain

In 2003, at an afternoon tea, economist Richard Layard began speaking to the person standing next to him, psychologist David Clark, asking if he knew much about mental illness. They had never met before, but s... Read more...

Iz.ru (Russia)

The EU was told about the multi-billion losses due to Brexit

As the portal iz.ru wrote, according to calculations for the Center for Economic Performance, each British family will lose up to £404 per year because of Brexit. This is due to rising prices for consume... Read more...

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

Everything paletti thus? Not quite. There is a loser, and that means Great Britain. It is becoming increasingly clear that Brexit was not a good idea, at least economically. Thomas Sampson and his colleagues f... Read more...

Watson.ch

Europa ist wieder sexy/Europe is sexy again

Everything paletti thus? Not quite. There is a loser, and that means Great Britain. It is becoming increasingly clear that Brexit was not a good idea, at least economically. Thomas Sampson and his colleagues f... Read more...

MSN

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

Thomas Sampson and colleagues at the London School of Economics have examined the direct effect of sterling’s depreciation since the EU referendum on prices and living standards. With the pound falling a... Read more...

Left Foot Forward

This is how much Brexit has cost already

Business investment grew by 1.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2017, this is down almost five-fold against official forecasts for growth drawn up in 2016. This economic downturn after Brexit has already cost... Read more...

Financial Times

The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

FT research shows that the weekly hit to the British economy could be the same £350m that Leave campaigners promised to claw back Thomas Sampson and colleagues at the London School of Economics have e... Read more...

Daily Mail

Dr Max the Mind Doctor: Suffering in silence ? the men being failed by the NHS

Research by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under-65s, only a quarter of people in need of treatment actually g... Read more...

CICC Online (China)

Sino-U.S. EU Economic Situation The global perception of China has completely changed

In June 2016, a referendum was held in Britain and the result was to withdraw from the EU. This opens the door to an experiment: what happens when an economy wants to reduce its globalization and lift its ties... Read more...

New Republic

The muddle of the middle

Last month, a study   by the London School of Economics found that the average household will already be paying at least an extra £400 in shopping annually, due to Brexit-induced infl... Read more...

Brinkwire

The ages people are happiest with their money, their looks, and their life, in one chart

Meanwhile, in all three areas, people reported the lowest levels of happiness between the ages of 45 and 59, according to data from the Centre for Economic Performance, Proceedings of the National Academy of S... Read more...

Szaopressa.com (Russia)

May: The estimated amount of "compensation" for Brexit will be approximately 35-39 billion pounds

In a study of the English Center for Economic Performance, published in late autumn, it is reported that only the fact of voting for England's withdrawal from the European Union has resulted in serious los... Read more...

Circular (Russia)

Each British family loses about $ 530 a year because of Brexit: the decision to withdraw from the EU has negatively affected inflation and the standard of living in the UK

Thus, the report for the Center for Economic Performance shows that voting for exit from the EU "was an unforeseen shock for the UK economy," the researchers conclude. "Our results provide convi... Read more...

The New European

Deluded President Trump failing the stress test

There is another B word that keeps popping up whenever the shortcomings of B for Brexit are highlighted. B for Bandwidth. We heard it from Alan Milburn as he explained why he was stepping down from his work he... Read more...

Rambler.ru (Russia)

Jean-Claude Juncker summed up the first phase of negotiations between the UK and the EU

The decision to leave the UK from the EU negatively affected the quality of life of citizens. This conclusion was reached by the specialists of the Center for Economic Performance research center, having found... Read more...

BBC Radio Surrey (6:30:41 AM)

CEP on Radio

… within the next half an hour Mole Valley and Drygate and Banstead among the areas which would be hit hardest by Brexit according to a report by researchers at the London School of Economics say both e... Read more...

The Lancet

Transparency about the outcomes of mental health services (IAPT approach): an analysis of public data

David M Clark, Lauren Canvin, John Green, Richard Layard, Stephen Pilling and Magdalena Janecka DOI:  10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32133-5 ... Read more...

MILTECH

Meditation and mindfulness can dramatically help rinsoners improve mental health and wellbeing says author Doug Carnine

 An article in the British newspaper The Telegraph by Sophie Jamieson described how mindfulness and meditation training helped prisoners and prison guards control anger and reduce depression and anxiety. ... Read more...

Gulf Times online

Premier faces growth Tory civil war over soft Brexit deal

A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100bn over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58bn. ... Read more...

Men?s Journal Online

How to be happier

When men hit their forties, their happiness hits the skids. That’s just one of the insights that Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics, has found in his 10 years... Read more...

Evening Standard (London)

Now Tory civil war deepens over soft Brexit

Snippet:... A recent study by LSE said Brexit without a trade deal would cost London over £100 billion over five years, while staying in the single market would reduce the losses to some £58 billio... Read more...

WMOT Roots Radio

Should you work from home?

Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom said in a TED talk earlier this year that requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated tradition that doesn’t take into a... Read more...

Tvzvezda.ru (Russia)

по Brexit/May and Junker could not agree on Brexit

Article by Thomas Sampson, Dennis Novy, Holger Breinlich and Elsa Leromain Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How ha... Read more...

ITV television

Peston on Sunday

Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to Henry Overman with his NIESR chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit. ... Read more...

The Street

Britain?s opposition leader says Labour Party a `threat? to investment banks

The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion in annual revenue and as many as 30,000 jobs, a f... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

If we want to create jobs in local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited

New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo..... Related publications "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence fro... Read more...

Twitter

Peston on Sunday‏ : @pestononsunday

How will your local area be affected by #Brexit? Our final #GeekoftheWeek goes to @HenryOverman with his @NIESRorg chart looking at the local economic impact of Brexit.   Peston on Sunday Retweeted ... Read more...

FE Week

Apprenticeships must not accredit existing knowledge

....And then, among apprenticeships for young people, 60 per cent of places are at intermediate level. New analysis by Sandra McNally for today’s report, of the experience of those aged 16 in 2003 who su... Read more...

Insider.co.uk

Disadvantaged youngsters 'less likely to start the best apprenticeships'

"Disadvantaged youngsters are less likely than their better-off peers to start the best apprenticeships, a new study reveals. Research published by the Sutton Trust showed that seven per cent of yo... Read more...

FE Week

Two thirds of apprenticeships `convert? existing employees, report warns

"Two thirds of apprenticeships are merely “converting” existing employees and could be certifying existing skills, rather than focusing on expanding expertise, a new report has warned. Rese... Read more...

TES (online)

Many apprentices 'treading water', warns Sutton Trust

The segmentation of apprenticeship by level puts an artificial break on progression, according to a new report commissioned by the Sutton Trust. The report, entitled Better Apprenticeships – Acces... Read more...

Independent

Brexit has lost UK economy #300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds

A report by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economics Performance earlier this month estimated that the Brexit-related spike in inflation in the UK had already cost the average UK household ar... Read more...

Get Surrey

Reigate & Mole Valley 'will be hit harder by Brexit than almost anywhere in the UK, study suggests

The report defines a hard Brexit as being on World Trade Organisation (WTO) tariffs with no customs union, and a soft Brexit with the UK staying in a form of customs union and tariffs remaining at zero with a ... Read more...

The Property Chronicle

Stamp duty, mobility and the housing crisis

Article by Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikainen How replacing stamp duty with better-designed local taxes could alleviate the crisis of housing availability.  The SDLT (commonly labelled ‘stamp... Read more...

NIESR blog

Industrial strategy should include more support for retraining and upskilling

When the Industrial Strategy was up for consultation earlier in the year, my colleagues in the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) and I emphasised the importance of well-targeted Active Labour Mar... Read more...

CEP mentioned in the Budget Resolutions Debate

CEPresearch was used in the post budget debate by MPs.

Alison Thewliss MP (SNP), Shadow SNP spokesman for Cities and Treasury referred to the recent CEP report The Brexit Vote, Inflation and UK Living Standards estimate "that the average household has... Read more...

CAPX

Brexit is already costing Britain

Article by Thomas Sampson et al Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How has the referendum affected households in the first yea... Read more...

NIESR Blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

Article by Henry Overman Much has been written about the impact that Brexit might have on the national economy. We know far less about how that impact might vary across the UK. In a recent paper published i... Read more...

Sydsvenskan (Sweden)

Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"

Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...

Sydsvenskan (Sweden)

Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"

Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...

Pakistan Today

Change course or risk Brexit chaos, Ireland warns Theresa May

The latest work by economists at the London School of Economics estimates that, if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal, the impact will be far more severe than the projections in the budget suggested. Th... Read more...

Birmingham Evening Mail

We?re #800 a year worse off thanks to Brexit, report says

… Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: "Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK household... Read more...

Guardian

Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos

Government sources said ministers would this week release sections of assessments into the potential economic impact of Brexit carried out across Whitehall, which until recently they had tried to keep secret. ... Read more...

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...

De Welt (Germany)

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

However, the regions that are now calling for special rules do not belong to those parts of the country that Brexit is likely to hit particularly hard economically. According to calculations by economists at t... Read more...

The Denver Post

The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...

Premium Official News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

... according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London  ... ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe Newsletter

Brexit squeeze

In the first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards Thomas Sampson and his team show UK households are paying a high economic price fo... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Budget 2017: productivity is the focus, but `fixes? are unlikely to be enough

The danger is not making a real difference to productivity when the country needs it the most, writes Anna Valero. Budget 2017 began with a bleak assessment of the UK’s growth prospects. For those of us ... Read more...

Eldiario.es (Spain)

The moral urgency of mental health

In support of this statement we can mention a recent investigation by a team of economists from the London School of Economics, directed by Richard Layard. The researchers analyzed data from surveys conducted ... Read more...

Zarojel.hu (Hungary)

British workers have already paid weekly for Brexit

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

Financial Mail

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Tencent takes on the world

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

Iran Daily

Statistics report shows Brexit?s influence on inflation in UK

A statistical analysis on the consequences of the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom was released on Monday, showing how the referendum outcome has affected inflation and living standards of people across the c... Read more...

EuroNews

UK economy: moderate growth but inflation remains high

UK economy: Britain is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began, with wages not returning to their pre-financial crisis levels until at least 2025. … “Right now, the ... Read more...

Rosbalt.ru (Russia)

British authorities have reserved another 3 billion pounds for planning Brexit

Recently, the Center for Economic Performance (CEP), a local research center, recently released a survey according to which every British family, on average, loses 400 pounds sterling per year due to Brexit. ... Read more...

GQ

Budget 2017: Brexit is the least of Philip Hammond?s worries

“One of the guys who pays my wages has decided he’s pulling investment from the UK,” my private fund manager mate tells me on Sunday as we stand on the touchline, watching our kids play rugby... Read more...

The Herald (Scotland)

Beware: Spreadsheet Phil will be flying blind in this Budget

Meanwhile, on the home front consumers have been fighting raging price increases thanks to the collapse in the value of the pound. The average household has lost £404 last year according to the Centre fo... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

UK households are already paying an average of #404pa for Brexit

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, UK inflation has dramatically increased. How much of the rise in inflat... Read more...

LSE News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

Brexit is already costing the average UK household £7.74 per week or £404 per year, according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Po... Read more...

Wales online

Wales and Northern Ireland see 'the worst inflation spikes in the UK'

Wales and Northern Ireland have suffered the worst spikes in inflation in the UK as a result of last year’s vote for Brexit, according to new research from the London School of Economics. The analysis by... Read more...

Prospect magazine

More apprenticeships is a good thing?but time to look at the quality

....It is also crucial that the issue of access is tackled. As our latest research shows, disadvantaged young people are less likely to enter the best apprenticeships than their better-off peers. We’ve a... Read more...

Bailiwick Express

Households are #852 a year worse off due to Brexit, study finds

Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: “Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK households. &ldqu... Read more...

Fars News Agency (Tehran)

Research: Brexit costs UK househilds over $500 per year

According to research conducted by the UK-based Centre for Economic Performance "By June 2017, the Brexit vote was costing the average household £7.74 per week through ... Read more...

Vox

The consequences of the Brexit vote for UK inflation and living standards: First evidence

Article by Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe blog

New evidence shows UK households paying high economic price for vote to leave EU

The first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards shows UK households are paying a high economic price for the vote to leave the Europe... Read more...

The Korea Herald

[Michael Plant, Peter Singer] The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The moral urgency of mental health

PRINCETON – If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity... Read more...

News One Place

Child-induced fatigue costs economy dear, says new study

Parents with young children are ‘substantially’ less productive than their colleagues, due to a lack of sleep As every parent of a newborn knows, sleep is a foreign country, a place that they happi... Read more...

LBC Radio

5:45:12 pm

Snippet: ...e Thank you very much Steve France's reporting for us there in Cardiff and serve loaded of the have been in touch about food prices someone texted me to say food has increased by 5% since June ... Read more...

Scottish Energy News

CBI survey shows 98% of British energy firms want post-Brexit investment framework

Meanwhile, the risks of Scotland crashing out of the EU without the UK government securing a deal have been revealed in a damning report by the London School of Economics. Figures show that every single part o... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Would you choose to be happy?

People prefer happiness to income, children, career and education, but being healthy trumps it all, writes Paul Dolan. ... Read more...

BBC Parliament

Live House of Commons

Ronnie Cowan, SNP, Inverclyde:  A report from the centre for cities and the Centre for economic performance and the London School of Economics said that all cities would schedule increasing cost... Read more...

The Conversation

Weightlifters and divers offer a lesson for business in risk and reward

In practice, competitors often do not only choose their level of effort; they also have to decide between more or less risky strategies. For example, a pharmaceutical firm that is lagging behind in a patent ra... Read more...

The Money Pages

One in four Brits can?t afford to save

Rising inflation combined with flatlining wage growth means that households have seen incomes drop in real terms and are therefore beginning to feel the squeeze of higher prices. Worryingly, UK wages have drop... Read more...

Welt

Schon jetzt kostet der Brexit jeden Briten 682 Euro/Already, the Brexit costs every Briton 682 euros

Another study by the institute examining the regional implications of Brexit concludes that the south around London is likely to be hit particularly hard, as well as the region around Manchester and the south ... Read more...

CEP citations

`The State of Small Business: Putting UK Entrepreneurs on the Map?, NESTA & SAGE Report, November 2017

Berlingieri, G., Blanchenay, P. and Criscuolo, C. The Great Divergence(s): CEP Discussion Paper No 1488. (Centre for Economic Performance, 2017) cited in ‘The State of Small Business: Putting UK Entrepre... Read more...

Tech.co

Why working remote can improve employee productivity

One of the most remarkable studies done to measure telecommuters’ performance was conducted by Stanford University. Led by Professor Nicholas Bloom, a team of scholars performed a Work From Home (WFH) ex... Read more...

Helensburgh Advertiser

New figures reveal likely Brexit impact on Argyll and Bute

Research by the London School of Economics forecasts that even in the event of a Brexit transition deal being struck, the Argyll and Bute economy will shrink by 2 per cent. ... Read more...

Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

Argyll could be #350 million out of pocket as a result of Brexit

Scotland’s Brexit Secretary Mike Russell told the convention that a report out last week revealed a soft exit from the EU would leave the area £150million worse off, while a “hard, no deal Br... Read more...

Medicalonline.hu (Hungary)

Gyogyszerek helyett lelki segitseg kellene/Instead of medicines, it should be spiritual help

In Great Britain they have chosen a different path. According to Richard Layard's Health Economist Program, with an estimated 12 million jobs, a system has been developed that provides effective and rapid ... Read more...

Mail online

Axe stamp duty in the Budget, Hammond is told: Scrap `worst tax? to boost the economy, says think-tank

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...

BBC TV Midlands

Sunday Politics

Mention of figures from the London School of Economics on the impact of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit on Birmingham’s economy. ... Read more...

The Straits Times

Messy divorce looms as Brexit talks go nowhere

The overall impression in other European capitals is that the British want to have their cake and eat it, by leaving the EU and yet retaining all its advantages, a demand which no EU government is prepared to ... Read more...

Evening Standard

David Sexton: Our education system continues to favour privilege

The Sutton Trust’s optimistic slogan on its masthead proclaims that it has been “Improving social mobility for 20 years”. Sadly, its own site includes a disturbing study, commissioned from th... Read more...

BBC TV Scotland

Scottish Questions

Snippet: Mention of LSE study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...

Design World

The cost of having a manager annoy you

…there have been numerous studies claiming that better management – sometimes equated with more management – is the key to productivity. One in particular – done by economists in Stanf... Read more...

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

Scottish Secretary ?does not recognise? expert analysis of Brexit hit to Aberdeen

Scottish Secretary David Mundell has told opponents of Brexit to stop bandying about “damning figures” such as an analysis that Aberdeen will be worst hit by the divorce from Brussels. The London S... Read more...

Yorkshire Post

Leeds set to lose out on #6.4bn in a `Hard? Brexit

However, the Department for Exiting the EU recently rejected requests to publish the analysis, arguing that there was a risk of a knock-on effect on national and regional economies . But the Lib Dems have work... Read more...

BBC News online

Brexit impact study `will not be published? UK government assessments of the potential economic impact of Brexit on Scotland will not be made public, the Brexit secretary has confirmed.

But the analysis will be shared with the Scottish government, David Davis told a committee of MPs. Mr Davis told the Brexit select committee that publishing the analysis could undermine the national interest. ... Read more...

The Scotsman

Leader comment: Brexit figures must not be kept secret

It is still unclear whether we are heading for a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit but, amid calls for a second referendum, it is important that voters are told about the UK Government’s ow... Read more...

BBC Radio (Shetland)

(10/24/2017 6:20:18 AM)

Snippet: Discussion of study on cost of Brexit for Scotland ... Read more...

The Times (Scotland)

Cities stand to lose billions from Brexit

Scotland’s biggest cities stand to lose billions of pounds if the UK government fails to secure a Brexit deal, the Liberal Democrats have claimed (Hamish Macdonell writes). The party commissioned analysi... Read more...

The Herald (Scotland)

New analysis suggests Scotland would lose billions of pounds with Brexit

Every part of Scotland and the UK as a whole would be affected by a soft Brexit, which would retain access to the single market during a transition period, according to the London School of Economics (LSE). Ho... Read more...

Birmingham Mail

Birmingham would lose almost #7 billion from a `hard Brexit?

Birmingham would be the second most damaged city in Britain by a hard Brexit, new research has revealed. The city's economy would lose £6.82 billion over five years. The figures, published by the res... Read more...

Evening Standard

Hard Brexit `would cost London more than #100bn?

London boroughs from the suburbs to the City stand to lose billions of pounds from Brexit, new research revealed today. The impact of a “hard” exit without a trade deal would cost the capital&rsquo... Read more...

ChronicleLive (Newcastle)

This is how much a `no-deal? Brexit would drain out of Newcastle and the rest of the North East

Newcastle’s economy would shrink by £1.92bn, a fall in economic output of 5%. The figures, published by the respected Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, show how muc... Read more...

Mail online

Leaving the EU without a trade deal could cost Britain #430 BILLION over five years, warns Vince Cable

Using calculations based on research by the London School of Economics, the Lib Dems say that if the UK exits the EU in March 2019 without a deal, Britain’s economic output in the five years after Brexit... Read more...

Daily Mirror

New Brexit research suggests Britain?s bill for leaving the EU without a deal

Leaving the EU will cost Britain £430billion over five years if no deal is done, research suggests. Even a “soft” Norway-style Brexit could cost the ­country £235billion – spa... Read more...

The Street.com

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein trolls Britain?s Brexit plans with Frankfurt tweet

The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Cities estimates the British capital could lose as much as £18 billion ($23.7 billion) in annual revenue and as many as ... Read more...

MIT Sloan Experts

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth - John Van Reenen

 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...

Huffington Post (India)

These 7 numbers show how global poverty remains a huge problem

If policymakers focused on tackling mental illness instead of only focusing on eliminating poverty, global misery levels could decrease by 20 percent, according to a London School of Economics study. Reducing ... Read more...

CEP on Twitter

CEP?s Prof Richard Layard at launch of BEIS?s `Time to Change? on World Mental Health Day 2017.

Tweet by Alastair Campbell: Alastair Campbell‏Verified account @campbellclaret Oct 10 Follow Follow @campbellclaret Launching @beisgovuk as @TimetoChange employer with Perm Sec Alex Chisholm ... Read more...

Hrmasia

The working blues

The UK Centre for Mental Health calculated that presenteeism from mental ill health alone costs the UK economy £15.1 billion (S$26.5 billion) per annum, while absenteeism costs £8.4 billion (S$14.4... Read more...

London Review of Books

Letters ? Vol 39 No. 20 19 October 2017 How not to do trade deals

Letter by Swati Dhingra and Nikhil Datta Martin Sanderson points out that manufacturing accounts for only a small share of the UK workforce, and reasons that it is hardly right to say blue-collar British wo... Read more...

MOJEH online

The pursuit of happiness

Another landmark study by researchers at the London School of Economics attributed most human misery to failed relationships and physical and mental illness rather than measurable problems like poverty. These ... Read more...

IZA World of Labor

The economics of mental health

Article by Richard Layard With modern psychological therapy, mentally ill people can become more productive and more satisfied with life. ... Read more...

CEP Journal Articles

'On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics?

Alex Eble, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, October 2017 DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw034 Related links Peter Boone CEP Alumni webpage:  http://www.effi... Read more...

BBC News

Pembrokeshire council vote for Brexit working group

A working group will be set up to prepare Pembrokeshire for the effect of Brexit, following a council vote. The county could lose £35.4m in trade if the United Kingdom opts for a "hard" Brexit,... Read more...

Forbes

Benefits of a lenient work-from-home policy

When it comes to debating a work-from-home policy, there are two schools of thought on the subject. While one group believes employees will abuse the system and productivity will be lost, the other believes th... Read more...

Western Telegraph

Report to Pembrokeshire County Council cabinet compares likely impact of Brexit to Sea Empress oil disaster

Brexit will hit Pembrokeshire harder than the Sea Empress disaster, according to a comparison made in a report for Cabinet next week. The Director of Development’s report ahead of an agenda item called &... Read more...

Times Higher Education - THE

Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate

Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...

Yeni Safak (Turkey)

Happier working at home

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom in Singapore, those who work from home are happier than those who work in the office. We asked the people who work a... Read more...

Trome (Spain)

Should companies let their employees work from home? This study states that it is the best option

This is stated in the unique study of Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom. According to the study, the number of people working from home has tripled in the last 30 years. However, the numbe... Read more...

Les Echos (France)

Productivity is cultivated

Over the last decade, economists have worked hard on the impact of management on productivity. The effectiveness of management, measured by a set of indicators (quality of internal monitoring, setting clear ob... Read more...

Brainerd Dispatch

Wealth enhancement column: happy retirement

While aging was once thought of as a negative thing, a study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that, on average, people's happiness peaks at ages 23 and 69. At ... Read more...

Ideas.Ted.com

Why working from home should be standard practice

And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her. Imagine a person working from home. If you pictured somebody in pajam... Read more...

European Union News ? Durham University: Thought Leadership

How the UK can benefit from a free trade future after Brexit ? even outside the single market

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...

Irish Times

Applying ancient solutions to modern problems

Indeed, a recent study by Richard Layard at the London School of Economics suggests that emotional wellbeing in childhood is more important to an adult’s satisfaction levels than academic success or weal... Read more...

GetReading

See how MPs for Berkshire voted in the Brexit Repeal Bill

Earlier in the summer, research from think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics revealed Reading is likely to be one of the areas hit hardest by Brex... Read more...

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the local economic impacts of Bre... Read more...

Oxford Times

Brexit has had 'little affect' on Oxford's finances, report finds

A report by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance had suggested Brexit would leave all British cities adversely affected. Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the E... Read more...

Conatus News

Post-Brexit Industrial Strategy ? Dawn of a New Era for Britain?

The Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics has predicted a soft brexit is likely to increase the cost of EU trade by 2%, causing a subsequent 1% fall in British GDP, while a hard Brexit ... Read more...

The Economist

Blame Congress for high health-care costs

So Zack Cooper of Yale University and three other researchers argue in a paper to be published on September 4th. They studied reforms passed in 2003 that allowed over-65s to obtain prescription drugs through M... Read more...

Financial Mail

Mental health problems cost SA?s economy billions per year

In a 2016 study of eight countries spanning diverse cultures and gross domestic product (GDP) ranges, Dr Sara Evans-Lacko and Prof Martin Knapp from the London School of Economics and Polit... Read more...

Novara Media

Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness

There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that proactive rather than reactive mental healthcare and treatment is in the interest of the NHS as well as individuals. A report by The Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...

Country Living

Matter-of-fact chart shows why we shouldn't worry about growing old

A timeline, created by Business Insider, reveals the areas we excel in at specific ages of our life, including skills, achievements and wellbeing. The chart shows that there is a lot of contentment in later li... Read more...

Aprendemas.com (Spain)

En busca de la felicidad: cursos gratuitos y claves para ser feliz /In search of happiness: free courses and keys to be happy

However, a recent study carried out at the London School of Economics shows that levels of happiness in a person's life follow a U-shaped pattern. This means that between the ages of 20 and 70, The maximum... Read more...

US News

Study: Happiness is a U and Middle Age is Depressing

A new study suggests midlife "psychological low" points are a global phenomenon Why people consistently report being near their most unhappy around the same age – across countries, incomes a... Read more...

This is Money.co.uk

Stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse as older homeowners stay put to avoid it - and families can't move up the property ladder

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...

City A.M.

Instilling competitive gender quotas could end the Crisis of the Mediocre Men

…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...

Times of Tunbridge Wells

Report claims Brexit will sting whatever guise it comes in?

THE economies of both Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge will suffer in the coming years due to Brexit, a new report by the London School of Economics claims. Titled The Local Economic Effects of Brexit, the study ... Read more...

Mortgage Introducer online

Our great housing problem

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...

Today?s Conveyancer

Stamp duty under new scrutiny

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 Times

The regions can be our road to revival, but only if transport links are improved

A rebalancing is long overdue. “Regional disparities are wider in the UK than other western European countries,” according to the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. ... Read more...

Simple Landlords Insurance

Stamp Duty increase fuels housing crisis ? new report claims

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...

Property Investor Today

Cut stamp duty to free up mobility, says report

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...

Landlord News

More calls for Stamp Duty to be amended

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...

Financial Times

Time to sound the horn for council tax reform

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...

Investor Today

Cut stamp duty to free up mobility, says report

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...

KentLive

Thanet is predicted to be the worst affected area in Kent by a `soft Brexit?

Experts have predicted that Thanet would be the hardest hit area of Kent in a 'soft Brexit' scenario. A new study by the London School of Economics revealed that Thanet could lose £27.2 million &... Read more...

Daily Mail

Is this the way to beat stamp duty? Savvy widower, 82, with a 10 room property 'downsizes' by splitting his home in HALF to live in one side and let the other

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...

Taizhou (China)

British latest research: stamp duty into the real estate market stumbling block

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...

Derby Telegraph

Stamp duty should be abolished to boost housing market, new report says

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...

Bloomberg Politics

Britain?s Not-So-Sweet Options for an EU Trade Deal

What if there is no deal? A “very, very bad outcome,” in the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. The U.K. would regain control of laws, money, immigration and ability to negotia... Read more...

Prospect magazine

Hard or soft, Brexit will hit every British city?and pro-Leave areas will find it hardest to recover

People up and down the country can ill afford for silly season squabbles to distract us from the complexity of Brexit …amidst the summer politicking and parties, a new report by Centre for ... Read more...

SKY News

Stamp duty causing bottleneck in housing market, report says

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...

China Taizhou network

British latest research: stamp duty into the real estate market stumbling block

"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...

Telegraph

Opinion: Stamp duty is a tax on mobility and aspiration. It should be cut substantially or abolished

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...

Property Industry Eye

LSE academics become the latest to call for Stamp Duty to be scrapped

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...

BBC News (blog/TV)

Newspaper headlines: The Papers

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...

The Sun

STAMP IT OUT Steep stamp duty is making the housing crisis WORSE because older homeowners are put off downsizing, new report claims

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...

London Loves Business

Stamp duty exacerbating housing crisis and impacting economic growth

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...

Property118

LSE call on Chancellor to reform Stamp duty

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...

Express

`Draconian? Stamp Duty will trigger HUGE house price CRASH by stopping elderly downsizing

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...

CityAM

Stamp duty "hampers mobility" as pensioners cling onto family homes

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...

Huffington Post

Credit Crunch Anniversary: Why Pay Is A `Long Way? From Recovering And How Brexit Is Making It Worse

A London School of Economics report in June showed that Britain was one of just three out of 28 countries that saw wages fall in real terms between 2007 and 2015. The only country where wages fell more... Read more...

Telegraph

Opinion: Stamp duty is a tax on mobility and aspiration. It should be cut substantially or abolished

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...

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

`The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness?

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017 ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Stamp duty exacerbating housing crisis by stopping elderly from moving, warns Cabinet minister

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...

Wales online

Top economists have calculated the impact of a soft or hard Brexit on Swansea

Their research found that every local authority would be negatively affected under either scenario but concluded that the economic impact of leaving the single market and customs union would be around twice as... Read more...

Spirit FM

West Sussex town ranked `second most affected' area post-Brexit

A new report by think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) predicts Worthing will be on the places hit hardest by an expected downturn in trade after the country leaves the... Read more...

Economist

A little-noticed change in Britain?s housing market spells trouble for everybody

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...

Economist

A little-noticed change in Britain's housing market spells trouble for everybody

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...

Slough Express

Slough to be among top urban areas to feel negatie impact of Brexit, study says

New research suggests that Slough will be among the top five UK urban areas to be negatively impacted by Brexit. A report by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance and think tank Centre... Read more...

Getreading

Reading has been named as one of the areas likely to be hit hardest by Brexit

A new report put Reading in third place of areas worst hit by a hard Brexit A new report by the think tank Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics reveals... Read more...

This is Wiltshire

Business leaders optimistic despite shock statistics that put Swindon among hardest hit by Brexit

The authors of the report, Naomi Clayton and Professor Henry Overman of the LSE’s Centre For Economic Performance, said: “All British cities are set to be negatively affected as a result of higher ... Read more...

Zdravie.Pravda (Slovakia)

Bezplatna terapia cez telefon. Britsky experiment funguje/ Free phone therapy. The British experiment works

The British health experiment began in 2008. In the first wave, 35 clinics were created with a total of thousands of workers, but the system was immediately overwhelmed by huge floods of interest. Now a projec... Read more...

Swindon Advertiser

Business leaders optimistic despite shock statistics that put Swindon among hardest hit by Brexit

The London School of Economics has published an analysis of the possible effects of a ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ Brexit on towns and cities all over the country. The report predicts that Swin... Read more...

Guardian

Fox in the chicken house is a boon to the SNP

We are also now beginning to see why Scots voted 2:1 to remain in the EU. The thinktank Centre for Cities has predicted that Scotland’s major cities will suffer the worst consequences of Brexit, hard or ... Read more...

Clarin.com

Depression and anxiety, in the sights of an ambitious English project

In 2005, David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, came to the conclusion that it made economic sense to provide therapeu... Read more...

The Columbus Despatch

Burgeoning talk-therapy program free for all in England

LONDON — England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses. …In 2005 David Clark, a... Read more...

Gazette Live

Hard or soft Brexit? This is what experts think the impact could be on Middlesbrough either way

Middlesbrough has been singled out as one of the places which could be hardest hit by Brexit. As the debate over the terms of the UK’s exit of the European Union continue to be debated, the potential ... Read more...

The Sunday Mirror

Brexit will hit hardest across the South of England - but one place in Scotland gets the brunt

Brexit will hit hardest in the South of England, ­according to new research. But although the more prosperous cities of the South will lose the most, they will find it easiest to adapt. Aberdeen in the Nor... Read more...

Mail online

Dr Max talks depression and BBC's Panorama programme

A horrifying study by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under-65s, only 25 per cent of those in need of treatment... Read more...

MSN

Brexit to hit Aberdeen worst as London set for 2.6% output fall

Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...

Get Surrey

How much of Surrey's land is taken up by fairways and putting greens

Woking has the highest density of golf courses of anywhere in the UK at more than 10% According to The Guardian , Surrey has more land for golf courses than homes thanks to planning policies that ensure the... Read more...

City AM

These are the six UK cities that will suffer most from a 'hard' Brexit

The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics found that cities with large high-skilled service sectors, such as business and financial services, ... Read more...

Click Lancashire

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

Smaller cities Crawley and Barnsley are predicted to have the lowest downturn in economic output of either a "hard" or "soft" Brexit, alongside cities like Hull and Wakefield. A new report ... Read more...

Newburgh Gazette (Illinois, USA)

Aberdeen and Edinburgh `to be hit hardest by Brexit'

Aberdeen and Edinburgh are the cities set to take the biggest financial hit when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, according to a think tank that predicts a downturn in trade even if ministers stri... Read more...

Energy Voice

Brexit's impact on Aberdeen `not as bad as thought', minister says

The impact of Brexit on Aberdeen’s economy will not be as bad as predicted, according to junior Brexit minister Robin Walker. Mr Walker was responding to a bombshell report from the Centre for Cities, wh... Read more...

The National (Scotland)

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: Scotland WILL bear the brunt of Brexit recession

…Evidence again that any form of Brexit will do more damage to Scotland’s farming sector than it will to the UK as a whole. At least the city economies will be OK though? Not a chance. The report ... Read more...

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen's politicians and businesses remain upbeat despite prediction City will suffer most from Brexit

Aberdeen can rise to the challenge of finding news ways to boost the economy, politicians and industry leaders said today. The confident comments come despite a report yesterday that predicts Brexit will hit A... Read more...

Shropshire Star

Telford less likely to be hit by hard Brexit than other UK towns and cities

Telford will be among the UK towns least-affected by a hard Brexit, a report claims – although economists today denied its suggestion that a lack of skills in the town will cushion the blow. Researche... Read more...

Chronicle Live

All areas of North East will be hit by Brexit, new study shows

All areas of the North East would be hit by Brexit and may take longer to recover than other parts of the country, a new study says. The study by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (... Read more...

Business Insider UK

The 6 UK cities that will suffer most from a `hard' Brexit

Wealthy Southern cities are predicted to be hardest hit by Brexit, according to a new report. The study, by the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, foun... Read more...

Blackpool Gazette

Resort named in Brexit hit list

A think tank analysed the potential impact of both a “hard” and “soft” Brexit on British cities in the 10 years following the implementation of new trade arrangements with the EU. It is... Read more...

Guardian

Aberdeen to be worst hit by Brexit but all British cities will suffer

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Guardian

Aberdeen to be worst hit by Brexit but all British cities will suffer - report

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Tyden.cz (Czechoslovakia)

Bezplatna terapie po telefonu: britsky experiment zatim funguje/Free therapy by phone: British experiment yet works

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Public Sector Executive

Economy and infrastructure

All cities in the UK are looking set to see a fall in economic output regardless of whether a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ Brexit is delivered, experts have today warned – but more prosperous... Read more...

Insider.co.uk

Aberdeen `worst affected city in UK if there's a hard Brexit'

Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance analysis also places Edinburgh sixth in a top ten of urban conurbations hit most if the country fails to strike a deal with the EU. Related publications... Read more...

International Business Times

Revealed: the cities Brexit will hit hardest

Aberdeen will be the hardest hit city in the UK by Brexit, according to a new report on the economic impact of withdrawal from the European Union (EU). Other cities or urban areas such as London, Slough and Ed... Read more...

Worthing Herald

Study reveals Worthing will suffer from Brexit

Worthing is among the top ten towns that will suffer the most by Britain’s exit from Europe, according to a study that overturns assumptions that poorer areas of the UK will suffer the most. For the firs... Read more...

The Planner

Brexit will hit southern UK cities hardest ? report

Cities that are successful and have large high-skilled service sectors, mainly located in the south of England, will be hit the hardest by Brexit, whether it is ‘hard’ or ‘soft’. A repo... Read more...

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen will be hit hardest by Brexit deals

A new report today named Aberdeen as the UK city predicted to be the worst-hit by a so-called hard Brexit. London and Edinburgh also ranked in the top 10 list compiled by researchers at the think tank Centre f... Read more...

Commonspace

Brexit will hit Aberdeen harder than any other city in UK, report says

Research done by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Cities predicted an economic downturn of 3.7 per cent for Aberdeen and 2.7 per cent in Edinburgh ... Read more...

Bristol Post

Bristol to be one of the UK's cities worst hit by Brexit

The joint Centre for Cities and Centre for Economic Performance study predicts that Bristol’s economic output will decrease by up to 2.6 per cent – the 11th worst-hit city in the country. However, ... Read more...

Bloomberg Politics

Here are the places in the UK that will be hit hardest by Brexit

Brexit will hit Scottish oil capital Aberdeen the hardest of all Britain’s cities, with London also ranking highly and facing a medium-term blow to economic output of as much as 2.6 percent, academics at... Read more...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

CEP study: the UK areas that will be hit most (and least) by Brexit

The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry G. Overman writes that it ... Read more...

SERC blog

The local economic impacts of Brexit

Article by Henry Overman I've been working with colleagues at the Centre for Economic Performance (Swati Dhingra and Steve Machin) and the Centre for Cities (Naomi Clayton) to take a first look at the l... Read more...

New York Times

England's mental health experiment: free talk therapy

In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and the economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense... Read more...

Developpez.com (France)

Employees working from home would be happier and more efficient than those on the premises of the company. What about France?

Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, was interested in the phenomenon of working from home, a particular mode of work that allows employees of a company to stay at home rather than going into sp... Read more...

Schools Week

Education has `done nothing' to improve social mobility

Education has “not done anything” to improve social mobility and has made inequality worse, according to the education economist Stephen Machin. Speaking at a debate held by the Sutton Trust on Wed... Read more...

oikonomia.gr (Greece)

A new road to economic liberalism

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...

Bezprawnik.PL (Poland)

Working from home earns more, less often, and are happier than those working in offices

Nicholas Bloom, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, conducted a study on a large, multi-thousand research group: employees of a Chinese travel company Ctrip. Have not you heard of her? Not... Read more...

Quartz

Work from home people earn more, quit less, and are happier than their office-bound counterparts

Working from home gets a bad rap. Google the phrase and examine the results—you’ll see scams or low-level jobs, followed by links calling out “legitimate” virtual jobs. But Stanford Gra... Read more...

Contrepoints

Les pays ou il fail bon vivre sont

The same report by academics (John F. Helliwell, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vancouver School of Economics Richard Layard, Director, London School of Economics, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia Univ... Read more...

Financial Times

The secret of Singapore's development master plan

Letter from Edwin Loo, Singapore Singapore is one of only a few jurisdictions in the world to have successfully implemented a comprehensive system of land value capture through betterment taxes and revenues... Read more...

el Vocero (Puerto Rico)

?Riqueza o bienestar?/Wealth or wellbeing?

According to Richard Layard, one of the study's leaders, "evidence shows that the things that matter most to happiness and misery are social relationships and mental and physical health." In his ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

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Snippet: ... signs of faltering market with a slight drop in house prices month on month quarter-on-quarter but they're still up on a year ago a man quoted in many areas house prices crash stories was Prof... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Money Box Programme

Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...

La Nacion

?Riqueza o bienestar?/ Wealth or well-being?

According to a study by the London School of Economics (LSE), with the participation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most human misery is not due to economic factors, but to faile... Read more...

Newsweek (Online)

Big houses in the U.S. are back (and there's a growing housing bubble)

Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by r... Read more...

Yahoo! News

Big Houses in the U.S. Are Back (And There's a Growing Housing Bubble)

Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by resear... Read more...

Lancaster online

Republicans are missing an opportunity on health care

A study by Zack Cooper, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen — economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon University, and the London School of Economics, respectively — concludes that lack of competition and... Read more...

Reader's Digest

You'll be happiest during these two years of your life, according to science

According to new research, we’re happiest at two points in our lives—not just one. Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science asked 23,000 German volunteers aged 17 to 85 t... Read more...

Glamour (Spain)

La ciencia revela las 2 edades a las que somos mas felices/Science reveals the two ages when we are happiest

There are many theories about the ages and the optimization of one or several vital aspects: there is an age for the body, another for the mind and, according to a new study, there is not one, but two ages for... Read more...

ESRC Press

Winner of the 25th Kenneth J. Arrow award

The 25th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics is awarded to Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper, and [CEP Alumni]  Stephan Seiler for their paper “Free to choose? Reform, choice and considera... Read more...

LSE The education blog

Judith Shapiro and Steve Pischke on recommended summer reads

As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...

Financial Times

Overworked staff still love their bosses

Encouraging better work-life balance does not lead to higher productivity, academics at London School of Economics found. Neither does forcing workers into miserable servitude. Related publications &lsqu... Read more...

La Voce

Quando la mobilita del lavoro fa la differenza/When labour mobility makes the difference

What explains this persistence? The results of our recent work suggest some considerations. The evolution of economic activity throughout the country has systematically favoured at the expense of other area... Read more...

Stanford Business Insights

Why working from home is a 'future-looking technology'

Nick Bloom – a Stanford GSB expert shows how companies and employees benefit from workplace flexibility. Related publications Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment, Nichol... Read more...

Geschichte der Gegenwart (Germany)

May will Regierung bilden ? Brexit-Verhandlungen ab 19. Juni

In total, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) calculates, it would be best for the British economy to remain part of the EU’s common market. Related publications ‘#GE2017Economists: The... Read more...

Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)

Die schlechteste Variante

A year ago, in June 2016, the British voted on their country's EU membership. Economists and financial markets were in bright turmoil and warned of the consequences of a Brexit. Today, twelve months later,... Read more...

Professional Adviser

The evidence for Brexit and other key election issues - LSE

The London School of Economics (LSE) has published a report assessing all of the party manifestos and how respective policies will affect key voter issues. Intended to be "objective, brief and non-tech... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

Why top-down companies can underperform their peers

“Just as the US military has become more decentralized, letting soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq make more decisions than they would have in Korea or in Vietnam, so are the best firms decen... Read more...

Financial Times

Manifesto economics

For the first time in years, UK voters have a real choice between economic models The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has published a series of election analyses, looking a... Read more...

Vox

The economic consequences of family policies

Article by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo. Family-oriented policies – such as parental leave, childcare support, and flexible work arrangements – are in place in all high-income countries,... Read more...

AOL.UK

UK citizens already poorer as a result of Brexit, study finds

Although last year's vote to quit the EU has had "no obvious effect" on GDP growth, the collapse in the value of the pound - down 13% against the US dollar and 9% against the euro by the end of l... Read more...

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 132, Issue 2, May 2017

`Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?'

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...

Public Finance

NHS and social care staffing crisis `not addressed in general election manifestos'

The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...

ccrmagazine.com

Centre for Economic Performance report on UK pay and living standards

Higher price inflation as a result of sterling’s depreciation following the vote to leave the EU, coupled with nominal wage growth stuck at a norm of 2% a year, means that once again the UK faces falling... Read more...

Lkm ? The Education and Youth `think and action-tank' ? The LKMco Podcast

#002 ? Research Round Up: Social segregation and white Working Class boys

In episode #002  Dr Sam Baars talks to George Duoblys. They ask do faith schools perpetuate social social segregation? Is focusing on white working class boys helpful? Do Ofsted’s gra... Read more...

Vox

Impact of lower-rated journals on economists' judgements of publication lists

Article by Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes E. Riyanto and Jack L. Knetsch Economists are judged on both the number of times they publish and where they publish. Yet very little is known about the impact on re... Read more...

Faro de Vigo (Spain)

A degradation gives quality to the public health system Galego

Luis Garicano, professor of the London School of Economics and responsible for economy, industry and knowledge of citizens, Expoñía ("exceptional doctors who say goodbye soon and badly"... Read more...

TES (online)

The UK's first university centre for improving mental health in schools

Earlier this month, Lord Layard, director of the wellbeing programme at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, called for all schools to employ a senior teacher in charge of men... Read more...

TES

Every school should have a therapist, says happiness expert

Lord Layard also wants government to assess how much value schools add to pupils’ happiness Every school should have an on-site therapist, according to one of the country’s leading economists an... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth

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...

MIT Sloan Management Review

The importance of structured management practices

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Sleep deprivation, even when moderate, hurts employment

Article by Joan Costa-i-font and Sara Flèche Sleep is often overlooked in economic models despite its obvious restorative effects on human health alongside its influence on brain plasticity and feeli... Read more...

The Canary

The government has a new way to tackle the childhood mental health crisis

Schools across the country are going to trial lessons on happiness and dealing with mental health issues. Professor Richard Layard, who is a government adviser for a four-year trial of weekly mindfulness ... Read more...

The Guardian

Schools to trial happiness lessons for eight-year-olds

Lord Layard, who is a government adviser for a current four-year trial of weekly mindfulness classes in 26 schools, said there was an obsession with measuring only academic achievement. “The developme... Read more...

Die Bundesregierung

Discussion with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Third International German Forum

Chancellor Angela Merkel and international experts have discussed ways of improving global health. This is a matter of major importance, she said, and thus one of the priorities of Germany’s G20 Presiden... Read more...

St Louis Post-Dispatch (USA)

Stacy Washington: Minimum wage hike will hurt city of St. Louis

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...

CEP on TV/Radio

BBC York

17:20:17 Professor Martin Knapp comments on money for social care in the budget Also on: BBC Wiltshire ... Read more...

A Tribuna (Brazil)

Pesquisas comprovam: dinheiro n?o compra felicidade/Polls show: money can't buy happiness

Having good mental health and being in a good relationship makes people happier than doubling income points says study.  The London School of Economics, in the United Kingdom, interviewed 200,000 people i... Read more...

BBC London 94.9 (Radio)

CEP on TV/Radio

19:00:01 Snippet: ...Martin Knapp discusses the Chancellor’s plans to put an extra £2 billion towards England’s social care systems. Click to open Also on BBC Radio 4, BBC Foyle, BBC... Read more...

SurreyBaby

`Outstanding' nurseries may not be the best, says new research

Attending a nursery with an outstanding Ofsted rating has ‘limited benefits’ for children’s education, says new research from the University of Surrey. The report, published last month, showe... Read more...

Sunday Mirror

Health is our wealth

If I asked what makes you happy what would you say? I think many of us would answer money. But according to a study by researchers at the London School of Economics, much of the world’s unhappiness stems... Read more...

FE Week

Government silent on adult skills behavioural research centre funding

The government is refusing to say whether more funding will be given to two “pioneering” FE research centres after their start-up grants end shortly. Meanwhile, the Centre for Vocational Educati... Read more...

Charleston Gazette-Mail (USA)

Steve White: Pipeline projects will create plenty of good jobs

The recent U.S. energy revolution, courtesy of high-tech advancements in hydraulic fracturing, has made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally, lowering costs for energy-intensive industries while increa... Read more...

i Newspaper

Why does nobody want to host the Olympics anymore?

The Olympics shouldn’t be sold as bringing any wider benefits at all – but, instead as a very expensive party. Hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 cost about £150 per UK tax payer – but i... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Specter of No Brexit Deal Haunts U.K. Automakers

Swati Dhingra, an economics lecturer at the London School of Economics, estimated in a study prior to last year's referendum that Brexit could reduce total U.K. car production by as much as 12 percent. ... Read more...

Paisley Daily Express

Banking on a good day

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Newsweek online

Study: Mental Illness Causes More Misery Than Anything Else

“We keep on finding in every country that the mental health problems are the biggest causes of misery,” says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, who along with colleague Sarah Fl&egra... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Snippet: ... Martin Knapp

Martin Knapp is director of health and social care at the London school of economics and an economist specialising in health and social care. ... Read more...

Gulf News

6 in 10 say ban children from social networks

A majority six of ten Gulf News poll respondents think children should be banned from using social media sites altogether. Their opinion is in line with the findings of a study by the Centre for Economic Perfo... Read more...

Get Surrey

Attending `outstanding' nursery has limited benefit for children, university research reveals

University of Surrey's economics senior lecturer, Dr Jo Blanden, said: "Successive governments have focused on improving staff qualifications, based on the belief these are important for children'... Read more...

BBC Radio Shropshire

Research from LSE says graduate nursery staff have little effect on children's attainment.

…and there's a good piece on the BBC news website if you have a look at it so the couple of days so it is very current and it says gradual nursery staff have little effect on children OK having a gr... Read more...

Quartz

Economists quantified what sleep deprivation does to mothers' pay and productivity

When Joan Costa-Font became a father, the health economist noticed a dramatic drop in his productivity. “And I am the man,” he said, acknowledging that the effect was clearly worse on his wife. ... Read more...

Day Nurseries

Charity disputes research which claims qualified nursery teachers have `tiny effect' on children's learning

Save the Children has disputed research which found nurseries with a qualified nursery teacher have only a “tiny effect” on children’s attainment. Earlier this week, researchers from the C... Read more...

Sun FM

Worrying start in a life of education for Wearside children

"… there are many early years providers that do not employ graduate staff but nevertheless offer high-quality care and education." "As research published by the London School of Economics... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Does social media foster polarisation? A close look at the handle @realdonaldtrump

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 is w... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Does social media foster polarisation? A close look at the handle @realdonaldtrump

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LSE Business Review

Does social media foster polarisation? A close look at the handle @realdonaldtrump

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Manchester Evening News

What do Ofsted know about three-year-olds? Parents at this `inadequate' nursery say it's nonsense

A university study says that inspectors are failing to spot the best and worst nursery schools by using 'traditional methods' Parents have defended a pre-school rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofs... Read more...

Day Nurseries

'Outstanding' nurseries have 'tiny effect' on children's attainment

The report titled 'Nursery Quality: New evidence of the impact on children’s outcomes', found that staff qualifications and Ofsted ratings cannot predict the quality of early years education, arg... Read more...

Phys.Org

New evidence of the impact of quality nurseries on children's outcomes

A report published today reveals that a child's educational achievement at the end of their reception year is only very slightly higher if he or she has been taught in nursery by a qualified teacher or ear... Read more...

BBC News - Education

Graduate nursery staff have 'little effect' on children

Having a graduate teacher in a nursery has only a limited impact on children's attainment, new research suggests. In England the government wants more graduate staff in nurseries in a bid to boost child... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph (Print edition)

Pulling rank Top nurseries fail to raise prospects

Sending children to a nursery school rated “outstanding” by Ofsted makes barely any difference to how well they develop, researchers at the London School of Economics, University of Surrey and Univ... Read more...

BT.com

Nursery staff qualifications have little effect on pupils' achievement ? study

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, Surrey University and University College London, compared data on children's results with information on nurseries at... Read more...

Nursery World

Graduate settings have little impact on children's outcomes

New research finds that attending an outstanding nursery, or one with graduate staff, has a limited benefit to children's educational attainment. The study of 1.8 million children born between September... Read more...

theBMJ

Head to Head: Is it time for a dedicated tax to fund the NHS?

A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, says Richard Layard, but John Appleby argues it would not protect funding from economic uncertainty Yes—... Read more...

New Statesman

How the government's industrial strategy could steal your job

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...

Mail Online

Dr Max the Mind Doctor: Why anorexia has no respect for age

A horrifying study done by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill-health in the under-65s, only a quarter of people in need of treat... Read more...

Huffpost Politics

What makes people happy? Education policymakers must prioritise emotional health

As highlighted by LSE researchers, UK education policymakers have focused much of their attention on improving academic achievement over the last half century, in the hope that this will result in higher level... Read more...

Morning Star

Modern childhood a vital class issue for the left

A nasty mix of neoliberalism and the Tories’ austerity policies are having appalling effects on our children’s health and welfare And so we come to the present day, with a 10-year anniversary pr... Read more...

Minyanville

Health is more important than wealth

The old folk saying "If you've got your health you've got your wealth" is finding new proponents from a recent study done by the London College of Economics, under the direction of Lord Richa... Read more...

Financial Times

The cost of taking mental health seriously

After decades languishing as one of the most underfunded medical problems, mental illness began to receive some of the attention it deserved under Tony Blair’s government. In 2006, a London School of Eco... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Social mobility in the United States depends heavily upon where you live

There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...

LSE United States Politics and Policy blog

Social mobility in the United States depends heavily on where you live

There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...

Daily Telegraph

11 green New Year's resolutions that put the planet first

According to a study from the London School of Economics, brisk walking is a better deterrent against obesity than any other form of exercise. Men and women who walk briskly for more than 30 minutes a day w... Read more...

Guardian

Happiness study `lets austerity off the hook', psychologists claim

LSE study led by Labour peer found that failed relationships and physical and mental illness were bigger causes of misery than poverty Clinical psychologists have raised the alarm over a controversial piece... Read more...

Guardian

Experts call for official guidelines on child screen use

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...

The Walton Sun (Florida, USA)

Happiness may help fight poverty

Too often in our business we focus primarily on finances. Of course, that is what financial professionals do, but we could be neglecting an important, maybe more important, piece of the pie. The recent London ... Read more...

Sport (English version)

Ciudadanos harsh attack on Messi which forgot about Ronaldo

An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...

University Herald

Science-backed proof that money can't buy happiness

What makes humans happy? What makes you happy? Is it the material and tangible things? Or is it experiences or people? Happiness can be measured and defined in so many ways but according to a study by a t... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Fracking has made US manufacturing more competitive

It has lowered costs for energy-intensive industries, boosting output, employment and exports, write Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch … Our results suggest that the cost advantage due to t... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Fear of fracking affects house prices in the UK

Shale gas offers the prospect of a low-cost energy future, but invokes fears of environmental catastrophe, write Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich, Esther Lho and Christopher Timmins ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

The big factors affecting life satisfaction are all non-economic

What distinguishes ‘Les Misérables’ from the rest is neither poverty nor unemployment, but mental illness, write Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee and G... Read more...

Vox

Origins of happiness: Evidence and policy implications

Understanding the key determinants of people’s life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This column discusses evidence from survey data on Australia, B... Read more...

BBC News

Mental health and relationships 'key to happiness'

Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how diff... Read more...

Economics of Higher Education blog

Grade prediction system means the brightest, poorest students can miss out on top university places

Article by Gill Wyness With UK tuition fees now among the highest in the world, but benefits from having a degree remaining substantial, choosing the right university has never been more important for young... Read more...

SNP Helensburgh

HARD BREXIT: 'the elephant in the room' at autumn statement

HUGE THREAT TO ECONOMY TO OVERSHADOW TORY BUDGET The Scottish National Party has said that the threat of a hard Brexit will be the ‘elephant in the room’ at the Autumn Statement. “The T... Read more...

Sunday Herald (Scotland)

'Tory austerity crippled the economy, and Brexit is going to ruin it - yet Theresa May still has no plan'

The impact on productivity is as bad. The LSE (Centre for Economic Performance) suggests reduced trade will reduce productivity amounting to between 6.3 per cent and 9.5 per cent of GDP. This article was pu... Read more...

The Press

Emotional scars of bullying take a lifetime to heal

...to those who weren't bullied. And authors of the study by the London School of Economics and Political Science... (No link) The article was published online by The Press on November 15, 2016 [No l... Read more...

Al Jazeera

Inside story

Dr Swati Dhingra joined the discussion programme.  The topic was the demonitization of the 500 and 1000 rupee notes in India. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera television on November 15, 2016 ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Evening programme

Martin Knapp is here. Professor of social policy at .. depression, anxiety, bullies themselves never seem to be affected. Professor thank you very much we’ve had a lot of emails on this… The in... Read more...

Polish Express

Polski dzieci poprawiaja wynicki w nauce swoich brytyjskich kolegow/Polish children improve the academic performance of their British colleagues

A study carried out by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows that these students have a positive effect on the English students. "Data from the Catholic schools, w... Read more...

The National (Scotland)

Letters II: Trump's destruction of a priceless treasure is his Scottish legacy

Trump’s true legacy will be that of rural vandalism on a colossal scale. A unique wilderness at Menie destroyed for a golf course. This was a site of Special Scientific Interest, the highest environmenta... Read more...

The Times Educational Supplement - TES

'The pen is mightier than the computer for learning'

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...

Share Radio

Belgium puts EU-Canada trade deal in flux

EU trade ministers have had Belgium on their minds today - but rather than tucking into chocolate and waffles they've been dealing with the more unappetizing problem of a regional Belgian parliament that's blocking thei... Read more...

Yahoo! Canada Finance

Why income inequality among white collar workers is growing

This article was based on the research of Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard. Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left ... Read more...

iNews

The politics behind pound sterling's volatile week

The pound has lost nearly 18 per cent of its value against the dollar since Britain voted Brexit, two per cent more than during the 2008 financial crash. On Thursday it reached its lowest point for 168 years. ''Movements... Read more...

Financial Times

Free Lunch: My country right or wrong

Many government ministers have suggested that immigration is an obstacle to natives getting jobs. Jonathan Wadsworth takes up the home secretary's challenge to talk about immigration and how it may affect young people's ... Read more...

The Economist

Education: The road to London

The capital's schools are the best in the country. Can they be copied? According to a report last year by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London School of Economics, one-sixth of the improvement ... Read more...

The Economist

Free Trade: Coming and going

Truth and myth about the effects of openness to trade In other rich countries, regions or industries with heavy exposure to Chinese imports also suffered material losses in factory jobs. A study of Spain's jobs market b... Read more...

The Economist

Little Londons

However, land regulation may play a bigger role. According to a recent paper by Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the London School of Economics, alongside Greater London, scarcity of open, developable land is gre... Read more...

Money Week online

How we can profit from winning the battle against ageing

Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect huge numbers of people - a third of all over-80s have some form of dementia, estimates the US CDC. This has two key effects. Firstly, Alzheimer's is a major killer in its o... Read more...

Handelsblatt

Taten mussen folgen

Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...

The Sydney Morning Herald

Faster growth demands better chief executives

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...

The Irish Times

Solas revamp brings overdue direction to adult education

There have been major changes to Ireland's apprenticeship system over the past few years, and now the overall number of apprentices is expected to increase to about 10,700. And, although Ireland's apprenticeship system i... Read more...

Financial Times

May goes into battle for selective education

Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility But critics were quick to dismiss the reforms. Professor Sandra McNally, director of education and skills at the London Schoo... Read more...

Treehugger

Why kids shouldn't take their cell phones to school

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...

BBC Radio 4

The World Tonight

Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the recent political backlash from France and Germany. The interview was broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 The World Ton... Read more...

Herald Scotland

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

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

Financial Times

Scotland warns of #11bn cost of Brexit by 2030

Brexit will be deeply damanging to Scotland's economy, warns Nicola Sturgeon. ...by the Treasury, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...

This is Money

Tax-free childcare is on the way - but will your family be any better off and how will it compare to childcare vouchers?

The average cost of full-time childcare across the UK for a child under the age of two is £217.57 a week. Part-time care (25 hours, as opposed to the full 50) costs £116.77 a week. Assuming both parents work ... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement - TES

'Revolving door' warning

Thousands of 16-year-olds are stuck in an educational ''revolving door'', returning year after year to study low-level qualifications, a major new study has found. The Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at ... Read more...

PropertyWire

Researcher blames government not rich foreign buyers for UK housing crisis

Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...

Vox

Brexit and wage inequality

Article by Brian Bell and Stephen Machin Wage inequality was partly behind the vote for Brexit. This column shows how areas with relatively low median wages were substantially more likely to vote ‘Lea... Read more...

CIPD

Government urges employers to make breastfeeding at work easier

New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...

CIPD

Most mothers 'forced to give up work after second child'

Working mothers in low-skilled jobs are being forced to either considerably reduce their hours or give up work altogether after having a second child, according to a wide-ranging study that suggests lack of access to chi... Read more...

The Daily Mail online

Having a second baby forces women into poverty: Childcare costs see mothers in low-paid jobs give up work to look after children instead

The addition of a second child can put families under serious financial strain - and in the case of women on the lowest incomes - convince them to give up work altogether in the face of rising childcare costs, a new st... Read more...

Guardian

For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing

A new study finds that, while the addition of a second child has little effect on the working hours of mothers in skilled jobs, it has a substantial and negative effect on low-skilled women who are forced to reduce their... Read more...

The Courier-Tribune

I've been thrown a U-shaped curve

My best year is supposed to be now. Sixty-nine years old, to be exact. According to the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the two happiest years of life are 23 and 69. In between, w... Read more...

SchoolDash blog

Poverty of opportunity?

Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-q... Read more...

The Economist

The impact of free trade: Collateral damage

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...

Farming UK

Will Brexit hit Northern Ireland farmers hardest?

Professor Curran said said non-tariff barriers could raise costs for NI farmers by between 2% and 4% and a recent study by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) found that a 2% increase in non-tariff barriers could a... Read more...

The Economist

Fear and favour

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...

Chapelboro.com

Catch criminals with Pokemon go

Silver is Better than Bronze Obviously, an Olympian wants to go for the gold. But, if you don't win the gold, you will probably be happier to win the bronze instead of a silver medal. That's according to the Centr... Read more...

The Mail Online

Why silver is worse than bronze: Study shows Olympians who come second are more upset than those just happy to get on the podium

Olympians who won the silver medal are less happy than their counterparts who achieved bronze according to the results of a new study of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Researchers behind the study argue tha... Read more...

Debuque Telegraph Herald (USA)

Company that listed Dubuque as drunkest city now ranks it among healthiest

... 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...

The Scotsman

Bill Jamieson: Secret report makes you choke on the canapes

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...

Newsweek - Europe

Brexit: The characteristics of areas that voted leave in EU Referendum

Article by Monica Langella and Alan Manning This article reports the result of an exercise in which the vote share for Leave in the 380 areas of England, Wales and Scotland are regressed on a variety of area characteris... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Who voted Leave: the characteristics of individuals mattered, but so did those of local areas

Individual demographics had a huge effect in determining the outcome of the referendum, but the characteristics of local areas mattered as well, explain Monica Langella and Alan Manning. Immigration, the decline in manuf... Read more...

The Daily Mirror

Brexit 'would cost Brits #580 a year as price of food, drink, petrol and clothing rocket'

The heads of three leading economic think-tanks warned of the dire consequences of leaving the EU. The analysis by National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic ... Read more...

Policy Forum.net

Counting the cost of Brexit

The economic impacts of Britain leaving the EU With the referendum fast approaching, Thomas Sampson analyses the economic consequences should Britain vote to leave the European Union. Proponents of Brexit, as leaving ... Read more...

The Daily Mirror

The 6 experts saying Brexit will cost you - and the 1 that disagrees

Numbers are being thrown around by the Vote Leave and Vote Remain campaigns like they're going out of fashion - but what do the experts say and can we trust them? Six out of seven reports predict a Brexit will hurt us ... Read more...

Vox

Nature versus nurture in obesity: New evidence from adoptee data

Article by Joan Costa-i-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Julian Le Grand 02 June 2016 Obesity, particularly in children, is a major health concern in many developed economies, where it presents a costly risk to health ser... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

The science of resilience

Michael Pluess and Richard Layard interviewed about resilience and mental health. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on May 31, 2016 Link to interview here Related links Richard Layard webpage Michael Plue... Read more...

lenabellina blog

That'll do, chimps

The second programme I heard and was inspired by was this week's Radio 4 'All in the Mind'. The key messages here also chimed with much of my own thinking about the purpose of education, the pressures created by asse... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How do `Economists for Brexit' manage to defy the laws of gravity?

The possibility of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) has generated an unusual degree of consensus among economists. Acrimony and rancour surrounded debates around austerity and joining the euro, but analysis from th... Read more...

The Telegraph

Education: Free childcare 'has made no improvement in primary school exam results', research shows

Free nursery care for three year olds has made little or no improvement in primary school exam results, a nine-year study has revealed as academics say the Labour policy has had 'no impact'. ... However, the first and l... Read more...

BBC Radio 4 'All in the Mind' programme

Exams and the mental health of children. A community approach to suicide prevention

As every summer, exams are in the news. We look at whether the pressure to do well in exams is having an effect on children's mental health. We speak to experts from Education, Psychology and Economics who are now work... Read more...

In Facts - Why Britain Should Stay in the EU

Bank of England governor: Brexit could trigger recession

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...

Harvard Business Review

Corporate inequality is the defining fact of business today

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of economic inequality has been the role that firms play in it. It's safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the lat... Read more...

The Economist

The grip tightens

There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics (LSE) - about 30 times the number of new houses London needs a year. But o... Read more...

The Hechinger Report

Will giving greater student access to smartphones improve learning?

Although empirical evidence about the effects of phone access on learning seems to be scarce, the findings of a recent study on student phone access and the achievement gap by Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy for... Read more...

The Economist

London's property woes are getting worse

Poor land-use regulation is the main reason for Londons crazy prices. Two problems stand out. ... There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the Lo... Read more...

The Irish Times

Treasury report says Brexit would cost British families #4,300 a year

Leaving the EU would cause Britain's economy to shrink and tax receipts to plummet, and cost the average household thousands of pounds a year, an official analysis from the UK treasury has warned. The treasury assess... Read more...

Morning Star

Brexit would result in UK GDP hit similar to financial crisis - report

The loss of income per household from reduced trade and lower productivity that would result from the UK voting to leave the European Union could be similar to the decline in UK GDP during the global financial crisis, ac... Read more...

BBC News

EU Referendum ? Reality Check: Would Brexit cost your family #850 a year?

A leaflet being sent out by Britain Stronger in Europe says: ''Jobs at risk, higher prices and your family worse off by at least £850 a year if we leave Europe.'' Is that figure true? The £850 per household ... Read more...

Euro Insight

Op-Ed: Those who champion Brexit should rewind 40 years

Article by Swati Dhingra Like the Out campaigners of the 1970s, Brexit supporters believe EU membership is bad for British workers and the British economy but the data tells another story This article was published onl... Read more...

Obserwator Financsowy (Poland)

Brexit wplynie na brytyjski handel i poziom zycia

Brexit will affect British trade and living standards Article by Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen Smaller turnover in foreign trade in the wake of weaker integration ... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

Proof that good managers really do make a difference

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...

Vox

Regulation is to blame for England's surging house prices

It costs a relatively large amount of money to buy a house in the UK - something readers from the UK will almost certainly agree with. But economists differ over why this is. This column argues that strict planning regul... Read more...

RISE - Research on Improving Systems of Education

New research into developing management tools could aid education reform

A new RISE working paper, describing the development of an expanded survey tool, presents research findings that could be used to help systematically measure management practices in schools in developing countries, and p... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Students' university degree classification affect their pay later in life

There is a wage premium for getting a first or upper second, find Shqiponja Telhaj and colleagues Since the early 1960s, with developments in the field of human capital research, analysis of the returns to education has... Read more...

The Telegraph

David Cameron: only thing that unites eurosceptics is 'inability' to spell out vision for Brexit

David Cameron has mocked eurosceptics for failing to work together as a new report claims each British family pays £200 a year less thanks to the European Union. ... Meanwhile a report produced by the Centre for E... Read more...

Cornell Chronicle

Top-heavy dispersal of wealth linked to lower life evaluations

A research paper by Richard Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh Powdthavee contends that a person's satisfaction drops as the percentage of overall income held by the very rich in a country rises. However, the... Read more...

YouTube.com

RoyalEconomicSociety: The economics of #Brexit - Swati Dhingra - RES 2016

Swati Dhingra of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics talks about the key economics of Brexit. The interview was recorded at the Royal Economic Society annual conference at The University... Read more...

The Guardian

NHS would be put under threat by Brexit, says Jeremy Hunt

Hunt argues that, with the NHS budget already under huge pressure, funding levels can only be maintained if the British economy remains strong. He cites a series of economic surveys, including from the CBI, the London Sc... Read more...

LSE Communications blog

Ten years on, how are universities using twitter to engage with their communities? #LoveTwitter LSE Round-Up

Amy Mollett, Social Media Manager, rounds up how LSE currently uses Twitter for sharing research, interacting with students and alumni, and promoting events. She also looks at what the future of academic social media mig... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy Blog

The question is not whether Brexit will cost the UK in economic terms but how much

For over two years, a research team at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has been studying the likely impact of the UK leaving the European Union. Their latest report focuses on the impact of 'Brexit' through cha... Read more...

RTE News (Ireland)

Brexit would cause 'serious economic shock' - Confederation of British Industry

The CBI also said savings from reduced contributions to the EU's budget and regulation would be greatly outweighed by the negative impact on trade and investment. Last week a report by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...

Bloomberg

'Brexit' May Wipe $9,300 From U.K. Households, CEP Report Says

A British exit from the European Union would wipe as much as 6,400 pounds ($9,300) from average household incomes in the U.K. as trade deals sour, according to research by the London School of Economics. &ldqu... Read more...

The World Bank blog - Development Impact

Weekly links March 18: RandD credits, Indian internal migration, Accra's slums, and more...

Weekly recommendations include: On the LSE Business Review blog, work by Nguyen and Van Reenen using an RDD to show that tax credits increased R&D spending and innovation among SMEs in the UK. The item was published by... Read more...

MIT News

Power play: study shows how more RandD funding can accelerate the world energy revolution

Scholars who have read the paper say it makes a valuable contribution to the field. The model ''is stylized but rich enough, I think, to capture some of the main features of the sector,'' explains John Van Reenan, an eco... Read more...

les affaires

Comment diminuer les risques de depression durant votre retraite?

How to reduce the risk of depression during your retirement? The good news of the day, is that I put a hand on a study that deals with precisely this sensitive topic. Entitled Retirement blues, it is written by Gabriel ... Read more...

Abilities Magazine (online)

Better than the gym

Not exactly, but researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science did find that walkers tend to be thinner than gym-goers. In an analysis of 50,000 people over the age of 13, those who did at least 3... Read more...

Global Finance Online

Global Finance Magazine - Can Boosting Business Productivity Unleash New Gains?

According to studies conducted by John Van Reenen, director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, differences in productivity between other countries and the US c... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Tax relief for Research and Development is a rare example of an innovation policy that actually works

UK business R&D would be 10 percent lower in the absence of tax breaks, write Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John Van Reenen. This article was published by the LSE Business Review blog on March 11, 2016 Link to article here ... Read more...

Health Affairs Blog

The Consequences Of Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual For Health Care Cost Control

Recently, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen released a landmark study on national private health care price variation that was completely at odds with Medicare data on health care spending. T... Read more...

The Daily Campus

Column: Why Brexit would be a mistake

London is not representative of the entire economy of Britain, however; leaving the European Union would cause a large economic shock. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics predicted a 6.3... Read more...

U.S. News and World Report

Arguments and allegations are flying as Britons grapple with how to vote in a June 23 referendum on whether to stay in the European Union or walk away

The London School of Economics' Center for Economic Policy[sic] has calculated that, even if trade barriers with other European countries do not significantly increase, per capita income in Britain will fall by between 1... Read more...

Vox

Life after Brexit: the UK's options outside the EU

Article by Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson In June, UK voters will decide whether to remain part of the EU. This column explores the UK's options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit. One possibility is for the UK, ... Read more...

BBC South East

Inside Out

Paul Cheshire is interviewed about building on the green belt in the South East. The interview was broadcast by BBC South East on the Inside Out programme on February 29, 2016 Link to recorded interview here Related... Read more...

Deutsche Welle TV

News

Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview with Deutsche Welle TV. The topic was the letter issued by various UK business leaders arguing in favour of Britain remaining a member country of the European Union. Dennis discussed ... Read more...

The Guardian

As the rich get richer everyone else gets less happy

Article by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nick Powdthavee Despite growing concern over the economic and social implications of the increasing concentration of wealth among a wealthy elite, we continue to know very little abou... Read more...

The Guardian

Bank's forecasts will be vindicated, like stopped clock is right twice a day

[David] Blanchflower and [Stephen] Machin argue labour market must tighten further before pay growth picks up, something Bank of England consistently fails to acknowledge. This article was published by The Guardian on F... Read more...

Parliamentary Business: Publications and Records

The Government's productivity plan

CEP's Anna Valero written evidence for the Government's Productivity Plan Inquiry contributed to the final report. The Government's heralded 'Productivity Plan' lacks clear, measurable objectives and largely amounts to ... Read more...

Modern Healthcare

Commentary: 'The Price Ain't Right' ain't right

It's not every day that an unpublished academic study rates a front-page story in the New York Times, let alone an additional continuation page replete with graphics, but that was the treatment accorded to the study titl... Read more...

Mail on Sunday

Donald Trump's #700m blowhard: Economist brands billionaire's promise of Scots bonanza a 'fairytale'

Professor Paul Cheshire accused the tycoon of hugely exaggerating the size and benefits of his stake in Scotland and said promises made by him were falling apart at the seams. This article was published by the Mail on ... Read more...

Leicester Mercury

When walking briskly beats a gym workout

... gym membership for some good walking shoes. New research from the London School of Economics and Political ... This article was published by the Leicester Mercury on January 4, 2016 (no link available) Related L... Read more...

Health Affairs Blog

Making sense of price and quantity variations in U.S. health care

A recent study by Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen has documented the remarkable variations across regions and age groups, and within regions, in U.S. health care spending. Previously, the Da... Read more...

USNews Health

Hospital prices vary widely across the United States

The cost of medical care varies widely across the United States, a new study reports. Hospitals negotiate the cost of medical services with insurance companies. And, the new report found that prices at hospitals in monop... Read more...

Western Mail (Cardiff)

These boots were made for walking

...gym membership for some good walking shoes. New research from the London School of Economics and Political ... This article was published by the Western Mail (Cardiff) on December 21, 2015 [No link available.] Re... Read more...

New Yorker

Health Care?s Price Conundrum

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Becker's Hospital Review

Week in review: 10 biggest healthcare stories this week

3. New data shows experts were wrong about where healthcare costs less Researchers analyzed the real prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers and found places that spend less on Medicare do not necessarily spend... Read more...

Nursing Times

Is there a national shortage of nurses? Which specialties are mainly affected?

Article by David Metcalf Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine ... Read more...

Medical Xpress

Researchers find hospital prices vary significantly for the privately insured

A new ''Big Data'' project from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics demonstrates that the prices hospitals negotiate with private ... Read more...

MarketPlace

An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide

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New York Times

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

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Time

Costs of hospital operations can vary wildly by location

The cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research. The... Read more...

HealthNewsDigest.com

Hospital prices show `mind-boggling' variation

Health care is among the largest sectors of the U.S. economy and accounted for more than 17 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014. About 60 percent of the U.S. population has private health insurance, which pay... Read more...

Modern Healthcare

Data suggest hospital consolidation drives higher prices for privately insured

Commercial health plans that cover workplace benefits for millions of Americans pay higher prices to hospitals that have little or no competition, according to a new study that raises questions about how to slow U.S. hea... Read more...

Albany Times Union blog

Study: Hospital costs vary widely nationwide, Capital Region in the middle

Economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics have released a paper that shows vast differences in charges for hospital procedures across the country. Unlike some... Read more...

AEIdeas

New study casts doubt on Obamacare's wisdom of encouraging hospital mergers

Three of the nation's largest insurance companies - Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth - have let researchers have a look at the negotiated prices they pay for services and procedures like C-sections, MRIs and hospital sta... Read more...

Yale News

Hospital prices show `mind-boggling' variation across U.S. driving up health care costs

The prices hospitals negotiate with health insurance companies vary enormously within and across geographic regions in the United States, according to a new study coauthored by a Yale economist. ... ''Virtually everythin... Read more...

The Daily Caller

Study: Less money spent on Medicare doesn't mean cheaper health care

According to the report, titled ''The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured,'' information collected on Medicare has largely impacted the country's health-care policy as data on ... Read more...

Minnesota Star Tribune

Health care in Minnesota not always a bargain, study finds

While many studies have shown that Medicare gets a good deal in Rochester, Duluth and Minneapolis, new work from four economists suggests that private insurers in those cities pay noticeably more for care. This article ... Read more...

Marketplace.org

An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide

Researchers have compiled data on $682 billion worth of claims to look at the truth behind medical costs. This article was published online by Marketplace.org on December 15, 2015 Link to article here Related publi... Read more...

Becker's Hospital CFO

Researchers use hospital prices to show need to 'combat market power'

Hospitals that face fewer competitors have considerably higher prices, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economi... Read more...

The New York Times

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

... But a new study casts doubt on that simple message. The research looked not only at Medicare but also at a huge, new database drawn from private-insurance plans - the sorts used by most Americans for health care. And... Read more...

Yahoo! France

Minceur : la marche vigoureuse meilleure que le sport

L'etude est parue dans la revue Risk Analysis a l'initiative de deux specialistes de l'economie de sante, le Dr Grace Lordan (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) et le Dr Debayan Pakrashi (School of Ec... Read more...

Lincolnshire Echo

Every brisk step counts towards improving your health - so get walking

... your gym membership for some good walking shoes. Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science ... This article was published by the Lincolnshire Echo on December 10, 2015 Also in Newcastle Jo... Read more...

Aftenposten

Bergensere selger kaker som bistand til britisk ungdom

The opportunities for social mobility, that higher education and income than the parents, is less in the United Kingdom than in Norway. Professor Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance in the United Kingdo... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement

Social mobility prospects remain bleak, academic warns

The prospects for improving social mobility for future generations remain bleak, an author of a key social study released a decade ago will warn. Stephen Machin, professor of economics and research director at the Centre... Read more...

BBC News online - Education and Family

Norwegian school funds UK youth charity