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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...

12 March 2018

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...

07 November 2017

CEP Journal Articles
`Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation?, Andrea Ariu and Giordano Mion, The World Economy, Volume 40, Issue 9, September 2017

10.1111/twec.12440   ... Read more...

07 September 2017

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...

25 May 2017

Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network blog
The Layard Report

In December 2016 an electronic version of a new report became available, prior to its imminent publication in book form, by the London School of Economics. Dubbed ‘The Layard Report’ after key... Read more...

23 January 2017

SDPNoticias
Salud y amigos la formula de la felicidad segun la ciencia

Health and friends: the formula of happiness according to science According to researcher Lord Richard Layard, people have not increased their levels of happiness in the past 50 years, while the average inc... Read more...

12 January 2017

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...

10 January 2017

iTECH POST
Millennials' happiness is tied to having close friends at work

A compilation of surveys show that millennial's happiness is closely tied to having close friends at work. Good working relationships seem to make people more productive and satisfied with life. … ... Read more...

10 January 2017

Vox
Childless adults are generally just as happy as parents

And just to be clear, having a kid isn't worse for you than unemployment or losing a spouse, even though that's what the new study found. Nick Powdthavee, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics and the ... Read more...

26 November 2015

EUROPP - European Politics and Policy blog
Why the views of middle class citizens help explain increased choice in European healthcare systems

Article by Joan Costa-i-Font and Valentina Zigante Several countries across Europe have attempted to reform their health systems by allowing patients more choice over their healthcare provider. The typical rationale for... Read more...

21 November 2014

VOX
Can giving taxpayers a voice increase tax compliance?

Article by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Cait Lamberton and Michael Norton Non-compliance with tax costs governments billions, in part because people really don't like paying taxes. This column reports two experiments designed ... Read more...

30 May 2014