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In their robotics focussed study carried out in 2015, Graetz and Michaels concluded that robot densification increased the annual growth of GDP and labour productivity by about 0.37% and 0.36% respectively across 17 coun... Read more...
23 September 2019
New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo. Place-based policies that target disadvantaged areas are widespread in b... Read more...
01 December 2017
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...
10 October 2017
Article by Cletus C. Coughlin and Dennis Novy Borders impede trade, and a major objective of research in international trade has been to identify by how much. This column argues that bilateral trade data can give a misl... Read more...
08 May 2016
A wind farm developer has agreed to stop distributing a booklet which was given to residents in the parish of St Enoder after a complaint was made to the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA). The complaint to ASA argued ... Read more...
02 July 2014
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language ''is known or believed to be other than English'' according to the latest government figures. ... Chinese students are our highest performi... Read more...
01 July 2014
"We owe it to the 44 million people living with dementia across the world to find new treatments for this cruel condition. But with the latest research from the London School of Economics now showing that a treatmen... Read more...
19 June 2014
But globally we desperately need to see new investment flowing into dementia research. ''We know from detailed analysis done by the London School of Economics that there is an impelling case both for economic and social ... Read more...
Professor Martin Knapp, from the London School of Economics, said discovering a treatment to delay the onset of dementia by just 36 months would save the country as much as £5billion a year. Mr Cameron will claim t... Read more...
When the London School of Economics looked at the issues that hold people in long-term unemployment, common mental health difficulties like anxiety and depression were the largest cause. This operates as feedback loop. T... Read more...
13 May 2014
Large windfarms can knock as much as 12 percent off the values of homes within a 2km radius, and reduce property prices as far as 14km away, according to research by the London School of Economics. The findings contrast ... Read more...
08 April 2014