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Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...
30 March 2022
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...
03 October 2019
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...
20 September 2019
In a recent study, Ana Valero and John van Reenen tell us how much the economic benefits of the presence of a university in the region amount to by studying 15 thousand universities located in 1,500 different regions in ... Read more...
26 August 2019
"This plays out over and over, at every scale and within every state," says Muro. And while major coastal metros may attract a higher concentration of elite firms and global talent, midsize cities with universities benef... Read more...
22 August 2019
From Dr Guy Michaels, London School of Economics, UK Joseph Cotterill, in "Aid groups battle to reach cyclone survivors" (March 21), describes the terrible devastation that recent floods have wreaked in Mozambique and n... Read more...
27 March 2019
A new analysis suggests a trajectory and policy recommendations, write Adeline Pelletier, Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin. In the past decade, mobile payment systems (MPS) have rapidly emerged in many developing economies... Read more...
25 March 2019
Research productivity – measured by number of papers produced per head of population – also correlates reasonably strongly with economic development measures. So do enrolment levels in tertiary edu... Read more...
31 May 2018
It is widely known that the Protestant Reformation, which was launched by popular reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century, brought about an abrupt end to the massive and unquestioned p... Read more...
08 May 2018
Relocation is one successful example of public sector jobs boosting private sector activity, write Giulia Faggio, Teresa Schlüter and Philipp vom Berge. In a recent SERC discussion paper, we study t... Read more...
09 April 2018
Findings suggest that a mother’s personality has a big impact on the academic performance of teenagers, regardless of other factors. Academics assessed women’s “internal locus of control&rdqu... Read more...
08 February 2018
Related publications Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329) The Economic Journal Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018 Warn N. Lekf... Read more...
05 February 2018
Snippet: ...he Human Development Index (HDI) devised by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990, and widely used in international development since then. Others, such as the measures of happiness promoted by... Read more...
13 January 2018
In accordance with the theory of skill-biased technological change, many researchers are convinced that automation predominantly threatens low-skilled workers, who are at risk of being substituted for intellig... Read more...
19 December 2017
Guy Michaels roundtable discussion guest. Sitting on a gold mine - but why do some countries rich in precious metals, stones or oil struggle to reap the benefits? An abundance of natural resources can bring... Read more...
07 December 2017
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...
01 December 2017
Other research confirms that the beneficial effect of universities isn't just correlation. A 2015 paper by economist Shimeng Liu found that areas where the U.S. federal government made land grants to unive... Read more...
14 November 2017
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20 October 2017
Another summary is offered in the introduction to this report Bucking the Trend (Jo Blanden, 2006) "A prime motivation behind the Government’s child poverty reduction strategy is the belief that gro... Read more...
12 October 2017
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...
13 August 2017
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...
09 August 2017
On the fifth list that I use for the rankings of the Netherlands increased rankings again though. Dutch were something happier and are now a position higher, at place 6 of the Happiness index of economists Ric... Read more...
07 July 2017
At the G7delle University, which took place recently in Udine, "I talked about the role of universities – concluded sun-in the development of the economic revival of the internal areas, as demonstra... Read more...
06 July 2017
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...
10 June 2017
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...
08 June 2017
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...
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...
06 June 2017
A study on how the relative importance of a place’s suitability for agriculture and trade has changed over time, by Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil Related publications ... Read more...
06 March 2017
Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, Economica, 14 March 2017 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12230 ... Read more...
22 February 2017
Economists point to three factors to explain how population is distributed: geographical characteristics, agglomeration, and history. This column, taken from a new Vox eBook, examines ... Read more...
31 January 2017
Anna Valero, the London School of Economics, and John Van Reenen of MIT assessed exactly how much universities contributed to GDP. A total of 78 countries were examined over six decades, looking... Read more...
18 November 2016
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...
01 November 2016
Must-Read: Anna Valero and John Van Reenen: 'The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe' This article was published online by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on September 22, 2016 Li... Read more...
22 September 2016
Article by Anna Valero In 1900, just 1% of young people in the world were enrolled at university. Over the course of the next century this exploded to 20%, as recognition of the value of such an education became widespr... Read more...
15 September 2016
A recent research paper by Anna Valero and John Van Reenen of the LSE takes a statistical look at universities around the world, asking whether they seem to boost their regional economies. (Examples of a ''region'' inclu... Read more...
31 August 2016
''We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP per capita (and this relationsh... Read more...
23 August 2016
For the past decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and a rotating crew of co-authors (most consistently MIT's John Van Reenen) have been documenting that the management best practices developed at high-performing com... Read more...
22 August 2016
Most of the work on the value of college has focused on whether the return is worth the student's considerable investment. (Thus far, the yeas still have it.) But more and more research lately has asked whether colleges ... Read more...
19 August 2016
Data to calculate Gross National Happiness (GNH) includes asking respondents to measure their perceived quality of life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing the worst and 10 the best possible outcome. The latest r... Read more...
06 August 2016
The Society's Annual Conference was held at the University of Sussex, 21-23 March. This report was prepared by Ferdinando Giugliano, focusing on four fields of economic research: development economics; political economy;... Read more...
01 July 2016
Areas experiencing poor economic performance are often targeted by governments with programmes aimed at improving employment. However, there are concerns that any increases in employment come at the cost of reduced emplo... Read more...
07 April 2016
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...
18 March 2016
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...
15 March 2016
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650 million more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined... Read more...
09 March 2016
In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so many people are hit by devastating floods. We looked at 53 large floods, which affected more than 1,800 cities in 40 countries, from ... Read more...
03 March 2016
Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so... Read more...
01 March 2016
Consider a paper presented at the Summer Session of the National Bureau of Economic Research by Raj Chetty, Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, ''Innovation Policy and the Lifecycle of Inventors.'' (T... Read more...
10 August 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang recently cited job creation as vital to his country's ''ultimate goal of stability in growth''. His observation could not be more accurate. In fact, one of the mos... Read more...
04 June 2015
New research from a group of economists at Harvard, the Treasury Department, and the London School of Economics provides a particularly vivid illustration of how disadvantage can harm the economy at large. The researcher... Read more...
16 March 2015
New report from Inclusive Prosperity Commission, transatlantic group convened by the Center for American Progress, will present policy proposals to promote broadly shared prosperity throughout the United States Washingt... Read more...
15 January 2015
[Richard] Layard and his colleagues at the Wellbeing research program at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance concluded that a child's emotional health is far more important to their satisfacti... Read more...
10 November 2014
Tiger mothers predestine their children to do well at school even before they are born, research has suggested. Babies born to highly competitive women who believe that they have the power to shape their children's prosp... Read more...
19 August 2014
Article by Paul Dolan There are two main sources of evidence that technology is creating distracted mindsets amongst us. The first is from neuroscience: Technology physically alters the way our brains work. The brains ... Read more...
18 August 2014
Babies born to mothers who hold a stronger belief that their fate is in their own hands and not down to luck tend to perform better in their GCSE exams 16 years later. That is the central finding of new research by the C... Read more...
Men det finnes grenser. Professor Richard Layard ved London School of Economics har funnet ut at tilfredshet og lykke stiger dramatisk med okt kjopekraft - inntil man nar en arsinntekt pa rundt 20.000 dollar, eller rundt... Read more...
07 July 2014