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Inside Housing

A 'default yes' near stations is welcome, but let's take it further

A presumption is favour of development is a good thing, but the government should be more targeted in where it encourages growth, write Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka. ... Read more...

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

David Metcalf (1942-2026)

With great sadness we have learnt that our good friend and colleague David Metcalf has passed away. Together with Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell, David set up the Centre for Labour Economics, which became the Centre ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

Only creative destruction will boost European competitiveness

Philippe Aghion writes about how major geopolitical developments have forced Europeans to rethink how they will ensure their own prosperity, security and sovereignty. Arguing that policymakers must not take innovation fo... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero appointed as Industrial Strategy adviser

Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at LSE and director of CEP's growth programme, who has been appointed as industrial strategy adviser to the chancellor. Dr Valero, a growth and productivity ex... Read more...

BBC One

Panorama: The race to build 1.5 million homes

Paul Cheshire features in this investigation into the UK's housing crisis and whether the government's promise to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 can be met. ... Read more...

New York Times

Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.    ... Read more...

The Guardian

Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth

Joel Mokyr has warned of ‘dark clouds’ amid Trump tariffs, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have written about role of ‘creative destruction’. ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economics Nobel Prize awarded for explaining innovation-driven growth

The 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Agion and Peter Howitt for their efforts in explaining how innovation impacts economic growth.  ... 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...

CEP Announcement

Dennis Novy begins role as chief economist at the Foreign Office

Congratulations to Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick and research associate in CEP's trade programme, who has been appointed as chief economist and director of analysis at the Foreign, Comm... 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

Antonin Bergeaud named Best Young Economist of France, 2025

Congratulations to Dr Antonin Bergeaud who has been named the Best Young French Economist, 2025 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des Économists. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of 41 in recognit... 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...

The Economist

Britain?s government may be about to waste its best chance of success

Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber comment on proposed changes to the planning system in Britain, arguing the government has shied away from the reform that is needed. ... Read more...

WonkHE

Higher education should lift students out of poverty ? not trap them within it

Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...

The Guardian

'He's one of the best': The economist shaping Rachel Reeves's growth plans

John Van Reenen has spent his professional lifetime probing the weak spots of the UK economy. Now he is based in an office next to Reeves's at the Treasury, with his three fellow advisers. One Labour source says they str... Read more...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman appointed to Industrial Strategy Advisory Council

Henry Overman OBE, professor of economic geography at LSE and CEP research director, has been appointed to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, it was announced today. Professor Overman is one of 16 members of the ... 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...

Financial Times

Policies must be justified by their wellbeing-to-cost ratio

Richard Layard writes that Labour must apply the wellbeing-to-cost test to every departmental proposal in the spending review. ... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Academic research has `bigger role to play in new UK government?

Academics have an opportunity to exert more influence in policymaking with demand for robust evidence on the rise, according to Richard Layard, co-author of a report that seeks a "radical change in the government's spend... 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...

The Telegraph

Force workers to retire later to reduce misery, Reeves urged

Forcing workers to retire later would free up funding for policing and mental health services and "reduce misery" in Britain, a report co-authored by Richard Layard and published by the London School of Economics has sai... 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...

Time

To fight inequality, America needs to rethink its economic model

Daniel Chandler writes that to address the vast inequalities in the United States, a fundamental rethink of economic institutions and the values that guide them is needed. ... 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 Telegraph

Britons are happier than Germans for the first time in seven years

The World Happiness Report 2024 reveals that those in the UK feel they have a greater sense of freedom than Germans and believe there is less corruption in the country. When looking at age demographics, the largest gap b... Read more...

The Guardian

World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

The 2024 World Happiness Report found that lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z's traditionally positive outlook. Richard Layard, one of the  report's authors, is clear that more effort is... Read more...

The Observer

It?s not the economy, stupid: wellbeing is the real vote-winner

Richard Layard discusses why happiness should be the fundamental goal of government and how policy can be shaped to prioritise people's wellbeing.  ... Read more...

New Statesman

Labour's "good jobs" agenda could be transformative

Daniel Chandler discusses how the Labour party can develop a "good jobs" policy where work would provide dignity and respect for everyone, and be a key source of people’s meaning and wellbeing.  ... Read more...

Futurum

How can economists combat crime?

How can economists help police forces to better assign their police officers onto the streets, thereby providing a better service to the public? In the Policing and Crime Research Group at the London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Guardian

Labour should make UK leader in wellbeing-informed policy, says peer

A Labour government should make the UK the world's first country to make policy based on its impact on wellbeing as well as the economy, says Richard Layard.  ... Read more...

New Statesman

Why don?t politicians care about happiness? With Richard Layard and Armando Iannucci

In this episode of Westminster Reimagined, Richard Layard discusses how it is possible to measure individual wellbeing and why it is so important for the government to place happiness at the heart of its policymaking.&nb... Read more...

Financial Times

Rationing access to apprenticeships is increasing the UK's skills deficit

Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...

Freakonomics

How to succeed at failing, part 2: life and death

In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. On this episode of Freakonomics, John Van Reenen, Amy Edmondson, Carole Hemmelgarn, Gary Klein and Robert Langer shar... Read more...

The Hill

Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.

Working from home keeps employees happy, reduces pollution by cutting billions of commuting miles and supports millions of employees with care and disability challenges in work. Nick Bloom reviews the existing data on wo... Read more...

New Statesman

Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university

Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university. Richard Layard argues that the party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships. ... Read more...

iNews

How the UK's housing system compares to the rest of the world - from renting to house prices

CEP researchers Christian Hilber and Paul Cheshire compare the decline in the UK's home ownership rate, from 70 per cent in 2004 to 64 per cent in recent years, to other countries around the world - UK house prices have ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? makes the FT's summer reading list

Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? has been chosen as one of the best reads on economics for this summer by the Financial Times. The book by Daniel Chandler is described by the paper’s chief econ... Read more...

Bloomberg

Brexit Caused a Third of UK Food Price Inflation, LSE Paper Says

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance show that Brexit is responsible for a third of UK food price inflation since 2019 - regulatory, sanitary and other border checks added almost £7 billion to total... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households #7bn, report finds

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance, from the London School of Economics, estimate that extra barriers on EU food imports have pushed up bills by £250 on average since Brexit.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Anna Valero joins the chancellor's economic advisory council

Anna Valero has been appointed to the chancellor’s economic advisory council, it was announced today. The council provides independent, expert advice on economic policy to help grow the economy. Dr Valero, senior... Read more...

Financial Times

Make wellbeing central to public policy

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

Financial Times

How London's property market became an inheritocracy

Without inherited wealth or a leg-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, prospective first-time buyers are forced to abandon dreams of home ownership. Paul Cheshire describes the state of affairs for first-time buyers in Londo... Read more...

The Economist

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

The Economist covers Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Hans-Joachim Voth's work on Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution in this article, reporting on the causes of the Industrial Revolution.  ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Professor Richard Layard named as Clarivate Citation Laureate 2022

Professor Richard Layard has been honoured for his “pioneering contributions to the economics of happiness and subjective wellbeing” by information company Clarivate. Professor Lord Layard, co-director of th... Read more...

The Guardian

Not just about the money: pioneering study reveals best and worst jobs in UK

"Full earnings" account for wellbeing as well as financial reward. When wellbeing is factored into the equation, women and workers from ethnic minorities tend to be most vulnerable to the widening income inequality in th... Read more...

Prospect Magazine

The British economy is headed for a perfect storm

The UK has spent years in hock to a failed economic orthodoxy. Now the consequences are coming to a head—all at the same time, Will Hutton writes.  ... Read more...

Independent

Shoppers face #454 increase in annual grocery bill as food inflation soars

Economists from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance found that the UK’s departure from the EU caused a 6 per cent increase in British food prices. ... 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...

The Guardian

Brexit 'dragging down growth and costing hundreds a year in pay'

Britain's cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the country's growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, say researchers. The Resolution Foundation thinktank a... Read more...

The Times

Brexit hitting production and wages, warns Resolution Foundation

Britain’s departure from the EU has damaged its competitiveness and will cut productivity and wages over the next ten years. Instead of the expected effect of narrowly reducing exports to the EU, Brexit has “... Read more...

The Economist

How to unleash more investment in intangible assets

Restarting the Future, a new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, presents the idea that intangible assets, though hard to see and measure, are critically important to foster. ... 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...

The Guardian

Immigration and vocational training: UK evidence

Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...

NPR

Who eats the cost of higher food prices?

Xavier Jaravel explains some of the basic concepts around inflation. ... 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...

Science Focus

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be

All humans want a little of the good life, but Paul Dolan asks whether the sole pursuit of happiness is actually making us a society of sad, selfish and solitary creatures? ... Read more...

The Guardian

Finland named world?s happiest country for fifth year running

Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... 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...

MIT Sloan

Want better forecasts? Start with better management

John Van Reenen shows that well-managed firms make better forecasts - and the traits of those well-managed companies might come as a surprise. ... Read more...

The Economist

The Power of Creative Destruction makes the The Economist?s best books list

The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...

ITV News

Half of all businesses struggling to recruit new staff, survey finds

About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...

The Economist

Britain?s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging

Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...

Financial Times

UK?s levelling-up agenda won?t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... Read more...

Financial Times

UK?s levelling-up agenda won?t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... 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...

BBC

In need of modernisation? The UK?s housing crisis close up

Paul Cheshire speaks on some of the wider problems of the UK housing market. ... Read more...

Wharton Research Data Services

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper awarded to John Van Reenen

A Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper award has been given to John Van Reenen, director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and his co-authors Sabrina T. Howell, of New York Unive... Read more...

The Observer

A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure

A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...

Bloomberg

Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...

The Telegraph

Scarred by Covid: As infections subside, India now faces a difficult road to recovery

Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... 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...

Financial Times

The 2020s are set to be a decisive economic decade for the UK

The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...

The Telegraph

Replace stamp duty with tax raid on southern property wealth, Sunak told

An new annual property tax on the value of each home, proposed by economists Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, would be fairer than current system, according to a new report by think tank Bright Bl... Read more...

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a `decisive decade? of change

The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...

The Telegraph

London risks house price crunch as Covid boom ends

House prices could fall when the stamp duty holiday comes to a close. London is particularly vulnerable because the price of houses rose particularly sharply over 2020, while the population of the capital... Read more...

Financial Times

Detached homes close to central London enjoy biggest price rises

LSE study says there has been little exodus to rural areas in past year but buyers have sought space, with detached houses close to the centre of London seeing the biggest price increases over the past year. ... Read more...

Freakonomics

Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?

Ferdinand Rauch explains how temporary events, such as the London Tube strikes and recent pandemic restrictions, can lead to positive long-term change - a fresh start - on Stephen Dubner's Freakonomic... Read more...

The Conversation

Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way to help workers and preserve FDR?s legacy

In light of the Biden adminstration's Covid-19 Relief Bill, Felix Koenig analysis the historical impact of minum wage bills on jobs and wages. ... Read more...

Quartz

How much more stimulus will the UK economy need?

A report by Nicolás González-Pampillón, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Katharina Ziegler shows that footfall in restaurants increased by 5-6% during the UK government's Eat Out to Help O... Read more...

Forbes

Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report by Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura shows that jo... Read more...

Bloomberg

`Tough? Isn?t the China Question Biden Has to Answer on Trade

In a recent working paper, Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi calculate the higher cost of imported inputs caused by those tariffs leveled at China caused the U.S. economy to create ... Read more...

The Times

Pandemic turns up pace of workplace innovation

Research by Capucine Riom and Anna Valero finds the Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to adopt new technologies and ways of working that will increase the breadth of economic productivity. ... Read more...

The Times

Why your weekly shop costs a lot more than you think

Study by LSE's Richard Davies finds price volatility during the Covid-19 pandemic has been higher than in any comparable period since 1991. ... Read more...

BBC

Firms at risk: 'We are worried about how we can survive'

More than 900,000 small businesses are at risk of going under, according to research from Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen, and backed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ... Read more...

The Independent

Around 900,000 small firms at risk in `cruel spring of bankruptcy? if Covid help stopped, Rishi Sunak warned

Research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warns around 900,000 small firms – employing 2.5 million workers – are at risk of going bust if Covid-19 rescue schemes are wound up. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Gordon Brown calls for urgent budget help as 1 in 7 UK firms face collapse

Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next thre... Read more...

The Times

Build back wellbeing and you will truly level everyone up

Richard Layard and Gus O’Donnell write about the need for policy makers to aim for the wellbeing of the people, now and to come – focusing more on what matters to people, their mental and physical ... 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 Guardian

What happens if the UK and EU fail to agree a Brexit deal?

A report by the Centre for Economic Performance found that seven in 10 firms “expect a no-deal Brexit to negatively impact their business”, adding that the consequences of no deal are "se... 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 Express

GENERATION COVID: Britain's under-25s will never recover from this

COVID-19 was the great equaliser, it was claimed during the early days of the pandemic. Lee Elliot Major explains that the virus didn't care whether you were rich or poor. We were all in it together. ... Read more...

British Medical Journal

Taking a wellbeing-years approach to policy choice

Every day, policy makers have to decide whether a policy is desirable by examining its impact on a whole range of outcomes. But the problem is how to aggregate these disparate outcomes. Richard Layard et al&nb... Read more...

Economics Observatory

Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus?

Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity – but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the big city revival of recent years? Much will depend o... Read more...

ISQOLS

Richard Layard wins Distinguished Researcher award

Richard Layard wins the ISQOLS Distinguished Quality-of-Life Professor Lord Richard Layard has been given the 2020 award for his substantial contribution to wellbeing research.  ... Read more...

VoxEU

Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1%

Top incomes have grown rapidly in recent decades and this growth has sparked a debate about rising inequality in Western societies. Felix Koenig et al investigate whether migration can account for the maj... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers - Alan Manning writes about how monopsony lowers worker mobility and wages, in this new blog article at LSE. ... 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...

The Telegraph

The future of skyscrapers: a mile high, slimmer than ever and made from wood

Paul Cheshire, associate of the CEP, talks about how planning rules shape London and why big-name trophy architects are used so often, in this piece about the future of skyscrapers. ... 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 Guardian

End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home

The assumption has been that remote workers slack without direct supervision. But do they? Economist Nick Bloom staged a trial – the first of its kind – involving 250 members of a Ctrip call cen... Read more...

BBC Two

Newsnight

Interview with Swati Dhingra - industries that have weathered Covid could be hit by Brexit. ... Read more...

World Politics Review

To Save the Economy From COVID-19, Protect Informal Workers

In India, the pandemic reportedly tripled the unemployment rate in just three weeks, and the vast majority of those newly unemployed worked were in the informal sector. The government respo... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Covid-19

Home is not a safe place for everyone: domestic abuse between partners increased during lockdown

What has happened to the prevalence and nature of domestic abuse during lockdown? Crime economists Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier collaborated with the Strategic Insights Unit (SIU)... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Richard Layard | How a job guarantee scheme can avoid the slide into long-term unemployment

Even if COVID-19 infection rates dwindle, it is now clear that the economy is unlikely to bounce back quickly. This raises the spectre of long-term unemployment. Richard Layard (LSE) explains how the... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

How will Covid-19 shape the future economic role of the British state?

With our sizeable state and private sector, the question is more whether the state will be a bit bigger or a bit smaller, writes Alan Manning. ... Read more...

Blogs: USAPP Amercian Poltics & Policy blog

When economic informality is high, cash transfers may be the best Covid response

Countries with existing cash-transfer programs can immediately broaden eligibility and increase the size of the benefit. India is doing just that, according to LSE Professor Swati Dhingra. Given the scale of t... 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...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Building back better: policies for a strong and sustainable recovery

There's an opportunity to build a new social contract, tackle inequality, foster innovation and adopt a long-term industrial strategy, write Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero. ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Letter: Extending jobs scheme to the young will deliver for taxpayers

The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has now implemented two-thirds of the reform programme outlined by Richard Layard (“How to save pandemic survivors from the scourge of unemployment”, Opinion, May 9)... Read more...

Blogs: LSE British Politics and Policy

COVID-19 and housing: while prices may fall, homes will remain unaffordable

Discussing the potential effects of COVID-19 on housing, Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber write that real house prices and rents may initially fall. Yet housing will remain unaffordable f... Read more...

Independent

A former head of the civil service has warned that Boris Johnson?s ?levelling up? agenda is in danger of becoming a casualty of the coronavirus recession.

Speaking to Econ Films’ CoronaNomics show Lord Gus O’Donnell said he feared the impact of the lockdown was undermining the Prime Minister’s ambitions of reducing income and regional... Read more...

Hindustan Times

It?s time to refresh old ideas like universal job guarantee

Even in more advanced countries, national statistics have proved inadequate in recording informal workers outside the organised sector, especially the new breed of self-employed and temporary workers in cities... 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...

Daily Mail

Ease lockdown from JUNE: Ex-top civil servant Gus O'Donnell says ministers should use 'wellbeing' analysis to allow a Sweden-style 'phased' easing of the coronavirus restrictions by balancing quality of life against the death toll

Former top civil servant Gus O'Donnell urges ministers to use 'wellbeing' analysis to allow a Sweden-style 'phased' easing of the coronavirus lockdown by balancing quality of life against t... Read more...

The Times

Focusing on wellbeing can steer us out of lockdown

Lord Gus O'Donnell writes about new research led by Richard Layard. The paper When to release the lockdown sets out a wellbeing-based framework to analyse the cost and benefits of lifting lockdown restrict... Read more...

Relevant research: Wellbeing

When to release the lockdown: A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits

This report sets out a framework which brings together economic, health, and social factors through a ‘common currency’ of wellbeing measurement, as a way of informing a decision on when to lift lo... Read more...

Blogs: CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

COVID-19: Crashing the Economy so what will it do for the Housing Market?

To speculate usefully about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Britain’s housing markets one needs a clear analytical understanding of how our housing markets work and what forces cause them to chan... Read more...

Relevant research: Wellbeing

Happiness at work

This study on wellbeing finds that there is a large initial shock to becoming unemployed, and then as people stay unemployed over time their levels of life satisfaction remain low. Published 2017. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Trade

The upside of London Tube strikes

Research showing that when people are forced to change their behaviour, some find a better way of doing things. Published 2015. ... 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...

Relevant research: Communities

Comparing conventional and machine-learning approaches to risk assessment in domestic abuse cases

Published February 2020, this paper finds evidence that the use of machine-learning can be an effective tool in assessing risk in domestic abuse cases, and so informing priorities for police response. ... 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...

The Telegraph

Young and poor hit first as coronavirus ravages the economy

Older workers are more likely to be relatively secure with salaries and jobs which can be done from home during the lockdown. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Covid-19: We shouldn?t give priority to sustaining the GDP over the wellbeing of the people

If we handle the coronavirus crisis right, we can come out of it better than we went into it, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...

Blogs: The Conversation

Coronavirus lays bare the trauma of losing your job

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve considers the economic impact of Covid-19, and it's effects on work and wellbeing. ... Read more...

Blogs: Vox

Working from home can make people more productive. Just not during a pandemic.

Remote work works best if it’s by choice and not every day. Many people are being forced to work from home for the first time during the coronavirus outbreak. That could have negative impacts on our... 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...

TES

Should schools teach students how to be happy?

Teachers are supposed to focus on their pupils' grades, but should their priority be to make students' feel good? Richard Layard tells the TES why these goals are not mutually exclusive.... Read more...

Financial Times

Can We Be Happier? ? yes, but it?s not about wealth or GDP

Richard Layard's manifesto for wellbeing is reviewed in the Financial Times. ... Read more...

The Economist

How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy

Special report: includes research findings from CEP researchers Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber [paywall] INREV THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF HELP TO BUY* Felipe Carozzi London School of Economics & Centre for Economic Pe... Read more...

BBC

News at Six

Academics at Oxford University and the London School of Economics have been carrying out controlled trials aimed at raising mental well-being among adults. The course run by volunteers from the charity Action for Happine... Read more...

Guardian

Interview - Richard Layard: `It's in politicians' self-interest to make policies for happiness?

The economist on the science of happiness - and how it can help us rethink the world. ... Read more...

Observer

How to make the world happier ? and why it should be our first priority

In this extract from his new book, Richard Layard argues for wellbeing as a political goal as well as a personal one. ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Understanding the Lebanese financial crisis

A guest post by Fadi Hassan, a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Ugo Panizza, a professor of economics and the Pitchet chair in finance and development at the... Read more...

Financial Times

The myth of crowding out

Yet, as it turns out, this economic theory might not hold. A new working paper by Enrico Moretti, John Van Reenen, , Claudia Steinwender, from the economics departments of the University of California, Berkeley and MIT,... 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...

Office for National Statistics

ONS Research Excellence Awards 2019 - People's Choice Award to Dr Swati Dhingra

Congratulations to Dr Swati Dhingra, associate professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has won the People's Choice Award at the ONS research excellence awards 2019. The ONS's research excell... Read more...

Press Release

The gig economy; management; inequality; later life outcomes

New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Autumn 2019 CentrePiece magazine. As CEP approaches its thirtieth birthday in 202... Read more...

The Times (London)

Second-home ban 'has priced out locals'

The study by the London School of Economics argued that the ban had damaged the local construction and tourism industries. It was claimed that it had caused the pool of available homes to shrink as housebuilders walked a... Read more...

Metro (UK)

Locals pay the price for ban on second homes in St Ives

But their ban has backfired, according to a report by the London School of Economics. The developers have simply walked away, causing the number of new homes being built to shrink and for prices to soar. And ... 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...

Falmouth Packet

Second homes ban in St Ives, Cornwall backfires according to new study

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Cornwall Live

St Ives second homes ban backfired new study claims

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The Telegraph

St Ives second home ban backfires as construction companies leave and house prices rise, LSE study finds

However, Professor Christian Hilber believes the ban could increase the "ghost town effect" as it inadvertently reduced the number of available homes due to building companies finding new work in surrounding areas. The ... Read more...

Research Professional

Swings and silicon roundabouts

Max Nathan is an associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London's technology ecosystem is thriving. The city has more than 50,000 tech firms, with over 260,000 employe... Read more...

The Hill

Running out of excuses for high inequality

If that isn't compelling enough, here is some evidence. In a recent article, Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John van Reenan found that higher taxes on the wealthy would not cause a reduction i... Read more...

Guardian

How successful was Britain?s plan for its own Silicon Valley?

Every city wants a cluster, a concentration of high-productivity firms and workers beavering away in a particular industry in a particular place. Proximity means ideas and productivity growing and spreading. Who doesn't ... Read more...

Leverhulme Trust

2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners

Congratulations to Benjamin Moll and Xavier Jaravel, who are both winners of this year's Philip Leverhulme Prizes.... Read more...

The Guardian

Without the Beeching report there might not have been Brexit

Even now, 56 years after its release, you don't need to be a transport buff to know about the Beeching report. Following its publication in March 1963, hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track were axed. The ... 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...

LSE Business Review

Measuring the effect of innovation on productivity inside firms

A new data set helps address the lack of innovation data able to capture firms' internal mechanisms and behaviours, write Max Nathan and Anna Cecilia Rosso. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

New dawn fades: The post-referendum rise in import costs has hurt UK workers

Some commentators argue that globalisation is systematically connected to the real-wage and productivity stagnation seen across the developed world. This column analyses the relationship between international trade and w... 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...

CNN.com

Being happier will help you live longer, so learn how to be happier

Lord Richard Layard, one of Britain's most prominent economists and the author of several books on happiness, also believes that to make ourselves happy we should focus on the well-being of others. "A society cannot flo... Read more...

C-Span

US Congress - Video Clip Of Race and Gender-Based Wealth Gaps [02:40]

Lisa Cook, Michigan State University Economics Professor references Opportunity Insights' Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Pet... 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...

EXPRESS (Online)

Piers Morgan takes swipe at Remainers' project fear after Britain sees investment boom

Another, Swati Dhingra, lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics, said that since the EU referendum, "the number of foreign investments and expansions… are showing disconcerting reductions."... Read more...

The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Build 1,000 'commuter villages' on green belt, ministers urged

Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has propose... 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...

BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4

Richard Davis talks about his new book, Extreme Economies. ... 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...

Financial Times

Martin Wolf: why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy

Work by the OECD and Oxford Martin School also notes widening gaps in productivity and profit mark-ups between the leading businesses and the rest. This suggests weakening competition and rising monopoly rent. Moreover, ... 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...

Spravy RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia)

Interview with Dennis Novy

On Brexit and the potential future trading options for the UK and the EU27. This interview was part of a larger piece for the 6 o'clock news programme. ... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Glasgow's voyage from riches to ruin is a lesson for all

To find the world's most extreme economies you generally have to travel far from the beaten track. There is one exception to this rule, a city closer to home that was described best by Sean Connery in The Bowler and the ... Read more...

WeForum

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

VOXEU

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

WTO

WTO announces winners of 2019 Essay Award for Young Economists

The winners of the 2019 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists are Jan Bakker of Oxford University and Federico Huneeus of Princeton University, who were ranked in equal first place by the Selection Panel. They will share ... Read more...

The Conversation

A no-deal Brexit won?t end the uncertainty for business

A no-deal Brexit means that Britain will revert to WTO rules to trade with the EU and the rest of the world. This means import duties and various controls on trade, which economists at LSE's Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...

China Times

Chinese editorial, Hong Kong, Taiwan, are you happy?

The national survey on happiness index is a late development, because social economists have found that although the economies of various countries will grow more or less, the happiness of the people has not continued to... 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...

Metro Online

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...

The Guardian

From pecan pralines to `dots? as currency: how the prison economy works

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Marketnews.com

MNI INTERVIEW: BOE Likely Understating Impact Of Sterling Fall

LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England risks substantially underestimating the upward inflationary pressure from sterling's depreciation due its practice of using trade weights to assess the impact of currency movements, a s... Read more...

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, August 26?30, 2019

Those who are already doing well in world labor markets are able to benefit - or at least to lose less-from disruption. It is those who are not doing so well who find their inferiority of position amplified by occupation... Read more...

El Sol de Cualtla

La Universidad como motor de la economia / The University as an engine of the economy

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...

La Republica

Guerra comercial esta llevando a algunas empresas a reducir inversiones", The Economist / Trade war is leading some companies to reduce investments, The Economist

The high level of uncertainty is measurable. A 2016 study by Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago, quantified political uncertainty in t... 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...

U.S News.com

Urban Growth and Ivory Towers

"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...

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...

LSE Business Review

Trade with China benefited US consumers

A large increase in US consumers' purchasing power compensated for trade-related job losses, write <b?Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager. This blog post appeared first on the LSE USA blog. It's based on 'What are the Pric... Read more...

Forbes

What Happens When Your Skills Are No Longer In Demand?

A recent study from the London School of Economics highlights the challenge for those people whose skills become less in demand as a result of economic or technological disruption. They analyze the lifetime earnings of S... Read more...

British Politics and Policy at LSE (blog)

Residential mobility in the UK: how distance and local economic conditions drive residential choices

Monica Langella and Alan Manning find that high unemployment in an area induces people to move away, and has an even stronger effect on the attractiveness of that area to potential movers. They also find that younger and... 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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Forbes

How To Generate More Innovation In America

A recent article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen, and Heidi Williams examines the productivity slowdown and innovation policy. They note that in 2015 the United States spent the... Read more...

LSE US Centre

Despite job losses, lower prices from trade with China have left US households massively better off

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, exports to the US market surged. In new research Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager find that the rise of lower priced Chinese imports also helped to reduce prices of U... Read more...

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...

Bloomberg

Great Ideas Are Growing Scarce. That's Not So Great.

Economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams have a new paper outlining possible ways to make that happen. They conclude that there are three policies that are fairly effective at spurring economically b... Read more...

What Works Well (blog)

Will that Lamborghini make me happy?

To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree... Read more...

Conversable Economist

Innovation Policy: Federal Support for R&D Falls as its Importance Rises

Of course, the relationship between R&D spending and broader technological progress is complicated. Translating research discoveries into goods and services isn't a simple or mechanical process. Other important elements ... Read more...

Open Access Government

'Remainers' suffered mental distress equivalent to migraine after Brexit vote

The research by Nick Powdthavee, of Warwick Business School, Anke Plagnol, of City University London, Andrew Clark, of Paris School of Economics, and Paul Frijters, of the London School of Economics, also found that repo... 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...

Financial Times

What is the effect of the falling pound on Brexit Britain?

"But all UK households lose from a depreciation that pushes up the cost of imported goods, raising prices in the shops and eroding the real value of their earnings and savings. Research published by the London School of ... Read more...

Patria.cz

Datta: Za bezne zamestnani se vzdame az 50% mzdy / Datta: We give up up to 50% of wages for regular employment

In many economies, the popularity of 'atypical employment relationships' is increasing. More and more people are using free time jobs, working on their own, making money through shared services. Economist Nikhil Datta pr... Read more...

World Finance

Why GDP is no longer the most effective measure of economic success

Lord Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, has been a pioneer in this area, and believes the government should prioritise policies that boost happiness over growth. His research has gone on to in... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Most trade in services happens between cities rather than countries

Facilitating trade in services, particularly knowledge-intensive ones, requires strong global cities as trade hubs, write Saul Estrin and Daniel Shapiro.... Read more...

Forbes Mexico

Bored?, let's look for job happiness

Beyond the fact that each one of us has to look for a concordance between the vocation and the labor field, employers can do a lot to achieve this goal. According to Lord Richard Layard, the elements that integrate work ... Read more...

FTAdvisor.com

Govt dismisses calls for stamp duty reform

Both Christian Hilber, professor of economic geography at LSE, and Rory Meakin, research fellow at the TaxPayers' Alliance, thought stamp duty hindered some from downsizing and meant larger family homes were generally un... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Workers respond to local job losses by migrating and changing the commute

New UK evidence may lend support to heavier investment in transport infrastructure that facilitates longer-distance commuting, write Michael Amior and Alan Manning.... Read more...

Sanfrancesco.it

Non solo ricchezza, la felicita arriva aiutando il prossimo / Not only wealth, happiness comes by helping others

To explain clearly why there are two powerful reports of global happiness this year: the World Happiness Report 2019, edited by John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia), Richard Layard (London School of Economi... Read more...

Secolo d?italia

Benessere e azionariato dei lavoratori, avanza un nuovo ?modello?? / Welfare and employee ownership, is there a new "model" advancing?

The study conducted by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve tries to shed light on the relationship between well-being and company performance. ... 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...

The Times

Ban on second homes backfires in Cornwall

A study at the London School of Economics has found that such bans damage local construction and tourism industries. At the same time, outsiders, who are banned from new-build homes, flood the market for older places, pu... Read more...

Naked Capitalism

Willing to Pay for Security: Gig Workers, Freelancers, and the Self-Employed Want Steady Jobs

By Nikhil Datta, PhD candidate, UCL, and Research Assistant, CEP, LSE. Originally published at VoxEU Is the rise of 'atypical' work arrangements - such as self-employment, freelancing, gig work and zero-hour contracts -... 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...

VoxEU

Willing to pay for security; Gig workers, freelancers, and the self-employed want steady jobs

Nikhil Datta Is the rise of 'atypical' work arrangements - such as self-employment, freelancing, gig work and zero-hour contracts - a result of workers wanting such jobs or because they have no other choice? This column... 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...

What Works Wellbeing (blog)

HOW WELLBEING IMPACTS BUSINESS, AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RETAIL, MANUFACTURING, FINANCE, AND SERVICES

This week's guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford Unive... Read more...

City A.M.

Elitist Britain: how can we make business more meritocratic?

Role models matter for innovation too. Research from economists Raj Chetty and John Van Reenen studied the lives of over a million inventors in the US. Using a database that linked patent records to local tax and school ... Read more...

LSE US Centre

Workers would give up half their hourly wages in exchange for a steady job

Freelancers, gig workers and the self-employed like flexibility, but they would much prefer job security, writes Nikhil Datta.... Read more...

VideoVox

The Rise of Superstar Firms

John Van Reenen, MIT, discusses work he has done on how 'superstar firms' such as Google and Apple have changed the global economy. The superstars, although big, employ relatively few workers and this has contributed to ... Read more...

LSE US Centre

Workers would give up half their hourly wages in exchange for a steady job

Freelancers, gig workers and the self-employed like flexibility, but they would much prefer job security, writes Nikhil Datta.... 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...

Forbes

New Zealand Ditches GDP For Happiness And Wellbeing

Described as a "game-changing event" by London School of Economics Dr. Richard Layard, New Zealand's budget has set a new standard for progressive policy "no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being ... Read more...

Bangkok Post

Bridging disparity still an elusive goal

It has become increasingly evident that disparity is linked to life dissatisfaction as discussed in the book The Origins of Happiness by Andrew E Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Pawdthavee, and George Ward... Read more...

Mail Tribune

The societal benefits of raising the minimum wage

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Washington Post

It's not just paychecks: The surprising society-wide benefits of raising the minimum wage

In the most definitive study to date, published this year in the top-rated Quarterly Journal of Economics, economists Doruk Cengiz and Dube as well as Attila Lindner of University College London and EPI's Zipperer evalua... Read more...

BBC Online

Lockington Crescent: 'We camped in our cars to buy a house'

Properties on the Lockington Crescent estate were on the market for between £4,500 and £7,000 - considerably cheaper than in London, where homes were up to 30% more expensive, according to economic historian ... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

Should nationality figure into eurozone leadership choices?

Nicholas Bloom of Stanford made an analogy with a quite different arena: "Barcelona does not pick its team based on being born in Barcelona—if it did it would not win anything. The ECB should also pick the best." So to... Read more...

LSE IN PARLIAMENT

Lord Layard contributes to Lords debate on Apprenticeships and refers to LSE research findings on the economics of T-levels

According to LSE research (from the Centre for Vocational Educational Research) apprentices are earning 20% more than the people who take the full-time college route, Lord Layard said in his contribution to the debate ar... Read more...

Helsinki Times

Gig workers, freelancers and the self-employed want steady jobs: New CEP research

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Workplace Insight

Gig economy and freelance workers would prefer secure work

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Helsinki Times

Gig workers, freelancers and the self-employed want steady jobs: New CEP research

... and the author of the new research paper, Nikhil Datta. "They value these, and other aspects of job security like sick leave and paid holiday, ... ... Read more...

Pretoria News (SA) (Newspaper)

Survey reveals gig economy a necessity

GIG ECONOMY work is a necessity rather than a choice, and those reliant on it would be willing to earn less in exchange for more job security, according to a study of workers in the UK and the US. The report by the Londo... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

Gig Economy Workers Would Prefer Security Over Higher Earnings, Study Finds

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LSE Business Review

Workers would give up half their hourly wages in exchange for a steady job

Freelancers, gig workers and the self-employed like flexibility, but they would much prefer job security, writes Nikhil Datta... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

Gig Economy Workers Would Prefer Security Over Higher Earnings, Study Finds

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Staffing Industry Analysts

Gig workers in US and UK would take less pay for steady work

"Workers like knowing when their next pay check is coming, where it's coming from and how much it will be," said Nikhil Datta, researcher at the ... ... Read more...

McKinsey & Company

Happiness and work: An interview with Lord Richard Layard

The preeminent happiness researcher shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving our lives at work. ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The Roots of Our Discontent

Tito Boeri interviews Raghuram G. Rajan With industrialized countries beset by a political backlash against trade, technology, migration, and other hallmarks of the modern global economy, expert solutions are needed now... Read more...

BBC Radio

Today in Parliament (18:10 ? 22:00)

Coverage of LSE's #EvidencePod at Evidence Week in Parliament.... 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...

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...

Focus.de

20 Tipps zum Glucklichsein/ 20 tips for happiness

Are you celebrating your 23rd birthday soon or are you already 23? Congratulations! Because this age is one of the happiest years in life. This is what a survey at the Center for Economic Performance of the London School... Read more...

The Times

Homeowners find that size isn't necessarily everything

The author of a new paper examining satisfaction with home ownership said the pleasure many buyers take in their increasingly big houses is often undermined by envy. "If I bought a house to feel like 'I'm the king of th... Read more...

MailOnline

Neighbors hate the large, mass-produced suburban 'McMansions' popping up across America because they make their own houses look small

Although the median size for a newly-built single-family house has increased from 1,500 square feet in 1973 to more than 2,400 square feet in 2017 according to Census Bureau data, Americans aren't happier with their big ... Read more...

Atlantic Online

Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?

But according to a recent paper, Americans aren't getting any happier with their ever bigger homes. "Despite a major upscaling of single-family houses since 1980," writes Clement Bellet, a postdoctoral fellow at the Euro... Read more...

Yahoo! India

Ease of Living: Modi Sets the Agenda for Cutting Red Tape

In the latest Happiness Report, authors John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs highlight the fact that links between government and happiness operate both ways, i.e., what governments do affects happiness... 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...

Pakistan Today

A budget looking beyond economic growth

In the words of Professor Richard Layard, an expert on life satisfaction across populations, of the London School of Economics, 'this budget is a game-changing event.' Moreover, he indicated that there is 'no other major... Read more...

Financial Times

The case for making wellbeing the goal of government policy

These questions have confronted utilitarians, the most influential of whom was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, from the beginning. But some modern-day utilitarians, foremost among them Richard Layard of the London School... Read more...

The Guardian

Wellbeing should replace growth as 'main aim of UK spending'

The paper, from the all-party parliamentary group on wellbeing economics, written by O'Donnell and other leading MPs and peers, calls on the government to use the spending review to boost its funding for mental health se... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Interview with Richard Layard on the Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics

The report, which is launched today, comes from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics. The authors include Lord Gus O'Donnell (the former Cabinet Secretary), Chris Ruane MP (chair), Lord Richard Layard... Read more...

Macleans Online

What?s really making North Americans so unhappy?

Sachs makes his provocative claim as part of the 2019 World Happiness Report, an annual summary of how the world is feeling about life, which he oversees alongside University of British Columbia economist John Helliwell ... Read more...

The New York Times Online

New Zealand?s Next Liberal Milestone: A Budget Guided by `Well-Being?

"This budget is a game-changing event," said Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics who is an expert on life satisfaction across populations. New Zealand is not the only country that is starting t... Read more...

Manufactura

Inteligencia artificial y automatizacion, ?el fin del trabajo humano?

In this sense, one of the most complete studies to date was carried out by the economists Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (in Robots at Work, The Review of Economic... Read more...

Raconteur

Can and should manufacturing be brought home?

Dr Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, specialising in globalisation and industrial policy, says there's not enough trained staff to power it. "Compared to other creative or tech-based ... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

BBC Kent (5/20/2019 8:09:59 AM)

Snippet ... 80% of new housing is going on so called brownfield land in the south-east but relatively little brownfield land in the right places at the you can develop a reasonable prices that have to build on some green... 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...

apolitical

Poor children have poor outcomes ? but income is only half the story

This article was written by professor Andrew E. Clark (LSE), and professor Conchita D'Ambrosi and Marta Barazzetta, from the University of Luxembourg. A version of this article was first published on the LSE blog. For mo... Read more...

Valori

Lavoro e clima: ingredienti chiave per la ricetta della felicita / Work and climate: key ingredients for the recipe for happiness

An excellent example, proposed by Canova himself, summarizing the complexity of a concept like happiness is the World Happiness Report, a United Nations project to empirically define the concept of happiness. It makes u... Read more...

Financial Times

Why life in the UK feels better than ever

Since the referendum, self-reported British subjective wellbeing has stagnated, finds a study led by Georgios Kavetsos of Queen Mary University of London. Pro-Europeans are predictably upset, but even anti-Europeans saw ... Read more...

What Works Wellbeing blog

Are the Olympic Games worth hosting?

This week's blog is from Christian Krekel, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. In this blog, Christian outlines the wellbeing benefits of hosting the 2012 Lo... 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...

Metropolis Magazine

How the ?Happiness Industry? Is Changing Architecture

SM: Happiness has become a metric - "a set of values," as you say - with transnational currency. It now enjoys the imprimatur of political science and sociological research. When did that happen? FG: The exhibition has ... 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...

CITY AM

Small businesses to be given artificial intelligence boost

Dr Anna Valero, innovation fellow at the London School of Economics, said the results of the funding would inform local and national governments to improve access to technology.... Read more...

American Economic Review

What drives differences in management?

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Quarterly Journal of Economics

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the U.S. Retail Sector

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LSE Politics & Policy Blog

Childhood circumstances and young adult outcomes: the role of parental financial problems

Is there a relationship between childhood circumstances and outcomes later on in life? Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, and Marta Barazzetta consider the cognitive and non-cognitive consequences on young adults who ... Read more...

The Times

Pay no council tax until you sell; Property Peers are calling for radical reforms to property taxation to help older homeowners, reports Carol Lewis

... in property. Professor Christian Hilber, professor of economic geography ...... Read more...

Bloomberg

The US Doesn't Need More Superstar Companies

Economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, who wrote one of the first papers to bring attention to the phenomenon of rising concentration, also endorse a story of so-calle... Read more...

Business Standard

Are superstar companies killing competition and taking over the US economy?

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CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

Financial innovation in mortgage products spurred the rapid increase in credit and house price growth during the last housing boom

In a new CEP Discussion Paper, "Affordability, Financial Innovation and the Start of the Housing Boom" my coauthors and I study the relationship between the start of the housing boom and the use of non-traditional mortga... Read more...

CVER blog

Family Matters: how early disadvantage impacts employment outcomes of young people

Dr Stefan Speckesser, Dr Matthew Bursnall and Jamie Moore share the findings of a new report.... Read more...

Guardian

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

Dr Stefan Speckesser from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, which conducted the analysis, said the study showed that some local areas were more successfully tackling the negative effects of disadvan... Read more...

The Times

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

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Metro

Business Briefing: Youths from poor homes more likely to be jobless

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Huffington Post

'Youth Jobs Gap' Means Poorer Children More Likely To Be Out Of Work Than Richer Peers

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Times Education Supplement

Disadvantaged students left behind in 'youth jobs gap'

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Independent

'Youth Jobs Gap' Means Poorer Children More Likely To Be Out Of Work Than Richer Peers

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Shropshire Star

Study reveals youth jobs gap between rich and poor

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VOX.eu

Employee wellbeing, productivity, and firm performance: Evidence from 1.8 million employees

A growing number of companies place a high priority on the wellbeing of their workers, assuming that happier workers will lead to improved productivity. This column examines this link based on a meta-analysis of independ... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The cost of discrimination against senior Jewish managers in Nazi Germany

Less efficiency and lower profitability for firms carry lessons for Britain and the US, write Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger. Talented individuals are often excluded from leadership positions if th... Read more...

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...

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...

Caixan online / The blog of the Shannon Economic Academic Circle

Do we need industrial policies? Evidence from regional funding programs

Original information: Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen. Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy. American Economic Review, 2019, 109(1): 48-85. Governments around the world provide la... Read more...

Eurasia Review

AI Technology And Gender Inequality ? Analysis

There is growing concern that human jobs are being replaced by the rapid technological progress of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation (Acemoglu and Restrepo 2017, Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014, Ford 20... Read more...

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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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...

LSE Business Review

The value of having a view to a canal

House prices indicate the value of canals as an environmental resource to local residents in England and Wales, write Stephen Gibbons, Cong Peng and Cheng Keat Tang. ... Read more...

ITIF

The Case Against Taxing Robots

Robots are already driving productivity. Investment in robots contributed to 10 percent of GDP growth per capita in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1993 to 2016.5 There is also... Read more...

Log24

Czy roboty zabiora nam prace? / Will robots take our work?

Robots increase productivity when used for tasks that perform more efficiently and at a higher and more stable level of quality than people. In a research focused on robotics for the Center for Economic Performance at th... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices

Our recent research investigates the value of this resource to local residents in England and Wales, using house prices. Analysis of house prices is a well-established method within urban and environmental economics for ... Read more...

Financial Times

Minimum wage marks 20 years without negative impact on jobs

In the mid 1990s, a UK employer could advertise an opening for a security guard on an hourly wage of just £2 - with a requirement to bring their own dog. Twenty years on from the introduction of a national mini... Read more...

Tribune de Geneve

Les Britanniques, fatigues et traumatises par le Brexit /The British, tired and traumatized by Brexit

And the mood of the British is deeply affected. "The level of post-referendum satisfaction has deteriorated significantly in the UK compared to other EU countries," Georgios Kavetsos, a professor of behavioral science at... Read more...

El Diario de Madryn

Crear universidades impacta directamente en el crecimiento economico de la region / Creating universities directly impacts the economic growth of the region

Snippet: Creating universities directly impacts the economic growth of the region Snippet: According to a study conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics in England and the Massachusetts Institute of T... Read more...

Axios

Gutenberg's legacy and populism

Johannes Gutenberg died in 1468, a little over a decade after inventing movable type. But he had already set in motion a gold rush-like frenzy of European entrepreneurs who flung open print shops to cash in on his techno... Read more...

Le Monde

Quand une star scientifique meurt, d'autres idees fleurissent /When a scientific star dies, other ideas flourish

In 2010, along with two other colleagues at MIT and the University of California at San Diego, he had already observed that the productivity of former star coworkers decreased by 5% to 8% after such a fatal event. "Since... Read more...

Financial Times

Improving resilience to devastating floods

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...

In These Times Online

Why You Shouldn?t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker

Most strikingly, Rosling must have worked hard to ignore the data on mental health, given that the global leading cause of ill health today is depression. According to new estimates by Sarah Fleche and Richard Layard of ... Read more...

CNBC

Elizabeth Warren's $700 billion plan to get women off mommy track and boost their careers

And a review of studies by a Boston College economist Christina Olivetti and British colleague Barbara Petrongolo showed that nearly all developed nations have some form of subsidized early-childhood education. The U.S. ... Read more...

Innovaspain

Robots en America Latina: ?cuantos son, donde estan y cuanto tributan? / Robots in Latin America: how many are they, where are they and how much are they taxed?

However, the phenomenon that has promoted the economic viability of new technology around the world has been the reduction of prices. According to Graetz and Michaels [5], the price of industrial robots has been reduced ... Read more...

China Daily (Hong Kong Edition)

Just how happy are people in our city?

I write this column not to discredit the UN report, which is directed by three well known economists, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs. As a matter of fact, Table 2.1 in the report suggests there is cons... Read more...

CNN

Women inventors, long overlooked, are churning out more patents than ever

However, women inventors made up only 12% of all inventors on patents granted in 2016 - the most recent year for which data is available - according to the patent office. That disparity is not a good sign and even hurts... Read more...

Yahoo Finance

Low Interest Rates Might Be What's Hurting Growth

Meanwhile, a very interesting new paper by economists Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Remy Lecat and Helene Maghin looks at the relationship between credit constraints and productivity at the level of i... Read more...

Equities.com

Why the road to full employment is lined with food banks

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) last week published employment figures for the three months to January which showed that more than 90% of new jobs were full-time. "That doesn't mean they are high-quality jobs," ... Read more...

The Observer

Why the road to full employment has ended up being lined with food banks

Steve Machin, head of the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, says more people of pensionable age are staying in the workforce: "The rise in labour force participation of older people is very stri... Read more...

The Sun

BRITISH SMILES Britain is getting happier despite two years of Brexit gloom, study reveals

Researcher Prof Richard Layard, from the London School of Economics, said: "If governments want to stay in power they should take the happiness of the people more seriously than economic measures."... Read more...

National Post

The happiness movement: How cities around the world are pursuing joy by fostering social change

The lesson for cities? If you want to solve poverty and marginalization, the smartest approach is to get the experts - the poor and marginalized - to help with solutions. But more broadly, as happiness economist Jan-Emma... Read more...

Conversable Economist

What Did Gutenberg's Printing Press Actually Change?

In a similar spirit, I of course know that the introduction of a printing press with moveable type by to Europe in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg is often called one of the most important inventions in world history. However... Read more...

Inverse

A World Happiness Report Creator Explains Why the US Can't Crack the Top 10

"We were standing at his desk in his office when I broached the idea of a global happiness report, and I would attribute the idea to Thinley's leadership and the compelling scientific findings of Professors Helliwell and... Read more...

scotsman.com

Brexit chaos fails to depress as UK rated as the 15th happiest country

Snippet: ...ince 1975.Average earnings increased by 3.4 per cent in the year to January, down by 0.1 per cent on the previous month but still outpacing inflation. However, one of the report's authors, Professor Richard L... Read more...

The Times

Britons find reasons to be cheerful in a glummer world

Snippet: ...core of 2.85 was South Sudan. The Central African Republic and Afghanistan were just above it. The annual happiness report was commissioned by the United Nations in 2012 and co-founded by Lord Layard, a profe... Read more...

The Times

Britons find reasons to be cheerful in a glummer world

Across the world people's evaluations of their happiness dropped to levels that were last seen after the financial crisis of 2008-09, having briefly risen in its aftermath but then fallen steadily. Levels of happiness in... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

PM (5:49:59 PM)

Snippet: ...e happy than the Germans French Italians just above the Irish last talks one of the world's big happiness experts economist Professor Richard Layard pregnant programme director of the centre for economic perf... Read more...

La Vaguardia

Llega la `happycracia? o la obligacion de ser feliz / There comes the 'happycracy' or the obligation to be happy

The UN instituted in 2012 the International Day of Happiness. Even a stream of economists flourishes like Richard Layard who have proposed to replace a parameter as questioned as GDP by happiness indices. Indexes that Fi... Read more...

Vita.it

E la Finlandia il Paese piu felice del mondo /Finland is the happiest country in the world

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Mirror

World's happiest country's revealed - and UK is actually CLIMBING the table

Professor Richard Layard, from the London School of Economics, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report and co-founder of UK charity Action For Happiness, said: "If governments want to stay in power they should t... Read more...

Time Magazine

Finland Tops Global Happiness Index for Second Straight Year ? Here?s Why

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World Happiness Report 2019

Chapter 3, Happiness and Voting Behavior by George Ward

The idea that policymakers should aim for something beyond GDP is far from new, but it has regained prominence in recent years. A growing contingent of governments and international organisations are beginning to focus t... Read more...

World Happiness Report 2019

Chapter 6, Big Data and Wellbeing by Clement Bellet and Paul Frijters

This chapter provides a general review and discussion of the debate surrounding Big Data and wellbeing. We ask four main questions: Is Big Data very new or very old? How well can we now predict individual and aggregate w... Read more...

World Happiness Report 2019

Editors John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. This year's World Happiness Report focuses on happiness and... Read more...

LSE US Centre

Trump is learning the wrong lessons from Ronald Reagan ? innovation policy is better than protectionism

Donald Trump has cited the example of one of his US presidential predecessors, Ronald Reagan, in support of his protectionist policies. But as research by Ufuk Akcigit, Sina Ates and Giammario Impullitti shows, it was th... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Gutenberg?s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

Book prices fell, the salaries of university professors rose, and revolutionary religious ideas spread, write Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold.... Read more...

CNBC

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service): Commentary

Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...

Truth on the Market (Blog)

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service)

Arguably, it is also simply getting harder to innovate. As economists Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue, .... ... Read more...

iNews

How are British housebuilders making such juicy profits amid a housing crisis?

But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolun Yu of the London School of Economics, the clearest impact of Help to Buy has been to raise house prices, potentially by as much as 5 ... Read more...

Financial Times

Enact policies to boost emotional health

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The Economist (Online)

Why British housebuilders are making such juicy profits

Snippet: ...home buyers. It was supposed to increase home-ownership rates among the young. Economists dispute whether it actually has. But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolu... Read more...

USNews.com

A Boom in High-Rises Alters London's Skyline

But Christian Hilber, a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, says even if those empty apartments were occupied, they wouldn't help mitigate the affordable housing crisis.... Read more...

VideoVox

Technological Revolutions Must be Matched by Policies

Phlippe Aghion (College of France, LSE, and CEPR) discusses work on merged datasets from the UK - one detailing occupation & wages, the other looking at R&D and investment. ... Read more...

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...

Economic and Political Weekly

Robot Apocalypse: How Will Automation Affect India?s Manufacturing Industry

Graetz, Georg and Guy Michaels (2017): "Robots at Work," Discussion Paper 1335, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science. ... Read more...

The Guardian

So you?re happier at 16 and 70? I?ve been both ? and it just gets better

Sir Richard Layard, "happiness tsar" under New Labour, diagnosed us, as a nation, as suffering from lack of trust and excessive concern with status, materialism, envy and winning the rat race. Happiness: Lessons from a ... Read more...

The Telegraph

Why politicians should think more deeply about the dignity of work

But recent research by economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin suggests that undesired zero-hours contracts may have become more ... [paywall] ... Read more...

The Conversation (AUS)

It's unanimous: Economists' poll says we can fix the banks. But that doesn't mean we will

By Gigi Foster, Paul Fritjers After three years and 35 polls, the Economic Society of Australia has received its first-ever unanimous response to a survey question. ... 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...

LSE Business Review

Income inequality: firms have been reducing profit-sharing with workers

The fall is more pronounced among companies that enjoy high market power, write Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...

Pro Market (Blog)

Rents and Inclusive Growth: A Decline in Rent Sharing Implies Growing Income Inequalities

A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing has significantly decreased between 2001 and 2016, particularly among companies that enjoy m... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

The challenge of dealing with `double disruption?: Brexit and technology

The UK needs a new era of policy activism with a 'future of good work' focus, write Christopher Pissarides, Anna Thomas and Josh De Lyon.... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

Winners, losers and future prospects: The economic geography of transition countries

Klaus Desmet, David Krisztian Nagy, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Nathaniel Young The economic geography of transition economies has changed dramatically over the last quarter century, with large urban areas growing fast and ... Read more...

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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ITPro

The fund will be split between fifteen projects which will all aim to encourage SMBs to adopt the latest technologies

"Lessons from this RCT will provide valuable insight into the most (a) effective and (b) cost-effective means of driving adoption of AI; whether education and convening is sufficient to drive adoption or whether a degree... Read more...

New York Times

Why Six Months Seems to Be the Sweet Spot for Paid Parental Leave

Claudia Olivetti at Boston College and Barbara Petrongolo at Queen Mary University of London found little evidence that extended leaves had a positive effect on women's employment or earnings - but found that subsidized ... Read more...

Reader's Digest

You?ll Be Happiest During These Two Years of Your Life, According to Science

Snippet: ... of you. Science says so! Think you have already reached your peak in life? You might want to think again. We want to share some good news with you: Your happiest years are still ahead! According to research... 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...

Le Monde

Paul Seabright : < La politique industrielle a la capacite de soutenir l?emploi et l?investissement > / Paul Seabright: "Industrial policy has the capacity to support jobs and investment"

A British study estimated the impact of public subsidies in regions in difficulty. If a gain for the job was found but the big companies, first beneficiaries, do not change their behavior, notes the professor of economy ... 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...

Suddeutsche Zeitung

Auf der Suche nach dem Gluck / In search of happiness

The Briton Richard Layard is a well-known economist. Now he sits in the upper house and is dedicated to the question of what really makes people happy. It is not money, that much is clear. "The price of happiness: less... Read more...

The Economist

Letters to the editor

Snippet: ... Build, build, build! Free exchange (November 24th) argued that there is more to high house prices in Britain than constrained supply. Well, yes, and no. The underlying cause of housing unaffordability is con... Read more...

The Conversation (France)

Le bonheur, aquel prix? Happiness, at what price

Snippet: "The price of happiness" is precisely the French title of another bestseller, this time signed by the English economist Sir Richard Layard published in 2007. "The price of happiness: lessons from a new scie... 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...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Capitalising on technological change and the low-carbon transition in the UK

As the UK has sought to redefine its relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, a renewed focus on sustainable growth becomes more urgent, write James Rydge, Ralf Martin and Anna Valero.... Read more...

The Telegraph (India) Online

Global economy: not alarming but worrying

"We see a lost generation," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "There was already wage stagnation and productivity stagnation. The trade war has exacerbated all of that."... Read more...

International New York Times

Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of ?08 Unhealed

"We see a lost generation," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "There was already wage stagnation and productivity stagnation. The trade war has exacerbated all of that."... 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...

Times of India

You are the HAPPIEST in these two years of your life, reveals a study

The Centre of Economic Performance at London School of Economics surveyed around 23,000 adults aged between 17 to 85 years. They were asked questions related to their life satisfaction, how they predict their happiness l... 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...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Universities and industrial strategy in the UK

Evidence on how the positive economic effects of universities on individuals and the economy can be maximised - by Ghazala Azmat, Richard Murphy, Anna Valero and Gill Wyness.... Read more...

The Times Literary Supplement

Happiness and the truth: How to think about well-being

What could go wrong? Many of the objections to happiness economics are well rehearsed. The authors (especially Richard Layard, who has spent the past decade reviving this neo-Benthamite idea), have heard them all and hav... Read more...

The Economist

Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

There is a rise of an innovative elite that is an engine of efficiency. Its members are companies that have mastered digital technologies and enjoy network effects that help them fend off slower competitors, says John Va... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Developing an effective local industrial strategy for the UK

Evidence-based principles for local policymakers seeking to design an effective industrial strategy - by Henry Overman and Naomi Clayton. ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Humans Are Winning the Battle With Robots

John Van Reenen comments on whether executives in many industries are sold on the technical revolution. "There is a big debate on whether robots are really delivering on the productivity benefits they might promise." ... 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...

Channel 5 (Broadcast)

Has feminism unwittingly given men a leg up?

Wellbeing Programme research by CEP Associate Grace Lordan is discussed, looking at the societal and childhood impacts on gendered sorting patterns.... Read more...

LSE Business Review

When globalisation gets local: winners and losers

Left-behind places are lending themselves increasingly to the forces of populism and political disintegration, writes Riccardo Crescenzi. A complex flow of investment is spreading across the globe, connecting more a... 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...

BBC World News

Talking Business

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Associate at CEP's Wellbeing Programme and Associate Professor at Oxford Said Business School, appeared on BBC World News last week, talking about how a four day work week can impact ... Read more...

apolitical

Do gig workers really value flexibility ? or would they prefer guaranteed work?

Opinion: We asked 20,000 people their preferences on shifting employment patterns This piece was written by Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin at LSE’s Centre for Economic Perf... Read more...

Mondaq Business Briefing

UK: Zero-Hours Contracts: Flexibility Is Not A Draw For The Majority Of Workers

Research by CEP Economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin. "A report recently undertaken by three labour market economists has found that 44% of workers on zero-hours contracts would like more workin... 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...

TES

Female apprentices 'get less money'

Men are more likely to earn more after starting an apprenticeship than women, new research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) shows.  The research, published by academics at th... Read more...

TES

Female apprentices 'get less money'

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NIESR (Blog)

Our housing crisis ? not market failure: persistent policy failure

By Paul Cheshire With housing nothing seems to change. This is what I wrote in 1999: “Concerns [about rising house prices] focus on the short term symptoms but it is really a long term problem. The... Read more...

Warwick.ac.uk

Wiley Prize in Economics awarded to Associate Professor Mirko Draca of Warwick Economics

The prize, sponsored by Wiley is worth £5,000 and is awarded annually for achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist. Associate Professor Mirko Draca was named by the British Ac... Read more...

The Telegraph

The Blitz added #4.5 billion to London?s annual economy, say experts

Yet a new study from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics (LSE), suggests that the capital is £4.5 billion a year better off because of the raids. Dr Hans Koste... Read more...

The Independent

UK economy will suffer more than EU in 'no deal' Brexit scenario, warns IMF

The OECD estimated before the referendum that a WTO Brexit could cost the UK up to 5.1 percent of GDP over 15 years. A study by the London School of Economics estimated a 9.5 per cent hit. ... Read more...

Financial Times

Dairy products could become 'luxuries' after Brexit, industry warns

  Non-tariff barriers alone after Brexit could raise the price of dairy products in the UK, which may become “luxuries”, warned a report on Thursday. A study by the London School of Economi... Read more...

New York Times

Wanted: `Lost Einsteins.' Please Apply.

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The UK in a Changing Europe press release

What the government's Brexit white paper must address

  A detailed assessment of what the government must address in its Brexit white paper has been carried out by academic think tank The UK in a Changing Europe.  The report – The Brexit w... Read more...

The Telegraph

Minimum wage hike hit quality of care homes, report finds

Hiking the minimum wage for low-paid care workers has a “rather worrying deterioration in the quality of care”, according to a new study. Care homes have responded to the introduction of the N... Read more...

Financial Express (India)

Why India needs better management

One problem in assessing the impact of management is that it is an amorphous and multifaceted category, including a variety of possible activities. This problem has been addressed by the work of economists lik... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

When a large company enters a local market, it stimulates local innovation

Proximity to a large plant plays an important role in the diffusion of knowledge and patent production, write Vincenzo Scrutinio, Christian Fons-Rosen and Katalin Szemeredi.    ... Read more...

Vox

The economics of Brexit

2 years on from the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU, substantial questions about the path to Brexit remain. In this special edition of Vox Talks, Tim Phillips talks to Swati Dhingra, Karl Whelan, an... 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...

Guardian

Post-school-education skewed in universities' favour - Lords Report

Tertiary education in England is heavily skewed in favour of universities, but offers poor value for money for students and the economy, according to a critical report by the House of Lords. The report by the ... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Should we be spending money on holidays and restaurants rather than homes?

The £15bn Crossrail will serve the Buckinghamshire village of Taplow, in the green belt, next year, yet no homes can be added there, noted Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Times

Why boys, football and exams are an unfortunate mix

We should also worry about our rather odd exam system. To have high stakes national exams at the age of 16 — GCSEs — is relatively unusual by international standards. It is easy to understand their... Read more...

Al Jazeera

Dennis Novy

Dennis Novy gave a live TV interview o n Al Jazeera on the latest US/China/EU trade disputes. Dennis discussed the economic effects of tariffs on consumers, as well as the potential consequences for the i... Read more...

CEP Awards

Economics PhD student wins the AQR Top Finance Graduate Award 2018 at CBS

Congratulations to Kilian Huber, Economics PhD and Job market candidate, who is among the Winners of the AQR Top Finance Graduate 2018 Award at the Copenhagen Business School!  The award recognizes the mo... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Are universities engines or products of economic growth?

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...

PBS

Who becomes an inventor? This Arkansas innovation hub is trying to spark a new generation

As part of a larger ongoing study of inequality in America, researchers used patent data to focus on innovation. Among their findings, children from high-income families are 10 times as likely to become invent... Read more...

Le Figaro (France)

Le bonheur au travail commence avec un bon salaire/Happiness at work starts with a good salary

A study conducted by researchers at Princeton University showed that a higher income increased the level of happiness, but only up to a salary of about $ 75,000 (or just under $ 70,000) a year. And after? Afte... Read more...

The Conversation (blog)

Quand le bonheur fait sa loi

Richard Layard, a follower of a welfarist and hedonistic approach, shows that the level of happiness felt is relative (the perception that I have of my own income depends on the income of others), adaptive (th... Read more...

EurekAlert!

What caused the gender pay gap in medicine?

Academics in the Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey have received a research grant from the Department of Health and Social Care to study causes of the gender pay gap in the medical profession.... Read more...

Le Figaro (France)

The wage remains the no.1 argument to motivate French employees

A study conducted by researchers at Princeton University showed that a higher income increased the level of happiness, but only up to a salary of about $ 75,000 (or just under $ 70,000) a year. And after? Afte... 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...

i ? Independent

The Home Office is offering a golden visa service to Russian oligarchs that includes information on tax havens

Evidence was submitted to show that nearly all rich foreign investors and their families who came to the UK under the Tier 1 scheme lived in expensive houses, sent their children to public schools and used pri... 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...

New Electronics (blog)

Closing the gender gap could take 258 years for physics and 60 years for mathematics

In the 'Year of Engineering', engineering skills are taking centre stage and the Skills Commission inquiry, which is co-chaired by Lucy Allan MP, Preet Gill MP and Professor Sandra McNally, is taking e... 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...

The Economist

We?re not just units of output

Letter from Richard Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science:  “We now have the knowledge to implement that approach. Much of it is found in the annual... Read more...

The Telegraph

Our housing crisis demands fresh ideas

The rate of UK house-building has fallen well behind our demographic requirements, driven by natural population growth and net immigration. “We’ve not built nearly enough homes since the Sixties &n... 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...

Hola (Spain)

'Lykke' or what you can learn from the happiest people in the world

3. Think that money gives happiness, but not always. The economist Richard Layard argued in his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, that a person should charge at least 20,000 gross euros a year to fee... Read more...

Press Reader ? Daily Mail

Cheer up! Britain is getting happier

The Office for National Statistics report on well-being in 2017 follows research last week from the London School of Economics that linked being happy to having a job – suggesting Britain’s record ... Read more...

New Zealand Herald

Study finds work-from-home employees more productive than office workers

Those who work from home are more productive than people who work in an office, according to a new two-year study. The ground-breaking experiment, conducted by Stanford University professor Nicholas Bloom, sho... Read more...

FT

Dark factories: labour exploitation in Britain?s garment industry

Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sec... Read more...

Cinco Noticias (Spain)

Un estudio demuestra que trabajar desde casa es mas productivo que hacerlo en una oficina/A study shows that working from home is more productive than working in an office

Professor Nicholas Bloom led this research developed over two years on the basis of 500 workers of Ctrip, a technology securities company based in China. Ctrip has a payroll of approximately 16,000 employees. ... 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...

ViveUSA.mx (Mexico)

Esto es lo peor de trabajar desde casa/This is the worst of working from home

A study conducted by Nicholas Bloom, an economics expert at Stanford University, showed that working from home increases the productivity of workers by up to 13 percent, and employees did not wear out as much.... 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...

The Times Scotland

Exam pupils to be banned from wearing watches

…A mixture of different types of schools, all free from local authority control, leads to higher grades among pupils but also to greater unhappiness, according to researchers at the London School of Eco... Read more...

TES

School choice `leads to unhappy pupils?

Giving parents more choice over the type of school their children can attend raises academic attainment but leads to more unhappy pupils, researchers have found. This is because schools that face greater compe... 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...

LSE News

Increased access to independently-run schools decreases pupil wellbeing

The competition created by increased access to autonomous schools, such as academies, faith schools and private schools, raises academic achievement but decreases pupil wellbeing, a new study from the London S... Read more...

Financial Express (India)

Why India doesn?t score high on happiness quotient

In his latest work ‘The Origin of Happiness’, British economist Richard Layard notes how relationships play a critical role. Globally, as incomes have risen, happiness has not. This is because of b... 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...

i News

In the 1960s, young people like me felt empowered, brave, and energised. What changed?

In 2007 UNICEF wrote a report on children in the world’s richest 21 countries. Britain and US came bottom. Children in the EU were markedly happier. A Good Childhood by Richard Layard and Judy Dunn, exam... 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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BBC Radio London 94.9

Broadcast [2:55:31 AM]

…the key to happiness apparently really is holding down a stable job according to experts.  All the economic indicators say high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness. ... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

Of all economic indicators, a high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness, according to researchers. The London School of Economics consulted 29 academics, of whom 24 agreed that em... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Daily grind? Work makes us happy!

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Quartz

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

Respondents weren’t asked why they rated themselves as they did. But the three economists who edited the report—Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University in the US, John F. Helliwell of the Canadian Ins... Read more...

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...

FE Week

How can we get more women into engineering? Your opinion is needed?

Article by Sandra McNally Engineering is an area that’s historically been dominated by men. Sandra McNally is leading an inquiry into how to massively widen women’s participation in this vital a... 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...

IZA Newsroom

The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

A new study by IZA fellows Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally with Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (all researchers at the London School of Economics) analyzes the benefits (or costs) for students who just pass (or fai... Read more...

CEP awards

CEP?s Professor Barbara Petrongolo and her co-author, Dr L. Rachel Ngai, have been awarded the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Macroeconomics Paper prize

The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

Trump?s trade rhetoric is already hurting America

Since Trump was elected president, many measures of policy uncertainty have jumped. Take the widely used monthly U.S. Policy Uncertainty Index created by the economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven ... Read more...

The Guardian

Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness

Not all economists and psychologists agree. Economists Paul Frijters and Tony Beatton factored in the possibility that those who become happier in the studies are the same people who are more content when they... Read more...

Tallahassee Democrat

In sync with Cinco de Mayo and Derby Day

The 2017 United Nations World Happiness Report shows U.S. happiness at its lowest point since 2006 according to Forbes magazine, ranking 14th in the world. Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs authored ... Read more...

Cambridge Network

The EU single market at 25

A conference at Cambridge Judge marked the 25th anniversary of the European Union’s single market, in advance of a special issue of the Review of Industrial Organisation journal. There has been much prog... Read more...

The Economist - China chill

Fears that China has hurt innovation in the West are overblown

America’s patents and research spending have soared alongside its trade deficit with China.  Article in the Economist refers to the research paper ‘ Related publications Trade Induced Te... Read more...

Forbes

Sleep strategies to drive employee productivity

Research from two economists, published in a working paper by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, notes that certain populations — such as working parents — may be even ... 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...

Le Point (France)

Pierre-Antoine Delhommais - Vivons heureux, vivons au froid/Pierre-Antoine Delhommais - Let's live happy, live in the cold

To live happily, it is better to love the long snowy winters. This is confirmed by the latest World Happiness Report, written at the request of the United Nations by economists John Helliwell, Richard Layard a... 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...

Psychology Today

Miserable and middle aged? Is something wrong with you?

Quoting the sage advice of British economist Richard Layard, Rauch advises, “One secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are.” ... Read more...

LSE Blog - British Politics & Policy

Kwasi Kwarteng: Does the UK need its own infrastructure bank?

Several commentators have suggested that a domestic infrastructure bank could fill the void if the UK was unable to access EIB support. The LSE Growth Commission have promoted the creation of such an... 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...

Greater Good Magazine

Can government policies make us happier?

  The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012, giving countries important data about the well-being of their people and how it compares to other nations’. One of the prima... Read more...

The Irish News

High costs of just missing out on a grade C in GCSE English

Pupils who narrowly fail to achieve a grade C in their GCSE English exam pay a high price, according to new research. A study from the Centre for Vocational Education Research explored what happened to young p... Read more...

ABC Nyheter (Norway)

Veien til lykkeland

When the LSE economist Richard Layard wrote a book on happiness research and its policy areas in 2005, he gained strong reactions, especially from the right side. Some of the criticisms were justified: Uncriti... Read more...

Business Wire

Harvard Business Review announces 59th Annual HBR McKinsey Award winners

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations need competent management just as much as they need analytical brilliance, argue the winners of this year’s HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Busine... Read more...

Journal Review

Letters: April 17, 2018 - Home an dland owners deserve protection

According to research in 2014 by the London School of Economics, wind farms can cut as much as 12 percent off the value of homes within a 2 kilometer radius, reducing property values as far as 14 kilometers aw... 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...

SAGA

12 tips to help you feel happier

7. Focus on Thursday:  Even if you’re no longer working Monday to Friday, that weekend feeling still affects you. But, surprisingly, it’s not in fact Friday that boosts people’s moods th... Read more...

Star Connect

ESRC rolls out #2m to support industrial strategy research

SWINDON, United Kingdom – The Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC) has announced that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Loca... Read more...

ESRC press release

#2 million boost for ESRC research centres to support industrial strategy

The Economic and Social Research Council is delighted to announce that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth Centre (L... Read more...

El Carabobeno

Venezuela among the most unhappy countries in the world

  According to the authors of the report, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, there is a characteristic of Latin Americans that makes them different. "Unusually happy." Th... Read more...

Le Temps - blog (France)

Our societies pushed to the error by the GDP. When will we decide to change it?

Bhutan refers to gross national happiness; in Switzerland, 25 complementary indicators to GDP have been selected. The "economists of happiness" (such as Richard Layard of the London School of Economi... Read more...

TES

`High price? paid for narrowly missing C grade spelled out

If teachers and pupils weren’t under enough pressure in the run-up to GCSEs, new research has quantified the potentially life-changing impact missing a grade can have on a young person. Accordi... Read more...

TES

Students paying a high price for failing their English GCSE, warns report

Pupils who narrowly fail their English GCSE exams pay a high price, according to a new study by the Centre for Vocational Education Research at the London School of Economics. Researchers at the centre,&n... Read more...

Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog

Missing the mark at GCSE English: the costly consequences of just failing to get a grade C

Article by Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela. New research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) [CVER Discussion Paper 014] analyses the benefits (or costs) for ... Read more...

IBS Instytut Bada&#324; 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...

Agenda Magasin (Norway)

Veien til lykkeland/The road to the happiness country

When the LSE economist Richard Layard wrote a book on happiness research and its policy areas in 2005, he gained strong reactions, especially from the right side. Some of the criticisms were justified: Uncriti... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Public education benefited from oil booms in the postbellum South

Oil-rich counties were more likely to contribute funds to build schools and hire more teachers for rural black children, writes Stephan Maurer. In a recent study, I analyse how local oil booms in the Southern ... 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...

IBM blog (Spain)

Artificial Intelligence: ethics that revolutionize

There is a very interesting study made by the Economic Research Center of London, directed by George Graetz and Guy Michaels, which shows that between 1993 and 2007 in the United States the number of robots in... Read more...

Elsalvador.com

El 64 % de los trabajadores cree que la robotica destruira sus empleos/ 64% of workers believe that robotics will destroy their jobs

"There is no consensus on how robotics will affect the creation or destruction of employment, some studies are optimistic and others are not," Professor Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics... Read more...

VoxDev

Do management interventions last? Evidence from India

  Article by Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts. In our recent research, we examine the persistence of an intensive management intervention carried out in India (Bloom et ... 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...

Financial Times

Businesses back unrestricted access to EU workers after Brexit

British businesses want unrestricted access to European workers to continue after Brexit, describing them as better qualified and more motivated than their UK counterparts. The findings came in an interim repo... Read more...

Times of Malta

Brexit could cost the average Briton up to #1,700 a year

Disruption to trade caused by Brexit could cost the average Briton as much as £1,700 a year, with Remain-backing areas bearing the brunt, a report has claimed. The research suggested many of the worst-af... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

PM

Lord Layard comments on the funding of the NHS. ... Read more...

Analitica (Spain)

De la suprema felicidad a la calle de la amargura: Reporte de Felicidad Mundial 2018/From th supreme happiness to the street of bitterness: World Happiness Report 2018

This study is an initiative of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The research was conducted by John Helliwell, researcher and professor at the Vancouver School of Econ... Read more...

Taipei Times

Government should focus on social happiness

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has published a World Happiness Report annually since 2012. This year’s report has been widely reported, because Taiwan is ranked as the 26th-happiest nat... Read more...

Rising Kashmir

Revisiting Einstein?s `Theory of Happiness?

Couple of days back, ‘Economic Times’ carried interview of renowned British economist Richard Layard. Also known as the “happiness tsar” for his extensive research on happiness, Layard ... Read more...

Jerusalem Post

In birth and death, Israel is the happiest country in the world

In this year’s annual ranking of the happiest countries in the world, Israel placed an enviable 11th. According to the ranking’s sponsor, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Networ... Read more...

Economist

How and why to search for young Einsteins

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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...

China Times Newsletter (press release)

Taiwan's happiness is excellent but needs to be vigilant

The United Nations "sustainable development solutions" have been published every year since 2012. Each year, the "World Happiness Report" rankings are announced. The 2018 ranking announced ... Read more...

Mixer Planet (Italy)

Illy: ?Il caffe bevanda della felicita/Illy: ?The coffee drink of happiness?

The report, produced by the United Nations SDSN network and the Ernesto Illy Foundation, is edited by prof. John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia and Canadian Advanced Research Institute), by prof.... Read more...

The Barre Montpelier Times Argus

A basic tenet: livable wages

Numerous studies have shown that raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt job growth, and differences in minimum wages in neighboring states don’t cause businesses to move significantly. As long as th... Read more...

Carnegie Council ? for ethics in international affairs

The Origins of Happiness, with Richard Layard

JOANNE MYERS: Welcome to this podcast, which is coming to you from the Carnegie Council in New York City. I'm Joanne Myers, director of Public Affairs programs here at the Council. Today I have the pleasur... Read more...

Prospect Magazine (April 2018 issue)

Why Jeremy Corbyn needs a think tank

Meanwhile, ever-more think tank-like units are rolling out of universities—such as the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance and the UK in a Changing Europe, which is co-ordinated through King&rsqu... Read more...

Everywoman.com

The Origins of Happiness: The science of wellbeing over the life course

Book of the month:  We all know the adage that money doesn’t bring you happiness – but if not money, then what? That’s the question being asked in The Origins of Happiness: The Science o... Read more...

Cision PR Newswire

2nd World Happiness Summit bigger and better

Miami – World Happiness Summit 2018 welcomed peope from over 35 countries and 43 US states to the campus of the University of Miami yesterday….The three-day event opened with lakeside yoga at dawn... Read more...

Christians United for Israel ? CUFI

UN report says Israel 11th happiest country in the world

The UN’s 2018 Happiness Report shows that Israel is the eleventh-happiest country in the world, surpassing the United States and the UK. Related publications World Happiness Report 2018, John F. He... Read more...

VTDigger

Leslie Walz: A fair wage for fair work

Commentary by Leslie Walz, of Barre, who is a retired Vermont nurse.  Numerous studies have shown that raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt job growth, and differences in minimum wages in neighbour... Read more...

The Online Citizen

Singapore ranked 34th in World Happiness Report 2018, Finland takes top position

The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. This year, Singapore is ranked 34th, a drop from 2017's ranking of 26... Read more...

Africa Times

Togo shows world?s biggest improvement in new Happiness Report

African nations overall don’t rank well in the new World Happiness Report, but there are a few surprises – and, of course, it likely depends on how happiness is defined. Also in:   Th... Read more...

The New York Times

Want to be happy? Try moving to Finland

Happy are the people of the Nordic nations — happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identical to the happiness of its immigrants. Those are the ... Read more...

Vozpopuli (Spain)

Tres grandes falacias sobre desigualdad/Three great fallacies about inequality

That a counter-cyclical monetary policy of low interest rates can raise the yields of certain financial assets, whose property tends to be biased towards families with higher assets and this encourage inequali... 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...

The Phuket News

Education corner: Academic achievement and emotional health are equally important

The philosophy of BISP recognises that a core purpose of formal education is to enable our students to lead “quality lives”. In that context, it is worth reflecting on research quoted in the World ... 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...

Exame (Portugal)

The redemption of Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook

Plausibility of the idea is a matter of debate. Branko Milanovic, a scholar on income inequality, and Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, believe the plan is realistic give... Read more...

The Irish News

DUP openly supporting further division in our divided land

Opinion – Letters to the Editor:  Alastair Hamilton must acknowledge Brexit realities Writing in the Huffington Post Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton has described the concern that Brexit... Read more...

Patria.cz (Czech Republic)

Economic incompetence of the president and his men

Even customs duties, which will help US companies in the short term, can be detrimental in the long run. This protection of the domestic market can lead to a decline in qualitative competitiveness. In this con... Read more...

Kurzy.cz (Czech Republic)

Economic incompetence of the president and his men

Even customs duties, which will help US companies in the short term, can be detrimental in the long run. This protection of the domestic market can lead to a decline in qualitative competitiveness. In this con... Read more...

The Japan Times

What Trump?s trade guru doesn?t get about economics

Using tariffs to restore American competitiveness could easily backfire. If U.S. companies can hunker behind trade barriers and sell to a captive market, many will lose their edge. Research by economists Nicho... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Governments play a key role in our happiness, but how do we get them to care?

Article by Jeffrey Sachs The Global Happiness Council, which I am honoured to direct on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, has just issued the first Global Happiness Policy Report (GHPR) as a companion vol... Read more...

Bloomberg.com

What Trump?s trade guru doesn?t get about economics

Using tariffs to restore American competitiveness could easily backfire. If U.S. companies can hunker behind trade barriers and sell to a captive market, many will lose their edge. Research by economists Nicho... 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...

LSE Brexit blog

Many multinationals may pull out of the UK If it leaves the Customs Union

As March 2019 draws closer, the UK government remains divided over the type of trade relationship it wants to achieve in the ongoing negotiations with the EU. Paola Conconi (ULB/LSE) explains why Japanese... 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...

Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist blog

Should the government try to maximise happiness

“Money can’t buy me love,” sang The Beatles, although it is doubtful that this was a rigorous empirical claim. Still, nobody disputes that there’s more to life than money and a new book... Read more...

El Nuevo Herald (Florida, USA)

Miami hosts the World Summit of Happiness for the second year

Lord Richard Layard, program director of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and co-editor of the World Happiness Report, Mo Gawdat and Gopi Kallayil, Google executives, Allis... Read more...

Wall Street Journal blog

Forget stock buybacks. Here's where CEOs should invest their tax windfall

In this regard, scholars such as Erik Brynjolffson, Lorin Hitt, Nick Bloom, and John Van Reenen have all shown that computers by themselves don't unleash rapid productivity growth; rather, it takes new bus... Read more...

NY Times

Book Review: The redemption of Chris Hughes

The Stanford professor and economist Nicholas Bloom brought up the potential for fraud, adding that government enforcement would be difficult. ... Read more...

Hamilton News

Wu serving on International panel on wellbeing

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was recently invited to become a member of an expert panel on wellbeing. A research program of the London School of Economics and Political Science Centre for Economic Perform... Read more...

TransportXtra

Speed camera debate re-opened

A speed camera critic is challenging academics over new research suggesting that fixed speed cameras have reduced killed and serious injuries.  A London School of Economics research paper published last O... 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...

Economia

Londres acull un debat impossible a Madrid o Barcelona/London welcomes an impossible debate in Madrid or Barcelona

Scene of the meeting, the London School of Economics, in the center of the British capital, in the third session of a cycle of debates centered on the relationship between Catalonia and Spain. In London, not i... Read more...

El Pais

Direct: The economic dimension of the Catalan crisis

The London School of Economics hosts a new debate of the series that is celebrating, in collaboration with Politikon, about the future of Spain and Catalonia. On this occasion, with the moderation of Jenifer R... Read more...

El Comercio (Peru)

Kindernomics: ?Como combatir desigualdad en la innovacion?/Kindernomics: how to comabat inequality in innovation?

In a paper he signed with John Van Reenen, Neviana Petkova, Xavier Jaravel and Alex Bell it was discovered that people with parents who are among the richest 1% of the United States are ten times more likely t... Read more...

Le Monde

What should corporate profits really be used for ?

Dominique Steiler, professor of management, proposes in a tribune to the "World" to break with the paradigm of the hyper-competitiveness and the economic war to make the company a factor of individua... Read more...

The Gulf Today

`Citizens? wellbeing priority?

DUBAI: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist and Chair of the World Happiness Council, has led a plenary session to discuss the findings of the first Global Happiness Policy Report on the opening day of ... 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...

Univision

Los `Einsteins perdidos?: como se desperdicia el potencial de los ni?os mas brillantes de familias pobres y como solucionarlo / The 'lost Einsteins': how the potential of the brightest children of poor families is wasted and how to fix

Article by by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how much the socioeconomic status of a student's family influences whether he becomes an inventor a... 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...

Zawya

Global dialogue for happiness discusses design of happiness policies based on science and technology

In a similar session titled ‘What Makes People Happy?’, Paul Dolan, Head of Department and Professor of Behavioral Science in Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Times

Marathons, botox and sex: there's a perfect age to do everything

Research led by Richard Layard and published in a book, The Origins of Happiness, this month reveals that even ill health, a drop in income or being divorced or widowed makes relatively little difference to th... 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...

Knowledge

Why the multinationals that influence the world are born

Business groups rule the global economy. Data show that about 70% of the global international trade is linked to multinational groups and about a third is linked to companies belonging to the same multinationa... 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 Times

Children of positive mothers get better GCSE grades

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...

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

Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329)

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...

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...

BBC Radio 4

PM [5:21:51]

   Anna Valero interviewed, speaking about the big picture of UK productivity:  low investment, bad training, bad management and lack of infrastructure. BBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom... Read more...

The New Yorker

The Philosophy of the Midlife Crisis

 Many long-term studies of well-being show that people actually get happier as they age. (This lends credence, Setiya suggests, to Aristotle’s view that we grow into a “prime of life,” w... 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...

BBC TV News Channel

Afternoon Live

Snippet: ...ard to the next one. So do I. is more important than Happiness at school and should even be factored academic qualifications - into the curriculum. That's the conclusion of a major report by Lo... Read more...

BBC Kent (2/1/2018 5:15:30 PM)

Broadcast

Snippet: ...ic King BBC Radio isn't this statement happiness score is more important than ECB academic qualifications and could even be factored into the cricket them the conclusion of a major report by Lo... Read more...

London Live (Radio)

Glitter force

…7 23 is a town which is just a month ago happiness school is more important than academic qualifications should even be factored into the correctly That's the conclusion of a major report by Lord R... 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...

Neviditelny Pes (Czech)

WORLD: Craving for happiness as the most authentic value

Richard Layard, an elected economist and professor at the London School of Economics, emphasized in his lecture (March 3, 2003) that the people of the Western countries have been very wealthy over the last thi... Read more...

LSE News

New book on the origins of happiness

A new book by Professor Richard Layard and colleagues presents evidence on the origins of happiness, drawing on unique survey data on over 100,000 individuals in Australia, Germany, the UK and the United State... Read more...

Expansion (Spain)

La economia de la felicidad/The economy of happiness

"Money can not buy me love" (with money I can not buy love) the Beatles sang, although it is doubtful that it was a rigorous empirical affirmation. Still, no one denies that money is not everything i... Read more...

Teachappy

Teachers can have a huge impact on pupil wellbeing

On Monday 22nd January, I got to meet a #wellbeing hero of mine, Lord Richard Layard. Layard has been at the forefront of the wellbeing movement in the UK, forcing it onto the agenda of governments past and pr... Read more...

The Economic Times (India)

How performance-based rankings are shaking up the rigid world of government

Rankings inform the world who is the biggest, the richest, the happiest, the saddest, the most powerful or the most successful. In the 1990s, Stephen Nickell at the Centre for Economic Performance in the Londo... Read more...

BantenNews.co.id (Indonesia)

Cinta bias dibeli dengan uang, tapi kebahagiaan tikak!/Love can be purchased with money, but no happiness

Thus said Professor Richard Layard, the leader of the research, as quoted from kompas.com. "In the past, the country has managed to overcome the problem of poverty, unemployment, education, and physical h... Read more...

Financial Times

The economics of happiness

... it is easy to sympathise with Thomas Jefferson’s remark, shortly after he stepped down as US president, that “The care of human life & happiness, & not their destruction, is the first &... Read more...

Gloucestershire Echo

Letters:Brexit aftermath is not rosy

…nearly six years.  The Centre for Economic Performance says that the vote has cost the … ... Read more...

Yahoo! UK and Ireland

Happiness and housework are as important as economic growth

A third problem with GDP is that it doesn’t tell us anything about whether or not people are satisfied with their lives. Nobel Prize-winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have long argued that we shoul... Read more...

Smithsonian.com

Expose talented kids from low-income families to inventors and they're more likely to invent

...Our first finding is that there are large differences in innovation rates by socioeconomic class, race and gender. Using new de-identified data that allows us to track 1.2 million inventors from birth to ad... Read more...

The Conversation

How talented kids from low-income families become America?s `Lost Einsteins?

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The Conversation

How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'lost Einsteins'

Article by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more ... Read more...

Chinese Social Sciences Today - CSSN (China)

Focusing on the importance of environment on innovation

One of the researchers, John Van Reenen, a professor of management and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told this reporter that the study found that the childhood environment was a key f... Read more...

What Works Centre for Wellbeing blog

Origins of Happiness: new research

Today is the launch of The Origins of Happiness by Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nick Powdthavee and George Ward. Prof. Layard outlines the key findings and recommendations from the resear... 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 British Psychological Society - Community Psychology Section

A Community Psychology Section response to `The Origins of Happines?

In his new book 'The Origins of Happiness', Richard Layard argues that the biggest predictor of happiness is not any economic factor, but rather mental health. Based on this, Layard prop... 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...

Epoch Times (China)

Bonus spending to reduce the era of high pay for large companies gone

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and his cohort analyzed the federal revenue data from the late 1970s to 2013 and found that the gap has shrunk to 20%. Professor Bloom said: "The big pay has existed for ... 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...

Macleans (Canada)

Editorial: MPs should put down their phones and get back to governing

  A recent British study by the Centre for Economic Performance compared student results across schools based on cellphone-use policies and concluded, "Schools that restrict access to mobile phone... 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...

The News Lens (China)

Raise the base salary a handful of winners or universal win?

Taiwan has recently raised the basic wage, the issue of whether the basic salary workers benefit from rekindling. However, do you think about it, the salary is higher than the basic wage of many workers, and t... 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...

Financial Times

More grammar schools and lower tuition fees are not the answer ? the reshuffle at education could mean taking another wrong turn on social mobility

The first criticism of Ms Greening was that she was insufficiently radical in pursuing structural reform — more academies, free schools and grammar schools. Research by the LSE, the Education Policy Inst... Read more...

I News

Secrets to a happy life? Marriage, socialising, dinner

Article by Nattavudh Powdthavee According to Richard Layard, Professor of economics and director of the Wellbeing programme at the London School of Economics, happiness is simply “feeling good –... 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...

Financial Times

It?s not the economy, stupid

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...

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...

The Australian

Premium paid to employees of big firms has `collapsed? in US

But more recently, that premium has shrunk to just 20 per cent, Stansford University economist Nicholas Bloom and his co-authors found in an analysis of millions of federal income data from the late 1970s thro... 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...

Financial Times

The case for a special NHS tax

Snippet: ... Mrs May was asked about it in a television interview on Sunday. She was doubtful but some Conservatives, such as the former cabinet member Oliver Letwin, like the idea. Other admirers include the ... 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...

CEP mentions in Parliament

LSE Growth Commission work was mentioned by Viscount Chandos

LSE Growth Commission work was mentioned by Viscount Chandos in a House of Lords debate on Industrial Strategy on evening of 8 January 2018: In a debate on Industrial Strategy in the House of Lords Viscount... Read more...

Financial Times

The case for a special UK health service tax

Even as NHS crises come around like comets, the ritual is the same each time. Producer interests want more money. Ministers want structural reform. The difference is split and the NHS creaks arthritically on. ... Read more...

MIT News

Innovation, meet organization

Economist John Van Reenen studies the creation and use of technology, from the R&D lab to the workplace Long before John Van Reenen became a professor at MIT, he was studying MIT topics in an MIT style.... 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...

TIME online

17 Important Business Books Everyone Will Be Reading In 2018

‘The Origins of Happiness’ by by Andrew E. Clark,‎ Sarah Flèche,‎ Richard Layard,‎ Nattavudh Powdthavee,‎ and George Ward (Publication date - January 16) The authors behin... Read more...

Guardian

Spread-betting firm?s profits surge on bitcoin boom

Tom Kirchmaier, professor of finance at the London School of Economics, said the risks of a bitcoin crash could be amplified for CFD speculators. “Just stay out of it,” he said, adding that bitcoin... Read more...

CEP mentions on Twitter

Baroness Thornton retweets LSE event on happiness and wellbeing

Glenys Thornton @GlenysThornton RT @kemonas13: @actionhappiness @LSEnews @LSEpublicevents @CEP_LSE @RichardLayard @AndrewMarr9 @johnvanreenen @AnthonySeldon… ... 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...

City A.M.

In the age of sharing, this is the last taboo

...One of the world's leading behavioural economists, Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics, helped us analyse... ... Read more...

LBC (Radio) - 11:30:00 pm

Snippet: Mention of LSE study on problems with planning permission in the UK

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Financial Times

Debt and interest rates to be consumers? big worries, say economists

Q: In 2017, consumers’ finances were squeezed by rapidly rising prices. Will 2018 be an easier year for UK households and what are the implications for consumer spending? A:  Swati Dhingra, assis... Read more...

Portfolio (Hungary)

Pesszimistak a britek a Brexit kell&#337;s 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...

Governing.com

Should governments measure people's happiness?

This was about where things stood 30 years ago, when Richard Layard, a British economist now ennobled as Baron Layard of Highgate, began promoting a radical doctrine. Maybe, he posited, the time had come to ta... 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...

Business Insider

17 business books everyone will be reading in 2018

'The Origins of Happiness' by by Andrew E. Clark,‎ Sarah Flèche,‎ Richard Layard,‎ Nattavudh Powdthavee,‎ and George Ward (Jan. 16) The authors behind "The Origins of Hap... Read more...

Southern Living

The one word key to happiness

Paul Dolan teaches at the London School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at Princeton, where he worked with Daniel Kahneman. He explains the importance of attention in his book, Happiness by Design: Cha... Read more...

Huffington Post (blog)

Tricher n'a pas sa place dans le sport, nous devons sanctionner a vie ceux qui se dopent/Cheating has no place in the sport, we must sanction for life those who doped

It is worrying that in France only one in two young people between the ages of 11 and 15 say that their classmates are "kind and well intentioned", according to a study by the "Center for Econom... 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...

El Salto (Spain)

Las paradojas de la felicidad y de la economia global/ The paradoxes of happiness and the global economy

It is paradoxical that despite being richer every day we can not use that wealth in a way that makes us happier, because working more for less makes us unhappy, and what would make us happier would be to work ... Read more...

The Financial Express

Study shows income-disparity in early-life is strongly correlated to later-life fulfilment of innovation potential

While there could be many factors hobbling innovation, findings of a recent study by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John Van Reenen—who are associated with various American i... 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...

LSE Business Review blog

Reading list: seven leading LSE women researchers

Anna Valero, Beverley Skeggs, Connson Locke, Emily Jackson, Shani Orgad, Sonia Livingstone and Susanna Khavul Budget 2017: productivity is the focus, but ‘fixes’ are unlikely to be enough ... Read more...

LiveMint

The Lost Einsteins

It is no secret that innovation is a powerful driver of growth in any modern economy. How does a country promote innovation activity? A recent study by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana... Read more...

Vox CEPR

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

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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...

The National

Economics 101: Are there many 'lost Einsteins' in the Arab world?

By obtaining highly detailed data on more than one million American inventors, a recent study by Alex Bell (Harvard University), Raj Chetty (Stanford University), Xavier Jaravel (London School of Economics), N... 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...

Alternatives-economiques.fr (France)

Ce que nous dit l?indicateur du bonheur sur l?etat du monde/What the happiness indicator tells us about the state of the world

Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin (&... Read more...

Sohu.com (China)

Economic trend tracking (1795) the Federal Reserve rate hit

Swati Dhingra of the Center for Economic Performance at London School of Economics (LSE) said "Inflation data provides the most useful information." She said the overall impact of uncertainty is more... Read more...

CEP mentions in Parliament and on Twitter

Welsh Committee frames question around LSE figures

In a session with the Welsh Secretary, Geraint Davies MP (Lab) referred to the report by Centre for Economic Performance on inflation.   ... Read more...

Alternatives Economiques (France)

Ce que nous dit l?indicateur du bonheur sur l?etat du monde/What the happiness indicator tells us about the state of the world

Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin ( ... Read more...

doc-research.org

Technological innovation: the challenges for labour

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...

Hola.com (Spain)

This study reaffirms the effects of the most beautiful women?s mantra

Money does not give happiness, but it does help. The economist Richard Layard maintains in his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, that a person must collect, at least, 20,000 gross euros a year to fee... 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...

Japan Times

Nurture as important as nature for success

How about the notion that smarts determine life success? That idea too has come under assault from recent research. A recent paper by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John... 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...

CNFOL.COM (China)

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

John Wraith, head of interest rate policy at UBS UK, said: "The impact of the referendum was, first and foremost, only a sharp fall in the pound." Due to strong consumer spending, the UK economy init... 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...

Inc.com

A Stanford professor says working from home makes you happier and more efficient. There?s just 1 catch

Work from home or go to an office: which kind of workers are happier and more efficient? For the first time – surprisingly – there’s some solid academic research on the subject, led by a Stan... Read more...

Foreign Affairs ? Essay January/February 2018 Issue

The truth about the minimum wage

Article by Alan Manningi It has been more than eight years since many of the United States’ cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, hous... 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...

Bloomberg.com

Nurture counts as much as nature in success

How about the notion that smarts determine life success? That idea too has come under assault from recent research. A recent paper by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

The Truth About the Minimum Wage

Article by Alan Manning.  It has been more than eight years since many of the United States’ cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, h... Read more...

American Economic Association

Chart of the week: Breaking down Brexit

Estimates of the full cost of Brexit — ranging from one to ten percent of the UK per capita income — depend on how the UK leaves. In a new paper in the fall issue of the Journal of Economic Perspec... Read more...

Szaopressa.com (Russia)

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