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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...
18 March 2025
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...
12 September 2024
Ucas is reforming personal statements from next year. Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said he believed the reform was a "significant step in making the university admissions ... Read more...
18 July 2024
Lee Elliot Major's research predicts a steady decline in GCSE results of key subjects until 2030, attributing it to the failure to address the academic and social legacies of school closures during the pandemic. ... Read more...
24 April 2024
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...
Schools in England must do more to challenge unconscious bias in the classroom against children from working-class backgrounds - Lee Elliot Major discusses practical recommendations schools and policymakers can take to h... Read more...
03 October 2023
Lee Elliot Major explains why England's 2023 school leavers have been unfairly treated over their A-level results. Just under half of A-level entries in the private sector in 2023 were graded A* and A grades, compared wi... Read more...
20 August 2023
Stephen Machin, director of CEP, is due to give a flagship British Academy lecture on wage controversies at the Bristol Ideas Festival of Economics. Professor Machin will address topics including how does high inflation... Read more...
07 November 2022
Donna Ferguson interviews Lee Elliot Major to find out why he made the move to academia - and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. ... Read more...
06 November 2022
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...
15 July 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
The written part of university applications could be changed to provide more support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the universities minister has said. The proposal comes after Lee Elliot Major criticise... Read more...
16 February 2022
Lee Elliot Major talks about the implementation of the National Tutoring Programme and the need to support disadvantaged children in post-pandemic recovery plans. ... Read more...
06 October 2021
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...
31 May 2021
Lee Elliot Major explains how teachers have a chance to address the inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
01 March 2021
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin remember the drive behind Roosevelt's New Deal which created millions of jobs during America's Great Depression in the 1930s and examine how government policy could ... Read more...
08 December 2020
The book What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? has been named as one of the best books on economics this year by the Financial Times. The book by Lee Elliot Major, professor of s... Read more...
17 November 2020
During late September and early October, just 59 per cent of pupils benefitted from “full schooling”, says new report. ... Read more...
26 October 2020
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...
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin argue how political reform is needed to solve issues with social mobility resulting from Covid-19. They explain that the findings of their review of evidence on social mobil... Read more...
07 October 2020
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...
17 July 2020
CEP's director Professor Stephen Machin, co-author of the report, Covid-19 and social mobility, notes how: "We need to develop bold policies for now and the longer term to ensure the economic rec... Read more...
29 May 2020
A report on self-employed workers mentions the survey conducted by Jack Blundell and Professor Stephen Machin, of the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, which showed self-e... Read more...
28 May 2020
Intervention is needed to prevent children entering a 'dark age' of declining social mobility due to social inequalities, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major... Read more...
The "Covid generation" of under-25s is less likely to fulfil its potential, regardless of background, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major and Professor Stephen ... Read more...
More than 50 northern MPs and peers have called for a ‘catch-up premium’ for poorer pupils Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, and Stephen Machin, professor ... Read more...
29 April 2020
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...
06 April 2020
Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, and Henry Overman, research director of CEP, contribute to an investigation into the differences in wages and opportunities across the country and why some towns and ... Read more...
09 March 2020
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...
26 February 2020
Adam Swift, professor of political theory at UCL, writes about three books on social mobility: Social Mobility And Its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin, Social Mobility and Education in Britain by Erzs&e... Read more...
23 January 2020
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...
21 November 2019
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...
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...
11 November 2019
Millennials, many of whom came of age during the 2008 financial crisis, are the first generation ever to be less well-off than their parents. The reasons for this, according to a report released last week by the Institut... Read more...
05 November 2019
A decade of wage stagnation since the financial crisis has left young people financially worse off than their parents were at the same age, according to a report. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School... Read more...
04 November 2019
How can social mobility be improved? Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin write that merely tweaking existing policies will not transform society. They outline four major changes that have the potential to actually do so.... Read more...
30 October 2019
Snippet: For example, since 1989, Australia has introduced the system of contingent repayment loans (PARCs) which allow higher education to benefit from public funding supplemented by funding provided by the beneficiarie... Read more...
23 October 2019
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...
29 September 2019
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...
27 September 2019
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...
20 August 2019
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...
19 August 2019
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...
30 July 2019
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...
22 June 2019
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...
08 May 2019
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...
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...
07 May 2019
Disadvantaged children who qualify for free school meals are twice as likely to be out of work in later life than their better-off peers, and even when they get good qualifications at school the employment gap... Read more...
24 April 2019
by Heidi Allen MP, interim leader of Change UK "I’ve had early sight of research released today that magnifies how the most disadvantaged young people in our country are held back because of... Read more...
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...
15 April 2019
Dr. Federico Rossi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Warwick University and Dr. Marta De Philippis of the Bank of Italy's Department of Economics and Statistics investigated the school performance of... Read more...
12 April 2019
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...
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...
09 April 2019
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...
12 February 2019
One little-known study could, however, help shed light on where the problem really lies. According to Professors Bell and Van Reenen of the LSE, the real issue is not that CEO pay has been inflated, but that worker pay h... Read more...
29 January 2019
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...
21 January 2019
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...
17 January 2019
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...
04 January 2019
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...
28 November 2018
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...
21 November 2018
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...
08 November 2018
Dr Major was told about abuses while researching his book Social Mobility And Its Enemies, with Professor Stephen Machin, director of the Centre for Economic Performance. They talked to parents and teachers in... Read more...
29 September 2018
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...
28 September 2018
Opinion by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin "Britain is stuck. Too many of us are destined to end up in the same positions occupied by our parents – particularly if we sit on the lowest or ... Read more...
27 September 2018
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...
21 June 2018
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...
18 May 2018
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...
16 May 2018
Interview with Stephen Gibbons. “Did the bedroom tax or 'under-occupancy charge' actually work?” ... Read more...
14 May 2018
Nudge-u-cation: Can behavioural science boost education and social mobility? Pro Bono Economics' Annual Lecture featuring Dr David Halpern, Professor Sandra McNally and Chris Brown. Over the last decade, g... Read more...
11 April 2018
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...
09 April 2018
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...
28 March 2018
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...
22 March 2018
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...
16 February 2018
Researchers at the ESRC Centre for Economic Performance have explored the impact of stamp duty on different types of mobility, by comparing mobility rates of otherwise similar homeowners with self-assessed hou... Read more...
01 February 2018
The Federation of Master Builders reports that “skyrocketing” skill shortages mean that there are not enough workers available in all the key construction skills. The Black Country Chamber of Comme... Read more...
24 January 2018
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...
13 January 2018
The cut in stamp duty for first-time buyers was good news but more needs to be done to help overcome the housing crisis, according to the chief executive of the Family Building Society, Mark Bogard. It foll... Read more...
10 January 2018
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...
24 December 2017
....And then, among apprenticeships for young people, 60 per cent of places are at intermediate level. New analysis by Sandra McNally for today’s report, of the experience of those aged 16 in 2003 who su... Read more...
30 November 2017
"Disadvantaged youngsters are less likely than their better-off peers to start the best apprenticeships, a new study reveals. Research published by the Sutton Trust showed that seven per cent of yo... Read more...
"Two thirds of apprenticeships are merely “converting” existing employees and could be certifying existing skills, rather than focusing on expanding expertise, a new report has warned. Rese... Read more...
The segmentation of apprenticeship by level puts an artificial break on progression, according to a new report commissioned by the Sutton Trust. The report, entitled Better Apprenticeships – Acces... Read more...
When the Industrial Strategy was up for consultation earlier in the year, my colleagues in the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) and I emphasised the importance of well-targeted Active Labour Mar... Read more...
28 November 2017
....It is also crucial that the issue of access is tackled. As our latest research shows, disadvantaged young people are less likely to enter the best apprenticeships than their better-off peers. We’ve a... Read more...
20 November 2017
Earlier this year, a report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research said the rate of home moving would be 27 per cent higher without stamp duty. Related publications ... Read more...
30 October 2017
The Sutton Trust’s optimistic slogan on its masthead proclaims that it has been “Improving social mobility for 20 years”. Sadly, its own site includes a disturbing study, commissioned from th... Read more...
26 October 2017
Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...
05 October 2017
Snippet: ... for the first time compared to previous decades they would not receive anything so they are receiving somethings in relative terms to the top they're closing the relative gap but in absolute t... Read more...
10 September 2017
Stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing, it has been claimed. A report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Resea... Read more...
16 August 2017
A recent paper by Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics suggests that stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by about a fifth. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mo... Read more...
14 August 2017
Academics have claimed that the housing market is being adversely affected by stamp duty. According to research from the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, the duty is det... Read more...
Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Stamp duty discourages young expanding families from moving to more adequate, larger housing and it discourages the elderly from downsizing. ... Read more...
11 August 2017
Current stamp duty rates are deterring older buyers from downsizing and therefore freeing up homes for those further down the housing ladder, but the research from the London School of Economics and the VATT I... Read more...
Present rates of Stamp Duty are putting older buyers off downsizing and stopping more homes coming onto the market for those at the bottom of the housing ladder. Research from the London School of Economics an... Read more...
By raising the costs of moving home, stamp duty is likely to have “very substantial detrimental effects” on the property market, according to research released this week by academics from the Londo... Read more...
Snippet: ... A report by the London School of Economics also claimed that stamp duty is making the housing crisis worse because it is deterring older homeowners from downsizing. Related publications ... Read more...
10 August 2017
Snippet: ... "The important message for our paper is that the taxation has significantly hurt the liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. Related publications &lsq... Read more...
Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly’… Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes ... Read more...
The tax is stopping young families from moving to a larger home, a report says, and deterring older people from downsizing. Snippet: ...Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "Th... Read more...
"The important message of our paper is that the taxation is significantly damaging to liquidity," said Professor Christian Hilber, co-author of the report. "" If a young family adds a filia... Read more...
09 August 2017
A cabinet minister, who apparently wishes to remain anonymous, has told the Daily Telegraph that stamp duty must be reformed as it is exacerbating the housing crisis, stopping older homeowners from downsizing.... Read more...
A study by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research found Stamp Duty, or property transfer taxes, were making households less likely to move, particularly over shorter distan... Read more...
Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, of the London School of Economics, tells the paper the key message from the research is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Tra... Read more...
Snippet: ... Prof Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes and... Read more...
Snippet: ... Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report told the Daily Telegraph: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications &... Read more...
Snippet: ... Co-author of the report, Professor Christian Hilber, said: “The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly. Related publications ‘Transfer Taxes a... Read more...
Snippet: ... LSE Professor Christian Hilber said: "If you are a young family and you have an additional child, you'll need an additional room, but the stamp duty is discouraging this kind of move beca... Read more...
The academic paper, published jointly by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, estimates the level of home moving would increase by 27 per cent if the levy was abolished ... Read more...
However, research from the LSE and the VATT Institute for Economic Research suggests the human cost of stamp duty is even higher. It artificially reduces the rate at which people move by nearly one-third, it s... Read more...
08 August 2017
Snippet: ... A report from academics said stamp duty reduces the rate of home moving by nearly a third and meant that large homes were not being freed up for young, growing families. Related publications ... Read more...
in the last decade, the average amount of stamp duty charged per residential transaction has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly for some). The need to pay thousa... Read more...
05 August 2017
A little-noticed change in Britain’s housing market spells trouble for everybody Snippet: ...n has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly). The need to pay ... Read more...
Education has “not done anything” to improve social mobility and has made inequality worse, according to the education economist Stephen Machin. Speaking at a debate held by the Sutton Trust on Wed... Read more...
16 July 2017
Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by r... Read more...
05 July 2017
Construction of McMansions has also increased but people who have smaller homes near where McMansions are built are much, much unhappier with their homes, according to a paper published in the spring by resear... Read more...
04 July 2017
The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...
25 May 2017
17:20:17 Professor Martin Knapp comments on money for social care in the budget Also on: BBC Wiltshire ... Read more...
09 March 2017
19:00:01 Snippet: ...Martin Knapp discusses the Chancellor’s plans to put an extra £2 billion towards England’s social care systems. Click to open Also on BBC Radio 4, BBC Foyle, BBC... Read more...
08 March 2017
Martin Knapp is director of health and social care at the London school of economics and an economist specialising in health and social care. ... Read more...
24 February 2017
Extreme polarisation is not persistent over time; people are more likely to react to specific events or news, writes Maria Molina-Domene Social media facilitates communication and an appealing question is w... Read more...
16 February 2017
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Exporters to Angola that hired managers with specific types of experience were more likely to succeed, write Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza. The enormous variation in firm perform... Read more...
26 January 2017
There is considerable geographical variation in the opportunities available to disadvantaged children in the United States, according to research by Raj Chetty, who delivered the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial L... Read more...
06 January 2017
Article by Gill Wyness With UK tuition fees now among the highest in the world, but benefits from having a degree remaining substantial, choosing the right university has never been more important for young... Read more...
09 December 2016
The capital's schools are the best in the country. Can they be copied? According to a report last year by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London School of Economics, one-sixth of the improvement ... Read more...
01 October 2016
Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility But critics were quick to dismiss the reforms. Professor Sandra McNally, director of education and skills at the London Schoo... Read more...
09 September 2016
A 2015 research paper by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that student test scores improve by 6.4 percent when cell phones are banned at schools and that there are no... Read more...
06 September 2016
...UK-wide, we have increased our school leaver intake by 47 per cent because we have already started to see the positive results that increased social mobility and diversity can have on both your bottom line and wider ... Read more...
25 August 2016
Article by Brian Bell and Stephen Machin Wage inequality was partly behind the vote for Brexit. This column shows how areas with relatively low median wages were substantially more likely to vote ‘Lea... Read more...
16 August 2016
Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-q... Read more...
02 August 2016
Although empirical evidence about the effects of phone access on learning seems to be scarce, the findings of a recent study on student phone access and the achievement gap by Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy for... Read more...
27 April 2016
Amy Mollett, Social Media Manager, rounds up how LSE currently uses Twitter for sharing research, interacting with students and alumni, and promoting events. She also looks at what the future of academic social media mig... Read more...
24 March 2016
The opportunities for social mobility, that higher education and income than the parents, is less in the United Kingdom than in Norway. Professor Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance in the United Kingdo... Read more...
10 December 2015
The prospects for improving social mobility for future generations remain bleak, an author of a key social study released a decade ago will warn. Stephen Machin, professor of economics and research director at the Centre... Read more...
'Bleak' prospects A seminar on social mobility in the UK, to be held at the London School of Economics on Thursday, will hear that too little progress is being made. It will be addressed by Prof Stephen Machin, res... Read more...
Article by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Private tutoring is booming and elite universities remain preserve of middle classes; something must change, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Social mobility is t... Read more...
09 December 2015
On 18 November, representatives from the Centre for Vocational Education Research gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Social Mobility, as part of its inquiry into the transition from school to wor... Read more...
18 November 2015
Social mobility plays a curious and sometimes tortuous role in our national political psyche. We love talking about it even if we can't, or won't, do much about it. Greater mobility is a goal lionised by all politicians ... Read more...
Partly as a result London house prices per square foot are now the second highest in the world after Monaco, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. The problem is acute: the average... Read more...
02 June 2015
Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought - or at least not in the way we thought. Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After... Read more...
29 May 2015
[Joshua] Angrist, the Ford Professor of Economics, has long been one of the leading advocates of research that uses ''ceteris paribus'' [other things being equal] principles. Now, along with Jorn-Steffen Pischke of the L... Read more...
01 December 2014
MIT News announced the publication later this month of Mastering Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Economists' new book teaches how to conduct cause-and-effect studi... Read more...
In response to arguments that the 'social mobility problem' has been overstated and that social mobility as a policy aim is futile, Jo Blanden reviews research that her and colleagues have conducted into intergenerationa... Read more...
04 November 2013
The Nordics also have a strong record of drawing on the talents of their entire populations, with the possible exception of their immigrants. They have the world's highest rates of social mobility: in a comparison of soc... Read more...
01 February 2013
Studies of social mobility as far back as the 1950s and 1960s showed that rates of movement in the United States were generally comparable to other developed countries. This finding itself challenged the longstanding ... Read more...
02 October 2012