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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

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...

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

In Memoriam: Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear that CEP associate Ghazala Azmat, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, passed away on Saturday, 7 June. Ghazala was a leading applied microeconomist, known for her work on labour markets,... 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...

Financial Times

Apprenticeships can help fix the UK's growth problem

Richard Layard writing in the Financial Times, says that a clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government's economic agenda.  ... 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...

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...

BBC Radio 4

Steel Dragons

The Port Talbot steel works is closing its last remaining blast furnace, delivering a shattering blow to the economy and society of a South Wales town where employment and wages were once so strong it became known as Tre... 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...

The Guardian

Rachel Reeves to announce economic advisory council to boost UK growth

John Van Reenen, an innovation expert and former Downing Street policy adviser under Tony Blair’s New Labour government, will head the body, which is expected to sit within the heart of the Treasury. Sources close ... Read more...

CEP announcement

Henry Overman made OBE in King's birthday honours

Congratulations to Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024. Professor Overman has bee... 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...

The Observer

Tax and spending cuts will backfire, economists warn Jeremy Hunt

In a statement to the Observer, Anna Valero, a former member of the chancellor’s economic advisory council, and Dimitri Zenghelis, a former head of economic forecasting at the Treasury, said the country needed to b... 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

UK should invest in green economy instead of tax giveaways, study shows

Dimitri Zenghelis, Esin Serin, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen and Bob Ward - authors of the LSE paper titled Boosting Growth and Productivity in the UK Through Investments in the Sustainable Economy - examine the fitness o... 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...

CEP Announcement

Saul Estrin becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy.  He is amon... Read more...

Financial Times

Growing green awareness gives eco-innovation a competitive edge

Ralf Martin investigates whether consumers' environmental convictions will fade when confronted with higher prices, showing that consumers seem to prefer environmentally conscious choices, and indicating that changing at... 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

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

Alan Manning: 'Achieving growth by just having more people is not what we should aim for'

Alan Manning, the UK government's former immigration advisor, considers whether Britain's post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked. ... 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...

Financial Times

The Undercover Economist: Five ideas that might actually boost UK growth

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng don’t seem to know how to go about it. Here are a few starting points.     ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4: The Briefing Room

Britain's productivity puzzle

Low growth is an entrenched problem in the UK, dating back decades. Anna Valero is among the guests discussing why the country has been performing so badly and what needs to be done to turn us into a high-growth country.... 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...

CEP Announcement

Henry Overman becomes a Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Henry Overman, research director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and professor of economic geography at LSE, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is among 85 ne... 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 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...

Bloomberg UK

Are workers more productive at home?

Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... 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 Times

It's time to take a firmer grip on companies and competition law

To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... 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...

BBC Two

Newsnight

Interview with Swati Dhingra - is this the end of globalisation? In a series of special programmes, Newsnight looks at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Philippe Aghion awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... 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...

Financial Times

Stable job market is `mixed blessing? for UK workers

The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...

The Times

Want a pay increase? Then move to a new job, says Resolution Foundation

Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... 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...

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...

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...

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 Independent

Brexit causes difficulties for more than 60 per cent of UK firms - report

Study by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds higher prices and reduced competitiveness due to EU withdrawal. ... Read more...

iNews

Brexit has hits UK firms as border delays and bureaucracy add to costs, says study

Report by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with ... Read more...

The Independent

Almost three-quarters of a million businesses `at risk of failure over next three months', economists warn

Warnings of widespread business failure comes in an analysis by the John Van Reenen and Peter Lambert, using the latest Business Insights and Impact survey. ... Read more...

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth

New research shows that reductions in air pollution have intergenerational consequences

Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis analyse the importance of environmental quality in shaping economic opportunity, and how improvements in health associated with lower prenatal pollution exposure may have... 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...

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...

Financial Times

UK economists? survey: recovery will be slower than in peer countries

A survey of nearly 100 economists revealed that most of them expect the size of the economy not to return to pre-pandemic levels until the third quarter of 2022, despite the expectation of a strong consumer-le... 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...

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...

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...

The Economist

Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits

The Economist examines the benefits of working from home in light of lockdown, and cites findings made by Nick Bloom that those who worked from home were more productive. ... 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 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 Thinks

Ralf Martin & John van Reenen | The case for a COVID-19 carbon tax

Ralf Martin and John Van Reenen explain how a carbon tax could both help pay for the enormous costs of the pandemic and encourage ‘clean’ investment. Crucially, it should be levied in a few years&r... Read more...

Blogs: CoronaNomics

"What Just Happened?" Ep2. | CoronaNomics Live! with Miatta Fahnbulleh and Richard Davies

The economic impact of coronavirus. Presented by Ben Chu (economics editor of The Independent) with Lizzy Burden (economics reporter of The Daily Telegraph). This episode features Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief e... 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...

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...

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...

Fortune

5 lessons for the coronavirus recovery, from an expert on success and failure in crisis

Richard Davies talks to Fortune magazine about what helps economies recover from extreme shocks, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... 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...

Blogs: LSE US Centre

How hoax information on social media about COVID-19 might be worsening the pandemic.

How hoax information on social media about covid-19 might be worsening the pandemic. ... 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...

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: Growth

Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment

This paper uses evidence of increased productivity among two samples of call centre staff working from home to highlight the potential in new management methods. Published 2013. ... 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...

Blogs: MIT Technology Review

We talked to one of MIT's best economists about the covid-19 recession

John Van Reenen says success in restarting our economy depends on trust in the government, the quality of our health care, and our ability to monitor those with covid-19. ... 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...

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...

BBC Radio 3

Free Thinking: Does Growth Matter?

Anne McElvoy discusses economic futures with demographer Danny Dorling and economists Richard Davies and Petr Barton. ... 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...

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...

Los Angeles Times

News Analysis: Gender bias turned out to be a wonderful indicator of WeWork?s incompetence

Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun and her colleagues have studied more than 12,000 companies and found that organizations that do the basic, boring work of managing - documenting processes, setting clear ... 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 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...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Lessons on how to help `left behind places?

Disadvantaged areas need evidence-based approaches, not policy innovation, argues the director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. Evidence-based policy in disadvantaged places, What Works Centre for Eco... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

Brexit: Trick or Treat?

The think tank, The UK in a Changing Europe, estimate that these effects will eventually reduce UK GDP per person by around 2.5 per cent, relative to what it would have been were we to stay in the EU. Less trade, however... Read more...

What Works Centre for Economic Growth Blog

How can evidence-based policy help in disadvantaged places?

We are very pleased to have launched our collaborative work on disadvantaged places. This project looks in depth at policy, and the use of evidence, in places in the UK that are most disadvantaged, sometimes referred to... Read more...

The Conversation ? France

Debate: Does free education guarantee the accessibility of higher education?

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...

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...

The Sunday Times (London)

Sterling to rally further as hopes grow for Brexit breakthrough

In a report to be published today by the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, economists say that the prime minister's proposals are likely to end in a "Canada-minus" trade agreement less comprehensive than that between t... Read more...

Financial Times

How Boris Johnson?s hard Brexit would hit the UK economy

The Brexit deal that Boris Johnson, the prime minister, is seeking to strike with Brussels this week would push the UK down the route of a hard Brexit, resulting in the nation missing out on up to 7 per cent of growth, a... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

PATRIOT GAMES; James Norrington examines how investors might position their portfolios in an era of economic nationalism

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases its Pink and Blue Books on the balance of payments at the end of October (interestingly the date is later than usual and coincides with the current Brexit departure date)... 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...

LesEchos.fr

Avoir raison contre tous / To be right against all

In a context made even more complicated by the situation in Ireland, the economists of the Center for Economic Performance of the LSE underline that the Brexiters also neglect the economic benefits of integration in the ... 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...

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...

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

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...

Capital (Newspaper)

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and France. When t... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe

What the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade

Dr Thomas Sampson explains what the immediate impacts of a no-deal will have on UK trade. Professor Thomas Sampson from @CEP_LSE explains what the immediate impacts of a #nodeal will have on UK trade.#Nodealexplain... 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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Forbes Online

The Mobile Phone Ban In French Schools, One Year On. Would It Work Elsewhere?

Supporters of the ban cite research undertaken by the London School of Economics which shows that limited phone use in schools directly correlates to exam success, partly because of an increase in concentration. The same... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LSE Business Review

The 2018 trade war: consumers are paying a high price

There is an almost complete pass-through of tariffs into prices paid by US importers; consumers pick up the tab, write Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David E. Weinstein.... 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...

VOX CEPR Policy Panel

Trade wars may `bloc up? world trade

Write David Jacks, Dennis Novy Against the backdrop of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and retaliation from targeted countries, notably China, the trade wars of the 1930s have received renewed attention... Read more...

LSE US Centre

How the Panama Canal reshaped the economic geography of the United States

More than a century ago, the opening of the Panama Canal revolutionized international trade by making it much quicker and easier to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But, write Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand ... 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...

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...

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...

What works centre for local economic growth (blog)

Make the most of devolution: a lesson from the apprenticeships grant

Dr Chiara Cavaglia Make Devolution is also affecting "education and skills", e.g. with the Adult Education Budget being managed locally form 2019/20. With this in mind, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeshi... 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...

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...

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...

BBC Radio

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

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

La Republica

Aranceles y petroleo dominaran los temas en la cumbre del G20 en Osaka / Tariffs and oil will dominate the issues at the G20 summit in Osaka

Reaffirming this idea, John Van Reenen, economist at MIT, explained that this division could point to a scenario in which the only one harmed is the global economy. "Given the assault of Trump and the growing band of 'st... Read more...

The Pioneer

Why women must work

Research by Nick Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying on Ctrip in China showed a 13.5 per cent rise in worker productivity through work from home policies as employees completed their full shift of wor... Read more...

Investors Chronicle FT

Damaging uncertainty

Thirdly, it is exporters who are being especially hard hit by Brexit uncertainty and it is these who tend to be more efficient than the average company. Brute maths, says Stanford University's Nick Bloom, means that this... Read more...

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Three Years since the Brexit Vote: Looking Back

3) In the Fall 2017 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Thomas Sampson sums up the research on what is known and what might come next in "Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration," In turn, I... Read more...

New York Times (International Ed)

Globalization Is Moving Past the U.S. and Its Vision of World Order

"One thing is really clear: There has got to be a reset in the world trading system," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at the London School of Economics. "It's all breaking at the seams at this point."... Read more...

San Francisco Business Times Online

The New York Times Globalization is moving past the U.S. and its vision of world order

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VoxEU

Patri budoucnost statnimu kapitalismu? / Does the future belong to state capitalism?

The achievements of the Chinese and Vietnamese economies lead to a debate on state capitalism as a viable model of further development. Economists Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund Malesky present on VoxE... 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...

Lewiston Sun Journal

Robert Samuelson: Trade seen as a way to punish adversaries

In a fascinating new paper, economists David Jacks and Dennis Novy argue that today's contentious trade disputes recall what happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Led by Great Britain and Germany, competing ... Read more...

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Trump's trade wars spin out of control; His methods will do more harm than good if - and he seems to want this - it leads to a reduction in global Commerce

"At the moment, we have not witnessed a wholesale collapse of the modern trading system. This is partially for the fact that policymakers seem to have learned some of the lessons of interwar history by not responding in ... Read more...

Spectator

Donald Trump has done Britain a favour with his NHS grab

Who compromises most in such cases? Generally, size matters: big trading economies are usually in a position to dictate terms to smaller partners. In the words of professor Dennis Novy of the University of Warwick: "Th... Read more...

WFAE 90.70 (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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Deseret News

Robert Samuelson: The brave new world of trading blocs

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Business Times

The brave new world of trading blocs

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Santa Cruz Sentinel

Robert Samuelson: The brave new world of trading blocs

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ArcaMax

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Alabama Public Radio (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

To help us sort out the prospects of a bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. and to look at the historical context, we're joined by Professor Dennis Novy. He's an economist at the University of Warwick. Welc... 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...

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial: Counting the trade war?s casualties

The economic losses from Trump's trade war compound that burden. A study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University and Princeton University found that trade warfare was costing Americans... 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...

The Wall Street Journal

Who Pays the Trump Tariffs? We Do, These Americans Say

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Financial Times

US consumers start to pay price of trade war with China

Research from Mary Amiti of the New York Fed, Stephen Redding of Princeton University and David Weinstein of Columbia University in March found that the "full incidence" of the tariffs has fallen on domestic consumers so... Read more...

BBC News

Who loses out in the US-China trade war?

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NPR (Radio)

Most Americans Still Don't Know What The Latest Round Tariffs Mean For Their Pocketbooks

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The Australian Financial Review

Job Markets in Top Gear

"We used to think that unemployment responded to growth in the economy. We used to think I it took about 2 percent growth to make any in roads into unemployment But the recovery since the recession has gone against that ... Read more...

The New York Times

Trump?s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says

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The New York Times

Trump?s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans

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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...

Speigel Online

"Dieser Handelskrieg kann noch viel hasslicher werden"

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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...

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...

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...

VOX Talks (Podcast)

The 2018 trade war

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Ekonamik

The Short-Term Effects of Trade Tariffs

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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...

Harvard Business Review

How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward

A company's performance during and after a recession depends not just on the decisions it makes but also on who makes them. In a 2017 study, Raffaella Sadun (of Harvard Business School), Philippe Aghion (of College de Fr... 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...

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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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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PRI (Radio)

Who?s paying for Trump?s tariffs? China, or American shoppers?

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Bloomberg.com

Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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TIME

Trump's Trade War Is Costing Americans $3 Billion a Month in Higher Taxes, Study Says

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Wall Street Journal

Real Time Economics: The U.S. Trade Deficit Is About to Break Another Record

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The Economist

Trade talks will probably end with tariffs still in place

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The Financial Times

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

Figure of the week - $1.4bn a month. The hit to US prices and welfare produced by Mr Trump's trade policies in 2018, according to research by Mary Amiti of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Stephen Redding of Princet... Read more...

LSE Business Review

As the Phoenicians sailed across the Mediterranean, they spread mice and growth

One of the first major trade expansions in human history provides early evidence that trade promotes growth, write Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch. ... 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...

Stigler Centre

The Costs of Trump?s Import Tariffs Have Landed Entirely on US Citizens

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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...

Fortune

Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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CNBC

Trump tariffs costing US consumers $1.4 billion per month, study shows

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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...

LSE Business Review

Regulating mobile money: what?s at stake

A new analysis suggests a trajectory and policy recommendations, write Adeline Pelletier, Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin. In the past decade, mobile payment systems (MPS) have rapidly emerged in many developing economies... Read more...

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...

LSE Business Review

UK economy since the Brexit vote: slower GDP growth, lower productivity, and a weaker pound

Evidence of the UK's economic performance since the EU Referendum is clear: GDP growth has slowed down, productivity has suffered, the pound has depreciated and purchasing power has gone down, and investments have declin... 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...

Financial Times

Bank of England policymaker warns of risk to UK jobs market

Jonathan Haskel worried by falling business investment driven by uncertainty.... 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...

BBC News

India election 2019: The next manufacturing superpower?

"It's important to remember that China started with a much more broad-based and educated workforce when it embarked on its economic transition," says Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics. "India has seen m... Read more...

The HuffPost Canada

Cell Phones In Classrooms Are So Distracting, U.S. Teacher Shows In Viral Experiment

Bans on mobile phones significantly increases student performance in high-stakes exams, according to a 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science paper.... Read more...

London Free Press

TVDSB welcomes proposed cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms

...which are designed to create positive learning environments." They note that many school boards have policies that allow students to bring their own devices into the classroom for educational purposes. A 2015 London S... Read more...

Vice

Doug Ford is Banning Cell Phones in Schools

The Toronto District School Board dropped its ban in 2011, and last summer, it also lifted its ban on Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix. A 2015 London School of Economics study found that ... ... Read more...

Bloomberg

BOE?s Haskel Warns Brexit Deal May Not End Economic Uncertainty

Bank of England policy maker Jonathan Haskel warned that the UK may not see a material pickup in investment growth even if the government secures an exit deal with the European Union this month. Haskel, in his first spe... Read more...

Financial Times

Enact policies to boost emotional health

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China Daily

Trade dispute costing US billions, 2 studies find

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Market Watch

Opinion: Forget what Donald Trump said: Tariffs are a tax on American consumers

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The Washington Post

As trade deficit explodes, Trump finds he can?t escape the laws of economics

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South China Morning Post

Tariff war cost US companies and consumers US$44 billion a month in 2018

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The Japan Times

Evidence grows that Trump's trade wars are hitting U.S. economy and Americans are footing the tariffs

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Barrons

Podcast: $4.4 billion in Trade War Costs For Americans, and Two Other Numbers You Need to Know

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Quartz

Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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Woodrow Wilson School

Trade War Results in Substantial Losses for U.S. & Other Countries

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Long Room

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Washington Examiner

Trump tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion a month in income, study says

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Business Telegraph

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

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Business Insider

Trump's trade war cost Americans $1.4 billion a month last year, according to a new report

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Yahoo Finance

Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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Vanity Fair

Trump?s Dumb Trade War Cost Americans $3 Billion a Month Last Year

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NPR (Radio)

Market Place

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EurekAlert!

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Phys Org

Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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The New York Times

As Trump Moves to End Trade War With China, Business Asks: Was It Worth It?

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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...

The New York Times

How Goes the Trade War?

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CEPR Discussion Paper

The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare

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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...

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...

The Daily Star

Brexit referendum spurs British firms into investing in EU

The referendum result led to a 12 percent increase in foreign direct investment transactions from Britain into the EU between mid-2016 and September 2018, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Econo... Read more...

Vox

Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Media reports suggest that some UK firms have started to move production abroad in anticipation of Brexit. Using data on announcements of new foreign investment transactions, this column reports evidence that the Brexit ... Read more...

Express (online)

Brexit BETRAYAL: Firms ditch UK to invest #7.7 BILLION in EU claim London experts

Dennis Novy, one of the report's authors, told CNBC: "The economic risk of Brexit is larger on the UK side of the Channel.... Read more...

Continental Telegraph

Brexit Is Reducing UK Domestic Investment And Foreign

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Sky News

Brexit is clearly taking its toll on UK economic growth

A study published this morning by the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE dissects how foreign investment has changed behaviour since the referendum. According to the LSE researchers, UK firms appear to have star... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Are firms moving investment abroad because of Brexit? Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson (LSE) use a 'doppelganger method' to estimate how foreign direct investment would have evolved without... Read more...

CNBC

British firms have diverted $10 billion of investment to the EU due to Brexit, study claims

A study conducted by academics from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) looked into how the vote to leave the EU has affected outward investment by U.K. companies. ... Read more...

CNBC Europe

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Mention of CEP report showing British firms investing outside of the UK because of Brexit. ... 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...

Economics of Education Review (Journal)

The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen

Volume 68, February 2019, Pages 53-67 The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen. NBER Working Paper No. 22501 How universities boost economic growth Anna Valer... Read more...

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...

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...

iPolitics.ca

Brexit chaos belies Quebec sovereigntist promise of painless breakup

Long term is worse. "Our best estimate is that GDP per capita will be 6.3 to 9.5 per cent per year lower than it would be if we were to remain in the EU," wrote John Van Reenen, today an economics professor at MIT. "At t... Read more...

ActuAI (video)

Conference < Intelligence artificielle et croissance > par Philippe Aghion/ Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Growth" by Philippe Aghion

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Financial Times

The FT polled 81 economists about prospects for 2019

Swati Dhingra, associate professor, LSE Slowdown like earlier, low GDP growth relative to other OECD countries. Dampening of investments. Hard to predict numbers here because short-term forecasts are not the most relia... 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...

Financial Times

May moves on workers? rights in pursuit of legacy beyond Brexit

Alongside the new labour market rights, the government is also set to create a new single labour market enforcement body following a review by David Metcalf, the UK's first director of labour market enforcement, who re... 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...

The Observer

Why are so many UK businesses just barely managing to get by?

John Van Reenen argues that competent managers are desperately undervalued in the UK. The MIT economics professor, who until recently headed the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, concedes that most studies ... 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 (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...

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...

Financial Times

Brexit doubts weaken productivity growth

Nick Bloom on Brexit uncertainty. A survey of 3,000 companies, funded by the Bank of England, which notes "Brexit's importance as a source of uncertainty has risen further in recent months". Nick Bloom, said: "Le... 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Austin American Statesman (USA)

Eanes gets new school board president, record donation

Parents seeking a school cellphone ban for grades five through eight also spoke in Open Forum. “I’m here representing 612 families … asking for reforms to the district’s middle school ... 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...

World Economic Forum

Are towns stuck in the wrong places?

Article by Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch  The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced. They are ... Read more...

World Economic Forum

Are towns stuck in the wrong places?

  Article by Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch  The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced.... Read more...

Science Times ? blog (China)

The ?headline party? is polluting our scientific and technological community

Recent studies show that scientific progress is decelerating and tends to stagnate on the whole. In the paper “Innovating Harder and Harder to Find?” published in March of this year, four economist... 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...

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...

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...

Out ? Law.com

Warning to UK employers on low paid labour market enforcement

Sir David Metcalf was appointed in January 2017 to provide oversight and set strategic priorities for the government's three labour market enforcement agencies: the national minimum wage (NMW) enforcement ... Read more...

Bloomberg

Bank of England Vacancy Provides Chance to Tackle Gender Problem

The Treasury could also look to academia. Tenreyro sits on the board of the Womens’ Committee of the Royal Economic Society, where her colleagues include Bristol University’s Sarah Smith, Grace Lor... Read more...

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...

Asharq Al-Awsat

Maybe this is as Good as Innovation Gets

That daunting prospect has received some support from a new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb, entitled “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?” They... 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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ESRC blog ? Shaping Society

Becoming a Research Institute: the Centre for Economic Performance

Article by Stephen Machin.  As Director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE, I am delighted that the Centre has been named as one of the two inaugural ESRC Research Institutes. This is tes... Read more...

Guardian

Firms could be named and shamed over abuse of workers' rights

Companies whose suppliers fail to pay the minimum wage or curb holiday pay could be named and shamed under a new regime proposed by the government’s workers’ rights tsar. In his first annual full s... Read more...

BBC News

Measures to tackle low pay exploitation published

Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government. A report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations in... Read more...

The Hindu

Secularising Europe?s economy

It is widely known that the Protestant Reformation, which was launched by popular reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century, brought about an abrupt end to the massive and unquestioned p... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

One to One

The Economist's Soumaya Keynes continues her quest to find out why the study of economics is so dominated by men. Does that affect the kind of economics we get, and why does that matter? In her second prog... 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...

Bloomberg.com

Maybe this is as good as innovation gets

The scary idea is that easy-to-discover technology is a finite, exhaustible resource. … That daunting prospect has received some support from a new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, ... 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...

Deseret News

In our opinion: Creating the best learning environment means pocketing the phone

Scholars from the London School of Economics and Political Science found cellphone bans in classrooms had a neutral effect on high achievers, but had a positive impact on low-achieving students. ... 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...

China Daily

App to reward non-use of phone

Smartphone disruption is an issue in schools too. A study by the University of Texas has suggested that just having a smartphone within eyeshot can reduce productivity, slow down response speed and reduce grad... 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...

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...

LSE Business Review

The multiplier effect of the German government move to Berlin

Relocation is one successful example of public sector jobs boosting private sector activity, write Giulia Faggio, Teresa Schlüter and Philipp vom Berge.  In a recent SERC discussion paper, we study t... Read more...

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...

Scientific American

Cross-Check: Is science hitting a wall?, Part 1

Once again, I’m brooding over science’s limits. I recently posted Q&As with three physicists with strong opinions on the topic--David Deutsch, Marcelo Gleiser and Martin Rees--as well as this c... 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...

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...

LSE EUROPP (European Politics and Policy) blog

What local socio-economic conditions can tell us about the patterns of support in Italy?s election

The 2018 Italian election had a notable geographic split in voting behaviour, with Lega having more support in the north of the country and the Five Star Movement proving more successful in the south. Monica L... 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...

LSE Business Review blog

The trade impact of the transatlantic telegraph

The telegraph was the Victorian equivalent of today’s ‘big data’, helping firms to forecast future demand, writes Claudia Steinwender.  How do exporters gather information about overseas... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

How useful are the estimates of the economic consequences of Brexit?

In this blog, Josh De Lyon (LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance) discusses some of the concerns with the economic forecasts of the effects of Brexit and suggests that the available reports are inf... 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...

Campus Review (Australia)

Student smartphone obsession? There?s an app for even that

A 2017 University of Texas study found that simply having a smartphone within one’s view can reduce productivity, response speeds and grades. The results of another study , by the London School of Econom... Read more...

Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden)

Teachers at the school are more pleased with the job

The survey was made by Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, London School of Economics and the Institute of Business Research. Teachers in independent primary schools, and especially in company-owned independent school... Read more...

Telegraph

App tackles digital addiction by rewarding users for avoiding their phone

Researchers at University of Texas last year claimed that smartphones could negatively affect attention span by just being in someone’s line of sight. Another study, conducted by the London School of Eco... Read more...

FE Week

DfE hands out #2m for more FE research

The Centre for Vocational Educational Research had its mid-term review at the beginning of this year. After an initial £3 million grant from the Department for Education in May 2015, and there had been s... 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...

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...

Herald Scotland

Education experts say 'ban phones in school as they damage learning'

MOBILE phones in schools should be banned because they pose a much graver risk to children's education than previously considered, the author of a flagship report on their use says.  Increasing phone ... 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...

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 Times

Phone home

Other studies have come to similar conclusions. In 2015 researchers at the London School of Economics studied results at 91 secondary schools in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester that banned mobile ... 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...

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...

Guardian

Research every teacher should know: self-control and learning

With technology such as mobile phones in some classrooms increasing distractions, the ability to improve self-control and delayed gratification has become a particularly important skill. Perhaps it’s not... Read more...

EdSurge News

Why college is not an employment agency

While Caplan dismisses the possibility that universities offer society any real economic benefit, data shows otherwise. After studying new data from UNESCO’S World Higher Education Database, covering 15,... 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

Resetting the Urban Network: 117?2012 (pages 378-412)

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BBC Radio 4

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   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...

Chicago Booth Review

Economy-boosting ideas are increasingly hard to find

To sustain economic growth, the United States must double its overall research effort every 13 years. That’s because it is taking an increasing amount of effort to generate enough ideas to power the econ... Read more...

Irish Daily Mail

Teachers: get phones out of our schools

Snippet: ... to answer Facebook calls, to answer Facebook messages.' She added that the gadgets are having a negative impact on the children's ability to concentrate in class, a key finding of recent r... 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...

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...

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...

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...

Freakonomics Radio

What does a CEO actually do?

Today on Freakonomics Radio, we’re launching “The Secret Life of C.E.O.’s,” a special series that’ll get inside the minds of these rare and rarified creatures. Some of the questio... 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...

Kaplan Herald (USA)

Rockland: cellphones at school? The principles differ

Students scored almost seven percent higher following strict phone bans at school, according to a 2015 study published by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. ... 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...

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...

BBC Radio Kent

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Snippet: ... there has been a study by the London School of Economics which found where mobiles were banned test scores improved. Richard Murphy, one of the authors, is interviewed o... ... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Financial Times

Gloomy growth projections cloud hopes for UK economy

The UK will remain a relative laggard among developed countries this year as the after-effects of the Brexit referendum mean the economy will only enjoy limited benefits from a global upswing in growth, econom... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SMOPO ? Schweizer Morgenpost (Germany)

Frankreich verbietet Mibiltelefone an Schulen/France prohibits mobile phones in schools

A study published in 2015 by the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics found that after a telephone ban, students had nearly 7 percent higher test scores. ... Read more...

Prospect

Dismal ignorance of the ?dismal science? ? a response to Larry Elliott

In a recent Guardian column, Elliot reproduced some classic misconceptions about what economists actually do By Stephen Machin and co-authors It has become routine to assault the “dismal science&rd... 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...

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...

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...

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...

TES

`Principals are one of the most effective means to improve college performance?

Article by Jennifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clémentine Van Effentererre Principal quality matters for educational performance, argue researchers from the Centre for Vocational Education ... 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...

Economist (online)

How the economics of robbery are changing

And crooks respond to the changing value of goods, says Mirko Draca of the University of Warwick. With colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics, he examined the effect of pric... Read more...

Russia Today (TV)

The big country

A recent study by the London School of Economics found that banning mobiles can improve academic results ... 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...

Londynek.net (Poland

France to impose total ban on mobile phones in schools

According to research carried out by the London School of Economics, students of schools where cell use is forbidden achieve better results by more than 6.4 percent. in relation to those studying in institutio... Read more...

Guardian

A tool or a distraction? How UK schools? approaches to mobile phones vary widely

The debate about access to mobile phones in schools is ongoing in the UK, where more than 90% of teenagers have mobiles. A recent study by the London School of Economics found that in schools where mobiles wer... Read more...

Fortune

The desperate search for the next great American idea

John Van Reenen, an economist at MIT and another of the “Ideas” paper’s authors, has performed studies that look at talent cultivation in the U.S. by trying to determine the likelihood of som... Read more...

Economy.bg (Bulgaria)

France completely forbids mobile phones in schools

According to a London School of Economics study of 2015, schools that have banned mobile phones in class have reported improved performance for their students. ... Read more...

Feminis Romania

See which country forbids the use of mobile phones in schools

However, research is on the French side, and in line with a study conducted in 2015 and published by the London School of Economics, school students who began to prohibit the use and even the presence of mobil... Read more...

KSYL.com Radio online

France to ban mobile phones in primary, middle schools starting next fall

The French education minister said it is a matter of "public health," and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of 7." A 2015 ... Read more...

Wirtualnemedia.pl

France wants to ban the use of smartphones in schools. ?The problem exists, but the ban will deepen the lack of understanding?

According to researchers from the London School of Economics, who carried out research in schools in Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester, where the ban was imposed on the use of cells, teens had bette... Read more...

Giga.de (Germany)

Smartphone-Verbot an Schulen: Frankreich geht vor ? sollte Deutschland folgen?/Smartphone ban in schools: france comes first ? should Germany follow?

According to a study by the London School of Economics, even a performance improvement of 6.4 percent was identified. A potential problem could be emergency situations where parents need to reach their childre... Read more...

GOV'T SLAVES

France is banning mobile phones in schools

Research is on Bloomberg—and the French government’s—side. According to a 2015 working paper (pdf) published by the London School of Economics, schools that banned mobile phones saw test scor... Read more...

KLAMM.DE (Germany)

Handys verboten! Frankreichs Regierung setzt auf Radikalma?nahme an Schulen/Phones prohibited! France?s government relies on radical measures in schools

  A study by the London School of Economics found that the test results of 16-year-old students after a complete ban on mobile phones in the school by 6.4 percent better than before. In France, one wil... Read more...

Kroneen Zeitung (Austria)

Frankreich: Komplettes Handyverbot an Schulen/France: Complete mobile phone ban at schools

Educators do not see it that black. Thus, the teacher and author Arne Ulbricht already spoke in 2015 to the "mirror" for a smartphone ban in schools: "Otherwise, we breed a generation that panic... Read more...

French Tribune

Mobile phones banned in French schools

Teachers and parents have expressed skepticism at the new plan, as already existing classroom phone bans are commonly broken. However, the government is basing their plan on research conducted by the London Sc... Read more...

Proto Thema.gr (Greece)

The "jungle of mobile" in schools: Students do not separate it!

However, according to a London School of Economics study on mobile phone issues, after the ban on mobile use, test scores improved by 6.4%. The impact on bad students was even more important, with their own sc... Read more...

ABC News

France to ban mobile phones in primary, middle schools starting in September 2018

The French education minister said it is as a matter of "public health" and believes that "children should not be too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven." A... Read more...

Newsweek

Phones in school could be banned for 'Public Health' reasons

There's evidence that forcing students to put their phones away during school can help reverse some of the negative side effects. A 2015 study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the L... Read more...

Treehugger

France will ban cell phones in elementary schools

While Vincent does have a point, I think Blanquer deserves praise for his decision. There is no reason for children and young teens to be handling mobile phones at any point throughout the school day. They'... Read more...

The Times

Ban children from bringing mobile phones to school

Snippet: ...ist, but if for the sake of argument Leonardo had imagined them as aides to scholastic culture and attainment he would have been laughed out of the Renaissance. Now that they do exist, the evidence... Read more...

Szaopressa.com (Russia)

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

In a study of the English Center for Economic Performance, published in late autumn, it is reported that only the fact of voting for England's withdrawal from the European Union has resulted in serious los... Read more...

Quartz

France is banning mobile phones in schools

On Sunday, France’s education minister announced that mobile phones will be banned from primary, junior, and middle schools, calling it a matter of “public health.”  Research is on Bloom... Read more...

Circular (Russia)

Each British family loses about $ 530 a year because of Brexit: the decision to withdraw from the EU has negatively affected inflation and the standard of living in the UK

Thus, the report for the Center for Economic Performance shows that voting for exit from the EU "was an unforeseen shock for the UK economy," the researchers conclude. "Our results provide convi... Read more...

Derstandard (Austria)

Globaler Vergleich: Osterreich verschlaft Pensionsreformen/ Global comparison: Austria overseats pension reforms

The skepticism about future growth potential is becoming international. Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom recently pointed out that innovation as a growth engine has become increasingly costly. "What worr... Read more...

Tvzvezda.ru (Russia)

&#1087;&#1086; Brexit/May and Junker could not agree on Brexit

Article by Thomas Sampson, Dennis Novy, Holger Breinlich and Elsa Leromain Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How ha... Read more...

Centre for Cities

City Talks: If we build it, will they come?

Andrew Carter talks to Bridget Rosewell and Henry Overman about the merits of big infrastructure projects.  In this month’s episode, our chief executive Andrew Carter talks with Bridget Rosewell, Co... Read more...

Freakonomics Podcast

Are we running out of ideas? - Freakonomics

Economists have a hard time explaining why productivity growth has been shrinking. One theory: true innovation has gotten much harder – and much more expensive. So what should we do next? John V... Read more...

Independent

Brexit has lost UK economy #300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds

A report by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economics Performance earlier this month estimated that the Brexit-related spike in inflation in the UK had already cost the average UK household ar... Read more...

CEP mentioned in the Budget Resolutions Debate

CEPresearch was used in the post budget debate by MPs.

Alison Thewliss MP (SNP), Shadow SNP spokesman for Cities and Treasury referred to the recent CEP report The Brexit Vote, Inflation and UK Living Standards estimate "that the average household has... Read more...

CAPX

Brexit is already costing Britain

Article by Thomas Sampson et al Most economists believe that Brexit will be bad for the UK economy in the long-run. But what about the short-term? How has the referendum affected households in the first yea... Read more...

De Welt

Britische Regionen fordern Brexit-Extrawurste

However, the regions that are now calling for special rules do not belong to those parts of the country that Brexit is likely to hit particularly hard economically. According to calculations by economists at t... Read more...

Sydsvenskan (Sweden)

Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"

Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...

Pakistan Today

Change course or risk Brexit chaos, Ireland warns Theresa May

The latest work by economists at the London School of Economics estimates that, if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal, the impact will be far more severe than the projections in the budget suggested. Th... Read more...

Birmingham Evening Mail

We?re #800 a year worse off thanks to Brexit, report says

… Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: "Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK household... Read more...

Guardian

Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos

Government sources said ministers would this week release sections of assessments into the potential economic impact of Brexit carried out across Whitehall, which until recently they had tried to keep secret. ... Read more...

HispanTV.com

Brexit: United Kingdom undergoes its lowest growth in 5 years

Growth largely rested on household spending. The companies, influenced by the uncertainty created by the Brexit - exit of the United Kingdom of the European Union (EU) -, invested cautiously while clearing unk... Read more...

Sputnik News (Russia)

Revenues of the British fell after Brexit and shrink still

According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...

The Denver Post

The 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...

Premium Official News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

... according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London  ... ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe Newsletter

Brexit squeeze

In the first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards Thomas Sampson and his team show UK households are paying a high economic price fo... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Budget 2017: productivity is the focus, but `fixes? are unlikely to be enough

The danger is not making a real difference to productivity when the country needs it the most, writes Anna Valero. Budget 2017 began with a bleak assessment of the UK’s growth prospects. For those of us ... Read more...

Eldiario.es (Spain)

The moral urgency of mental health

In support of this statement we can mention a recent investigation by a team of economists from the London School of Economics, directed by Richard Layard. The researchers analyzed data from surveys conducted ... Read more...

Zarojel.hu (Hungary)

British workers have already paid weekly for Brexit

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

Financial Mail

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Tencent takes on the world

In the referendum on British EU membership last June, a small, 51.9 percent majority of the participants voted out. The study, published on Monday by the prestigious London Economics University at London Schoo... Read more...

The Conversation (blog)

No, we aren?t running out of new ideas

We’ve picked all the low hanging fruit when it comes to new ideas, and the world is set for more parsimonious times. This is the idea put forward in a recent research paper by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Re... Read more...

Iran Daily

Statistics report shows Brexit?s influence on inflation in UK

A statistical analysis on the consequences of the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom was released on Monday, showing how the referendum outcome has affected inflation and living standards of people across the c... Read more...

Rosbalt.ru (Russia)

British authorities have reserved another 3 billion pounds for planning Brexit

Recently, the Center for Economic Performance (CEP), a local research center, recently released a survey according to which every British family, on average, loses 400 pounds sterling per year due to Brexit. ... Read more...

GQ

Budget 2017: Brexit is the least of Philip Hammond?s worries

“One of the guys who pays my wages has decided he’s pulling investment from the UK,” my private fund manager mate tells me on Sunday as we stand on the touchline, watching our kids play rugby... Read more...

The Herald (Scotland)

Beware: Spreadsheet Phil will be flying blind in this Budget

Meanwhile, on the home front consumers have been fighting raging price increases thanks to the collapse in the value of the pound. The average household has lost £404 last year according to the Centre fo... Read more...

LSE Brexit blog

UK households are already paying an average of #404pa for Brexit

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, UK inflation has dramatically increased. How much of the rise in inflat... Read more...

Bailiwick Express

Households are #852 a year worse off due to Brexit, study finds

Dr Thomas Sampson, who co-authored the Centre for Economic Performance research, said: “Even before Brexit occurs, the increase in inflation caused by the Leave vote has already hurt UK households. &ldqu... Read more...

Fars News Agency (Tehran)

Research: Brexit costs UK househilds over $500 per year

According to research conducted by the UK-based Centre for Economic Performance "By June 2017, the Brexit vote was costing the average household £7.74 per week through ... Read more...

Vox

The consequences of the Brexit vote for UK inflation and living standards: First evidence

Article by Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson. On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As soon as the result became clear, sterling depreciated sharply and, since the vote, ... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe blog

New evidence shows UK households paying high economic price for vote to leave EU

The first detailed statistical analysis of how the referendum outcome has affected UK inflation, wages and living standards shows UK households are paying a high economic price for the vote to leave the Europe... Read more...

The Korea Herald

[Michael Plant, Peter Singer] The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The moral urgency of mental health

PRINCETON – 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... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Small colleges can save towns in middle America

Other research confirms that the beneficial effect of universities isn't just correlation. A 2015 paper by economist Shimeng Liu found that areas where the U.S. federal government made land grants to unive... Read more...

Financial Times

One to watch: four economies in focus

While movements in global commodity markets helped raise inflation, price rises in the UK have outstripped those in other leading economies. By September 2017, prices were up 3 per cent over the past year comp... Read more...

Financial Times

The great Brexit test begins to unfold

“The inflation figures are the most informative,” says Swati Dhingra, at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She says the impact of broad uncertainty has been har... Read more...

The NBER Digest

Bang for the R&D buck is in a long, steady decline

In Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (NBER Working Paper No.23782), Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb argue that, to maintain a given rate of economics growth, resources devote... Read more...

What Works Wellbeing blog

If you want to know how happy we are, ask often

Today we publish a new discussion series paper, that sets out the views of Paul Dolan, Laura Kudrna and Stefano Testoni on the importance of ‘in the moment’ wellbeing and measurement for understand... Read more...

EuroNews

Trump said America?s economy was better than Japan?s and he was probably right

Is it possible, as Trump’s statement suggests, to compare two countries’ economies and which indicators would we use to do so? GDP per capita is considered a baseline when comparing two economies. ... Read more...

Employee Benefits

Property deposit saving challenge impinging on millennial wealth

According to research from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance the average weekly earnings between 2002 and 2008 rose at an average rate of 4% a year and prices at just 2... Read more...

Daily Telegraph

The headmaster who banned mobile phones?and now wants to bring back textbooks

A growing body of evidence supports Mr Phillips’s stance. Schools where phones are banned saw scores improve 6.4 per cent for 16-year-olds and by 12.2 per cent for lower achieving students, according to ... Read more...

Vox

The religious roots of the secular West: The Protestant Reformation and the allocation of resources in Europe

Article by Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman. Five hundred years ago today, Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the Wittenberg Castle church door critiquing Catholic Church corruption, setting o... Read more...

News Shopper

Do mobile phones have a place in the future of education?

Study in 2015 published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. showed that across multiple schools, when mobile phones were banned, tests scores went up an average of 6.4% in... Read more...

LiveMint

Innovation problem

Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb show through detailed analysis of firms that research productivity is declining even as research efforts are rising. One of their key findings: &... Read more...

City A.M.

No matter what the research says about the UK as a whole, productivity in London is actually pretty good

An excellent study published last month by a research group at the London School of Economics looks at the differences in economic activity in varying parts of the UK. The finding are intriguing and sometimes ... Read more...

Guardian

Universities deplore `McCarthyism? as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit

Tory whip writes to every vice-chancellor to ask for syllabus and any online material Academics are accusing a Tory MP and government whip of “McCarthyite” behaviour, after he wrote to all unive... Read more...

The Times

Life without strife

An LSE study two years ago found that schools that banned phones did 6.4 per cent better in exams. ... Read more...

Quartz

We?re running out of big ideas

Modern-day inventors–even those in the league of Steve Jobs–will have a tough time measuring up to the productivity of the Thomas Edisons of the past. That’s because big ideas are getting har... Read more...

Economics of Education Review - Forthcoming

Smart but Unhappy: Independent-school Competition and the Wellbeing-efficiency Trade-off in Education

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Huffington Post

Why global leaders should pay attention to people?s happiness

Recent research by London School of Economics academic George Ward shows that how people feel about their lives influences how they vote in elections. He believes that subjective measures of well-being are bet... Read more...

MIT Sloan Experts

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth - John Van Reenen

 Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...

Huffington Post (India)

These 7 numbers show how global poverty remains a huge problem

If policymakers focused on tackling mental illness instead of only focusing on eliminating poverty, global misery levels could decrease by 20 percent, according to a London School of Economics study. Reducing ... Read more...

Spectator ? Coffee House blog

The embarrassing role of economists on Brexit

A major impediment to clarity has been the weight of advice from what Michael Gove calls ‘organisations with acronyms’ suggesting that  a ‘no deal’ on trade will greatly damage the... Read more...

CEP recent awards

Sara Evans-Lacko, PSSRU

Awarded an European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the NCore project, which aims to develop a mobile app which facilitates access to mental health services and treatments for young peopl... Read more...

Mercola.com

Moods are contagious: good and bad

Perhaps you'd prefer to be the happy person that others gravitate to. In that case, in the video above London School of Economics (LSE) economist Lord Richard Layard, founder of Action for Happiness, a mov... Read more...

LSE Research Briefing October 2017

New LSE report on uneven spread of UK industry

The South-East is not the country’s productivity engine, rather a band stretching west from the capital towards Bristol is, according to a new LSE report which challenges prevailing wisdom on the uneven ... Read more...

VRT.be (Belgium)

Nobel Prize winner Economy: "I'm going to try to spend my prize money as irrationally as possible"

Behavior Economist and Nobel Prize Winner Economics Richard H. Thaler is best in joking when a journalist asks him from Stockholm what he will do with the prize. A jovial man also confirms his Belgian colleagu... Read more...

Exame (Brazil)

Esta ficando mais dificil encontrar boas ideias?/Is it getting harder to find good ideas?

"Ideas, and in particular the exponential growth they entail, are getting harder and harder to find," according to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States. The... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Where industry is strong and where it?s weak ? key facts of UK business geography

Financial services aren’t as London-centric as the creative industries, and the coast-inland divide is growing, write Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies, and Anna Valero. The UK’s financial services... Read more...

The Highlander (University of California, USA)

Banning cell phones at schools will only result in good

For instance, as reported by the Guardian, a 2015 study called “Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance” found that, after schools banned mobile phones, the test scores... Read more...

Huffington Post

Can We Talk? Schools Try to Wrest Cell Phones From Students' Hands

Another study, published by a journal of the London School of Economics and Political Science, found that student test scores rose in four schools that banned cell phones, with most of the rise occurring among... Read more...

BBC Brasil

Why injustice upsets inequality, according to research

A society in which poverty does not exist sounds utopian - this society is equal but unfair, so it risks collapse, argues Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University. "People do not wo... Read more...

Telegram.com (Mass; USA)

Cellphones a tricky issue for school districts in Central Mass.

Whether students are better off under more lax phone rules is yet to be determined, according to some school officials who said their policies are still too new to properly evaluate. But some recent studies ha... Read more...

The Beacon

How the UK can benefit from a free trade future after Brexit - even outside the Single Market

Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit has the potential to provide economic benefits to the UK. Before the referendum, Treasury economists assured the public that a vote to le... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Expert panel: People from small, socially cohesive countries are happier

Opinion is divided on whether the breakup of large, diverse countries can increase national wellbeing, write Tony Beatton, Paul Frijters and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee  Among the world’s rich count... Read more...

Kurzy.cz (Czechoslovakia)

Governing excessive growth pessimism, we do not believe so many official numbers

There may come a whole range of inventions that we can hardly imagine today. Already existing innovations also need some time to affect productivity in production chains. This concerns robotics and a range of ... Read more...

The Wire

As scaling effects of research productivity diminish, India must step up R&D investment

A new working paper at the NBER looks into the productivity of research effort, that is, how research effort correlates with an increase in output. ‘Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find‘, authored by N... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Where industry is strong and where it's weak: Key facts of UK business geography

Article by Sandra Bernick, Richard Davies and Anna Valero: The UK’s financial services industry is not nearly as London-centric as the creative industries. Rather than the South East of England being the... Read more...

NJ Today (New Jersey, USA)

Big ideas are getting harder to find

Nicholas Bloom, a SIEPR senior fellow and co-author of a paper released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, contends that so many game-changing inventions have appeared since World War II th... Read more...

Viva Nicaragua canal 13

Cientificos afirman que los 23 a?os de edad son los mas felices/Scientists say 23-year-olds are the happiest

If you thought that childhood is the best stage of life, you are wrong, because, according to a study by Center For Economic Performance, the ages in which the human being experiences happiness at its best is ... Read more...

The Times

The M4 corridor is more productive for the British economy than the southeast, report finds

The M4 corridor is more productive for the British economy than the southeast, report finds A study into the industrial breakdown of the country by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London Sc... Read more...

LSE News

New LSE report on uneven spread of UK industry

The South-East is not the country’s productivity engine, rather a band stretching west from the capital towards Bristol is, according to a new LSE report which challenges prevailing wisdom on the uneven ... Read more...

Writer Beat blog

Why small isn't always beautiful: labor regulations and firm growth

Article by John Van Reenen: What are the costs and benefits of regulation? Most countries treat smaller firms more generously when it comes to business regulation, exempting them from some of the burdens on la... Read more...

Vox

Ideas aren't running out, but they are getting more expensive to find

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb: The rate of productivity growth in advanced economies has been falling. Optimists hope for a fourth industrial revolution, while p... Read more...

European Union News ? Durham University: Thought Leadership

How the UK can benefit from a free trade future after Brexit ? even outside the single market

Professor of Finance and Economics, Kevin Dowd (Durham University), Professor David Paton (Nottingham University) and Professor David Blake (University of London) discuss how the UK can benefit from a free tra... Read more...

Financial Times ? Gavyn Davies? blog

American growth pessimism may be overdone

A fascinating new paper by Nicholas Bloom and colleagues at Stanford and MIT has created waves by claiming that ideas are getting harder to find, which implies that many more researchers are needed to maintain... Read more...

Stanford News

Stanford scholars say big ideas are getting harder to find

Nicholas Bloom, a SIEPR senior fellow and co-author of a paper released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, contends that so many game-changing inventions have appeared since World War II th... Read more...

IlSole24ore (Italy)

Smartphone a scuola, si on no? Come funziona all?estero/Smartphone at school, yes or no? How it works abroad

Effects would seem to be beneficial: a report from the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, published in 2015, estimated 6.4% improvements following bans, a week more than "r... Read more...

Financial Times ? Alphaville

It?s not about the low hanging fruit, it?s about the ideas

…the “dearth of new ideas” thesis still resonates. A new paper from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, Michael Web and MIT’s John Van Reenen examines this particular aspec... Read more...

Blasting News (Italy)

Cellulari in classe? Arriva l?apertura della ministra Fedeli/Cell phones in class? The Minster of Faith opens

According to research by economists Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy published in 2015 on the British Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics in four English cities, combining... Read more...

Fudzilla

Humanity is running out of ideas

A team of top boffins is starting to worry that humans are running out of ideas and are citing the tech industry’s inability to come up with a solution for Moore's Law as a case study. Economic resea... Read more...

Irish Times

Applying ancient solutions to modern problems

Indeed, a recent study by Richard Layard at the London School of Economics suggests that emotional wellbeing in childhood is more important to an adult’s satisfaction levels than academic success or weal... Read more...

Evolve Politics

Academy Head blames parents for awful GCSE results and then introduces ridiculous new rules for kids

Great Yarmouth High isn’t the only school in the county stepping up its strictness in attempt to improve its reputation. Tim Gibbs, headteacher of Reepham High, hopes the school’s new ban on mobile... Read more...

The A Register

Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas

Research just isn’t as effective as it used to be In a paper published Monday through the National Bureau of Economic Research, "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?", economics professors Nich... Read more...

Nelson Mail (New Zealand)

Golden Bay school challenging the norm over its wi-fi ban

A paper published by the London School of Economics in 2015 found banning mobile phones in schools resulted in a 6.41 per cent improvement overall in the school's' performance. ... Read more...

LSE News

What?s the secret to happiness?

In the September episode of the #LSEIQ podcast we ask, ‘What’s the secret to happiness?’. Western societies have been getting steadily richer for several decades, but social scientists have s... Read more...

Spectator

Off days

Snippet: .Is using a smart phone at school really that bad? Schools with an embargo on mobiles saw the test scores of 16-year-olds improve by 6.4 per cent on average, while the results of lower-achieving stude... Read more...

Social Europe

How Bad Will Brexit Really Be For The UK?

The great majority of the economic forecasts have concluded that Brexit will damage the UK economy. In the case of ‘no deal’ between the UK and the EU, the majority view is that the loss of GDP cou... Read more...

LSEIQ podcast

Epsiode 6 | What?s the secret to happiness?

In this episode, Joanna Bale investigates human happiness: why it eludes so many of us and what we can do about it. She talks to LSE’s Paul Dolan and Richard Layard, and Liz Zeidler of the Happy City Ini... Read more...

LSE Public Affairs News

Student Immigration Figures

The government has commissioned independent advisers on migration (the Migration Advisory Committee) to complete a detailed assessment of the social and economic impact of international students... Read more...

Marginal Revolution

French cities are Roman sites rather than by the sea

Snippet…Here is the amazing fact: today, 16 of France’s 20 largest cities are located on or near a Roman town, while only 2 of Britain’s 20 largest are. This difference existed even back in ... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The Two Pillars of French Economic Reform

Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner The French government has just announced the guidelines for a new labor code, its first major reform to boost France’s economy, by giving more flexibili... Read more...

Canadian Investment Opportunities & News

B.C.'s new business as usual: political and economic uncertainty

Research shows that policy uncertainty can drive down business investment by six to 10.5 per cent. To see how the election created uncertainty in B.C., the Fraser Institute created a proxy measure using newspa... Read more...

Education Week

Can Banning Phones in School Curb Cyberbullying?

There's some evidence that banning phones correlates with better academic outcomes: A 2015 study released by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School for Economics and Public Policy found t... Read more...

Gulf News

A unique experiment to treat mental illness

In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense. ... Read more...

A Fine Theorem

Resetting the Urban Network, G. Michaels & F. Rauch (2017)

..With incredible timing, Michaels and Rauch, alongside two other coauthors, have another working paper called Flooded Cities. Essentially, looking across the globe, there are frequent very damaging floods, oc... Read more...

Helensburgh Advertiser

Parents back idea of mobile phone classroom ban

The Conservatives have called for a national ban following a 2015 study by the London School of Economics which found that schools which banned mobile phones saw an increase in test scores – with improve... Read more...

The Gazette

Councils refuse to answer calls to ban mobile phones in primary schools

Academics at the London School of Economics found schools which restrict access to mobile phones “subsequently experience an improvement in test scores”. They also found banning phones “impro... Read more...

Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter

Schools impose ban on taking mobile phones into the classroom

But the Scottish Government seem intent on leaving the question of mobile phones in the classrooms up to head teachers. A spokesman said: “Head teachers can already ban phones in school if they wish to, ... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Leading economists say #135bn hard Brexit boost claim 'defies gravity'

The LSE quartet – professors Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen – do concede that there is, potentially, a very minor boost to going it alone. Their own model... Read more...

Kingdom FM

Kingdom FM [14:00:01]

Mention of LSE study that found banning mobile phones from classrooms improved test scores. Click to open ... Read more...

City A.M.

Instilling competitive gender quotas could end the Crisis of the Mediocre Men

…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...

BBC News

Call for mobile phone ban in Scottish primary schools

Mobile phones should be banned from primary schools, according to the Scottish Conservatives. Scottish Conservative MSP Michelle Ballantyne urged the government to overhaul this guidance, calling for an out... Read more...

Scottish Daily Mail

Heads 'need to be able to ban phones'

Snippet: ...Scottish MSP Michelle Ballantyne highlighted research by academics at the London School of Economics into the impact of banning mobile phones in schools. The authors concluded schools that restrict... Read more...

Manchester University Policy Blog

Is having any job at all better for your health and wellbeing than being unemployed?

Snippet.. There seems to be a common consensus that anything is better than being unemployed – even working in a job that does not pay well and in which you have little control over your working conditio... Read more...

Scotsman

MSP wants headteachers to be allowed to ban mobiles in school

Headteachers should have the power to ban mobile phones in schools, a Tory MSP has said. South Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne has urged the Scottish Government to overhaul its 2013 guidance on the use of mob... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

A global measure of uncertain economic times

Uncertainty about a nation’s economic policies can influence both politics and financial markets, and the effects often spread beyond the country’s borders. Building on his research with Northweste... Read more...

Forsal.Pl (Poland)

What about international trade after brexit? Here are the possibilities and their consequences

The Center for Economic Performance estimated that in the case of such a scenario over the decade, trade would have fallen by 40 percent and average income by 2.6 percent. ... Read more...

Perspectiva.com

Wealth or wellbeing?

According to a study by the London School of Economics (LSE), with the participation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most human misery is not due to economic factors, but to faile... Read more...

Mirror

David Stevenson goes into EPIC meltdown after he's cruelly dumped from Make Or Break

Snippet: ... Behavioural expert Paul Dolan tried to remain positive as he told the camera: "They've broken up but they've got an escape plan and they can find someone better." ... Read more...

Mirror

Who are Make or Break's Stephen and Abbi? The Vegas party boy who wants to shake off his playboy image for his loyal girlfriend

Snippet: ... What was going through your mind when Paul (Paul Dolan – Happiness expert and Professor of Behavioural Science) told you what would be happening?  ... Read more...

OK!

Make Or Break: David Stevenson reveals the heartbreaking reason behind his quest for love as Beth Matkin relationship spirals

Snippet: ... Things went from bad to worse in Tuesday night's episode of Make Or Break as David broke down in tears once again after finding out some home truths during a task with behavioural ex... Read more...

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

`The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness?

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017 ... Read more...

Liberation.fr (France)

Sorti de l?UE: l?orchestre cacophonique de Londres/Exit of the EU: the cacophony orchestra of London

Theresa May on vacation, the ministers of soft and hard Brexit clash in the most perfect disorder. Economists, on the other hand, predict a decline in growth. The government's hesitations have an impact... Read more...

Mirror

Make Or Break's David Stevenson breaks down in tears AGAIN after hearing shocking truths about girlfriend Beth

Snippet: ... As part of a challenge, behavioural expert Paul Dolan read out a series of shocking confessions and the contestants had to guess who they related to. ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Make or Break? is nasty TV with Love Island cast-offs laid on for sadistic voyeurs - review

The host presiding over this bedlam is someone called Paul Dolan, billed as a “behavioural scientist”, one of those odd job descriptions like horse whisperer and cat burglar.  ... Read more...

Time

14 Ways to Squeeze More Joy Out of Every Day

Gold, natural gas and your attention: they’re all scarce resources. Allocate wisely so you can max out time for pleasure, recommends Paul Dolan in his book Happiness by Design. “Every twe... Read more...

The Irish Sun

The New Love Island?

Snippet: ... "I felt like I was sold the dream, but entered a nightmare^” And you may also recognise a familiar voice on the show, as it’s narrated by MasterChef’s voiceover artist India... Read more...

The Sun

Move over Love Island? Here are 10 reasons why Make or Break? is our new obsession

Snippet: ... Leading the activities is London School of Economics’ Professor of Behavioural Science Paul Dolan. He’s previously appeared on other TV shows, including Lose Weight For Love and T... Read more...

Harper's Bazaar (Spain)

La felicidad no depende del dinero sino del amor/ Happiness does not depend on money but on love

A survey of 200,000 people at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom revealed that personal satisfaction is more about finding love, even having more impact than increasing salary. Associated ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Only health more important than happiness

Snippet: ... MORE should be done to promote health and well-being rather than worrying excessively about wages and careers, Prof Paul Dolan, a specialist in behavioural science at the London School of Economic... Read more...

Zdravie.Pravda (Slovakia)

Bezplatna terapia cez telefon. Britsky experiment funguje/ Free phone therapy. The British experiment works

The British health experiment began in 2008. In the first wave, 35 clinics were created with a total of thousands of workers, but the system was immediately overwhelmed by huge floods of interest. Now a projec... Read more...

Clarin.com

Depression and anxiety, in the sights of an ambitious English project

In 2005, David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, came to the conclusion that it made economic sense to provide therapeu... Read more...

The Columbus Despatch

Burgeoning talk-therapy program free for all in England

LONDON — England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses. …In 2005 David Clark, a... Read more...

Mail online

Dr Max talks depression and BBC's Panorama programme

A horrifying study 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 25 per cent of those in need of treatment... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The UK areas that will be hit most (and least) by Brexit

Article by Henry Overman: The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (working with the Centre for Cities think tank) has carried out a study shedding light upon the local economic impact of Brexit. Henry ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

How the rise of the service sector boosted the demand for women workers

The historical growth in the service sector has created jobs for which women have a natural comparative advantage, write Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo ..There has been a vast amount of research on the ... Read more...

Shropshire Star

Telford less likely to be hit by hard Brexit than other UK towns and cities

Telford will be among the UK towns least-affected by a hard Brexit, a report claims – although economists today denied its suggestion that a lack of skills in the town will cushion the blow. Researche... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Brexit will hit southern regions hardest while 'vote leave' areas to be least affected

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Yahoo! Finance

Brexit will hit southern regions hardest while 'vote leave' areas to be least affected

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El Watan ( Algeria)

Il ne faut pas rester au niveau securitaire pour trouver des solutions / We must not stay at the security level to find solutions

The topics covered this year are varied: "The social foundations of world happiness"; "Growth and happiness in China"; "Waiting for happiness in Africa"; "The key determinant... Read more...

Education Policy Institute

The impact of academies on educational outcomes

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new paper examining the impact of academies on educational outcomes. The comprehensive report brings together EPI’s own analysis, along with research ... Read more...

Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Dauer-Strohfeuer

Trump and Brexit are rapidly becoming the main threat to the upturn. Once the downturn begins, all fingers will point to them. But the real causes lie somewhere else: Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom points t... Read more...

ItalyEurope24

A new course for economic liberalism

A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis, and Richard Freeman showed that the diffusion of individual pay since the 1970s is associated with pay differences between, not within, companies. The S... Read more...

MarketPlace

Now we can measure economic policy uncertainty

In the world of business and economics, there’s a bit of a fixation on uncertainty. To start, there's the VIX, a measure of investor fear, that tracks expected volatility in the markets. But the... Read more...

el Vocero (Puerto Rico)

?Riqueza o bienestar?/Wealth or wellbeing?

According to Richard Layard, one of the study's leaders, "evidence shows that the things that matter most to happiness and misery are social relationships and mental and physical health." In his ... Read more...

FD.nl (The Netherlands)

Ranglijsten: Nederland handhaaft zich als een na beste land ter wereld (en loopt in op Zwitserland)/ Leaderboards: Netherlands maintains itself as a second-best country in the world (and walks in on Switzerland)

On the fifth list that I use for the rankings of the Netherlands increased rankings again though. Dutch were something happier and are now a position higher, at place 6 of the Happiness index of economists Ric... Read more...

Lasiritide.it

Rettrice Unibas, 'L'Universita e un `bene comune' della Basilicata'/ President Unibas, 'The university is a ' common good ' of Basilicata'

At the G7delle University, which took place recently in Udine, "I talked about the role of universities – concluded sun-in the development of the economic revival of the internal areas, as demonstra... Read more...

Newsweek (Online)

Big houses in the U.S. are back (and there's a growing housing bubble)

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...

Yahoo! News

Big Houses in the U.S. Are Back (And There's a Growing Housing Bubble)

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...

The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 84, Issue 3, July 2017

'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz ... Read more...

ESRC Press

Winner of the 25th Kenneth J. Arrow award

The 25th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics is awarded to Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper, and [CEP Alumni]  Stephan Seiler for their paper “Free to choose? Reform, choice and considera... Read more...

LSE The education blog

Judith Shapiro and Steve Pischke on recommended summer reads

As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...

Kashmir Observer

How Mobile Phones (Mis)Use Is Affecting Our Health and Social Fabric

There are other consequences of using mobile phones as well. A research published by London School of Economics argues that banning pupils from carrying mobile phones in schools showed a sustained improvement ... Read more...

The Herald

Herald View: Holyrood's role means hard Brexit is dead and buried

But the greatest potential trouble is on Brexit, with the constitutional uncertainty growing and economists laying out this week just what a hard or chaotic Brexit could mean for the economy: the pound droppin... Read more...

QJE Highly Cited Articles

The Quarterly Journal of Economics received an Impact Factor of 6.662 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 9.681, according to the most recent Journal Citation Reports? (Thomson Reuters).

The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations i... Read more...

dziennik.pl (Poland)

Bukowski I Novokmet: Bogaci stali sie jeszcze bogatsi. Udato nam sie dogonic Niemcy. Niestety

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Economic Journal, Volume 127, Issue 602, June 2017

`Adjusting Your Dreams? High School Plans and Dropout Behaviour'

Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin   Related publications ‘in brief… What can be done to help low-Achieving teenagers?’ Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin.&... Read more...

Hindu Online

Walk with purpose

Snippet: ... you lose those extra kilos or keep you at your optimum weight. Avoid turning it into a social exercise though, rather than one that is concentrated on the cardiovascular activity you set out for i... Read more...

TES (online)

The UK's first university centre for improving mental health in schools

Earlier this month, Lord Layard, director of the wellbeing programme at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, called for all schools to employ a senior teacher in charge of men... Read more...

Independent

Only economic study showing benefits of Brexit debunked as 'doubly misleading'

The assumptions of the Economists for Brexit group – now rebranded as Economists for Free Trade - were previously criticised as grossly unrealistic on other grounds, including ignoring the fact that coun... Read more...

MIT Sloan Management Review

The importance of structured management practices

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...

Financial Times

Economists point finger of blame over Brexit forecasts

On Monday, Swati Dhingra of the London School of Economics told the Royal Economic Society annual conference that most academic economists had predicted a 1-3 per cent fall in economic output by five years aft... Read more...

Elite Daily (USA) Online

Experts Revealed The One Thing You Need To Truly Be Happy

Related publications http://worldhappiness.report/ Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (2017). World Happiness Report 2017, New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ISBN 978-0-9968513-... Read more...

Left Foot Forward (Online)

People are happier in more equal societies. Here's the evidence

On World Happiness Day we should be talking about inequality Richard Layard among others has noted how happiness has stalled in many developed countries, despite considerable improvements in living standard... Read more...

The Financial (Georgia) online

Norway takes top spot in 2017 World Happiness Report

The report also highlights the personal factors affecting happiness. As Professor Layard points out, “in rich countries the biggest single cause of misery is mental illness”… Related publ... Read more...

Allmediascotland.com

Media Release: SCDI Forum ? Exporting key to resilient growth during Brexit and second independence referendum

The SCDI Forum – ‘Brave New Worlds? Economic Growth & Wealth Creation’ – will today (Thursday 16 March) consider the challenges and changes facing our economy, with presen... Read more...

W Radio (Spain) online

Vicente Fox cree que 'la gente esta perdiendo la confianza en la democracia/ Vicente Fox believes that 'people are losing confidence in democracy'

At the table today the economist Richard Layard, director of the office of the Bhutan gross national happiness, Saamdu Chetri and the spiritual leader also included Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, among others. EFE ... Read more...

Noroeste.com

Special Newsweek: the causes of unhappiness

Youth and young adults are especially vulnerable to mental illness "We found, persistently and in all countries, that mental health problems are the leading causes of suffering", says Richard Laya... Read more...

Thanhnien.vn (Vietnam)

British students taught happiness

Professor Richard Layard, the British Government's Adviser in the test program conducted in 26 schools. ... Read more...

Journal of Economic Geography

CEP Journal Articles

‘Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls’, Wouter Vermeulen, Journal of Economic Geography Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2017 http://bit.ly/2n719tK Related publications Agglome... Read more...

A Tribuna (Brazil)

Pesquisas comprovam: dinheiro n?o compra felicidade/Polls show: money can't buy happiness

Having good mental health and being in a good relationship makes people happier than doubling income points says study.  The London School of Economics, in the United Kingdom, interviewed 200,000 people i... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Call for statistics to measure quality of economic growth

National figures on economic growth fail to take into account of regional variations and ignore quality of life, such as the gap in life expectancy between Surrey and the north east of England, the Inclusive G... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Three ways to value gold. Three conclusions

Then three economics and finance professors—Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago—created a series of Economic Poli... Read more...

Yibada (English Chinese News, USA)

China's high-speed rail technology game: the significant role of transfer deals

Yatang Lin, a researcher from the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, enthused that "there were ambitions to get everything done pretty quickly. Of course, there were politi... Read more...

Europe 1

Should we ban cell phones in school?

A brake to the concentration. Still, according to a study of 2015 to the United Kingdom by the London School of Economics, the use of the current mobile phone impair concentration. The study, which looked at t... Read more...

Repubblica.it

Irrinunciabile smartphone. 'Ma i divieti non servono'/Essential smartphone. 'But the bans are not needed'

Research by the London School of Economics in 2015 calculated that at maturity, in schools where the mobile phone is banned, the boys get ratings of 6.4% higher. Related Publications In brief ... Phone h... Read more...

i Newspaper

Why does nobody want to host the Olympics anymore?

The Olympics shouldn’t be sold as bringing any wider benefits at all – but, instead as a very expensive party. Hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 cost about £150 per UK tax payer – but i... Read more...

LSE Business Review

LSE Growth Commission: invest more in people, not only buildings and machines

The LSE Growth Commission sets out a new blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth that deals with the challenges facing the UK, old and new. Based on the latest research, analysis and evidence from leadi... Read more...

Le Huffington Post (France)

Macron veut durcir la loi qui encadre l'usage du portable a l'ecole, mais qu'en est-il aujourd'hui?/ Macron wants to tighten the law that oversees the use of the laptop to school, but what about today?

According to a study published in the journal of the London School of Economics in may 2015, the ban on mobiles in schools would be beneficial for the academic performance of students. Researchers have shown t... Read more...

LSE Staff News

New report from LSE Growth Commission

Last Friday, the LSE Growth Commission released a new report setting out a blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth in the UK, which deals with both old and new challenges. Related publications ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Britain is damning itself to a low wage, low productivity economy

As the London School of Economics’ “Growth Commission” noted in a recent update on the UK economy, growing self-employment is eroding the incentives for companies to invest in training and sk... Read more...

O2 (Poland)

So many minutes of sleep loses his mother when she wakes up her baby

The study is based on data about the life of 14 thousand. the British families. Was collected from the birth of a child in the family up to the 25 years of his life. Applications have developed Joan Costa-and-... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Our nation of shoppers needs a new growth model

…"more coherent and comprehensive than anything the government has yet come up with" Article on the LSE Growth Commission Report. Related publications 'UK Growth: A New Chapter',... Read more...

The Observer

Health: Child-induced fatigue costs economy dear, says study

In the first study of its kind, Joan Costa-i-Font and Sarah Flèche, of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, have found that baby-induced fatigue i... Read more...

Public Finance

LSE growth commission sets out economic reform proposals

Britain’s tax laws are biased in favour of the self-employed and should be reformed to enable greater investment in people instead of buildings and machines, the LSE Growth Commission has said. This was ... Read more...

Bloomberg News online

Brexit Bulletin: What Can By-Elections Tell Us About Brexit?

Snippet: ... Due today: latest migration figures from the ONS, and a report on the economy from the LSE Growth Commission. ... Read more...

CEP Journal Articles

Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Fertility, Education and Norms'

Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, Economica, 14 March 2017 DOI:  10.1111/ecca.12230 ... Read more...

Australian Economic Review

Observations on Uncertainty (pages 79?84)

© The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Volume 50, Issue 1 Pages 1 - 132, March 2017 Observations on Uncertainty (pages 79–84) Nicholas Bl... Read more...

El Financiero

El Dinero no da felicidan, sobre todo si es poco