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Covid has hit social mobility in the UK, and young people's prospects are shrinking

The economic impact of Covid-19 has hit young people harder than others. Andrew Eyles assesses the extent of the shock from Covid-19 and what it means for social mobility. Read more...
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Which speakers will benefit from the rise in remote seminar presentations?

Marcus Biermann looks at how changes to remote meetings have played out in academic seminars; and asks whether women in academia may benefit from a decreasing need to travel. Read more...

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VoxEU:
'Potential capital', working from home, and economic resilience

Janice Eberly, Jonathan Haskel and Paul Mizen estimate the potential capital and labour saved through working from home that would otherwise have been lost during the Covid-19 pandemic....Read more...

Janice Eberly, Jonathan Haskel and Paul Mizen

13 January 2022

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Innovation Growth Lab:
Lessons on designing tech RCTs with SMEs

Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Juliana Oliveira-Cunha look at how new technology based on artificial intelligence can be used to help small and medium-sized businesses improve productivity....Read more...

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

12 January 2022

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VoxEU:
Quantifying the full impact of country-specific policies on trade flows

Rebecca Freeman, Mario Larch, Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Yoto Yotov propose a solution to issues measuring country-specific impact using structural gravity models - a popular way to analyse the impact of trade policie...Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Mario Larch, Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Yoto Yotov

12 January 2022

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LSE Blogs:
Prosociality and the pandemic: adolescents from poorer backgrounds suffered more

Camille Terrier, Daniel L Chen and Matthias Sutter look at how Covid-19 infections affected adolescents' prosociality, an essential non-cognitive skill. The prosociality gap between students with high and low socio-econo...Read more...

Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter and Camille Terrier

11 January 2022

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LSE Covid-19:
Covid has hit social mobility in the UK, and young people's prospects are shrinking

The economic impact of Covid has hit young people, and especially poorer young people, harder than others. Andrew Eyles assesses the extent of the shock and what it means for social mobility, which was already in decline...Read more...

Andrew Eyles

10 January 2022

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LSE Business Review:
Omicron raises fresh questions: the economy, travel bans, and vaccine distribution

With the emergence of a new strain of the virus that causes Covid-19 re-opening debates about the economic impact of the pandemic, the success of efforts to achieve global distribution of vaccines and the value of travel...Read more...

Romesh Vaitilingam

5 January 2022

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VoxEU:
Comparing online to in-person meetings

Covid-19 resulted in a shift towards working from home. This column discusses the findings of a survey of over 2,000 UK working adults, which suggest that online meetings are more efficient for smaller gatherings of 2 to...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Paul Mizen and Shivani Taneja

4 January 2022

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LSE Business Review:
How we feel depends on what we pay attention to

Policymakers are increasingly focusing on wellbeing as a policy goal, leaning on wellbeing measures to aid their work. Paul Dolan writes that the existing frameworks fail to properly account for the fundamental mechanism...Read more...

Paul Dolan

3 January 2022

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VoxEU:
The human side of productivity: Uncovering the role of skills and diversity for firm productivity

Rising dispersion in productivity across firms has focused attention on the drivers of superior performances of a minority of firms at the 'productivity frontier' and disappointing performances of the remaining 'producti...Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal, Timo Leidecker and Giuseppe Nicoletti

23 December 2021

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VoxEU:
Autocratic AI dystopias: From science fiction to social science fact

The growth of artificial intelligence technology brings the potential of a 'fourth industrial revolution', but also poses challenges for democratic institutions. This column analyses the mutually reinforcing relationship...Read more...

Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman

17 December 2021

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LSE Business Review:
SMILE in 2022

As 2021 draws to a close, Grace Lordan offers six life lessons rooted in the behavioural sciences that will make you SMILE....Read more...

Grace Lordan

17 December 2021

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LSE Business Review:
Labour shortages have become widespread - this is how firms are responding

The majority of firms saw business grow between April and October 2021, after the shocks of Covid-19 and Brexit in 2020. But a new analysis by Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon into firms' experiences and expectations for t...Read more...

Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra

15 December 2021

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LSE Business Review:
By allowing work to be done externally, broadband technology has increased outsourcing

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. One reason for this is technological change that allows work to be done externally. Antonin Bergeaud, Clement Malgouyres, Cle...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud, Clement Malgouyres, Clement Mazet-Sonilhac and Sara Signorelli

13 December 2021

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LSE Business Review:
Where are business angels from?

Business angels, those who invest in entrepreneurial ventures at a very early stage, play a key role for new business development, which can help improve a country's productivity. But where are business angels from? Fei...Read more...

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Fei Qin

9 December 2021

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LSE Business Review:
When oligopolies confuse consumers, beware the rise of confusopoly

Confusing consumers can be profitable for companies, in particular in a competitive market where they can hardly increase their prices without losing their consumers. Ambre Nicolle, Christos Genakos, and Tobias Kretschme...Read more...

Christos Genakos, Tobias Kretschmer and Ambre Nicolle

8 December 2021

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LSE Covid-19 blog:
Which speakers will benefit from the rise in remote seminar presentations?

The pandemic has led to a surge in working from home and a fall in business travel. More meetings have taken place remotely. Marcus Biermann (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) loo...Read more...

Marcus Biermann

8 December 2021

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VoxEU:
Why natural experiments won the Nobel

Josh Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens shared the Nobel in 2021 for their pioneering work on natural experiments that, in the words of the committee, "revolutionised empirical research". Steve Pischke tells Tim Phill...Read more...

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

3 December 2021

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Economics Observatory:
How are climate change policies affecting firms' competitiveness?

Policies to tackle climate change can impose costs on firms, especially those with high emissions of greenhouse gases, potentially reducing their competitiveness in global markets. Such measures can also encourage innova...Read more...

Mirabelle Muûls

2 December 2021

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What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth:
Monitoring and evaluating during the Covid-19 recovery

Helene Donnat summarises the discussion from the What Works Growth's fifth Economic Recovery workshop, exploring the challenges places are facing in undertaking good quality monitoring and evaluation....Read more...

Helene Donnat

2 December 2021

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LSE Politics and Policy:
The only way to substantially reduce the number of migrants crossing the Channel is through an agreement with France

Current government policy, whatever its rhetoric, is to muddle on, trying to deter crossings, trying to return migrants to safe countries but recognising that borders are inevitably porous. Muddling on is often an under-...Read more...

Alan Manning

26 November 2021

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