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Policy: School inspection
When Ofsted downgrades schools, headteachers pay the price
A high-risk, low-reward system affects the supply of teachers... Read more...
Policy: Recycling
Why waste segregation policies fail ? and how training makes them work
Reducing landfill use cuts greenhouse gas emissions and costs less... Read more...
Policy: Youth crime
The complex relationship between education and criminal activity
Reducing crime starts with both school attendance and conflict resolution... Read more...
Policy: Immigration
Make immigration boring again
A polarised debate ignores the trade-offs involved, we can do better. Read more...
Policy: Paternity leave
Supporting new fathers, Spanish style
Use-it-or-lose-it paternity leave combined with full pay is changing norms. Read more...
Policy: Brexit
Deglobalisation in disguise?
Brexit means that UK exporters of services now face more red tape and fewer opportunities. Read more...
Policy: Gender quotas
in brief... How gender quotas are challenging political inequality in South Korea
Boosting women?s representation in government means understanding what type of gender discrimination is being practised, say Jay Euijung Lee and Martina Zanella. Read more...
Policy: Economic geography
Public sector relocation: lessons from the BBC?s move to Salford
Moving public agencies out of London was a major plank of the levelling-up agenda. Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal show how the BBC?s move to Salford had a positive effect on the local ec... Read more...
Policy: Economic geography
Why people like living in cities: a new measure of the quality of life
People like to live in certain places, even when higher wages are on offer elsewhere. Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel show that once people?s preferences are considered, big cities offer a hi... Read more...
Policy: Regulation in the rental market
in brief... Successful caps on fees disprove the idea that it?s unwise to meddle with free markets
Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta show how the success of a reform of letting agents? fees was partly due to their hidden nature. Read more...
Policy: Health technology
The doctor will see you now: comparing online and in-person consultations
Online consultations with doctors are convenient for patients and produce similar health outcomes to in-person visits. But research by Amanda Dahlstrand, Nestor Le Nestour and Guy Michaels finds that deciding which patie... Read more...
Policy: Climate change
in brief... Designing carbon markets that deliver change
Ever since the European Union created its market-based carbon policy, governments and businesses have been keen to assess its impact. Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muuls and Ulrich Wagner explain why analysing ... Read more...
Policy: Labour markets
Better work: whose business is it?
Regulating the labour market is essential to address the inherent imbalance of power between employers and employees. But that doesn?t necessarily mean that the state needs to intervene more than it already does. Alan Ma... Read more...
Policy: Productivity
in brief... Could a new policy institution help solve the UK?s productivity problem?
Comparatively sluggish productivity growth is one of the UK?s biggest policy challenges. Past strategies to solve the problem have lacked both sustained commitment and proper evaluation. Anna Valero and Bart van Ark call... Read more...