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Research: Cities
Hiroshima: urban resilience after the atomic bomb
Why the city centre re-emerged from destruction. Read more...
Research: Working lives
Putting a value on safety
What the pandemic reveals about the risks that people are willing to take at work. Read more...
Research: Trade
in brief... How the Trump tariffs affect UK firms
How should UK exporters react to the tariffs imposed by President Trump? While some may start planning to increase production in the United States to avoid the tax, others whose US customers are less price-sensitive may ... Read more...
Research: Education
The benefits of elite universities are more social than academic
From Cambridge and Oxford to Harvard and Yale, elite universities are a feature of many education systems. Andrés Barrios Fernández, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman ask whether these institutions of higher educati... Read more...
Research: Innovation
Return innovation: how migration shapes diffusion of new technologies
Novel products, processes and technologies are important drivers of economic growth. Davide Coluccia and Gaia Dossi show how migrants from Britain to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century not only too... Read more...
Research: Community
The lasting impact of 9/11 on Muslim integration in America
Understanding the long-term social impact of historical events provides insights into current global debates on immigration, integration and Islamophobia. In a study of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Shadi Farahza... Read more...
Research: Brexit
How Brexit affected the trade of UK firms
The UK left the EU’s single market and customs union at the start of 2021, entering into the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU. Rebecca Freeman, Marco Garofalo, Enrico Longoni, Kalina Manova, Rebecca Mari, Thom... Read more...
Research: Productivity
Revving up wages: How rising productivity has benefited car industry workers
Fast productivity growth in the UK car industry led to staff in the sector earning about 37% more than the average manufacturing employee by the 2010s. But Andreas Teichgraeber and Tim Obermeier show that while wages wen... Read more...
Research: AI in research
in brief... Do try this at work: the AI chatbot that can interview at scale
Large language models can conduct interviews at speed and at scale. Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel present a new open source platform to support this innovative form of qualitative research. Read more...
Research: Gender
Parenthood and academia
Women are underrepresented in senior academic positions in economics. Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen assess the impact of having children on men and women's career trajectories. Read more...
Research: Education
How to build a citizen
Schools are where the next generation learns not only how to understand the world but also how to change it. Research by Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Daniel Santin ... Read more...
Research: Technology and work
The unequal health effects of smart tech in the workplace
How does technological progress affect workers' health? Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenker explore the effects of digitalisation and find evidence of worsening health among manual wor... Read more...