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Scars of war

Deaths of soldiers in wartime naturally have a powerful impact on the communities from which they come. Research by Edward Pinchbeck, Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto reveals how losses in the first world war have reverbe...Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

20 October 2023

CEP discussion paper
Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation

What drives soldiers to risk their life in combat? We show that the legacy of war creates lasting conditions that encourage younger generations to take greater risks when fighting for their country. Using individual-leve...Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

1 August 2023

CentrePiece article
Employee wellbeing: the impact on productivity and firm performance

Does having happier staff mean higher productivity and improvements in companies' bottom line? A study of over 1.8 million employees across 73 countries by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve detects a...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward

1 July 2019

CEP discussion paper
Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance

Does higher employee wellbeing lead to higher productivity, and, ultimately, to tangible benefits to the bottom line of businesses? We survey the evidence and study this question in a meta-analysis of 339 independent res...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward

15 March 2019

CentrePiece article
Political legacies of Italian entertainment TV

To what extent are the media to blame for the rise of populist political leaders? Andrea Tesei and colleagues explore the impact of the light entertainment served up by Silvio Berlusconi's commercial TV network, Mediaset...Read more...

Ruben Durante, Paolo Pinotti and Andrea Tesei

3 July 2017

CEP discussion paper
The political legacy of entertainment TV

We study the political impact of entertainment television in Italy exploiting the staggered introduction of Berlusconi's commercial TV network, Mediaset, in the early 1980s. We find that individuals with early access to ...Read more...

Ruben Durante, Paolo Pinotti and Andrea Tesei

4 April 2017

CEP discussion paper
The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work

This paper examines how employees’ experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends ...Read more...

Alex Bryson and John Forth

December 2010