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LSE Impact of Social Sciences:
The next innovation revolution should be democratisation

Innovators are most likely to be men from privileged backgrounds. Xavier Jaravel argues that democratisation and widening of access to innovative careers worldwide is key to boosting long-term growth and addressing today...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel

20 February 2025

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LSE Business Review:
The benefits of elite education are more social than academic

From Oxbridge to Harvard and Yale, elite universities are a feature of many education systems. Andres Barrios Fernandez, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman write about the importance of the social circles created by ...Read more...

Andres Barrios Fernandez, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

4 February 2025

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Oxford Review of Education :
Inequalities in late adolescents' educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic

While the health risks of Covid-19 for young people are low, they have borne a heavy cost of the pandemic through intense disruption to their education and social lives. These effects have not been experienced equally ac...Read more...

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

13 October 2022

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Education Economics :
Grade expectations: how well can past performance predict future grades?

Students in the UK apply to university with teacher-predicted examination grades, rather than actual results. These predictions have been shown to be inaccurate, and to favour certain groups, leading to concerns about te...Read more...

Jake Anders, Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

19 September 2022

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Ecological Economics:
The greener, the happier? The effect of urban land use on residential well-being

We investigate the effect of urban land use on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas. We reduce concerns...Read more...

Jens Kolbe, Christian Krekel and Henry Wustermann

1 January 2016