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Learning loss since lockdown: variation across the home nations

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin examine data from across the UK to reveal the extent of learning losses that have evolved in the four nations over the year of the pandemic. Read more...

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CEP Insights: Brexit

The UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016 triggered economic reactions that will define the country's future for years to come. Why does leaving the EU have such a profound impact - and how do economists estimate it?
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Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas study the link between alcohol and domestic abuse following major football games, finding evidence that changing kick-off times could help reduce violence.
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British Academy
Vernon Henderson and Barbara Petrongolo become Fellows of the British Academy

Congratulations to Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) associates Professor Vernon Henderson and Professor Barbara Petrongolo, who have been elected as new Fellows of the British Academy. They are among 8... Read more...

23 July 2021

The Economist
Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

A study by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas finds that a “considerable amount of domestic abuse” could be mitigated by arranging football fixtures on weekdays or... Read more...

09 July 2021

The Telegraph
Pupils missed more than half of classroom time during Covid pandemic

Amid calls to allow the option to repeat the entire school year, a major study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds Pupils have missed out on more than half ... Read more...

07 July 2021

LBC
Schoolchildren missed out on a third of learning during coronavirus pandemic

A study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds evidence that pupils across the UK have lost out on a third of their learning time amid Covid-19, even when home lessons a... Read more...

07 July 2021

The Independent
Day drinking and early kick-offs linked to rise in domestic abuse after football matches

Researchers find alcohol consumption - rather than heightened emotions - is to blame for rises in male-on-female violence following matches, and this could be reduced by more evening and weekend games. ... Read more...

05 July 2021

The Guardian
Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home

Researchers at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance find alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game and suggest that... Read more...

04 July 2021

Bloomberg
Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...

02 July 2021

The Telegraph
Scarred by Covid: As infections subside, India now faces a difficult road to recovery

Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... Read more...

24 June 2021

Centre for Economic Performance
Xavier Jaravel named Best Young Economist of France, 2021

Congratulations to Dr Xavier Jaravel who has been named the Best Young Economist of France, 2021 by Le Monde and Le Cercle des économistes. The prize is awarded to a French economist under the age of... Read more...

03 June 2021

Forbes
Happiness Is Not ‘Out There.' It's Something You Create

Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... Read more...

01 June 2021

Financial Times
The 2020s are set to be a decisive economic decade for the UK

The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...

31 May 2021

ITV
Covid volunteering surge can be ‘positive legacy’ for NHS in future

Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found Volunteering for the NHS during the pandemic felt as good as getting a £1,800 bonus from work. ... Read more...

31 May 2021

The Telegraph
Replace stamp duty with tax raid on southern property wealth, Sunak told

An new annual property tax on the value of each home, proposed by economists Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, would be fairer than current system, according to a new report by think tank Bright Bl... Read more...

20 May 2021

The Guardian
UK economy could resemble that of Italy by end of 2020s – report

A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...

18 May 2021

The Independent
UK faces ‘decisive decade’ of change and risks falling further behind other nations, report warns

The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...

18 May 2021

Centre for Economic Performance
UK facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change

The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...

18 May 2021

iNews
Brexit has hits UK firms as border delays and bureaucracy add to costs, says study

Report by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with ... Read more...

06 May 2021

The Independent
Brexit causes difficulties for more than 60 per cent of UK firms - report

Study by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds higher prices and reduced competitiveness due to EU withdrawal. ... Read more...

06 May 2021

The Independent
Almost three-quarters of a million businesses ‘at risk of failure over next three months', economists warn

Warnings of widespread business failure comes in an analysis by the John Van Reenen and Peter Lambert, using the latest Business Insights and Impact survey. ... Read more...

04 May 2021

Centre for Economic Performance
Daniel Sturm awarded major grant to study the economics of cities

Professor Daniel Sturm, director of the Urban Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, has been awarded a major research grant by the European Research Council (ERC) to study the economics of cities. ... Read more...

22 April 2021

Financial Times
We’re still in the dark about insecure work

The Financial Times cites research by Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine while analysing the dabate around improving job security as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

20 April 2021

Financial Times
UK business groups call for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap

Amid criticism of a government-commissioned race report for downplaying the extent of problems in the labour market, Alan Manning explains there's no evidence for pay gaps being smaller than they we... Read more...

18 April 2021

Centre for Economic Performance
Ground-breaking new inquiry to propose economic path for post-pandemic Britain

A ground-breaking new collaboration between the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Resolution Foundation will explore current economic challenges and propose ways t... Read more...

31 March 2021

Financial Times
Detached homes close to central London enjoy biggest price rises

LSE study says there has been little exodus to rural areas in past year but buyers have sought space, with detached houses close to the centre of London seeing the biggest price increases over the past year. ... Read more...

30 March 2021

The Telegraph
London risks house price crunch as Covid boom ends

House prices could fall when the stamp duty holiday comes to a close. London is particularly vulnerable because the price of houses rose particularly sharply over 2020, while the population of the capital... Read more...

30 March 2021

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Blog
Consumer city: evidence from smartphone data

Traditional theories emphasise production decisions and the commuting costs of workers in shaping the spatial concentration of economic activity in cities. However, much of urban travel is related to consumption of non-t... Read more...

Yuhei Miyauchi, Kentaro Nakajima and Stephen J. Redding

04 August 2021

CEP discussion papers
Voting under threat: evidence from the 2020 French local elections

We study how Covid-related risk affected participation across the French territory in the March 2020 local elections. We document that participation went down disproportionately in towns exposed to higher Covid-19 risk. ... Read more...

Elsa Leromain and Gonzague Vannoorenberghe

30 July 2021

CEP discussion papers
Dynamic spatial general equilibrium

We develop a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model with forward-looking investment and migration decisions. We characterize analytically the transition path of the spatial distribution of economic activity in respons... Read more...

Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding

28 July 2021

CEP discussion papers
Technological change and domestic outsourcing

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. This paper addresses the question of the technological drivers of this phenomenon by studying the impact of the staggered dif... Read more...

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

28 July 2021

CEP discussion papers
Firm export responses to tariff hikes

We study how firms react to unexpected increases in import tariffs. We identify our results from a sudden removal of American preferential tariffs applied on Argentine imports under the Generalized System of Preferences,... Read more...

Facundo Albornoz, Irene Brambilla and Emanuel Ornelas

28 July 2021

Blog
A 'lost generation' of young Indian workers urgently needs job opportunities

A year after the pandemic hit India, urban individuals are facing work without pay and long spells of unemployment. Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli say a national-level commitment to provide job opportunities is need... Read more...

Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli

28 July 2021

Blog
Service offshoring and export experience

Trade in services is important but difficult to measure. This column introduces a new dataset that helps understand the contribution of services to global value chains and their role in the process of exporting goods. Fi... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin and Emanuel Ornelas

28 July 2021

Blog
Trade and innovation

International trade is a key determinant of firm profitability and survival, so it is natural to expect it to influence both incentives to innovate and the rate of creative destruction. This column highlights four key me... Read more...

Marc J. Melitz and Stephen J. Redding

28 July 2021

Blog
Let me work from home, or I will find another job

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis examine survey data from American employees currently working from home, and find 40% say they would seek another job if employers require a full return to business premis... Read more...

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis

27 July 2021

Blog
Book launch - a handbook for wellbeing policy-making

Christian Krekel gives an overview of his new book, co-authored with Paul Frijters, about the realities of policy-making and how wellbeing measures can improve what the public sector does.... Read more...

Paul Frijters and Christian Krekel

21 July 2021

CEP discussion papers
Micro-geographic property price and rent indices

We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial units from repeated cross-sections of geocoded micro data. The algorithm combines parametric and non-... Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Stephan Heblich and Tobias Seidel

20 July 2021

CEP Insights
Immigration

People move to a new country for many reasons. How do these individual stories of seeking fresh opportunities play out over time both for those arriving and for the communities they move into? Economists are particularly... Read more...

Jonathan Wadsworth

14 July 2021

CEP Insights
Education

Education improves people's lives: a good education is a step towards a good job; it raises incomes and boosts productivity; it enables people to fulfil their potential; and it is linked with better health and happiness.... Read more...

Sandra McNally

14 July 2021

CEP Insights
Brexit

The UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016 triggered economic reactions that will define the country's future for years to come. Why does leaving the EU have such a profound impact - and how do economists estimate... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Thomas Sampson

14 July 2021

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations
Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus

The Committee will examine how the Government can reduce and mitigate economic scarring and job losses after the pandemic, how much difference the Government can make to economic growth, and what has caused the UK's prod... Read more...

Anna Valero

12 July 2021

Blog
Pupils lost a third of their expected learning during Covid, with Wales and Scotland even further behind

Most pupils missed over half of their expected days in the classroom during the pandemic, write Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin (LSE). Children in Scotland and Wales lost even more learning than those i... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

07 July 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses
Learning loss since lockdown: variation across the home nations

Empirical analysis of secondary microdata, bespoke social mobility surveys and administrative school attendance data reveal the extent of learning losses that have evolved in the four nations of the UK over the year of t... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

07 July 2021

CEP discussion papers
Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

We study the role of alcohol and emotions in explaining the dynamics in domestic abuse following major football games. We match confidential and uniquely detailed individual call data from Greater Manchester with the tim... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas

04 July 2021

Blog
Corporate taxes: Views of leading economists on profit-shifting, tax base and a global minimum rate

Romesh Vaitilingam reports on economists' responses to the IGM Forum poll on issues surrounding the G7 global deal on corporate taxes.... Read more...

Romesh Vaitilingam

03 July 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses
City of dreams no more, a year on: worklessness and active labour market policies in urban India

This report provides key findings from a new field survey to assess the long-term impact of Covid-19 on urban workers in low-income areas of India. The survey took place during February and March 2021, just before the s... Read more...

Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli

02 July 2021

Blog
Locked-in syndrome: why this must all end on 19 July

Zero COVID is unachievable, write Paul Dolan (LSE) and Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford). Continuing to impose restrictions inflicts disproportionate harm on the young, small businesses and creative industries.... Read more...

Paul Dolan and Sunetra Gupta

30 June 2021

CEP discussion papers
The measure of monopsony

There has been increasing interest in recent years in monopsony in labour market. This paper discusses how we can measure monopsony power combining insights from models based on both frictions and idiosyncrasies. It pres... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

30 June 2021

CEP discussion papers
Import liberalization as export destruction? Evidence from the United States

How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce an industry's exports by cutting domestic production. We find this export destruction mechanism... Read more...

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson

30 June 2021

CEP discussion papers
Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France

Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it. We here consider marriage as a way of insuring against labour-market risk. The 199... Read more...

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

30 June 2021

Blog
How has Covid-19 affected India's economy?

India has been hit hard by the pandemic, particularly during the second wave of the virus in the spring of 2021. The sharp drop in GDP is the largest in the country's history, Swati Dhingra and Maitreesh Ghatak point out... Read more...

Swati Dhingra and Maitreesh Ghatak

30 June 2021

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CEP Public Events
Chicago/LSE crime conference 2022

A two day conference discussing recent work on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system.... Read more...

Various Speakers

03 June 2022

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