Michele Tuccio: Immigration and new values | Human capital and growth

Michele Tuccio of the University of Southampton looks at the effect immigration can have on the social norms in origin countries. His study finds evidence that international migrants while living abro...

Nisheeth Srivastava: Where Do Preferences Come From?

Nisheeth Srivastava: Where Do Preferences Come From? Research that reexamines a fundamental assumption of economic theory. Srivastava is looking at preferences, which are taken as given and immutable ...

Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? The author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show...

Jeffrey Nugent: Labour market reforms, growth, and inequality | Human capital and growth

The more rigid the labour regulations, the harder it is to the firms to adjust to shocks. However, at the same time the regulations protect workers from the shocks. In this video Jeffrey Nugent, from ...

Kehinde Ajayi: What makes a good school | Human capital and growth

Kehinde Ajayi of Boston University discusses the features that make a good school. Allowing students to make informed choices about which school to attend is key to improving educational attainment....

Annika Lindskog: Inheritance and education | Human capital and growth

When making policy changes that affect education, we should not immediately think that less education is automatically bad. In this video Annika Lindskog from the University of Gothenburg discusses ho...

LSE Research | Dr Julia Morley on how we measure success in the social sector

Julia Morley's research investigates the way we measure success in the social sector. Why has social impact become an increasingly prevalent measure of success? How can we be sure it is conceptually j...

Damian Clarke: Reducing maternal mortality through education | Human capital and growth

Are more educated women more able to access information relating to maternal health care decisions? Damian Clarke from University of Chile discusses the linkage between the years of education and mate...

Einar Hope on challenges for Energy Economics research

Einar Hope, professor emeritus in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration explains what is, in his opinion, the main challenge ahead for research in Energy Economics...

Thesis Statements: Stability of Risk Preference Estimates Over Payoff Horizons

Thesis Statements: Stability of Risk Preference Estimates Over Payoff Horizons. The technical title describes a behavioral economics experiment that Alexander Myers (Economics student) devised for Am...

Victor Yakovenko: What Causes Inequality? An Econophysics Approach

Victor Yakovenko speaking about his innovative approach to economic inequality. In standard economics, inequality in outcomes is typically attributed to inequality of inputs, for example, from differe...

Nudge, the Video: Behavioural Economics in Action

Nudge, the Video: Helping people make better choicesPeople don't always act rationally. In fact, they tend to act irrationally - but in predictable ways. In this video, four marketing professors from ...

Rajesh Ramachandran: The usefulness of mother tongues | Human capital and growth

Rajesh Ramachandran of Goethe University discusses the effect of the reliance on colonial languages as the main language of schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. His research found that teaching children i...

Research Transparency in Economics | Rachel Glennerster (J-PAL/MIT)

Research Transparency in Economics | Rachel Glennerster (J-PAL/MIT) "I’m Executive Director of the The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which is a center at MIT. I do randomized evaluation...

Sheila Dow: The Economics of Uncertainty

Sheila Dow speaking about the economics of uncertainty. Studies in psychology, neuroscience, biology, and many of the social sciences have long illustrated that human beings react very different from ...

Sonja Fagernäs: Politics and hiring teachers | Human capital and growth

Sonja Fagernäs of University of Sussex the extent to which the electoral process influences the recruitment and hiring of teachers. Do we see reorganization of teachers happening at particular points ...

Sharissa S. Barrow, Law & Economics Research Foundation

Sharissa S. Barrow is the Law & Economics Research Foundation 2009 Scholarly Achievement Award Recipient. She is a student at Rutgers University who recently was a part of the team that was in 2nd...

Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations?

Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations? - Professor Robin Hogarth uses a novel new methodology to demonstrate that even relatively simple measures of mood state can h...

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay: From catholic missionaries to Indian development | Human capital and growth

In order to understand human capital, we need to look at causes of difference that do not affect economic development directly. In this video, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay from the Indian Statistical Instit...

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho: Beyond Representative-Agent Macroeconomics

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho, grantees of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, have individually been exploring two possible alternative analytical entry points: mean field methods from phy...