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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pascaline Dupas: Do health subsidies help? | Human capital and growth
Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University looks at what prevent households from investing in health products that we know can save lives. Often the reason is simply poverty, however the international com...
Zlata Tanović: Do health tests bias their own results? | Human capital and growth
Zlata Tanović of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discusses the challenges of collecting health data. The act of carrying out health surveys may in fact change the behavior of those being studied....
Adrienne Lucas: Healthier parents, smarter children | Human Capital and growth
Health and education are too of the main things we think about as essential components of human capital. In this video Adrienne Lucas discusses the interplay between them, and looks at the effect adul...
Nudge, the Animation: Helping people make better choices
Nudge, the Animation: Helping people make better choices - People don't always act rationally. In fact, they tend to act irrationally - but in predictable ways. In this video, four marketing professor...
Development policies need re-hauled to reflect how people’s minds really work, a new World Bank study argues. This could help form and realize development goals, including that of breaking poverty cyc...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Mark Sculpher is a professor of health economics at the University of York. He presented research on estimating NICE's cost-effectiveness threshold at NUI Galway, Ireland (March 15th 2013)....
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
