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...

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...

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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)....

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...

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...

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....

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...