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Getting cash transfers right
Season 7 Episode 39
Sending regular small sums of money to households or individuals are go-to policy. Should these transfers be universal or targeted? And how big, and …
1 year, 8 months ago
Do billionaires pay taxes?
Season 7 Episode 38
Data about the personal finances of the richest people in our society is hard to find. A team of economists in France have attempted to answer a ques…
1 year, 8 months ago
When development creates conflict
Season 7 Episode 37
Economic development, especially in Africa, often implies improving crop agriculture. But many rural populations are pastoralists, grazing their catt…
1 year, 8 months ago
Competence vs gender
Season 7 Episode 36
Women are under-represented in politics. If women aren’t chosen to stand for election, and voters are biased against them when they do, what can brea…
1 year, 8 months ago
Improving digital payments for social protection
Season 7 Episode 35
More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.
It’s infuriating when you’re expecting a digital payment to arrive, it is lost in the system some…
1 year, 9 months ago
The next generation: PSE 2024
Season 7 Episode 34
In our latest podcast from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024, we feature three of the young economists who made their mark at the conference. Tim Philli…
1 year, 9 months ago
The effects of disability hiring quotas
Season 7 Episode 33
More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.
More than 100 countries have some form of quota regulation that requires firms to hire people wit…
1 year, 9 months ago
Will tax or finance get us to net zero?
Season 7 Episode 32
If we’re going to get to net zero in time, economists argue that carbon taxation alone is the best policy. But less than a quarter of emissions are s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Location, location, location
Season 7 Episode 31
The first in a series of VoxTalks Economics based on some of the most interesting presentations from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024.
Imagine that one …
1 year, 9 months ago
It’s a dirty job
Season 7 Episode 30
If we want to help millions of working people who have high-polluting jobs to find news work during the green transition, first we need to know more …
1 year, 10 months ago