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Covid's effect on inequality
Season 4 Episode 31
Jonathan Ostry of the IMF has investigated a century of pandemics and discovered that not only do they make our societies less equal, but they lead t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Does economics do enough race-related research?
Season 4 Episode 30
Imran Rasul tells Tim Phillips about new research that shows the fraction of published economics research devoted to the causes and consequences of r…
4 years, 9 months ago
A cure for Friday morning fever
Season 4 Episode 29
People everywhere sometimes pretend to be sick on a Friday because a day off work means a three-day weekend. In Italy, sick workers may now get a sur…
4 years, 9 months ago
What makes children lie?
Season 4 Episode 28
If some kids lie a little, and some lie a lot, is that just the way they are, or can we increase a child’s honesty in day-to-day life? Johannes Abele…
4 years, 9 months ago
Why mums return to work
Season 4 Episode 27
Do cultural norms determine whether women go back to work after having a child? And if culture changes, does their behaviour change too? Anna Raute a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Whatever happened to the 15-hour work week?
Season 4 Episode 26
John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that no one would need to work for more than three hours a day by 2030. How did he get it so wrong? Nick Craft…
4 years, 9 months ago
Capitalism after Covid
Season 4 Episode 25
What's the future of capitalism? Luis Garicano asked this question to 21 of his fellow economists, and this week the interviews are published as a CE…
4 years, 10 months ago
Populism in Latin America
Season 4 Episode 24
Latin America has a long history of populist government. New research by Antonio Spilimbergo quantifies the consequences of populism for the region's…
4 years, 10 months ago
Turning competition research into competition policy
Season 4 Episode 23
The CEPR's Research Policy Network on competition policy (cepr.online/competition) launches this week. In the first of two special podcasts on the to…
4 years, 10 months ago
How central banks saved us from Covid-19
Season 4 Episode 22
How well has monetary policy coped with the challenge of Covid-19?Central banks get good grades in a new VoxEU ebook. But Bill English and Angel Ubid…
4 years, 10 months ago