Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
By Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm

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Very grateful to Harvard Business Review for this amazing recognition, and kudos to my awesome coauthors for making this such a fun project to work on.

This finding resonates with insights from the social mobility literature Gregory Clark Maia Guell Xavier Jaravel John Van Reenen

Let me free ride on Steve Tadelis’s post to advertise this super conference which will take place in Mennheim, Germany, 9-11 September 2024. Deadline for submissions 30 April 2024.

Prof Sir John Curtice explains why the Brexit voters that The Labour Party has “re-captured” since 2019…

…are not actually Brexit supporters anymore.

Labour’s voting base all over the country is now more pro-EU, whether Keir Starmer likes it or not.

Worse than 1997 for Tories? buff.ly/4cJ0NyR Andrew Rawnsley

'Words have consequences.' buff.ly/4aLNiwu

Why we’re all a bit like Jasmin Paris buff.ly/3TQhgZo Tim Harford

Terrific NBER-DOT Conference on Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century on May 3: nber.org/conferences/ec…, including a talk on the exciting new U.S. FLOW network data. Live-streamed on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@NBERvideos?si…. U.S. Department of Transportation NBER #supplychain

The discourse: American economists debate their ‘jobs boom’ while the right in the UK hand-wrings about the UK being too lazy to work
The reality: 👇

This takes British eccentricity to a new (and fabulously creative) level buff.ly/3vNjOPZ #RonsPlace

Lots of nonsense columns being written at the moment about feckless/lazy Britain. Just a gentle reminder that in 1996 21% of households were ‘workless’. Today less than 14% are

Thrilled to have this out in print🎉 Original paper thread: x.com/EmilyNix100/st…

The paper is much improved since then with exciting new analysis added, so please check out the published version:)

In the meantime, busy working on related follow-up work. More coming soon!

Billionaires’ love for Trump could backfire via Financial Times
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Glad to see Economist, Stanford Alum (and my coauthor) Jon Levin as President. Awful job, but he'll be super good at it. We are lucky to get him. news.stanford.edu/report/2024/04…

What is business dynamism? Is turbulence good for productivity? Bart van Ark is joined by Rebecca Riley, John Van Reenen & Javier Miranda to discuss on the 1st episode of Productivity Puzzles' 3rd season: podfollow.com/1567204500/epi…
King's Business School ESCoE Programme on Innovation and Diffusion IWH CompNet

Our 10th episode is out! 🎉Our guest was Philippe Aghion and we talked about Marx, Schumpeter, creative destruction, capital accumulation, history, political economy, and more! A nice treat for the holiday 😉 John Van Reenen Ruveyda Nur Gozen Centre for Economic Performance Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

CEP’s Summer Internship programme is now open – this is an excellent opportunity for Economics graduates and postgraduates to gain experience of research in practice.
Closing: Monday 15 April

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The 10 year passport rule causes holiday misery buff.ly/3TGHpd4 I got caught by this myself 2 years ago. All thanks to #Brexit - the gift that just keeps taking

I agree with @robertjenrick that it would be in the public interest for us to know if any immigrants happened to illegally approve a large housing development and save a Conservative Party donor £45 million.

Wait, that was Robert Jenrick