🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Better teacher interactions boost children’s success: evidence from Ecuador, by Pedro Carneiro https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/08/27/better-teacher-interactions-boost-childrens-success-evidence-from-ecuador/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Universities at the crossroads: local action for global impact, by Parama Chaudhury and Cloda Jenkins https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/08/20/universities-at-the-crossroads-local-action-for-global-impact/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Immigration, jobs and wages: why places and people tell different stories, by Christian Dustmann https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/03/02/immigration-jobs-and-wages-why-places-and-people-tell-different-stories/
Immigration, jobs and wages: why places and people tell different stories - Econ Brief
Immigration affects places and people in different ways. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany in the early 1990s shows that regional employment may fall while most workers keep their jobs. Ad...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – How prices in financial markets can exaggerate people’s inflation worries, by Saleem Bahaj https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/08/13/how-prices-in-financial-markets-can-exaggerate-peoples-inflation-worries/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Understanding the landscape of race-related research in economics, by Imran Rasul https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/03/02/understanding-the-landscape-of-race-related-research-in-economics/
Understanding the landscape of race-related research in economics - Econ Brief
The discipline of economics lags behind other social sciences in its engagement with issues of racial and ethnic inequality. Strengthening the scientific foundation of race-related research is essenti...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Jobs in America today offer more freedom – but they’re also more stressful, by Fabien Postel-Vinay and Gregory Jolivet https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/08/06/jobs-in-america-today-offer-more-freedom-but-theyre-also-more-stressful/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – The lemons penalty: evidence from Denmark’s market for second-hand cars, by Richard Blundell https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/03/02/the-lemons-penalty-evidence-from-denmarks-market-for-second-hand-cars/
The lemons penalty: evidence from Denmark’s market for second-hand cars - Econ Brief
Even good used cars sell at a discount because buyers can’t tell them apart from bad ones – so-called lemons. Nevertheless, many people still sell good cars – but the lemons penalty reduces car turnov...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Improving access to university can change how school students prepare, by Michela Tincani https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/07/30/improving-access-to-university-can-change-how-school-students-prepare
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📰 Dr Ramin Nassehi (UCL) writes feature article on student engagement for Times Higher Education. 🔗 tinyurl.com/22ejmj6r The article explores how short-form, TikTok-style videos can help build a stronger sense of community in large university programmes.
🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – When promises change: why job security depends on who is in charge, by Ming Yang https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/02/20/when-promises-change-why-job-security-depends-on-who-is-in-charge/
When promises change: why job security depends on who is in charge - Econ Brief
The job security implicit in employment contracts is not just about goodwill: it depends both on whether strong performance or misconduct is easier to observe and on how incentives are structured to s...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Honesty is the best policy: how ‘gaming the system’ costs everyone, by Vasiliki Skreta https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/07/23/honesty-is-the-best-policy-how-gaming-the-system-costs-everyone/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – The consumer credit spread and the economy, by Morten Ravn https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/02/16/the-consumer-credit-spread-and-the-economy/
The consumer credit spread and the economy - Econ Brief
The gap between interest rates earned on savings and paid for borrowing varies with the state of the economy. Research reveals the contrasting consequences for households depending on their place in t...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – How disruptive classmates affect a child’s learning: evidence from Ecuador, by Pedro Carneiro 🔗 https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/07/02/how-disruptive-classmates-affect-a-childs-learning-evidence-from-ecuador/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – How financial institutions collaborate to exploit regulatory loopholes https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/02/16/how-financial-institutions-collaborate-to-exploit-regulatory-loopholes/
How financial institutions collaborate to exploit regulatory loopholes - Econ Brief
Banks and other financial institutions are not simply battling for market share. Rather, they collaborate to exploit loopholes in regulation on key issues like capital requirements, which compel banks...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Why Mozambican women don’t use birth control to prevent pregnancy, by Aureo de Paula https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/25/why-mozambican-women-dont-use-birth-control-to-prevent-pregnancy/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Rethinking inflation: why we need to focus on the job ladder https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/02/06/rethinking-inflation-why-we-need-to-focus-on-the-job-ladder/
Rethinking inflation: why we need to focus on the job ladder - Econ Brief
The Phillips curve underpinning monetary policy doesn’t capture the full complexity of the links between labour markets and inflation. The concept of the job ladder and the dynamics of job-to-job swit...
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – When data come in ranges: a new way to predict the unpredictable, by Aureo de Paula https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/18/when-data-come-in-ranges-a-new-way-to-predict-the-unpredictable/
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🌐 NEW on Econ Brief – Ensuring research reliability: a new tool for detecting weak evidence, by Daniel Lewis and Karel Mertens https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/02/02/ensuring-research-reliability-a-new-tool-for-detecting-weak-evidence/
Ensuring research reliability: a new tool for detecting weak evidence - Econ Brief
Policy-makers need to know that the research evidence on which their decisions are based is reliable. A powerful new testing method can assess the strengths and weaknesses of instruments used to analy...
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NEW on Econ Brief – How professional economists are using AI – and what it means for teaching, by Ramin Nassehi ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/25/h...
How professional economists are using AI – and what it means for teaching - Econ Brief
Economists in business, policy and academia are deploying artificial intelligence across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The most important employability skill in this age of AI is not a single fixed...
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🌐NEW on Econ Brief – Inflation fears: why the 2022 spike didn’t break our trust in the future, by Raffaella Giacomini and Jason Lu ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/18/i...
Inflation fears: why the 2022 spike didn’t break our trust in the future - Econ Brief
In the wake of soaring prices in 2022, people’s long-term expectations for future inflation rose sharply. This jump was mostly caused by the sheer size of the surprise, not by a belief that rising pri...
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NEW on Econ Brief – The hidden role of corporate deposits in monetary policy transmission, by Gabriel Ruiz Radrigan ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/11/t...
The hidden role of corporate deposits in monetary policy transmission - Econ Brief
The balance sheets of firms matter for the transmission of monetary policy to inflation and real economic activity. Both deposit rates on corporate deposits and the interaction between debt and liquid...
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🌐NEW on Econ Brief – Faster, better, stronger: the UK economy, in real time, by Raffaella Giacomini ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/06/04/f...
Faster, better, stronger: the UK economy, in real time - Econ Brief
Being able to know what’s happening in the economy in something close to real time is of great value to policy-makers, business leaders, journalists and households. A new ‘nowcasting’ tool developed h...
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🌐NEW on Econ Brief – Seeing the individual in the crowd: predictions for fairer decisions, by Raffaella Giacomini, Sokbae Lee and Silvia Sarpietro ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/05/28/s...
Seeing the individual in the crowd: predictions for fairer decisions - Econ Brief
When a computer model can decide someone’s future, that individual deserves to be judged on their own merits, not just by how they compare to a majority group of which they might not be part. A new an...
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NEW on Econ Brief – Would you mind your health more now if you know you’ll be richer in future? By Marcos Vera Hernandez ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/01/26/w...
Would you mind your health more now if you know you’ll be richer in future? - Econ Brief
Decisions we make today – including on health – are influenced by our expectations. New research shows how a change in Chile’s pension system altered men’s lifestyle choices: those whose expected weal...
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🌐NEW on Econ Brief – Global innovation by German multinationals, by Kalina Manova tinyurl.com/y5den5hd
Global innovation by German multinationals - Econ Brief
Multinational companies are at the heart of both the fragmentation of production and the internationalisation of innovation. Evidence from Germany shows that larger MNCs file more patents of higher qu...
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In recent years, productivity growth has been lacklustre in most advanced economies. But standard measures ignore progress towards net zero – factoring this in could change the narrative entirely. ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/01/26/r...
Rethinking productivity: a carbon emissions perspective - Econ Brief
Over the past 20 years, productivity growth has been lacklustre in most advanced economies. But standard measures ignore the progress that some economies have made in terms of lowering emissions of ca...
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Training local volunteers can help to reduce the risk of mortality from malaria. Investment in hospitals naturally remains vital, but boosting capacity at local level will save lives ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/05/14/d...
Defeating malaria: how local volunteers and shopkeepers help save lives - Econ Brief
Training local volunteers and medicine shopkeepers can help to reduce the risk of mortality from malaria in lower-income countries. Investment in hospitals naturally remains vital, but boosting capaci...
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🌐NEW on Econ Brief – Defeating malaria: how local volunteers and shopkeepers help save lives, by Pedro Carneiro 🔗https://ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/05/14/defeating-malaria-how-local-volunteers-and-shopkeepers-help-save-lives/
Defeating malaria: how local volunteers and shopkeepers help save lives - Econ Brief
Training local volunteers and medicine shopkeepers can help to reduce the risk of mortality from malaria in lower-income countries. Investment in hospitals naturally remains vital, but boosting capaci...
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NEW on Econ Brief – How firms respond to different economic shocks, by Stephen Hansen, Steven Davis and Cristian Seminario-Amez ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/01/26/h...
How firms respond to different economic shocks - Econ Brief
Economic shocks create different effects across firms and sectors. A financial crisis, for example, affects firms differently from an inflation spike, a supply chain disruption or a trade dispute. Und...
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NEW on Econ Brief – How financial distress drives firms into the arms of organised crime, by Marco Castelluccio ucleconbrief.co.uk/2026/05/07/h...
How financial distress drives firms into the arms of organised crime - Econ Brief
Evidence from Italian businesses whose revenues collapsed during lockdown illustrates how the mafia operates as a predatory lender of last resort, stepping in when a firm’s financial foundations begin...
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