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The article refers extensively to research undertaken by Camille Landais and colleagues exploring how the variation in women's fertility impacts the wage gap. Find out more...
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times writes about how erasing the child penalty in the labour market could also increase fertility, citing the Child Penalty Atlas and research. Find out more...
STICERD is proud to host the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy (HINPE) during its formative phase working with our faculty: Tim Besley and Daniel Chandler. Find out more...
Gillian Paull, Visiting Senior Fellow at CASE, LSE, discusses the recent increase in the minimum wage and its implications for delivering Government-funded preschool places. Her article is being published by the Early Ed... Read more...
3 March 2026
What drives the wage gap between men and women? The Economist's Finance and Economics section reports on research about what drives the wage gap between men women. The article refers extensively to research undertaken b... Read more...
26 February 2026
To raise low birth rates, we must help mothers Martin Wolf in the Financial Times writes about how erasing the child penalty in the labour market could also increase fertility. He references the Child Penalty Atlas and ... Read more...
25 February 2026
On Tuesday 19 May 2026, Professor Ian Gough FBA, CASE Visiting Professor, will deliver the British Academy lecture "Planning for a sufficiency economy: lessons from Britain in World War II". Runaway global he... Read more...
17 February 2026
Michio Morishima (1923-2004) was an internationally renowned economist from Japan, known for his work on the theory of the capitalist economy, general equilibrium theory, activity analysis and broader economics. With an ... Read more...
4 February 2026
STICERD is proud to host the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy during its formative phase working with our faculty: Professor Sir Tim Besley and Dr Daniel Chandler. During this period we will not only prom... Read more...
3 February 2026
Congratulations to Alessandro Gavazza who, together with his co-authors, has been awarded the Jensen Prize for their paper: Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market. The paper was recognised as the best on... Read more...
27 January 2026
The two-child benefit cap restricted Universal Credit and Tax Credit payments to cover only the first two children in a family. This increased the child poverty rate for families with three or more children. Kitty Stewar... Read more...
19 January 2026
Congratulations to our STICERD faculty members that have been appointed royal Economic Society Fellows! This recognition reflects their significant contributions to economic research. Oriana Bandiera, Sir Anthony Atki... Read more...
17 December 2025
A proposal for a unified global carbon market, by Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande Carbon markets are expanding rapidly around the world, but they remain fragmented, unevenly regulated, and – particularly in the vol... Read more...
