Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


Centre for Cities · 16 April 2024 English

A widely held (and sensible) view is that policy making should be based on evidence. But it often isn’t. This paper considers why this is the case for local government …


WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

This study explores the evolution and success drivers of the global video game industry, focusing on key hubs within Finland, Poland, Japan, and the United States. Using a qualitative methodology, …


Harris School of Public Policy · 7 May 2024 English

With the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic, debates about the return to office have taken center stage among companies and employees. Despite their ubiquity, the economic implications of return …


ISER: Institute for Social and Economic Research · 11 March 2024 English

We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills …


The Australia Institute · 20 March 2024

Academic publishing houses are among the most profitable businesses in the world. They charge exorbitant fees for access to research that the public funds. The global momentum toward a free …


12 May 2024

This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are six times larger than previously thought. We exploit natural variability in global temper- ature and rely on time-series variation. …


Commission on Political Power · 21 March 2024

Concern about corruption in British political life – through conflict of interests, lobbying, second jobs and party funding in Westminster – has intensified in recent years. It is widely perceived …


Resolution Foundation · 23 March 2024

In an election year, jobs and benefits are often centre stage. Alongside the UK’s stagnant wage growth, there is one big issue that will face the next government: the rises …