S8 Ep14: The laws that protected women from work
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. During the first half of the 20th century, the US introduced state laws that imposed restrictions on when and how women were permitted to work outside the home. T...
28 Feb 202514min
S8 Ep13: The class gap in career progression
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Recent research shows that our sex and race still affect our life chances. New evidence investigates whether class is still important in one profession that's clo...
26 Feb 202516min
S8 Ep12: Do we work harder when we work from home?
It seems like many more of us have been working from home for at least part of the week. But bosses fret about the effect on productivity when their employees are out of sight. And we’re increasingly ...
21 Feb 202517min
S8 Ep11: How should the EU respond to Trump?
It is now a month since President Trump’s inauguration, and it’s fair to say that a lot has happened already. In a special episode we talk to Moreno Bertoldi of ISPI and Marco Buti of EUI about how th...
18 Feb 202528min
S8 Ep10: Who should work, and how much?
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Do the most productive people work more or less than others? It’s a question that is constantly asked in economics, not least because the available data that comp...
14 Feb 202514min
S8 Ep9: A European climate bond
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Europe faces a gigantic climate investment gap. Can an EU climate debt financing scheme help to close it? To do this, Irene Monasterolo and her co-authors are pro...
12 Feb 202516min
S8 Ep8: Can planting trees change the climate?
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. At COPs or the WEF, we regularly hear about ambitious tree-planting initiatives. These massive programs have been praised as a way to motivate entire communities ...
7 Feb 202517min
S8 Ep7: The impact of financial deglobalisation
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. For several decades, global financial markets have been increasingly integrated. But has that process now gone into reverse? If so, what blocs does the fracturin...
31 Jan 202510min
