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Left behind and unequal life chances in Britain

My book Left Behind drew on recent academic advances that analyse why the life chances of young people in the same country ...
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Not just a North–South divide: the geography of opportunity in England

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.
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Regions, cities and finance: the role of capital shocks and banking reforms in shaping the UK geography of prosperity

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...
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Difference-in-differences with ordinal data: analysing the impact of terror attacks on racial harassment fears of UK muslims

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...
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Financial distress during the pandemic: the role of government support

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress ...
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Why isn’t hospital productivity growth bringing down the waiting list more quickly?

After falling sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, productivity in English hospitals now seems to be growing again. NHS England reported earlier this year that hospital productivity grew by 2.7% in ...