Econ Films

24/03/2023

Family is often the first place that people turn to for financial help.

Professor Richard Blundell of University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies conducted research into the role of the family when it comes to inequality.

Video produced with the Royal Economic Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu0ARv76dQ

23/03/2023

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22/03/2023

What makes humans see the appeal in "deals" that aren't always the best value?

Botond Kőszegi talks through his research on the role of naivety and impatience in our video for the European Economic Association

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7iRc89Shnw

21/03/2023

Governments use an array of policies to attract multinationals to their countries, but often it can be difficult to truly know what works.

LSE’s Global Investments and Local Development team built the first census of all regional investment agencies across Europe in order to unlock the real impact of these policies.

20/03/2023

What makes the perfect weather forecast?

In our video produced for the LSE, Professor Lenny Smith explores the importance of different - and even contradictory - weather reports, and how we can use them to manage risks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5cHaT6kb3M

17/03/2023

In many markets, price is not only the only allocating factor - and Stanford Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth explores the role that Repugnant Markets play in our economy.

Video produced with Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lIe0MdLwWw

Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth gives his view on Repugnant Markets. The conversation continues at the 5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences (19-23 August) ...

16/03/2023

The costs of tackling mental health outweigh the costs of doing nothing.

Richard Layard from LSE explores how treating mental health symptoms should be higher on the agenda.

Video produced by EconFilms, alongside the Centre for Economic Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuXsv3Z69T4

Treating mental illness is the right thing to do morally but also economically - Richard Layard of the Centre for Economic Performance explains why treating ...

15/03/2023

After the financial crisis, European banking was left on shaky ground with lingering problems and a lack of action.

In our video for CEPR, Ashoka Mody explores some of the strengths and weaknesses of European Banking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMkLsQKubxE

14/03/2023

Pakistan was a leading global producer of footballs, but rival competition from places such as China has meant the country needed to innovate to regain marketshare.

We worked alongside the International Growth Centre (IGC) to explore the research that made new technology for the production of footballs in Pakistan possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybobE0ijbeY

13/03/2023

"Economics is the science of trade-offs"

In our video for the CORE Project, Dani Rodrik explores the trilemma of globalisation, and whether we can have too much globalisation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDIejhdtYk

Dani Rodrik of the Institute for Advanced Study tells The CORE Project about "The Globalisation Trilemma": depending on trade-offs, we could have too much gl...

09/03/2023

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07/03/2023

Herbicide resistance has become a growing problem for farmers, leading, in some cases, to the complete loss of crops.

Fernando Rabanal Mora explores the dangers of herbicide resistance, and what best practices can be taken from the study of genetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzAuz-7IUcs

06/03/2023

Crime has dropped significantly in countries across the world over the past 25 years.

Understanding Inequalities took a look at the reasons why some people have a higher likelihood of offending, to see which factors were most likely to result in youth offending.

03/03/2023

Our success can be determined by our talent or hard work, but it is also often determined by where we come from, and the opportunities we were given.

Education policy is a key ground for equalising opportunities, which is why the Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities at ULC is dedicated to researching in this field.

02/03/2023

Ethical consumption is something that many of us strive for, but do we really know how many of the items we purchase rely on exploitation?

Through the use of animation, we worked with Anti Slavery International to help raise vital awareness around the issue of forced labour across the globe.

01/03/2023

Data visualisation is critical for communicating economic research to a wide range of audiences.

Through animated infographics, video acts as an effective tool for communicating findings in a clear and concise way, making it easier for others to understand the results of your research.

As Seungeun Park et al, from Sungkyunkwan University notes, visualisation can bring advantages by decreasing the cognitive and intellectual burden needed to interpret information for decision making.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seungeun-Park-2/publication/354925033_Impact_of_data_visualization_on_decision-making_and_its_implications_for_public_health_practice_a_systematic_literature_review/links/6307482facd814437fd5a8fb/Impact-of-data-visualization-on-decision-making-and-its-implications-for-public-health-practice-a-systematic-literature-review.pdf

28/02/2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Bangladesh needed a low-cost, effective way to stop the spread. They knew mask wearing could be the solution, but how would they encourage people to make the required behavioural change?

Innovations for Poverty Action, alongside researchers from Yale and Stanford Medical School outlined the most effective combination of encouragement strategies to substantially increase the use of community mask-wearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lYiFIKETw

A new study by IPA and researchers from Yale and Stanford Medical School is the first randomized evaluation showing that mask-wearing in a real-world setting...

27/02/2023

Could the growing number of women in the workforce have a negative impact on the wider economy?

There are plenty of benefits that arise from women entering the workforce - between 1960 and 2000, the number doubled in the US - but CAGE Warwick explores a few of the unintended consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBYqdryu08&t=37s

Between 1960 and 2000 the proportion of women wanting to work in the US doubled. This had all kinds of positive impacts for women and wages, but there may be...