Advantage Magazine: Then and Now - Autumn 2024

This issue of Advantage Magazine highlights the transition into a new phase for the CAGE Research Centre and showcases just a few significant areas of our work over the past few years.

As any reader of a book like Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics will appreciate, the tools of economics, including econometrics, can be used to analyse a wide variety of topics outside the areas that economists most get asked about, such as inflation and interest rates. This wide range of topics, often essentially interdisciplinary with other social sciences such as Politics, Psychology and Sociology, as well as drawing methodological lessons from the sciences more generally, are what typifies the range of topics covered in the research programme of CAGE.

The articles that follow are a broad reflection of the contribution our research has made to policy design, and many of the challenges policymakers face when implementing them. Representing a cross section of our research, the articles in this issue take a retrospective and prospective view of putting policy into practice.

In this issue...

Non-doms: the end of an eraLink opens in a new window
Arun Advani, David Burgherr and Andy Summers

The long road to housingLink opens in a new window
Edoardo Badii, Johannes Brinkmann, Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka

Investigating employer responses to legislation on handling sexual harassmentLink opens in a new window
Sonia Bhalotra

Africans in the New Economic History of AfricaLink opens in a new window
James Fenske

Insights from pandemic researchLink opens in a new window
Thiemo Fetzer

Societal unhappiness and the uncertain future of democracyLink opens in a new window
Andrew Oswald

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