Very nice work here by some former colleagues: firms that export are mostly more productive *before* they export (ie it's a selection effect), but they do also become a bit more productive once they are exporting.
It's well-established that UK firms engaged in international trade are more productive, but why?
New analysis from @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and Kyle Jones (ONS) offers new evidence: tinyurl.com/5c9mazpa
This government is inflicting authoritarianism on the “working people” it claims to serve.
Labour’s misguided assault on Palestine Action, by John Merrick
Catch up on the session with ESCoE Director Rebecca Riley and PhD student @christinavpalmou.bsky.social at the @resmedia.bsky.social conference at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on new developments in labour market data.
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Great to read that the ONS Economic Microdata Transformation team have begun development work on the prototype recommended in ESCoE's recent LEED report: tinyurl.com/t5hx4372
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Looking forward to this incredible panel at the @resmedia.bsky.social If your are interested in developments in UK labour market data tune in live on Tuesday 👇🏼👇🏼
A busy room for this panel on #trade & productivity in British firms with Mairi Spowage, Christna Palmou, @grantfitzner.bsky.social, Swati Dhingra, Gregory Thwaites & @sophie-piton.bsky.social at the 2025 ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement. Program: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74009/...
Really enjoyed discussing our work on trade and productivity with some amazing economists
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Power to the people!
In light of this natural disaster, I am happy to share a new paper with @prashantgarg.bsky.social that aims to shed light on a phenomena of patterns in transnational & dyadic media coverage around "events". To me this is the best way to study many geopolitical phenomena these days. What do we do?
Here are the more "meta" reflections that I wish to share on this joint work with @jschneebacher.bsky.social
and Christina Palmou. The paper title is quite plain, but I wish to highlight the direction of travel and ultimately, the foundational questions that this work raises around...
If you see this car, please call the police. It's stollen. (H/T: @rob@rstokes.uk)
From “Bargaining with the Palisades Fire, I Buy a Pack of Edible Flowers,” by Anna Journey. Read it in full: nyer.cm/E1juqln
There seems to be widespread recognition that bad facts are bad news, and, despite skepticism, there is an enduring thirst for reliable information. The question is, where can it be found, and how can its purveyors make themselves heard amid the noise?
A week to go before the deadline! Send your best papers on productivity and innovation, broadly understood.
@trfetzer.com, @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and I think of the latter paper as a way to provide policymakers with the kind of nuanced, real-time evidence they need to make policy in general, as explained in this blog post.
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Submit your papers to the 2025 @escoeorg.bsky.social conference!
Keynotes include @erikbryn.bsky.social, Carol Propper (Imperial) and Vipin Arora (BEA).
Attendance is free and the conference takes place on KCL's beautiful central London campus.
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Happy to have won the ONS' Research Excellence Award in the category Impact of Analysis- Collaboration with Government for our paper analysing real-time firm responses to the energy price shock with @trfetzer.com and @christinavpalmou.bsky.social.
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New VoxEU explainer on our work on birth timing & spacing, and what this means for the estimation of child penalties
Tl;dr: educated mums spend 25% of the 5yrs following first birth on parental leave for subsequent kids. So how you measure outcomes on PL matters, a lot!
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