Episodes

  • S7 Ep36: Competence vs gender

    S7 Ep36: Competence vs gender
    Jul 26 2024
    Women are under-represented in politics. If women aren’t chosen to stand for election, and voters are biased against them when they do, what can break this vicious circle? S Anukriti tells Tim Phillips about how local decision-making as part of a school-building programme in India has allowed women to show they are effective leaders, to change the political agenda, and even to convince sceptics that women have a place in politics.
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    30 mins
  • S7 Ep35: Improving digital payments for social protection

    S7 Ep35: Improving digital payments for social protection
    Jul 19 2024
    More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.

    It’s infuriating when you’re expecting a digital payment to arrive, it is lost in the system somewhere, and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. Now imagine how devastating it is if that payment is all that’s keeping you and your family out of poverty. Yusuf Neggers is one of a team that have created an app to improve the administration of payments for the Indian government’s MGNREGA programme.

    Photo: MGNREGA/UN Women Asia & Pacific
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    24 mins
  • S7 Ep34: The next generation: PSE 2024

    S7 Ep34: The next generation: PSE 2024
    Jul 12 2024
    In our latest podcast from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024, we feature three of the young economists who made their mark at the conference. Tim Phillips talks to
    Alice Chiocchetti about the extent and impact of profit shifting by French firms, Yuan Hu about green technological change after natural disasters, and Christoph Semken about how we all underestimate the impact of our emissions-reducing life changes.
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    24 mins
  • S7 Ep33: The effects of disability hiring quotas

    S7 Ep33: The effects of disability hiring quotas
    Jul 5 2024
    More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.

    More than 100 countries have some form of quota regulation that requires firms to hire people with disabilities. Does this example of affirmative action help people who have a disability to find a job, and what is the impact on the firm, and on fellow workers? Christiane Szerman tells Tim Phillips about the surprising labour market effects of a hiring quota in Brazil.
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    18 mins
  • S7 Ep32: Will tax or finance get us to net zero?

    S7 Ep32: Will tax or finance get us to net zero?
    Jul 1 2024
    If we’re going to get to net zero in time, economists argue that carbon taxation alone is the best policy. But less than a quarter of emissions are subject to any carbon pricing. And even then, the price of carbon is far too low. So how much climate finance will it take to fill that gap to get us to a socially optimal solution? Lasse Heje Pedersen talks to Alissa and Tim about how he estimates the rate of exchange between the cost of capital and a carbon tax, and what that implies for policy.
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    30 mins
  • S7 Ep31: Location, location, location

    S7 Ep31: Location, location, location
    Jun 28 2024
    The first in a series of VoxTalks Economics based on some of the most interesting presentations from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024.
    Imagine that one day, you are offered the chance to move to a new, better, bigger house in the same city as you live, with the government paying for 90% of your mortgage. This is what happens in Brazil, where millions of people have been given access to better housing. But how big is this prize really? Gabriel Ulyssea tells Tim Phillips how many of the beneficiaries discovered that location matters most in real estate.
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    24 mins
  • S7 Ep30: It’s a dirty job

    S7 Ep30: It’s a dirty job
    Jun 21 2024
    If we want to help millions of working people who have high-polluting jobs to find news work during the green transition, first we need to know more about what they do and where they are. Orsetta Causa tells Tim Phillips about the location of dirty jobs, and whether policy to reskill workers can finally succeed.
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    23 mins
  • S7 Ep29: Climate tipping points

    S7 Ep29: Climate tipping points
    Jun 18 2024
    If the climate crosses any of a number of tipping points, what are the implications for climate finance? Tipping points are large, probably irreversible, changes in nature that may occur as a result of the increase in global temperature. Worse, crossing one tipping point may cause a cascade of others. Alissa and Tim’s talk to Tim Lenton, one of the authors of the Global Tipping Points Report, and Patrick Bolton to discuss how Climate Finance struggles to price the risk of tipping points.
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    39 mins