Study drugs make us worse at problem-solving
A study by the Faculty's Professor Peter Bossaerts has been featured in the Economist. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 28th June 2023
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Study shows ‘smart’ drugs can decrease motivation and productivity
New research from the University of Cambridge and University of Melbourne shows workers and students taking so-called cognitive enhancers or ‘smart’ drugs may be inhibiting their performance and productivity.
Published on - Friday 16th June 2023
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Workers’ responses to the threat of automation
Christopher Rauh's article into the threat automation poses to many workers has been published in VoxEU. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 9th March 2023
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No Light, No Sleep and Secret Passwords
The Faculty's Assistant Professor of Economics Alexander Rodnyansky is an economic adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He has been interviewed by the Times, about life in Zelensky's Ukraine war bunker.
Published on - Monday 20th February 2023
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Tight jobs market? AI meets worker shortage
Christopher Rauh’s discussion paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research has been mentioned in an article by Reuters on the tough jobs market.
Published on - Friday 17th February 2023
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Optimistic job applicants driven by pay, not WFH, post-pandemic
Research by Assistant Professor Christopher Rauh, indicates job seekers are more hopeful than they should be, and are wrong in believing there’s not much to be gained from spending more time hunting for a job.
Published on - Monday 23rd May 2022
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Covid Impact on Working Women - Video
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Karin Kimbrough (Chief Economist, LinkedIn) discuss women’s exodus from the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden at the Bloomberg Equality Summit. Read More>>
Published on - Monday 1st November 2021
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Newnham's 150th Anniversary Lecture Series - Prof Jane Humphries
Professor Jane Humphries CBE (NC 1967) will deliver the third of Newnham's four special 150th Anniversary Lectures, examining women’s unpaid work and the cost of living in England 1260-1860. In today’s age of rising living costs and scrutiny of gender parity, divisions of labour and the burden of caring and domestic work, much of it done by women without remuneration, looking to the past can help us begin to calculate the value of unpaid labour and radically reinvigorate historical estimates of women’s contributions to economic growth and human wellbeing. See the Newnham event page for further information and booking.
Event Date - Friday 22nd October 2021
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The value of sick pay: older workers & women often get less
Women and older workers are less likely to have access to employer-provided sick pay, according to Dr Christopher Rauh, from the Covid Inequality Project. The research has also found that workers in jobs that cannot be done from home are particularly unlikely to have sick pay.
Published on - Thursday 9th September 2021
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Indirect Costs of the UK’s Furlough Scheme
Dr. Christopher Rauh was interviewed on "Wake up to Money" on "BBC Radio 5 Live" where he discussed the indirect costs to the economy of the furlough scheme from people staying at home and preventing the economy from adapting to the new normal. He also compared job retention schemes in other countries to the UK's furlough scheme. Starts at 42.20.
Published on - Thursday 29th October 2020
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Economic Impact From Covid
New research appears to indicate women on average have taken a larger economic impact than men as a result of Covid. Dr Christopher Rauh has examined the characteristics of workers furloughed in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic, and has found that women were much more likely to be furloughed. The prohibition on working whilst furloughed has also been routinely ignored, especially by men.
Published on - Tuesday 13th October 2020
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Working From Home: The Polarising Workplace
Dr Christopher Rauh, with Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford), Teodora Boneva (University of Zurich) and Marta Golin (University of Oxford) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Working From Home: The Polarising Workplace". This column uses survey data from the US and the UK to demonstrate systematic variation in individuals’ ability to work from home both across and within occupations and industries.
Published on - Wednesday 9th September 2020
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COVID Economics Alumni Webinar Series 
Cambridge-INET and Dr. Meredith Crowley are hosting a series of public lectures for Cambridge Alumni. The third of these webinars "The Firms and Jobs Most Impacted by COVID", will take place on Friday 29th May 2020, at 1.00pm and feature talks by Dr Christopher Rauh and Dr Matthew Elliott. Please see the Cambridge-INET COVID Economics Alumni webinar series webpage for details.
Event Date - Friday 29th May 2020
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COVID-19: Beyond the Virus
Dr. Christopher Rauh has been interviewed about his research in a Naked Scientists podcast entitled "COVID-19: Beyond the Virus" which looks at the impacts of coronavirus beyond the virus: how is it hitting economies, universities and our mental wellbeing plus, researchers come up with a way out of the lockdown.
Published on - Thursday 30th April 2020
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Dr. Christopher Rauh's research into The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Workers has been featured in by number of media outlets, including The Economist, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Vice, Mirage News, BBC Newsnight and University of Cambridge Research News.
Published on - Thursday 23rd April 2020
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Dr. Christopher Rauh (joint with former PhD student Teodora Boneva, Abi Adams-Prassl and Marta Golin) has just published two working papers looking at the economic impacts of COVID-19 on workers in the UK and US. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 2nd April 2020
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