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...researchers to discover a dependency culture, it seems it's a phantom. John Hills is an economist at the LSE. John Hills The effects of social security benefits on labour supply, on people’s willingness to work, one of the biggest areas of economic and social research over the last few decades, what's extraordinary about a lot of that research is how little effect most...

...research, including my own, shows that they also stabilize economic partnerships. In particular, trade agreements include rules and regulations designed to limit governments’ policy discretion. One example is providing formal rules for interstate dispute settlement. Dispute settlement ties governments' hands, deterring them from introducing ad hoc policy changes. In...

...the world face disasters more and more frequently, I hope that my research on Japan after 3.11 can provide guidance to residents facing challenges. While physical infrastructure is important for mitigating disaster, communities should also invest time and effort in building social ties. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...Research conducted by the Hansard Society in 2002 following the low turnout in the 2001 General Election suggested that people who do not vote have made that decision long before the election. The election campaign, if they noticed it at all, made no difference to their decision to abstain. We might argue about whether the present voting system (first past the post) is...