Abstract: This paper examines public perceptions of the Federal Reserve. Trust in the central bank depends on political partisanship, and is highest for respondents of the same party as the President. Independents tend to have the lowest trust, though in recent years, members of the opposition party have the lowest trust. Partisan effects are larger…
Dr Asiya Islam from the London School of Economics (LSE) will deliver the Third Annual St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies Lecture, entitled ‘”Working women”: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal’. Popular discussions about the four-day working week, quiet quitting, and the great resignation following the Covid 19 pandemic indicate dissatisfaction with and changing…
Abstract: This paper uses a field experiment to estimate the causal effect of feedback framing on subsequent effort and performance. By experimentally varying an element of feedback received by university students near the end of the teaching term, we isolate the effect of positive framing on student engagement and grades in a high- stakes exam.…
You are warmly invited to join us for a Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies keynote lecture to be delivered by Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Professor in Literature at Stanford University. The speaker will likely have wide appeal across the humanities. Professor Gumbrecht’s remarkable body of work traverses the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, comparative literature, history, and…
Join us for a panel discussion on countering terrorism with the charity, Resilience in Unity. The session will be held on the 10th of March 2025 from 15:00-17:00 in the John B Henderson Lecture Room, Castlecliffe, The Scores. The event will feature a survivor of a terror attack, a former extremist, and a practitioner –…
Abstract: We analyse the effect of public pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) on sustainable consumption choices in the economy. We argue that observing individuals who are actively engaged in improving the quality of the environment encourages others to imitate them. We adopt a model of social learning in which individuals interact in pairs and choose their type…
Abstract: This paper examines inequality in retirement outcomes through a life-course perspective, analyzing how early-life experiences, aspirations, education, and career development shape financial security in retirement. Using several UK cohort studies, we develop a structural model that accounts for employment, wages, caregiving, and family dynamics. A key innovation is incorporating childhood aspirations through natural language…
Abstract: As the European Union (EU) prepares for the design negotiations of Framework Programme 10 (FP10), it is crucial to ensure that third countries voices are considered in the design. This report analyses the perspectives of interview participants from third countries that have engaged in association negotiations with Horizon Europe, the largest collaborative research and…
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