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Wendelin Schnedler talks to Romesh Vaitilingham about instrinsic motivation.

Daniel Jones talks to Romesh Vaitilingham about state-run lotteries in the US that are intended to increase funding for education.

David Renton (Garden Court Chambers) joins Saskia Walcott to discuss recent changes to the Employment Tribunal System.

Sarah Smith (CMPO), joins Romesh Vaitilingam to discuss her recent research on charitable giving, both on what influences us to give to charity and the government's recent cap on tax relief of donations.

Simon Burgess (CMPO), joins Romesh Vaitilingam to discuss his research paper 'How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England' which attracted a lot of media attention.

Carol Propper (CMPO), joins Romesh Vaitilingam to discuss her research paper 'Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS' which has recently been published in the Journal for Health Economics.

Pushkar Maitra of Monash University, joins Romesh Vaitilingam to discuss his research on microfinance in India following his presentation at the CMPO conference, 'Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries'.

Grant Miller of Stanford University, the keynote speaker at CMPO conference 'Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries' talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his recent research, including incentives for health care providers in developing countries such as India, and how policy makers might react to his work.

Anna Vignoles from the Institute of Education speaks to Saskia Walcott about her paper 'Parents' skills and children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes', presented at the CMPO conference 'Early life interventions and intergenerational mobility' in October 2011. Previous research has suggested a positive intergenerational relationship between a parent's childhood cognitive skill level and their own children's skill levels. Yet we also know that individuals' skill levels change during childhood and into adulthood, not least as a result of their education, training and work experience. This paper provides clear support for the notion that identifying parents with poor literacy and numeracy skills can help us predict which children are most at risk of having poor skills themselves.

Kjell Salvanes speaks to Saskia Walcott about his paper 'A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Maternity Leave and Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life'

Bhashkar Mazumder speaks to Saskia Walcott about his paper 'Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth'

Stephanie Scholder speaks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the relationship between childhood obesity and academic achievement

Carol Propper speaks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the healthcare reform proposals currently before Parliament

Deborah Wilson explains parental preferences when it comes to choosing schools

Professor Aloysius Siow, visiting IAS Professor explains a theory of menopause.

Dr Matt Dickson, CMPO Research Associate and host of the recent CMPO conference "The Economic Return to Education", talks with Romesh Vaitilingham on what determines the return to education.

Simon Burgess, CMPO Director, talks with Romesh Vaitilingam about diversity in England's schools and the new Measuring Diversity website created by CMPO.

Simon Burgess, CMPO Director, talks with Romesh Vaitilingham about the subject of public service reform in the light of the renewal of funding of the CMPO's research agenda for a further five years.

Simon Burgess dicusses his recent paper'Do teachers matter' which looks at whether individual teachers actually make a difference to GCSE scores.

Douglas Almond discusses his paper 'Health capital and the prenatal environment: the effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy', with Romesh Vaitilingam, presented at the CMPO Persistence in Health Conference, October 2009

Lindsey MacMillan discusses her paper 'Social Mobility and the Professions', a submission to The Panel for Fair Access to the Professions, with Romesh Vaitilingam, regarding the many changes in mobility across time in the UK

Have recent changes in government support for families led to an increase in the UK's birth rate? Sarah Smith discusses this with Romesh Vaitilingam.

Each year, the government publishes league tables of GCSE results to help parents choose their childrens secondary school. But as George Leckie discusses with Romesh Vaitilingam , the past performance of schools is an imprecise guide to how they might perform in the future.

Helen Ladd (Duke University) talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the work she presented at the 'School choice' conference in Bristol.

Professor Carol Propper discusses work she and colleagues have done investigating whether lefthandedness in children is associated with differential cognitive development.

Professor Paul Grout discusses his new report entitled 'Private delivery of public services'.

Bruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his research entitled When the Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees

Social Mobility has become a major political discussion point in recent years, here Professor Jane Waldfogel from Columbia University, New York, a leading expert on early years child development, discuss the importance of the early years of childhood for life chances and the evidence that policy intervention can make a difference to poor children's development.

Eric Hanushek (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the important role of cognitive ability and knowledge in driving economic growth

Dan Hamermesh (University of Texas, Austin) talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his research programme on the impact of people's physical appearance on their pay and other life outcomes

Rebecca Blank form the University of Michigan and Brookings Institution talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about welfare reform - where it started, how it has worked out, where it goes next

Research by Sarah Smith and colleagues finds evidence that there is a public service ethos and it makes a real difference in the delivery of public services.

The effect of a childs peers has long been regarded as an important factor in affecting their educational outcomes. Romesh Vaitilingam discusses this with Steven Proud.

Can recessions have permanent effects on health outcomes in developing countries? Sonia Bhalotra addresses this question by looking at infant mortality in India.

Deborah Wilson discusses her research on English school league tables

Rich Harris discusses his research on neighbourhood segregation in large British cities and school segregation

Waiting times have been a central concern in the English NHS, where care is provided free at the point of delivery and is rationed by waiting time. Pro-market reforms introduced in the NHS in the 1990s were not accompanied by large drops in waiting times. As a result, the English government in 2000 adopted the use of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with publication of waiting times data at hospital level and strong sanctions for poor performing hospital managers. This regime has been dubbed 'targets and terror'. Carol Propper discusses this research

Nurses' pay in England is set centrally with little local variation. This means that hospitals in high cost areas like London and the South East struggle to recruit and retain staff. As a consequence, they treat fewer patients and have higher fatality rates among patients admitted with emergency heart attacks. Carol Propper discusses this research

Family background plays a crucial role in childrens outcomes in later life. But what is the specific impact of health in childhood on educational success? Romesh Vaitilingam chats to Professor Janet Currie (Columbia University) at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans.

Helen Simpson and colleagues are investigating the links between university research and innovation in the private sector. Here she examines whether firms are locating R and D facilities close to top university departments

Might the rise in childhood obesity be connected with the increasing numbers of mothers in full-time jobs? Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, looks at the evidence

Victor Lavy (Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Royal Holloway, University of London) came to visit the CMPO in October and took the time to discuss Peer Effects in the Classroom with us.

Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE) came to visit the CMPO in October and took the time to discuss Economic Reform in France with us.

Paul Grout (CMPO, University of Bristol) discusses his latest article 'Can Public-Private Partnerships deliver better services?' in issue 4 of the CMPO bulletin Research in Public Policy.

Sarah Smith (CMPO, University of Bristol) discusses her latest article 'Fertility and Women's Education in the Uk' in issue 4 of the CMPO bulletin Research in Public Policy.

Carol Propper (CMPO, University of Bristol) discusses her latest article 'Hospital Care in England: Who Will Choose?' in issue 4 of the CMPO bulletin Research in Public Policy.

Jacob Vigdor (Duke University and NBER) came to the CMPO to present at the Ethnic Segregation, Education and Neighbourhood conference in March. Whilst visiting the centre Jacob took the time to discuss his research into segregation and the black-white test score gap.

Markus Mobius (Harvard University) came to the CMPO to present at the Networks in Industry conference in June. Whilst visiting the centre Markus took the time to discuss his research into social networks.

Christopher Hood (Public Service Programme) discusses public service performance.

On the same day he was presenting at the CMPO Networks in Industry conference, Matthew Jackson (Caltech and Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences) took the time to discuss his research into social networks.

All minority ethnic groups in the UK make greater progress on average than white pupils over the course of their secondary schooling. That is the central conclusion of new research by Dr Deborah Wilson and CMPO colleagues.