Introduction / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- The UK experience. The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis / Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- Media amnesia and the crisis / Laura Basu -- Austerity, the media and the UK public / Mike Berry...

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender norms then prevalent in Britain. We link this index to outcomes over the life-cycle. Conditional on age-11 covariates, a one standard deviation increase in our index predicts a...

This paper investigates the reversibility of the effects of transport infrastructure investments, based on a programme that removed much of the rail network in Britain during the mid-20th Century. We find that a 10% loss in rail access between 1950 and 1980 caused a persistent 3% decline in...