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• The economic impact of the third sector: A capacity-building cluster
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Podcasts

The CMPO has produced a series of podcasts with members of staff and visitors to the centre. Podcasts can be listened to straight away or downloaded for future reference.

CMPO podcasts are also available on iTunes and Mixcloud.

Videos are also available to watch on the CMPO YouTube channel and on EFM-tv ('Excellence in Research').

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• Access to Justice in the Employment Tribunal - David Renton (November 2012)
• New Sites of Legal Consciousness: Citizens Advice Bureaux and Employment Disputes - Morag McDermont and Nicole Busby (November 2012)
• 'Charitable giving: what motivates us to give to charity, and the recent cap on tax relief' - Sarah Smith (July 2012)
• How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England - Simon Burgess (July 2012)
• Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS - Carol Propper (June 2012)
• Incentives for health care providers in developing countries - Grant Miller (April 2012)
• Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance - Pushkar Maitra (April 2012)
• Parents’ skills and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes - Anna Vignoles (October 2011)
• A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Maternity Leave and Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life - Kjell Salvanes (October 2011)
• Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth - Bhashkar Mazumder (October 2011)
• The relationship between childhood obesity and academic achievement - Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder (May 2011)
• Healthcare reform proposals - Carol Propper (February 2011)
• School choice: what type of school do parents choose? - Deborah Wilson (November 2010)
• A theory of menopause - Aloysius Siow (November 2010)
• The economic return to education - another extra year or a hurdle cleared? - Matt Dickson (November 2010)
• Measuring diversity in England's schools - a new web resource. Simon Burgess (July 2010)
• Public Service reform and renewed funding for CMPO - Simon Burgess (November 2009)
• Do teachers matter? - Simon Burgess (November 2009)
• Health capital and the prenatal environment - Douglas Almond (October 2009)
• Social Mobility and the professions - Lindsey MacMillan (September 2009)
• Are league tables any use for choosing schools? - George Leckie (July 2009)
• School Choice and Segregation: Evidence from the United States - Helen Ladd (July 2009)
• Left-handedness and cognitive development - Carol Propper (July 2009)
• Welfare reform: the impact on fertility - Sarah Smith (July 2009)
• Private delivery of public services - Paul Grout (June 2009)
• When the Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees - Bruce Sacerdote (February 2009)
• Early Years Child Development and Social Mobility - Jane Waldfogel
• Educational quality and economic growth - Eric Hanushek (July 2008)
• Beauty and the labour market - Dan Hamermesh (July 2008)
• Welfare Reform - Rebecca Blank (July 2008)
• In Search of the Public Service Ethos - Sarah Smith (July 2008)
• Girl Power? An analysis of peer effects using exogenous changes in the gender make-up of the peer group - Steven Proud (June 2008)
• Fatal Fluctuations? Irreversible health consequences of recessions in India - Sonia Bhalotra (June 2008)
• How informative are English school league tables? - Deborah Wilson (February 2008)
• Ethnic Segregation - Rich Harris (January 2008)
• Targets and Terror - Carol Propper (January 2008)
• Centralised Pay Setting - Carol Propper (January 2008)
• Children's Health and Later Life Outcomes - Janet Currie (January 2008)
• Knowledge Transfer: The links between university research and business innovation - Helen Simpson (November 2007)
• Working mums and overweight kids: Is there a link? - Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder (November 2007)
• Peer Effects in the Classroom - Victor Lavy (October 2007)
• Economic Reform in France - Francis Kramarz (October 2007)
• Public-Private Partnerships - Paul Grout (September 2007)
• Hospital Care in England: Who Will Choose? - Carol Propper (July 2007)
• Fertility and Women's Education in the UK - Sarah Smith (July 2007)
• Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap - Jacob Vigdor (March 2007)
• Social Networks - Markus Mobius (June 2006)
• Social Networks - Matthew Jackson (June 2006)
• School Achievements of Ethnic Minorities - Deborah Wilson (May 2006)
• Regulating Health Care in the World of Choice - Carol Propper (May 2006)
• Measuring Productivity in Public Services - Helen Simpson (CMPO) (May 2006)
• Public Service Performance - Christopher Hood (March 2006)
• School Choice - Simon Burgess (March 2006)
• Pensions Policy in the UK - Sarah Smith (March 2006)

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We thank the ESRC for funding this series of interviews.