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.

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.

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'.

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...

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

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

Deborah Wilson explains parental preferences when it comes to choosing schools

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

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.

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.