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Anna Stansbury seminar: Tackling the UK’s regional inequality

As part of The Productivity Institute’s Brown Bag seminar series, Anna Stansbury, Assistant Professor in Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan, recently provided an overview of her paper “Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention”, which was co-authored with Dan Turner and Ed Balls.

The video of the seminar is now available to view on The Productivity Institute’s YouTube channel.

If you would like to read the full paper, it can be accessed on the Harvard Kennedy School’s website.

Additionally, Anna, Dan and Ed have also written a short summary of the paper for VoxEU.