In this episode of Policy Matters, hosts Franz Buscha and Matt Dickson talk to… Matt Dickson and Franz Buscha! It’s been a while since we talked about the policy-relevant research that we are currently pursuing both together and individually, so in this episode we take some time to find out what is floating our research boats at the moment.

Matt talks about a couple of research projects looking at the impact of education on labour market and health outcomes – using different ‘natural experiments’ to try and identify how much education actually affects these things. Franz then tells us about his recent research project on the geography of social mobility in the UK, exploring the nuanced story of social mobility differences between and within regions.

The discussion concludes with consideration of recent developments in data availability and how that can benefit researchers and policymakers going forward.