Sarah Fleche is a researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics). She received a PhD in economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2014. Her research interests lie in the fields of applied microeconomics, labour, education and behavioural economics. In particular, her recent papers focus on schooling effects on non-cognitive skills, social mobility and determinants of wellbeing over the life course. She has also been occasional consultant for the OECD since 2010.
Lack of sleep is responsible for human fatigue, and can undermine economic performance. Paradoxically, the question of whether sleeping is a productive activity or not has received very l...
In 1961, the OECD organised a conference on human capital that propelled education into the centre of policy-making worldwide (OECD 1962, Schultz 1961). This month, the OECD and the Londo...
