Research Programmes

• Community
  Director: Prof. Alan Manning
  
  
• Education and Skills
  Director: Prof. Sandra McNally
  
  
• Globalisation
  Director: Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano
  
  
• Labour Markets
  Director: Prof. Steve Machin
  
  
• Macro Programme
  Director: Prof. Francesco Caselli
  
  
• Productivity and Innovation
  Director: Prof. John Van Reenen
  
  
• Wellbeing
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  

Self-standing programmes:

• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) (Director: Prof. Stephen Machin)
• Effective Intervention (Director: Dr. Peter Boone)
• LSE Growth Commission, funded by HEIF and ESRC (Chaired by Prof. Tim Besley and Prof. John Van Reenen)
  
• Mental Health Policy Group (Prof. Lord Richard Layard)
  
• Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), funded by the ESRC, BIS, and the Welsh Assembly Government. (Director: Dr. Henry Overman)
  

Completed self-standing programmes:

• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) 2000 - 2010, funded by the Department for Education and Skills. (Director: Prof. Stephen Machin)
• HP (formerly EDS) Innovation Research Programme
• Biomarkers and Economic Behaviour Research Group
• Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia (Dr. Tobias Kretschmer)
• Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance (PIEP), with support from the European Commission and Eurostat.
• Future of Unions Programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
• Skills for All Programme, focusing on post-16 education and training and the new modern Apprenticeship, funded by the Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation.
• Manpower Human Resources Lab > See MHRL Publications > See MHRL Past Event Details
• EU LEED: Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Four in-depth studies assessing the potential of linked employer-employee and panel data sets for analysis of European labour market policy