The CEP Work Programme 2015-2020 is available as a PDF document (36 kb)

The Centre's research objectives for 2015-2020 are organised into seven main programmes with 15 themes and 43 projects. The current programmes are:

• Community
  Director: Prof. Alan Manning
  
  
• Education and Skills
  Director: Prof. Sandra McNally
  
  
• Growth
  Director: Dr. Ralf Martin
  
  
• Labour Markets
  Director: Prof. Stephen Machin
  
  
• Trade
  Director: Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano
  
  
• Urban and Spatial Programme
  Director: Prof. Steve Gibbons
  
  
• Wellbeing
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  

The CEP recently worked in partnership with the The LSE Growth Commission, which was set up to provide authoritative and evidence-based policy recommendations that target sustainable and inclusive long-term growth in the UK. The second report, UK Growth - a new chapter, was published in February 2017, and addresses the new questions facing the UK following the result of the June 2016 Referendum.

For more information see:

• The LSE Growth Commission website
  
  
• What Next for Growth in the UK?
  Video of the LSE Growth Commission panel discussion with Vince Cable, Alistair Darling, Stephanie Flanders and George Osborne, and chaired by Professor Lord Stern.
  
  
• The LSE Growth Commission Evidence Sessions
  Video of the five public sessions with leading players, policymakers and stakeholders in the UK economy, that took place over November and December 2016.
  
  

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The work of the CEP Macro programme has now transferred to the
Centre for Macroeconomics at http://www.centreformacroeconomics.ac.uk/

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Completed self-standing programmes:

Associated with the above thematic programmes are self-standing programmes of work funded by outside sponsors (in alphabetical order):

• Biomarkers and Economic Behaviour Research Group
  Directors: Prof. Richard B. Freeman (Harvard) and Prof. Alex Bryson (NIESR)
  
  
• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) 2000 - 2010
  Funded by the Department for Education and Skills.
  Director: Prof. Stephen Machin
  
  
• CEP Macro programme
  CEP Macro programme Director: Prof. Francesco Caselli
  The Macro programme has now transferred to the Centre for Macroeconomics
  
  
• Effective Intervention
  Director: Dr. Peter Boone
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia
  Director: Dr. Tobias Kretschmer
  
  
• Future of Unions Programme
  Funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
  
  
• HP (formerly EDS) Innovation Research Programme
  
  
• LSE Growth Commission
  Funded by HEIF and ESRC.
  Chaired by Prof. Tim Besley and Prof. John Van Reenen
  
  
• Manpower Human Resources Lab
  See MHRL Publications & MHRL Past Events
  
  
• Mental Health Policy Group 2011 - 2012
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  
• Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance (PIEP)
  With support from the European Commission and Eurostat.
  
  
• Skills for All Programme
  Focusing on post-16 education and training and the new modern Apprenticeship, funded by the Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation.