Skip to main content

Centre for Economic Performance Press Release:
New research findings from CEP

8 May 2014

New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Spring 2014 issue of CentrePiece magazine.

  • Social housing: Natives and immigrants both suffer from failure to increase stock

  • Big data: Lessons from the economic impact of the transatlantic telegraph cable

  • Minimum wages: Growing popularity with voters as a way of tackling inequality

  • New technology: Gains for nurses, teaching assistants and medical technicians

  • American management: More intensive use of ICT linked to better practices

  • Gender gaps: Lab experiments find differences in attitudes to risk and competition

  • Planning: Don't blame the foreigners: it's we Brits who turned houses into gold

  • Pay: The prospects of significant wage increases for typical UK workers are bleak

  • Education: Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement


  • The CEP press release was published online on May 8, 2014
    Link to press release here.

Read more... Centre for Economic Performance Press Release