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This section includes press releases, media coverage and announcements from the Centre for Economic Performance.
Anna Valero, senior policy fellow at CEP and deputy director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, has been appointed to the chancellor's economic advisory council in April 2023.
Stephen Machin, director of CEP, gave a flagship British Academy lecture on wage controversies at the Bristol Ideas Festival of Economics.
As more data on crime and policing become available, economists are getting deeper insights into the causes and effects of criminal behaviour, and a greater understanding of how the criminal justice system works. Tom Kir... Read more...
2 November 2023
Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...
26 October 2023
In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. On this episode of Freakonomics, John Van Reenen, Amy Edmondson, Carole Hemmelgarn, Gary Klein and Robert Langer shar... Read more...
18 October 2023
We tend to think of tragedies as a single terrible moment, rather than the result of multiple bad decisions. On this episode of Freakonomics, John Van Reenen, Amy Edmondson, Helen Fisher, Ed Galea, Gary Klein, David Ried... Read more...
11 October 2023
Schools in England must do more to challenge unconscious bias in the classroom against children from working-class backgrounds - Lee Elliot Major discusses practical recommendations schools and policymakers can take to h... Read more...
3 October 2023
Working from home keeps employees happy, reduces pollution by cutting billions of commuting miles and supports millions of employees with care and disability challenges in work. Nick Bloom reviews the existing data on wo... Read more...
29 September 2023
The authors of The Self-employment Trap, published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), show how stagnant incomes and rising costs are having an impact on the wellbeing of the self-employed and increasing their ... Read more...
24 September 2023
Nick Bloom explores the forces driving the predicted increase in remote work over the coming decade. He outlines that working from home will benefit firms, employees and society. ... Read more...
29 August 2023
Lee Elliot Major explains why England's 2023 school leavers have been unfairly treated over their A-level results. Just under half of A-level entries in the private sector in 2023 were graded A* and A grades, compared wi... Read more...
20 August 2023
Congratulations to Anna Valero, distinguished policy fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, who has been appointed to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) advisory panel. Established in 2011... Read more...
17 August 2023
Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is amon... Read more...
27 July 2023
Ralf Martin investigates whether consumers' environmental convictions will fade when confronted with higher prices, showing that consumers seem to prefer environmentally conscious choices, and indicating that changing at... Read more...
6 July 2023
Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university. Richard Layard argues that the party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships. ... Read more...
Brian Bell has been reappointed as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for a further three years. Professor Bell, an associate in CEP’s labour market programme, was appointed chair of the MAC on ... Read more...
5 July 2023
CEP researchers Christian Hilber and Paul Cheshire compare the decline in the UK's home ownership rate, from 70 per cent in 2004 to 64 per cent in recent years, to other countries around the world - UK house prices have ... Read more...
25 June 2023
Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? has been chosen as one of the best reads on economics for this summer by the Financial Times. The book by Daniel Chandler is described by the paper’s chief econ... Read more...
20 June 2023
Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance show that Brexit is responsible for a third of UK food price inflation since 2019 - regulatory, sanitary and other border checks added almost £7 billion to total... Read more...
24 May 2023
Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance, from the London School of Economics, estimate that extra barriers on EU food imports have pushed up bills by £250 on average since Brexit. ... Read more...
Daniel Chandler, the author of 'Free and Equal', makes the case for workplace democracy - drawing on Rawlsian principles to disentangle modern-day political debates. Interviewed by Henry Mance. ... Read more...
22 May 2023
The Economy 2030 Inquiry examines the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating this change. For the past two years, resear... Read more...
19 May 2023
Anna Valero has been appointed to the chancellor’s economic advisory council, it was announced today. The council provides independent, expert advice on economic policy to help grow the economy. Dr Valero, senior... Read more...
18 April 2023
After four general election defeats, the Labour party seems likely to form the next government. In this Guardian opinion piece, Daniel Chandler shares his view that, for the Labour party to succeed, it needs not just new... Read more...
14 April 2023
New research suggests extra activities and help with homework have little effect – but the question is more complicated than it at first appears. Lee Elliot Major discusses what is important when it comes to educat... Read more...
13 April 2023
Alan Manning, the UK government's former immigration advisor, considers whether Britain's post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked. ... Read more...
8 March 2023
Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... Read more...
7 March 2023