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The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, research by Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno has found. ... Read more...
06 September 2024
The 'shock' caused by restrictions introduced during the pandemic in 2020 could take 'seven years to erode', warn Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno. ... Read more...
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
The Economist covers Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Hans-Joachim Voth's work on Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution in this article, reporting on the causes of the Industrial Revolution. ... Read more...
17 January 2023
As the unofficial "Father of Hybrid Work", Stanford's Nick Bloom has spent years studying how we work and how we will work. He'll present new research and share his thoughts on what companies should be preparing for, a... Read more...
13 November 2022
High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...
15 July 2022
Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...
02 June 2022
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16 May 2022
The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...
06 January 2022
Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...
The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...
17 December 2021
About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...
15 December 2021
A report published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows, the self-employed have not fared well over the past couple of years. Even by the end of this summer they were ... Read more...
22 November 2021
Alan Manning offers insights on trends in workers switching or leaving jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
17 November 2021
A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...
15 August 2021
A study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds evidence that pupils across the UK have lost out on a third of their learning time amid Covid-19, even when home lessons a... Read more...
07 July 2021
Amid calls to allow the option to repeat the entire school year, a major study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds Pupils have missed out on more than half ... Read more...
A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...
02 July 2021
Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... Read more...
24 June 2021
Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
01 June 2021
Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science found Volunteering for the NHS during the pandemic felt as good as getting a £1,800 bonus from work. ... Read more...
31 May 2021
The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...
The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...
18 May 2021
A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...
The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...
Report by Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra finds almost two thirds of businesses have suffered from new EU import and export rules, while one in five companies have found it tougher to trade with ... Read more...
06 May 2021
Warnings of widespread business failure comes in an analysis by the John Van Reenen and Peter Lambert, using the latest Business Insights and Impact survey. ... Read more...
04 May 2021
The Financial Times cites research by Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine while analysing the dabate around improving job security as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
20 April 2021
A study by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds almost two-thirds of Britain’s self-employed workers are suffering financially from Covid-19, as the latest lockd... Read more...
02 March 2021
Lee Elliot Major explains how teachers have a chance to address the inequalities revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
01 March 2021
A report by Nicolás González-Pampillón, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Katharina Ziegler shows that footfall in restaurants increased by 5-6% during the UK government's Eat Out to Help O... Read more...
18 February 2021
Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report by Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura shows that jo... Read more...
12 February 2021
Research by Capucine Riom and Anna Valero finds the Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to adopt new technologies and ways of working that will increase the breadth of economic productivity. ... Read more...
08 February 2021
Study by LSE's Richard Davies finds price volatility during the Covid-19 pandemic has been higher than in any comparable period since 1991. ... Read more...
05 February 2021
More than 900,000 small businesses are at risk of going under, according to research from Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen, and backed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ... Read more...
27 January 2021
Research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warns around 900,000 small firms – employing 2.5 million workers – are at risk of going bust if Covid-19 rescue schemes are wound up. ... Read more...
Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next thre... Read more...
A survey of nearly 100 economists revealed that most of them expect the size of the economy not to return to pre-pandemic levels until the third quarter of 2022, despite the expectation of a strong consumer-le... Read more...
03 January 2021
Richard Layard and Gus O’Donnell write about the need for policy makers to aim for the wellbeing of the people, now and to come – focusing more on what matters to people, their mental and physical ... Read more...
27 December 2020
Philip Aldrick contemplates the importance of wellbeing as economic policy, citing research by Richard Layard and George Ward. ... Read more...
26 December 2020
New incentives need to be introduced to encourage employers to invest in younger workers who have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the London School of Economics and Political Science has said. ... Read more...
16 December 2020
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin remember the drive behind Roosevelt's New Deal which created millions of jobs during America's Great Depression in the 1930s and examine how government policy could ... Read more...
08 December 2020
A report by the Centre for Economic Performance found that seven in 10 firms “expect a no-deal Brexit to negatively impact their business”, adding that the consequences of no deal are "se... Read more...
07 December 2020
New research by Jack Blundell, Steven Machin and Maria Ventura finds a fifth of the self-employed workforce expect to leave self-employment as a result of the Covid-19 crisis; and the proportion is h... Read more...
23 November 2020
A survey by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds one in five self-employed workers plan to switch to other forms of employment because of Covid-19. ... Read more...
10 November 2020
Survey findings from Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds the trend of more people working for themselves under threat during the Covid-19 pandemic. A fifth of the self-employed... Read more...
New research by Lee Elliot Major finds the majority of parents with school aged children feel that exams should be amended to compensate for learning loss resulting from Covid-19. ... Read more...
06 November 2020
During late September and early October, just 59 per cent of pupils benefitted from “full schooling”, says new report. ... Read more...
26 October 2020
BBC Panorama reports on CEP research, fiding people aged 16-25 were more than twice as likely as older workers to have lost their job, while six in 10 saw their earnings fall, according to new research. ... Read more...
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin argue how political reform is needed to solve issues with social mobility resulting from Covid-19. They explain that the findings of their review of evidence on social mobil... Read more...
07 October 2020
COVID-19 was the great equaliser, it was claimed during the early days of the pandemic. Lee Elliot Major explains that the virus didn't care whether you were rich or poor. We were all in it together. ... Read more...
25 September 2020
Every day, policy makers have to decide whether a policy is desirable by examining its impact on a whole range of outcomes. But the problem is how to aggregate these disparate outcomes. Richard Layard et al&nb... Read more...
24 September 2020
Big cities thrive because of the economic and social benefits of proximity – but proximity also helps to spread Covid-19. Does this mean an end to the big city revival of recent years? Much will depend o... Read more...
23 September 2020
The Economist examines the benefits of working from home in light of lockdown, and cites findings made by Nick Bloom that those who worked from home were more productive. ... Read more...
12 September 2020
Lee Elliot Major, who used to head up the Sutton Trust, which is helping to deliver the scheme, said there were now "big concerns" over whether there was sufficient capacity to support... Read more...
09 September 2020
Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli examine the impact of lockdown imposed in late March on more than 8,500 urban workers, finding 52% went without work or pay during lockdown, while less than... Read more...
06 September 2020
India has been struggling with an unemployment problem and the coronavirus pandemic. New research by Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli, finds Federal and state governments recogniz... Read more...
01 September 2020
'Realistic' unemployment rate is 15 per cent, and disadvantaged groups are much more likely to be affected, finds new research by Brian Bell, Mihai Codreanu and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...
17 August 2020
Sectors unscathed from coronavirus crisis face being severely affected by Brexit, finds a report from Dr Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...
28 July 2020
With evidence emerging that Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor. Steve Machin and Lee Elliot Major consider reform to avoid a decline in social mobility and e... Read more...
17 July 2020
An increase in the number of domestic abuse calls to the police during lockdown was largely due to a rise in reports from third parties such as neighbours, rather than from victims, find Dr Ria Ivandi... Read more...
15 July 2020
The assumption has been that remote workers slack without direct supervision. But do they? Economist Nick Bloom staged a trial – the first of its kind – involving 250 members of a Ctrip call cen... Read more...
14 July 2020
Social care companies are starting to tap into the growing pool of potential employees who have lost jobs in the Covid-19 crisis. Alan Manning, former Chair of the Government's Migration Advisory ... Read more...
Interview with Swati Dhingra - industries that have weathered Covid could be hit by Brexit. ... Read more...
In India, the pandemic reportedly tripled the unemployment rate in just three weeks, and the vast majority of those newly unemployed worked were in the informal sector. The government respo... Read more...
A new study, carried out by the London School of Economics, said police have seen around 380 more domestic violence calls per week on average as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Finding the cause is &ldqu... Read more...
02 July 2020
What has happened to the prevalence and nature of domestic abuse during lockdown? Crime economists Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier collaborated with the Strategic Insights Unit (SIU)... Read more...
30 June 2020
The self-employed are being hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis. Many have been offered a lifeline through the government’s Self-Employment Income Support Scheme – but does it go far enoug... Read more...
04 June 2020
Ralf Martin and John Van Reenen explain how a carbon tax could both help pay for the enormous costs of the pandemic and encourage ‘clean’ investment. Crucially, it should be levied in a few years&r... Read more...
02 June 2020
Professor Barbara Petrongolo talks to the Independent about her research into how women are more likely to deal with homeschooling, childcare and chores around the house, even if they are working. ... Read more...
01 June 2020
CEP's director Professor Stephen Machin, co-author of the report, Covid-19 and social mobility, notes how: "We need to develop bold policies for now and the longer term to ensure the economic rec... Read more...
29 May 2020
The economic impact of coronavirus. Presented by Ben Chu (economics editor of The Independent) with Lizzy Burden (economics reporter of The Daily Telegraph). This episode features Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief e... Read more...
28 May 2020
A report on self-employed workers mentions the survey conducted by Jack Blundell and Professor Stephen Machin, of the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, which showed self-e... Read more...
Intervention is needed to prevent children entering a 'dark age' of declining social mobility due to social inequalities, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major... Read more...
The "Covid generation" of under-25s is less likely to fulfil its potential, regardless of background, says the report Covid-19 and social mobility by Professor Lee Elliot Major and Professor Stephen ... Read more...
The survey, published by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), finds that the self-employed have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis, with around three out of every four responde... Read more...
22 May 2020
Even if COVID-19 infection rates dwindle, it is now clear that the economy is unlikely to bounce back quickly. This raises the spectre of long-term unemployment. Richard Layard (LSE) explains how the... Read more...
21 May 2020
With our sizeable state and private sector, the question is more whether the state will be a bit bigger or a bit smaller, writes Alan Manning. ... Read more...
20 May 2020
Countries with existing cash-transfer programs can immediately broaden eligibility and increase the size of the benefit. India is doing just that, according to LSE Professor Swati Dhingra. Given the scale of t... Read more...
19 May 2020
"It's not just core relationships that matter, it's also the peripheral ones," says Professor Lord Richard Layard, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics. "People never... Read more...
18 May 2020
There's an opportunity to build a new social contract, tackle inequality, foster innovation and adopt a long-term industrial strategy, write Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero. ... Read more...
Jo Blanden and Birgitta Rabe discuss the decision to send the youngest students back to school this summer. They explain why doing so may be important for children’s education and wellbein... Read more...
15 May 2020
But the short-term productivity hit of a workforce partly hamstrung by childcare, could be dwarfed by the longer-run economic blow to the children missing school and the wider economy, according to education e... Read more...
14 May 2020
The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has now implemented two-thirds of the reform programme outlined by Richard Layard (“How to save pandemic survivors from the scourge of unemployment”, Opinion, May 9)... Read more...
Report on research by Dr Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo which suggests the coronavirus outbreak is widening the gender gap in the workplace and at home. ... Read more...
Real-time survey data shows that 50% of companies had a lower volume of business in April, and the situation is expected to get worse over the next three months, write Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...
07 May 2020
School closures have cost £1bn per week in lost 'teaching inputs' and extra teaching hours will be needed to help some pupils, finds the study Covid-19 school shutdowns: What will they do to our ... Read more...
Discussing the potential effects of COVID-19 on housing, Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber write that real house prices and rents may initially fall. Yet housing will remain unaffordable f... Read more...
06 May 2020
Speaking to Econ Films’ CoronaNomics show Lord Gus O’Donnell said he feared the impact of the lockdown was undermining the Prime Minister’s ambitions of reducing income and regional... Read more...
05 May 2020
The Covid-19 lockdown implemented in India is estimated to have tripled the urban unemployment rate. Most low-income urban workers will fall through the cracks of the provisions being put in place to supp... Read more...
02 May 2020
Monica Langella discusses some potential negative effects of the pandemic on higher education, particularly those pertaining to online assessment, university offers, and labour market outcomes. She o... Read more...
30 April 2020
More than 50 northern MPs and peers have called for a ‘catch-up premium’ for poorer pupils Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, and Stephen Machin, professor ... Read more...
29 April 2020
School closures during the coronavirus lockdown could leave disadvantaged children six months behind their peers, researchers find. ... Read more...
Trade recovered quickly after 2008 because the collapse wasn't long enough for firms to dismantle their portfolios, writes Giordano Mion. ... Read more...
Richard Davies talks to Fortune magazine about what helps economies recover from extreme shocks, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
26 April 2020
Former top civil servant Gus O'Donnell urges ministers to use 'wellbeing' analysis to allow a Sweden-style 'phased' easing of the coronavirus lockdown by balancing quality of life against t... Read more...
24 April 2020
How hoax information on social media about covid-19 might be worsening the pandemic. ... Read more...
Lord Gus O'Donnell writes about new research led by Richard Layard. The paper When to release the lockdown sets out a wellbeing-based framework to analyse the cost and benefits of lifting lockdown restrict... Read more...
This report sets out a framework which brings together economic, health, and social factors through a ‘common currency’ of wellbeing measurement, as a way of informing a decision on when to lift lo... Read more...
This column combines survey data from the UK with occupation classifications to show that that – unlike previous recessions – the current crisis is harming women’s labour market prospects mor... Read more...
22 April 2020
The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 will play out unequally across areas. This column focuses on the UK and argues that, in the short run, we will need to target immediate support through existing mechanism... Read more...
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin propose reforms and urgent actions to tackle economic and educational inequalities in the UK. ... Read more...
21 April 2020
The coronavirus has not yet exploded in the developing world, but poor countries are already suffering from the pandemic. Their economies have been battered by lockdowns, falling commodity prices, declining re... Read more...
20 April 2020
To speculate usefully about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Britain’s housing markets one needs a clear analytical understanding of how our housing markets work and what forces cause them to chan... Read more...
17 April 2020
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, CEP research economist, writes about how job insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis will dramatically affect education outcomes for the families involved. ... Read more...
Research on childcare and gender norms in Sweden, shows that policy changes had a bigger effect if they were in line with people's norms than if they worked against them. Published 2019. ... Read more...
This paper looks at the effects of changing teachers on children's GCSE grades. Published 2018. ... Read more...
This study on wellbeing finds that there is a large initial shock to becoming unemployed, and then as people stay unemployed over time their levels of life satisfaction remain low. Published 2017. ... Read more...
Research showing that when people are forced to change their behaviour, some find a better way of doing things. Published 2015. ... Read more...
An investigation of the determinants of trade collapse in Belgium in 2008-09. The paper highlights the extent to which firms factor in sunk costs. Published 2010. ... Read more...
This research finds that workers in atypical employment, such as gig economy workers, are willing to give up approximately 50% of their hourly wage for a permanent contract and around 35% of their hourly wage ... Read more...
This paper uses evidence of increased productivity among two samples of call centre staff working from home to highlight the potential in new management methods. Published 2013. ... Read more...
Jack Blundell identifies groups among self-employed workers, to aid in finding methods to support and protect workers through public policy. ... Read more...
Published 2015, this paper takes household data to analyse links between unemployment, life-satisfaction and mental health. Finding evidence that mental illness is a significant cause of deprivation. ... Read more...
Job insecurity will dramatically affect educational outcomes for the families involved, writes Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela. ... Read more...
14 April 2020
John Van Reenen says success in restarting our economy depends on trust in the government, the quality of our health care, and our ability to monitor those with covid-19. ... Read more...
13 April 2020
Brian Bell, Nick Bloom, Jack Blundell, and Luigi Pistaferri estimate how the ongoing pandemic may impact earnings by age group, gender, and firm size. The data suggests that young men ... Read more...
08 April 2020
The spread of COVID-19 has already had a large negative impact on labour supply and earnings of workers in many countries. In this column, the authors leverage newly collected data from the US and the UK to sh... Read more...
Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... Read more...
This paper finds strong evidence supporting the theory that male and female unemployment rates have opposite effects on domestic violence against women. The results suggest higher unemployment for women increa... Read more...
Published February 2020, this paper finds evidence that the use of machine-learning can be an effective tool in assessing risk in domestic abuse cases, and so informing priorities for police response. ... Read more...
...... unless the government steps up and offers immediate funding support to training providers, says academic.Guglielmo Ventura, CEP research assistant, says the government should give a guarantee to every existing a... Read more...
07 April 2020
This CEP discussion paper, published in June 2017, provides evidence from survey data on USA, Australia, Britain and Indonesia which indicate the things that matter most to people’s life satisfaction are social relations... Read more...
The U.K. has record-high employment and the lowest jobless rate since the 1970s. But the labor market - and many workers - are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than those headline n... Read more...
06 April 2020
Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, helps explain how many workers are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than the record-high employment figures suggest. "The last 12 ... Read more...
Older workers are more likely to be relatively secure with salaries and jobs which can be done from home during the lockdown. ... Read more...
03 April 2020
As schools prepare to replace exam results with predicted grades in response to lockdown, Gill Wyness questions the accuracy - and potential - of this approach. ... Read more...
Short-time work is a subsidy for temporary reductions in the number of hours worked in firms affected by temporary shocks. Evidence suggests that it can have large positive effects on employment and ... Read more...
01 April 2020
If we handle the coronavirus crisis right, we can come out of it better than we went into it, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...
25 March 2020
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve considers the economic impact of Covid-19, and it's effects on work and wellbeing. ... Read more...
24 March 2020
A selection of comments from academics, journalists and other experts on the crisis facing many countries across Europe. ... Read more...
20 March 2020
Remote work works best if it’s by choice and not every day. Many people are being forced to work from home for the first time during the coronavirus outbreak. That could have negative impacts on our... Read more...
Anne McElvoy discusses economic futures with demographer Danny Dorling and economists Richard Davies and Petr Barton. ... Read more...
17 March 2020
While the 2020 Budget offers an overall adequate response to the challenges currently posed by coronavirus, there are three issues that need to be addressed further, especially as the outbreak becomes more wid... Read more...
12 March 2020
New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Autumn 2019 CentrePiece magazine. As CEP approaches its thirtieth birthday in 202... Read more...
01 November 2019
06 March 2019
Congratulations to Kilian Huber, Economics PhD and Job market candidate, who is among the Winners of the AQR Top Finance Graduate 2018 Award at the Copenhagen Business School! The award recognizes the mo... Read more...
03 June 2018
Evidence was submitted to show that nearly all rich foreign investors and their families who came to the UK under the Tier 1 scheme lived in expensive houses, sent their children to public schools and used pri... Read more...
25 May 2018
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Sturm and his co-authors Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Professor Steve Redding, and Professor Nikolaus Wolf for being awarded the 2018 Frisch Medal... Read more...
24 May 2018
Examination is therefore a democratic tool of social climbing? Examination is the tool that makes it possible to establish the symbolic value of the graduate from the certification of his apprenticeships. This... Read more...
18 May 2018
Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sec... Read more...
17 May 2018
Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...
16 May 2018
Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...
14 May 2018
Companies whose suppliers fail to pay the minimum wage or curb holiday pay could be named and shamed under a new regime proposed by the government’s workers’ rights tsar. In his first annual full s... Read more...
09 May 2018
Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government. A report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations in... Read more...
08 May 2018
This study is an initiative of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The research was conducted by John Helliwell, researcher and professor at the Vancouver School of Econ... Read more...
26 March 2018
The United Nations "sustainable development solutions" have been published every year since 2012. Each year, the "World Happiness Report" rankings are announced. The 2018 ranking announced ... Read more...
21 March 2018
The report, produced by the United Nations SDSN network and the Ernesto Illy Foundation, is edited by prof. John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia and Canadian Advanced Research Institute), by prof.... Read more...
20 March 2018
The 2018 Italian election had a notable geographic split in voting behaviour, with Lega having more support in the north of the country and the Five Star Movement proving more successful in the south. Monica L... Read more...
Meanwhile, ever-more think tank-like units are rolling out of universities—such as the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance and the UK in a Changing Europe, which is co-ordinated through King&rsqu... Read more...
19 March 2018
Miami – World Happiness Summit 2018 welcomed peope from over 35 countries and 43 US states to the campus of the University of Miami yesterday….The three-day event opened with lakeside yoga at dawn... Read more...
17 March 2018
The UN’s 2018 Happiness Report shows that Israel is the eleventh-happiest country in the world, surpassing the United States and the UK. Related publications World Happiness Report 2018, John F. He... Read more...
16 March 2018
The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. This year, Singapore is ranked 34th, a drop from 2017's ranking of 26... Read more...
Happy are the people of the Nordic nations — happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identical to the happiness of its immigrants. Those are the ... Read more...
14 March 2018
Two research centres have also been established in recent years, looking specifically at post-16 education and training: the Centre for Vocational Education Research at the London School of Economics, and the ... Read more...
13 November 2017
A London School of Economics report in June showed that Britain was one of just three out of 28 countries that saw wages fall in real terms between 2007 and 2015. The only country where wages fell more... Read more...
09 August 2017
Private sector workers too have seen a significant drop in real term wages in recent years, with an LSE study estimating an effective 10% decrease since the financial crisis to 2015. ... Read more...
07 August 2017
Research from the Bonn-based Institute of Labor Economics shows that the differences in individual workers’ pay since the 1970s is associated with pay differences between — not within — compa... Read more...
06 August 2017
Telford will be among the UK towns least-affected by a hard Brexit, a report claims – although economists today denied its suggestion that a lack of skills in the town will cushion the blow. Researche... Read more...
28 July 2017
London and Edinburgh also ranked in the top ten list compiled by researchers at the Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. Related publications ... Read more...
27 July 2017
06 July 2017
In the days since the fire, Grenfell Tower has been held up as a tragic symbol of the social ills facing Britain: a detached political class; nearly seven years of a government-led austerity program that has s... Read more...
23 June 2017
Theresa May and the Tories’ ‘wage pain’ is leaving millions of people struggling to make ends meet warned Britain’s largest union, Unite as official figures out today (Wednesday 14 June... Read more...
14 June 2017
Snippet: ... Analysis from the London School of Economics shows that constituents with more young voters experienced marked increases in turnout compared to the 2015 election. Similar analysis has shown that t... Read more...
But this election turned out to be much more than Brexit. “Economics is as much about humanity as policy”. Professor Swati Dhingra of the London School of Economics, in her article Salvaging Brexit... Read more...
13 June 2017
Article by Thiemo Fetzer That the Labour party got 40% of the vote – against all odds – is being attributed to a higher turnout among young voters. Thiemo Fetzer‘s analysis finds that olde... Read more...
11 June 2017
In total, the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) calculates, it would be best for the British economy to remain part of the EU’s common market. Related publications ‘#GE2017Economists: The... Read more...
10 June 2017
Article by Henry Overman The elections are barely behind us now, and we should keep asking the question, ‘What are the economic forces polarising the UK?’ A big part of the story concerns the ge... Read more...
09 June 2017
Snippet: ...ana. “Without a strong mandate, Europe can ignore the UK’s demands. Even the UK’s threat to pull out of negotiations will now appear hollow and lacking the support of the British ... Read more...
A year ago, in June 2016, the British voted on their country's EU membership. Economists and financial markets were in bright turmoil and warned of the consequences of a Brexit. Today, twelve months later,... Read more...
08 June 2017
The London School of Economics (LSE) has published a report assessing all of the party manifestos and how respective policies will affect key voter issues. Intended to be "objective, brief and non-tech... Read more...
For the first time in years, UK voters have a real choice between economic models The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has published a series of election analyses, looking a... Read more...
06 June 2017
According to a London School of Economics (LSE) paper, Brits were the worst off when it came to their real wages, with pay falling by more than five percent between 2007 and 2015. Researchers for the presti... Read more...
05 June 2017
The UK has suffered the biggest drop in average real wages of any OECD country except depression-wracked Greece, according to a pre-general election analysis published by the London School of Economi... Read more...
The need to give the North a boost was highlighted by a new study by the Centre for Economic Performance, part of the London School of Economics, which said the Government’s Northern Powerhouse project h... Read more...
03 June 2017
All of the UK’s main political parties now highlight the importance of an ‘industrial strategy’ with the aim of improving economic growth and achieving more balance in how its gains are distr... Read more...
30 May 2017
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee claims that nominal wage growth will return close to 4% by 2019 are "rather implausible and over-optimistic", according to two respected academics at the Cen... Read more...
According to Sandra McNally, professor of economics at Surrey University, the Conservatives’ figures are misleading. This is because the “per pupil figure” was frozen from 2010 to 2011 and ag... Read more...
27 May 2017
The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...
25 May 2017
There are three reasons to be sceptical about the Bank’s forecasts for the growth in earnings in future years, and hence the recovery in real wages. One is that unemployment may not stay as low as 4.5 pe... Read more...
17 May 2017
Professor Paul Charles Cheshire. Economist. For services to Economics and Housing. (London) Professor John Van Reenen. Economist. For services to Economics and Public Policy Making. (Abroad) ... Read more...
31 December 2016
Paul Cheshire, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography, was awarded a CBE for Services to Economics and Housing. In 2004 Professor Cheshire won the Royal Economic Society's Prize for the best paper in ... Read more...
Five housing executives and a professor of economics and housing policy have been awarded medals in the New Year honours list. … Paul Cheshire, professor of economic geography at the London School of... Read more...
30 December 2016
Professor John Van Reenen, who predicted ahead of the referendum that Brexit would cost up to £1,700 per household per year, has been given an OBE for services to economics and public policy making. Othe... Read more...
Brexit and the uncertainties surrounding it present an unprecedented challenge, writes Anna Valero In his first Autumn Statement (and last – since he has decided to abolish them in favour of an annua... Read more...
24 November 2016
“I’m pretty skeptical Trump’s policies will reverse this process,” said John Van Reenen, a professor of economics at MIT who studies how technology and innovation affect profits and wag... Read more...
20 November 2016
The book flies over aspects featured of the cases of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, countries that are located well above in rankings that measure development, welfare or happiness. The report on 2016 wo... Read more...
17 November 2016
The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful. The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth of the... Read more...
Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about the potential international implications of a Trump White House as well as initial reactions from (Brexit) UK. The interview was broadcast by CKWX News on the Ne... Read more...
16 November 2016
Article by CVER Director, Sandra McNally, on some of the recommendations of the recent Sainsbury Report The incoming British prime minister Theresa May has outlined a vision of a country that ''works not for the privile... Read more...
15 July 2016
Article by Dr Jordi Blanes i Vidal LSE research on 'insider' relationships provided concrete evidence for curbing the influence of lobbyists in the US political system. The influence of money in politics is widely rega... Read more...
03 May 2016
Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Lecturer with the Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), is among the final shortl... Read more...
07 April 2016
''The fiscal target should be on balancing the books on current spending over the business cycle - just as it was when the Office for Budget Responsibility was first set up in 2010. Otherwise there will always be too mu... Read more...
17 March 2016
The Danes are the happiest people on Earth, followed by the Swiss, while Britons are comparatively miserable among the rich nations, but happier than the French and Italians. The only European countries happier than the ... Read more...
16 March 2016
John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, gives his reaction to the 2016 Budget. The austerity approach continues, despite it having little economic sense. Fuel duty is frozen as a sweetener to hi... Read more...
In her address to the Conservative party conference, the home secretary delivered a pointed speech saying that ''there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last ... Read more...
06 October 2015
Primary colours But, when it comes to the truth, Sala i Martin has refused to discuss publicly with Luis Garicano, another heavyweight, Professor at the London School of Economics. The worst has been disappointing argum... Read more...
21 September 2015
Nobel Prize winning economist Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics said Greece still ... This article was published online by The National Herald on September 10, 2015 Link to article here [subsc... Read more...
10 September 2015
A large body of empirical evidence suggests either that reasonable minimum wages do not destroy jobs at all, or that they do not destroy very many. The evidence is, of course, mixed and contested. Much of it comes from t... Read more...
10 July 2015
Article by John Van Reenen The most eye-catching announcement in today's budget was the National Living Wage. Now, this might be nothing more than a big hike in the minimum wage, but such increases can be beneficial. ... Read more...
09 July 2015
This month marks four years since we launched our award-winning Get London Reading initiative to improve literacy in primary schools. So far more than 800 Evening Standard readers have become one-to-one reading volunteer... Read more...
18 June 2015
In the freedom to make life choices, too, India performs poorly. There are many inherent inhibitions in this freedom, mainly for women. Richard Layard, director of the Wellbeing Programme at the London School of Economi... Read more...
05 June 2015
... 400 000 emplois publics supprimes La realite est pourtant que son mandat a ete divise en deux parties. L'essentiel des mesures de rigueur a ete realise dans les deux premieres annees: hausse de la TVA, reduction dras... Read more...
07 May 2015
Javier Ortega, of the Centre for Economic Performance, interviewed on the UK 2015 General Election and issues of austerity. The interview was broadcast by Capital Radio Madrid (Spain) on May 6, 2015 Link to the broadca... Read more...
06 May 2015
John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, brings a summary of factors that may influence the choice of the ballot box. The interview on Capital Radio Madrid (Spa... Read more...
05 May 2015
Most economies across the globe have a low, or even shrinking, share of manufacturing jobs. At the same, such firms are increasingly embracing the use of robots in the workplace. Brookings Institute researchers use two ... Read more...
30 April 2015
There's no relationship visible in the numbers between the change in factory employment and robot use, says Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In a blog post, he and Brookings colleague Scott Andes to... Read more...
The Conversation is fact checking political statements in the lead-up to the May UK general election. Statements are checked by an academic with expertise in the area. A second academic expert reviews an anonymous copy o... Read more...
28 April 2015
CEP Director Professor John Van Reenen reveals the economic policy he would put in his election manifesto. The interview was recorded for Share Radio on 28 April 2015 Link to the interview here Related links John... Read more...
'Robots at Work' - Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1335 by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels posted on the 'Must-Must-Read' blog. The DP was posted on the Washington Center for Equitable Growth's 'To... Read more...
27 April 2015
Both labour and its opponents make too much of a new policy Labour made two housing policy commitments over the weekend, only one of which was interesting. The uninteresting one was the promise to cut stamp duty for fir... Read more...
London School of Economics professor John Van Reenen said Britain was also suffering from government inaction over infrastructure such as high-speed broadband, roads and airports. This article was published online by ... Read more...
26 April 2015
In a significant repositioning of Labour's views on immigration, Ed Miliband on Saturday pledged a series of measures to control immigration if his party is voted to power. Jonathan Wadsworth of the London School of... Read more...
19 April 2015
A recent study from the Centre for Economic Performance has measured the impact on the UK economy of leaving the EU, which as the second chart shows is still the UK’s biggest trading partner. The study conclu... Read more...
There are signs that inequality in the UK is beginning to rise again following tax and benefit changes introduced since 2010, an economic analysis has found. The study by the Centre for Economic Performance found the... Read more...
17 April 2015
Article by Ian Preston, Andrew Street, Claudia Hupkau, David Chivers, Peter Beresford and Simon Burgess The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics subject each party's election manifesto to unbiased, expert scr... Read more...
If Britain's top economists were in charge, what policies would they implement? Tim Harford sets the challenge. "Low productivity is the number one problem Britain faces" says Van Reenen. "Even before the crisis, it l... Read more...
Article by Sandra McNally The Conservative Party manifesto makes the following commitments in the area of school-age education: •A good primary school place for your child with zero tolerance for failure. •... Read more...
16 April 2015
A Labour/SNP coalition would mean massive tax increases for higher earners, big companies, banks and others. A fascinating paper by Alan Manning, published by the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic ... Read more...
On paper, the Conservatives should reap dividends from a sharp recovery in Britain's economy which outpaced the world's other big, rich nations last year. Employment has surged, including in the West Midlands wher... Read more...
Article by Claudia Hupkau The Conversation's Manifesto Check deploys academic expertise to scrutinise the parties' plans. The Liberal Democrats have announced their vision for skills policy over the next parliament in ... Read more...
15 April 2015
Article by Hilary Steedman Welcome to The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics from across the UK subject each party's manifesto to unbiased, expert scrutiny. The Conservative manifesto skates over some unco... Read more...
Article by Maria Goddard, Anand Menon, Christine Merrell, Claudia Hupkau, Hilary Steedman, Ian Preston, Jonathan Perraton and Steve Higgins Welcome to The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics subject each par... Read more...
13 April 2015
Article by Hilary Steedman and Claudia Hupkau Hilary Steedman, London School of Economics and Political Science Labour's election manifesto promises four initiatives in the area of skills and apprenticeships; the Compu... Read more...
01 April 2015
31 March 2015
It looks good for the Tories, the economy is recovering and employment is up. BUT, as an LSE economist put it, ''When viewed over the longer term, the state of the UK economy is not pretty''. ... Why is this? Two reasons... Read more...
Article by Sandra McNally With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast-p... Read more...
24 March 2015
The story of the first coalition government in Britain since the second world war is the story of austerity and thwarted deficit reduction plans. It is the story of a delayed economic recovery. It is the story of falling... Read more...
15 March 2015
It is likely that there will be tax increases after the election whoever wins, concludes a new report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), based at LSE, in the latest in a series of background briefings on the... Read more...
13 March 2015
John Van Reenen examines the spending plans of the three major parties over the next Parliament, finding that, while all are currently planning for continued and severe austerity, the Conservatives' plan would bring down... Read more...
12 March 2015
11 March 2015
We recruit and train mentors and pair them with children who need some additional encouragement and perspective to recognize a more positive future. Our mentors - ''Bigs'' - bring a new sense of opportunity and perspecti... Read more...
29 January 2015
The middle-class share of the U.S. wealth pie roughly doubled between the Great Depression and the early 1980s. But since then, the middle-class share has shrunk back to its lowest level since 1947, according to a study ... Read more...
20 January 2015
Home owners in London are willing to pay up to 8 percent above the market price for properties in areas offering very fast internet speeds, according to new research from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Imperial... Read more...
05 August 2014
The process of invention has long been a cumulative one, in which incremental advances are made on previous innovations. Cites CEP Discussion Paper No1205 (updated June 2014) by Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman on... Read more...
25 July 2014
Campaigners fighting against plans to erect three wind turbines in Haddenham say thousands of pounds could be wiped off the value of every home in the village if the scheme goes ahead. The Stop Berry Fen Wind Farm group... Read more...
18 July 2014
Fur die britische Wirtschaft ware das ein Alptraum. In der aktuellen Studie ''Brexit or Fixit?'' uber die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen eines britischen EU-Austritts warnen hochrangige Okonomen vom Center for Economic Pe... Read more...
12 June 2014
Article by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Cait Lamberton and Michael Norton Non-compliance with tax costs governments billions, in part because people really don't like paying taxes. This column reports two experiments designed ... Read more...
30 May 2014
Research by Professors Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael Norton suggests that the annual tax filing process offers an unexploited opportunity for governments to engage with taxpayers - and one that could ... Read more...
29 May 2014
Lessons from behavioural economics can boost tax compliance In another new paper researchers [from the Centre for Economic Performance and Harvard Business School] investigate whether these receipts work as intended. Th... Read more...
24 May 2014
THE UK housing market needs Help to Supply, not Help to Buy. The government's housing scheme has helped first-time buyers get a leg-up onto the property ladder, but that privilege has come at a price - with house prices... Read more...
21 May 2014
Wien - Was bringt Kommunikation? Wenn neue Technologien zu einer Flut und Schnelligkeit von Information fuhren, was haben Unternehmen und Konsumenten davon? Die Frage ist in Zeiten von Internet und Big Data aktueller den... Read more...
18 May 2014
In the long run, the answer to Britain's out-of-kilter housing market is an increase in the supply of homes. Paul Cheshire, an academic at the London School of Economics, says there has been a slowdown in the number of n... Read more...
11 May 2014
Nipping it in the bud too soon, despite justifiable concerns about house prices in some areas, could backfire. Professor Paul Cheshire, in a spirited piece for the London School of Economics' CentrePiece magazine, estima... Read more...
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... Read more...
08 May 2014
''Recently there have been reports published by the LSE (London School of Economics) concluding that house values within close proximity of a wind farm are reduced by up to 11 per cent - however, here on the ground in D... Read more...
23 April 2014
Au Moyen Age, les Anglais batissent leurs villes au bord des fleuves ; les Francais, sur les ruines des cites romaines. La centralisation du pouvoir debouche sur une aberration economique. Comme aujourd'hui. L'article... Read more...
28 January 2014
This is extremely important data, first revealed in a groundbreaking paper by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. But whereas labour's share of GDP has remained constant, pension cost... Read more...
11 December 2013
Greedy capitalists are sometimes also blamed for falling wages. That is nonsense. In many other countries capital has grabbed a greater share of the economic pie in recent years. However, this has not happened in the UK,... Read more...
10 December 2013
Boys are much more likely than girls to be influenced by where they stand in ability in school, research suggests. A study from the London School of Economics indicates being seen as a high flyer in primary school, regar... Read more...
Low- and high-skilled jobs have expanded while middle-skilled jobs have fallen as a share of employment, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and London School of Economics. This phenomenon, somet... Read more...
14 November 2013
Ensuite, meme s'ils pouvaient preter au tout-venant, il est loin d'etre sur que le tout-venant veuille emprunter. On ne fait pas boire un ane qui n'a pas soif. Deux economistes de la London School of Economics, qui ont p... Read more...
05 November 2013
TEACHING mixed ability groups could damage the confidence of pupils who believe they are in the bottom half of their class, a study suggests. Researchers from the London School of Economics claim that children who achiev... Read more...
29 October 2013
Academics at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and the London School of Economics' Department of Management, have been studying the traits that are common to successful entrepreneurs. Their r... Read more...
02 October 2013
Reflecting on yesterday's budget, John Van Reenen argues that an opportunity was missed. While there were good things in the budget, the 1p off a pint of beer was symbolic. This was a budget in which little changed and... Read more...
21 March 2013
These phenomena have helped to change the pattern of inequality since the turn of the century, says Steve Machin, research director at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. During the 1980s and... Read more...
20 March 2013
Budget 2013: Economists pass judgment CEP's Director of Research, Professor Stephen Machin, gives his views on the chancellor's 2013 budget... "The chancellor pitched the Budget as one for hard-working people w... Read more...
Professor John Van Reenen interviewed by the BBC on the eve of the next Budget announcement by George Osborne. The interview was broadcast by the BBC Business News site on March 19, 2013 Link to interview here Rel... Read more...
19 March 2013
In advance of Budget Day John Van Reenen highlights a range of chronic weaknesses which are holding back the UK economy, with infrastructure and associated policy uncertainty a particular problem. He calls for a new arch... Read more...
18 March 2013
"It's like one of those horror movies - you think the recession is dead, and then it pops up again." John Van Reenen is feeling frustrated. The head of the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance believes his voice is jus... Read more...
The Chancellor delivered his third budget yesterday. CEP Director Professor John Van Reenen gives his initial reaction. There were some positive steps such as the extension of personal allowances, but the Budget had a... Read more...
22 March 2012