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Biography

Pol Simpson is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. Before joining LSE they worked as an economist in the UK Civil Service and a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Current areas of research include:

Adaptation to climate change and extreme weather events through migration and occupational change
General equilibrium effects of housing regulation and informality
Global adoption of solar energy

Publications

Journal article

Financing Local Police Spending in England and Wales: Fiscal Federalism in Practice

Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have been able to raise revenues locally to supplement grants from central government. We analyse the variation across police force areas in locally raised police revenues o... Read more...

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney and Polly Simpson

01 December 2019