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David Frayman.

David Frayman

Research Economist

Expertise: applied microeconomics, innovation, public economics

Email:
d.frayman@lse.ac.uk
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SAL 2.02 B
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Biography

Dr David Frayman is a Research Economist at the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance.

Current areas of research include:

  • Innovation: financial constraints on innovation, effects of innovation and investment policies
  • Labour: the health and wellbeing effects of retirement and state pension age reform
  • Health: variation in diagnostic practice and clinical norms
  • Education: the effects of special educational needs (SEN) provision
  • Public economics: non-monetary outcomes in cost-benefit analysis

Publications

CEP occasional papers
The high price of doing nothing: evaluating an expansion of employment support for health-related inactivity

Employment support for those with mild-to-moderate health conditions is estimated to deliver large benefits to the individual and government finances, paying for itself within 5 years. This suggests enabling inactive ind... Read more...

David Frayman

12 December 2024

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Spending public money to create happier lives

Choosing policies that most improve wellbeing would radically change government priorities. David Frayman, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard, Sara MacLennan and Isaac Parkes explain the science behind the new approach.... Read more...

David Frayman, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard, Sara MacLennan and Isaac Parkes

18 October 2024

CEP occasional papers
The apprenticeship guarantee

The UK has a poor record of providing opportunities to learn skills for the around half of young people that do not attend university. Over a third of 18-year-olds in England are not undertaking any education or training... Read more...

David Frayman

04 September 2024

CEP occasional papers
A wellbeing cost-benefit analysis of raising the state pension age

Governments of developed countries are facing growing pressures from the fiscal demands of an ageing population. To cope with this, they have tried to get individuals to work longer, primarily by raising the ages at whic... Read more...

David Frayman

04 September 2024

CEP reports
Value for money: How to improve wellbeing and reduce misery

The government spends billions on our behalf. How do we want this money to be spent? This report reviews a range of policies and asks the fundamental question which should be asked of every policy: Does it deliver value ... Read more...

David Frayman, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard, Sara MacLennan and Isaac Parkes

03 September 2024

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