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Featured Work

Skills in the age of AI

How can we shape engaging work environments that foster productivity and enable workers to flourish?

Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress

Explore how we can identify cost-effective policies to improve societal wellbeing - and why it will be key to shaping the future of the UK and beyond.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 16:15 - 17:15

Keynote, Productivity, Innovation, and the Future of Growth

The RES Annual Conference is the Royal Economic Society?s flagship event. Each year, our conference brings together hundreds of economists to present and discuss the latest economic research....Read more...

Headline Lecture

John Van Reenen (LSE)

Thursday, June 4, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace

In a large German bakery chain, many workers report negative perceptions of monitoring via checklists. We survey workers and managers about the value and time costs to all in-store checklists, leading the firm to randoml...Read more...

Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Thursday, May 28, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Malleable Minds: The Effects of STEM- vs. Humanities-Focused Curricula

We examine the impacts of assignment to STEM vs. humanities-focused curricula in Romania?s high school system. We apply a regression discontinuity design to administrative and survey data to estimate effects on education...Read more...

Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)

Thursday, May 21, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale

Early childhood programmes frequently lose effectiveness at scale, yet the role of the workforce remains poorly understood. We document substantial heterogeneity in workforce effectiveness in England?s national home-visi...Read more...

Sarah Cattan (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

Thursday, May 7, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

"The Depression Trap": Genetic Risk, Labour Supply, and the Case for Precision Psychiatry

CEP Public Events

Co-hosted with The Productivity Institute

Skills, talent and productivity in Greater Manchester

How can skills policy help close the productivity gap between the UK?s major cities?...Read more...

Henry Overman (What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and CEP, LSE), Julia Heap (Hopwood Hall College), Andy Westwood (The Productivity Institute and The University of Manchester)

Thursday, March 19, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Orchestrating Success: Music Proficiency, Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Young Adulthood

This paper estimates the long-term causal effects of music proficiency on emotional intelligence and mental health. Leveraging the staggered rollout of a school orchestra program as a quasi-experimental setting, we ident...Read more...

Luca Piccoli (University of Trento )

Thursday, March 12, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Wellbeing Seminars

Crime Prevention Programs Improve Citizen's Mental Health: Evidence from Peru

Among Latin American countries, Peru has one of the highest crime rates, with 9 out of 10 Peruvians reporting feeling unsafe walking the streets at night. This rooted-in-reality feeling of insecurity may harm citizens' m...Read more...

Silvia Mendolia (University of Turin)

Thursday, March 5, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Thursday, February 19, 2026 16:00 - 17:00

Audio and video

Featured Work

Skills in the age of AI

Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress

POID External Event

Notthingham University

Keynote, Productivity, Innovation, and the Future of Growth

Wellbeing Seminars

Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace

Wellbeing Seminars

Malleable Minds: The Effects of STEM- vs. Humanities-Focused Curricula

Wellbeing Seminars

Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale

Wellbeing Seminars

"The Depression Trap": Genetic Risk, Labour Supply, and the Case for Precision Psychiatry

CEP Public Events

Co-hosted with The Productivity Institute

Skills, talent and productivity in Greater Manchester

Wellbeing Seminars

Orchestrating Success: Music Proficiency, Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health in Young Adulthood

Wellbeing Seminars

Crime Prevention Programs Improve Citizen's Mental Health: Evidence from Peru

Wellbeing Seminars

The Impact of Overtime Limits on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Japan's Work Style Reform

CEP Public Events

Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics

Creative destruction, AI, and the European recovery

Wellbeing Seminars

Gender Identity, Norms, and Happiness