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CEP-authored research in partnership with other institutions.

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The importance of micro data in assessing aggregate outcomes - in Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade

Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade This new Bruegel Blueprint provides a differentiated understanding of growth, productivity and competitiveness and the important role public policy needs to play. Read more...
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The effect of tracking students by ability into different schools: a natural experiment - FEEM working paper

The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. This experiment provides a rare opportunity to isolate the overall effect of allowing entry to the elite track for a group that was previously only at the margin of being admitted. Read more...

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UK Economic Diplomacy in the 21st Century: The LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission Final Report

The LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission was convened in 2019 to establish a strategic direction for a new age of foreign economic policy, to understand the domestic ramifications of changes to the UK's trade agenda, and to...Read more...

9 February 2021

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World Happiness Report 2020

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks ci...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs

20 May 2020

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The impact of academies on educational outcomes - The Education Policy Institute

The expansion of the academies programme has been one of the biggest changes to the English education system in a generation. 3.4 million children are now taught in either a sponsored or a converter academy. Those childr...Read more...

Jon Andrews, Natalie Perera, Andrew Eyles, Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Olmo Silva

1 July 2017

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Measuring wellbeing and cost-effectiveness analysis

The measuring wellbeing series consists of discussion papers and how-to guides. This publication is a discussion paper. Why ignite discussion about measuring wellbeing? In our role as an independent collaborating centre...Read more...

Richard Layard

1 December 2016

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The importance of micro data in assessing aggregate outcomes - in Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade

Measuring competitiveness in Europe: resource allocation, granularity and trade This new Bruegel Blueprint provides a differentiated understanding of growth, productivity and competitiveness and the important role publi...Read more...

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Matteo Bugamelli, Emanuele Forlani and Gianmarco Ottaviano

26 January 2016

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Report on Wellbeing and Public Policy

An independent commission chaired by Gus O'Donnell proposes a radical reform of public policy-making, targeted at wellbeing, or life satisfaction, not simply economic growth.Its report, Wellbeing and Policy, commissioned...Read more...

28 March 2014

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World Happiness Report 2012

The 2012 World Happiness Report, published by the Earth Institute and co-edited by the institute’s director, Jeffrey Sachs, reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteri...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs

4 April 2012

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The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment - FEEM Working Paper

The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of ...Read more...

Nina Guyon, Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

5 January 2011