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Robert Metcalfe, professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Centre for Net Zero established by Octopus, shows heat pumps replace gas using a third of the energy. #LSEEnvironmentWeek.
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Praveer Sinha ,CEO of The Tata Power Company, says that India’s installed capacity for renewable energy has nearly doubled in the last decade.
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Anna Valero speaking at #LSEEnvironmentWeek event explains the opportunities and challenges ahead for green energy transition. Noting costs and transitions need to be managed fairly to maintain and build public support.
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Starting now! Innovation and energy for a sustainable future with Robert Metcalfe, Praveer Sinha, Anna Valero and chair John Van Reenen #LSEEnvironmentWeek
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Quick read: This study using the rota patterns of the police staff who record details of cases finds most were more productive when working from home. By Alessandra Fenizia and Tom Kirchmaier in CentrePiece magazine cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publicati…
Looking forward to this talk from Jeff Grogger - important research that makes a real difference.
Upcoming event with Jeff Grogger, Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy:
Assessing risk assessment in cases of domestic abuse | Thursday 26 March | 6.30pm to 8pm
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🌐 Why is immigration policy hard?
In this @CEP_LSE lecture, Prof Alan Manning argues that to solve this problem, we should start by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. #LSEEvents
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Immigration policy is complex, full of trade-offs—but we can do better.
Join Alan Manning, former chair of the UK Migration Advisory Committee, for 3 free lectures using evidence to rethink how immigration affects jobs, services and communities.
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A wartime labor market: the case of Ukraine
By Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri and Oleksandr Zholud
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Crime and prices: evidence from thefts of expensive precious metal
By: Gerald Foong, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi
Read at: ow.ly/gIKT50XY5Z7
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🌐 Join us for the first @CEP_LSE 2025 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture by Alan Manning.
Prof Manning will examine why immigration policy is hard and why we make such a mess of them. #LSEEvents
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🌐 Join us for the second @CEP_LSE 2025 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture by Alan Manning.
In this second lecture, Prof Manning will examine the foundations of immigration policy and their implications. #LSEEvents
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Household taxation, nonlinear occupations, and gender gaps
By Piotr Denderski and Tim Obermeier
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📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026
We invite papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/5utl50XY3fL
📢 Job vacancy: Research Assistant, Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE
Work with John Van Reenen on cutting-edge research on innovation, diffusion & productivity, contributing to co-authored, top-journal-quality outputs 📈💡
Apply by 16 Feb 2026
New research from Huang, @BennyKleinman, @ErnestLiuEcon & Redding (CEP) for VoxEU shows that China’s and Japan’s productivity booms reduced the US share of global GDP — but raised US welfare.
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🌐 Join us for the 2025 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures which this year will be delivered by Alan Manning.
This @CEP_LSE lecture is one of three based on the newly published book, "Why Immigration Policy Is Hard". #LSEEvents
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In January:
💰 Slow-burn Brexit hit
📅 Event: Alan Manning on immigration
🏠 Supply is driving housing crisis
ICYMI Why is there a gender gap in STEM subjects even as girls' educational achievement rises? Using data from 10 countries @andres_bafer and Aspasia Bizopoulou show that STEM education is only part of the story. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…
👏 Congratulations to CEP associate Professor Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway) – awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List!
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