Pol Simpson

PhD Student

Expertise: urban economics, environmental economics, macroeconomics

Email:

p.simpson1@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.12 F

Connect:

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Links:

Development
Economics of Environment and Energy
Department of Economics

Biography

Pol is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics. They were previously a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and an economic in the UK Civil Service.

Latest

Economics of Environment and Energy Hour

Direct Damage, Indirect Costs, and the Design of Disaster Relief

26 March 2026

Pol Simpson (LSE)

After disasters, aid and insurance payouts target physical damages. But if flooded households commute, borrow and trade, the costs of the disaster are shared with unflooded areas. These spillover effects are overlooked b... Read more...

Blog

Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China

06 March 2026

Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, David Laszlo, Pol Simpson, John Van Reenen and Yifan Wang

China's solar industry is a poster child for the countrya??s economic rise over the last four decades. The output of Chinese solar grew by 76% annually between 2004 and 2013, and by 2019 Chinese firms accounted for 63% o... Read more...

POID Working Papers

Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy

16 February 2026

Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, David Laszlo, Pol Simpson, John Van Reenen and Yifan Wang

Do industrial policies that promote clean energy offer a "ray of hope", increasing a country's growth and welfare, whilst simultaneously reducing carbon emissions? We study the impact of Chinese solar subsidies whose imp... Read more...

International Economics Workshops

Climate Adaptation and Disaster Relief in Pakistan's Devastating Floods (with Amen Jalal)

05 June 2024

Pol Simpson (LSE)

International Economics Workshops

Barriers to Climate Adaptation in Pakistan's Devastating Floods

31 May 2023

Pol Simpson (LSE)

International Economics Workshops

The aggregate Implications of Informal Housing

11 May 2022

Pol Simpson (LSE)

Journal article

Financing local police spending in England and Wales: fiscal federalism in practice

01 December 2019

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney and Polly Simpson

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...