Education:

1998-2002 - BSc Economics (First Class Honours), University of Surrey

Career:

Jan 2003-present - Research Officer, NIESR

2000-2001 - Research Assistant, Global Economics Department, Lehman Brothers

Research Interests:

Public sector productivity and performance - including health, education and local authorities.

Industry level productivity and international productivity comparisons.

Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) - Lucy is also part of the WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service team. This service, funded by the ESRC and hosted at NIESR, aims to encourage and support use of the data from WERS 2004. For further information please visit: www.wers2004.info

Selected Publications:

O'Mahony, M., Weale, M., Stevens, P., Loveridge, P., Stokes, L., Adriana Castelli, Diana Dawson, Hugh Gravelle, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, Stephen Martin and Andrew S, (Apr 2007), A new approach to measuring health system output and productivity, National Institute Economic Review, No. 200

Stevens, P., Stokes, L., O'Mahony, M., (Jul 2006), Metrics, Targets and Performance,National Institute Economic Review, No. 197, pp. 80-92

O'Mahony, M., Stevens, P., Stokes, L., Loveridge, P., Diane Dawson, Hugh Gravelle, Andrew Street, Adriana Castelli, Rowena Jacobs, Paul Kind, (Dec 2005), Developing new approaches to measuring NHS outputs and productivity, Dp. 264

O'Mahony, M., Stevens, P., Stokes, L., Weale, M., Diane Dawson, Paul Kind, Hugh Gravelle, Andrew Street, Adriana Castelli, Rowena Jacobs, Casey Quinn, (Oct 2005), Developing new approaches to measuring NHS outputs and productivity: Final Report, Report to: The Department of Health

Forth, J., Stokes, L., (Dec 2006), A Regional Perspective on Employment Relations: Tabulations from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey, Report to: Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)

Forth, J., Kirby, S., Stokes, L., (Oct 2006), Guide to the Analysis of WERS 2004

O'Mahony, M., Stevens, P., Stokes, L., (2004), Performance in the EU health sector, European Competitiveness Report

Forth, J., Kirby, S., Stokes, L., Stankov, R., (Feb 2006), ),Website for the WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service

Stokes, L., Robert Inklaar, Edwin Stuivenwold, Marcel Timmer, Gerard Ypma, (2003), ),Data sources and methodology, EU productivity and competitiveness: an industry perspective. Can Europe resume the catching-up process?

Robinson, C., Stokes, L., Bart van Ark, Edwin Stuivenwold, (2003), Industry structure and taxonomies, EU productivity and competitiveness: an industry perspective. Can Europe resume the catching-up process?