Past Seminars:
CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
These seminars are held on Wednesdays in term time at 12:45-14:00 in 32L 1.04 1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields WC2A 3PH (unless specified otherwise).
This seminar is organised by Ludovica Gambaro Email: l.f.gambaro@lse.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)20-7955-6683 and Dr Ruth Lupton Email: r.lupton@lse.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)20-7849-4910.
For further information and papers, when available, please contact:
Cheryl Conner Email: c.j.conner@lse.ac.uk, Tel: +44(0)20-7955-6562.
Sandwiches and soft drinks are provided. All welcome.
22 May 2013
12:45
- 14:00
Payment by results and the design and delivery of the Work Programme
Dan Finn
(University of Portsmouth and Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
13 March 2013
12:45
- 14:00
Benefits stigma in Britain
Ben Baumberg
(University of Kent)
, joint with Kate Bell and Declan Gaffney
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
13 February 2013
12:45
- 14:00
International differences in wealth inequality: The role of economic, demographic and institutional factors
Abigail McKnight
(CASE)
, joint with Eleni Karagiannaki
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
23 January 2013
12:45
- 14:00
Modelling the distributional and revenue effects of taxes on wealth: New evidence from the UK Wealth and Assets Survey
Howard Reed
(Landman Economics)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
28 November 2012
12:45
- 14:00
The distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in the EU
Holly Sutherland
(ISER, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 November 2012
12:45
- 14:00
Worklessness dynamics in deprived areas: Evidence from Manchester
Helen Barnes
(University of Oxford)
, joint with David McLennan.
You may also be interested in the following paper available at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2011-2012/rrep779.pdf
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 October 2012
12:45
- 14:00
Using randomized controlled trials in social policy: A case study of mixed methods research with troubled families
Liz Richardson
(University of Manchester)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
02 May 2012
12:45
- 14:00
Decentralising the means-test: The design of student bursaries from October 2012.
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
, joint with Ben Richards
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
14 March 2012
12:45
- 14:00
The changing architecture of the UK welfare state
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
, joint with Dan Edmiston
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 February 2012
12:45
- 14:00
The importance of independent income: Understanding the role of non-means-tested earnings replacement benefits
Holly Sutherland
(ISER, University of Essex)
, joint with Fran Bennett
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 February 2012
12:45
- 14:00
Don't even think about it! The role of automatic processes in explaining behaviour and their implications for research and policy
Paul Dolan
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
18 January 2012
12:45
- 14:00
Migrant and student employment and labour market opportunities for less skilled people: Insights from one local labour market
Anne Green
(University of Warwick)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
23 November 2011
12:45
- 14:00
A job in itself: Looking for work in today's labour market
Rebecca Tunstall
(University of York)
, joint with Ruth Lupton
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
26 October 2011
12:45
- 14:00
Measuring fuel poverty: Does the current approach measure up?
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 October 2011
12:45
- 14:00
The Precariat: The new dangerous class
Guy Standing
(University of Bath)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 May 2011
12:45
- 14:00
Wage top-ups and work incentives: Claimant experiences of New Labour's working tax credit scheme
Hartley Dean
(LSE)
, joint with Gerry Mitchell
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
09 March 2011
12:45
- 14:00
The low-pay, no-pay cycle: Understanding recurrent poverty
Tracy Shildrick
(Teesside University)
, joint with Robert MacDonald
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 February 2011
12:45
- 14:00
The intergenerational transmission of worklessness
Lindsey Macmillan
(University of Bristol)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 January 2011
12:45
- 14:00
Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe
Aaron Grech
(Department for Work and Pensions)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 December 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Working neighbourhoods? The role and meaning of work in six areas of high worklessness
Richard Crisp
(Sheffield Hallam University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 November 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Employers' role in the low pay-no pay cycle
Hilary Metcalf
(National Institute of Economic and Social Research)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 November 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe
CANCELLED
Aaron Grech
(Department for Work and Pensions)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 October 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Employing the capability approach to compare pensioners' well-being across UK countries
Lucas Pedace
(HM Treasury)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 May 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Decarbonising the welfare state
CANCELLED
Ian Gough
(CASE, London School of Economics)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
05 May 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Making Markets in Employment Services: Lessons from other countries
Dan Finn
(University of Portsmouth and Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 March 2010
12:45
- 14:00
The impact of the Pathways to Work programme on incapacity benefits customers: An analysis of administrative and survey data
Helen Bewley
(National Institute of Economic and Social Research)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 March 2010
12:45
- 14:00
Mothers' employment in a child's first year and subsequent child development: Analysis of cohort study evidence from US and GB
Heather Joshi
(Institute of Education)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 February 2010
12:45
- 14:00
The living standards of families with children reporting low incomes
Mike Brewer
(Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
18 November 2009
12:45
- 14:00
Public attitudes to inequality: Implications for policy
Louise Bamfield
(The Fabian Society)
, joint with Tim Horton
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 November 2009
12:45
- 14:00
Better off Working? Work sustainability and feelings of poverty among low-paid workers
Kathryn Ray
(Policy Studies Institute)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
21 October 2009
12:45
- 14:00
Do disabled men suffer discrimination in pay?
Simonetta Longhi
(ISER, University of Essex)
, joint with Cheti Nicoletti
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 May 2009
12:45
- 14:00
The determinants of poverty duration in European countries
Giacomo Damioli
(ISER, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
04 March 2009
12:45
- 14:00
The route to take-up: Raising incentives or lowering barriers
Francesca Zantomio
(ISER, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
11 February 2009
12:45
- 14:00
Realising potential: A vision for personalised conditionality and support
Paul Gregg
(University of Bristol and CEP)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 December 2008
12:45
- 14:00
Health, Wealth and Consumption Among Older People
Eleni Karagiannaki
(CASE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 December 2008
13:45
- 15:00
The Changing Earnings of Employees, Migrants and Families
Richard Dickens
(University of Sussex & CEP)
, joint with Abigail McKnight, CASE, London School of Economics
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 November 2008
12:45
- 14:00
A Minimum Income Standard for Britain: What people think
Jonathan Bradshaw
(Social Policy Research Unit, University of York)
, joint with Noel Smith, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 May 2008
12:45
- 14:00
The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty
Holly Sutherland
(ISER, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 February 2008
12:45
- 14:00
Cash, care and child poverty
David Piachaud
(Social Policy and CASE, LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 February 2008
12:45
- 14:00
Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? A study of a Norwegian welfare reform
Chiara Pronzato
(ISER, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 December 2007
12:45
- 14:00
Evidence of an Asset-Effect on Earnings? New results from the 1958 birth cohort study.
Abigail McKnight
(CASE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 November 2007
12:45
- 14:00
A child's-eye view of social difference
Liz Sutton
(Loughborough University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
14 November 2007
12:45
- 14:00
For what we dream of: Identity, poverty, wealth and politics in Britain
Danny Dorling
(University of Sheffield)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 May 2007
12:45
- 14:00
The next steps in welfare to work?
Alan Marsh
(Policy Studies Institute)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 February 2007
12:45
- 14:00
Poverty: thinking multi-dimensionally
Robert Walker
(Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 February 2007
12:45
- 14:00
Economic Analysis of Higher Education Finance in Europe. An empirical assessment using EU micro-data
Vincent Vandenberghe
(Economics, UCL - Belgium)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 February 2007
12:45
- 14:00
The new Employment and Support Allowance and the retreat from long-term benefit reform
Roy Sainsbury
(Social Policy Research Unit, University of York)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 November 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Which pensioners don't spend their income and why?
Naomi Finch
(Social Policy Research Unit, University of York)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 November 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Are 'poor' pensioners 'deprived'?
Richard Berthoud
(Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 October 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Pension policy in EU25 and its likely impact on pension benefits
Asghar Zaidi
(European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 May 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Government Benefits, Inequality and Employment
Lane Kenworthy
(University of Arizona)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 March 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Avoiding poverty over time: Households, work and welfare
Jane Millar
(Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath)
, joint with Karen Gardiner
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
01 March 2006
16:30
- 17:45
Tracking income: How volatile are short-term incomes?
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 February 2006
12:45
- 14:00
Give and take: Public attitudes to redistribution
Tom Sefton
(CASE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 December 2005
12:00
- 14:00
Meeting the challenges and making the choices: The second report of the Pensions Commission
(places limited, please register with Yusuf Osman at y.osman@lse.ac.uk)
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
, joint with Discussants Alison O'Connell (Pensions Policy Institute) and Nicholas Barr (LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
30 November 2005
12:45
- 14:00
Frustrated ambition: The education and employment of disabled young people (Launch of new Joseph Rowntree Report)
Tania Burchardt
(CASE, London School of Economics)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 November 2005
12:45
- 14:00
Public expectations of pension provision
Peter Taylor-Gooby
(University of Kent)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 October 2005
12:45
- 14:00
Saving through the lifecycle
CANCELLED
Deborah Cooper
(Mercer Human Resource Accounting)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
09 March 2005
12:45
- 14:00
Child poverty and family transfers in southern Europe
Panos Tsakloglou
(Athens University of Economics and Business)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
02 March 2005
12:45
- 14:00
The consequences of in-work benefit reform for British lone mothers: Panel data evidence
Marco Francesconi
(Economics Department, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 February 2005
12:45
- 14:00
Poverty measurement: A New Zealand perspective
Bob Stephens
(School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 November 2004
12:45
- 14:00
Opportunities of a lifetime: Model lifetime analysis of current British social policy.
Martin Evans
(Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
10 November 2004
12:45
- 14:00
Participatory approaches to research on poverty
Fran Bennett
(Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 October 2004
12:45
- 14:00
Pensions: Challenges and Choices - First Report of the Independent Pensions Commission
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 January 2004
12:45
- 14:00
Savings policy and social policy
Stephen McKay
(University of Bristol)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 December 2003
12:45
- 14:00
Changes in Living Standards and Hardship among Low-income Families, 1999-2002.
Alan Marsh
(Policy Studies Institute)
, joint with Sandra Vegeris
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 November 2003
12:45
- 14:00
Take-up of multiple means-tested benefits by British pensioners:
Evidence from the Family Resources Survey.
Ruth Hancock
(University of Leicester)
, joint with Steve Pudney
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 October 2003
12:45
- 14:00
Means-tested pensions and early retirement.
James Sefton
(Imperial College, London)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
21 March 2002
12:45
- 14:00
Trends in intergenerational earnings mobility.
Angela Fertig
(Princeton University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
13 March 2002
12:45
- 14:00
International Trends in Poverty: how rates mislead but intensity and labour supply matter.
Lars Osberg
(Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex, and Dalhousie University, Canada)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 February 2002
12:45
- 14:00
Long-term Effects of Social Disadvantage on Individual Adjustment: a life course perspective.
Ingrid Schoon
(City University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
23 January 2002
12:45
- 14:00
Poverty and Social Security: public views and government policies.
John Hills
(CASE, LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
05 December 2001
12:45
- 14:00
Does Low Income in Early Childhood affects Adolescent School Attainment? Evidence from Germany
Chris Schluter
(Department of Economics, University of Bristol)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 November 2001
12:45
- 14:00
CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Lars Osberg
(Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex, and Dalhousie University, Canada)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
24 October 2001
12:45
- 14:00
Ethnic Minorities and the Experience of Poverty
Lucinda Platt
(Department of Sociology, University of Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
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