Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7955 7613
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7955 6951
e-mail:  t.a.sefton@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,  R5z25D

  Research interests:

• Distribution of public spending (the "social wage")

• Poverty and Inequality

• Public attitudes to the welfare state

• Fuel poverty

 Current research projects:

• Lifetime events and the incomes of the older population in the British, German, Swedish and American welfare states (Nuffield Foundation)

• Attitudes to redistribution (ESRC)

 Selected publications:

• 'Distributive and redistributive policy' in Moran M, Rein M and Goodin R, Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, 2006 forthcoming.

• 'Inequality and poverty under New Labour' with H Sutherland, in Hills J and Stewart K, A More Equal Society? Bristol,: The Policy Press, 2005.

• 'Making the Most of It: Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field' with S Byford, D McDaid, J Hills and M Knapp, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002.

• 'Targeting Fuel Poverty in England: Is the Government Getting Warm?' Fiscal Studies, Vol 23, No 3, pp 369-99, 2002.

• 'What we want from the welfare state' in Park A et al (eds), British Social Attitudes 20th Report: Continuity and change over two decades, 2004.

• Changing poverty in Britain: the impact of government policy since 1997 with H Sutherland and D Piachaud, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2003.

• The Changing Distribution of the Social Wage STICERD Occasional Paper 21, 1997

• ‘Give and take: public attitudes to redistribution’ in A. Park et al, British Social Attitudes 22nd Report: Two terms of New Labour: the public’s reaction, 2005

 Other publications:  

•   A Fair Share of Welfare: Public Spending on Children in England [CASEreport 25] , May 2004

•   Aiming High - An evaluation of the potential contribution of Warm Front towards meeting the Government's fuel poverty target in England [CASEreport 28] , November 2004

•     Family ties: Women’s work and family histories and their association with incomes in later life in the UK [CASE/135] , December 2008

•     Getting Less for More: Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field [CASE 044] , November 2000

•     Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle [CASE 081] , February 2004

•     Recent Changes in the Distribution of the Social Wage [CASE 062] , December 2002

•     The relationship between women’s work histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany [CASE/137] , June 2009

•     Using the British Household Panel Survey to explore changes in housing tenure in England [CASE/117] , February 2007

•     Women’s family histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany [CASE/138] , June 2009