Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7955 6003
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7955 6951
e-mail:  h.glennerster@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,   R5z27B

  Research interests:

• The economics and finance of health education and long term care and other aspects of social welfare

• The allocation of resources between areas

• The history of social policy

• The comparative study of social policy especially in respect to the United States

 Selected publications:

• 'A capital start but how far do we go?' (with A McKnight) in W Paxton and S White (eds), The Citizen's Stake: Exploring the future of universal asset policies. Policy Press, 2006.  

• 'Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008' (with Ruth Lupton) in K Rummery, I Greener and C Holden (eds), Social Polciy Review, 21, Analysis and debate in social policy 2009, Policy Press, 2009.  

•     'US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past twenty-five years' Social Service Review Fall 2001 (75th Anniversary Issue) University of Chicago Press  

• 'Welfare Reform' in M Flinders, A Gamble, C Hay and M Kenny (eds), The Oxford Handbook of British Politics, Oxford University Press, 2009.  

• British Social Policy 1945 to the Present. 3rd edition, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2007.  

• Implementing GP Fundholding: Wild card or winning hand? Open University Press, Buckingham, 1994.  

•     One hundred years of poverty and policy with J Hills, D Piachaud and J Webb. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2004.  

• Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the centre pull the purse strings? with J Hills and T Travers. Oxford University Press, 2000.  

• The State of Welfare: The economics of social spending (co-editor), Oxford University Press, 1998.  

• Understanding the Finance of Welfare: What welfare costs and how to pay for it (2nd edition), The Policy Press, Bristol, 2009.  

 Other publications:  

• A New Era for Social Policy: A New Enlightenment or a New Leviathan? (Journal of Social Policy, 20:3, 389-414, July 1991). [WSP 039] , January 

• Alternatives to Fundholding. Now published in International Journal of Health Services, 28(1),(1988),pp.47-66. [WSP 123] , July 1996

• Caring for the Very Old: Public and Private Solutions. [WSP 126] , October 1996

• How Much Do We Care? A Comment on the Government's Community Care Proposals (Social Policy and Administration, 24:2, 93-103, Aug 1990). [WSP 046] , Out of Print

• Investigating Welfare: Final Report of the ESRC Welfare Research Programme. [WSP 092]

• Investing in Skill: Expected Returns to Vocational Studies (Revised version published in Education Economics, vol.3, 1995). [WSP 083] , January 1995

• Investing in Skill: To stay on or not to stay on? (Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8(2), 1992). [WSP 074] 1992

• Paying for Welfare: Issues for the Nineties (Ch.1 in The Costs of Welfare, R Page and N Deakin (eds) 1993, Avebury). [WSP 082] , January 1993

• Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion. [CASE 022] , March 1999
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• Reducing the Risks to Health: The role of social protection Report of the Social Protection Task Group for the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010. [CASE/139] , June 2009
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• Reform and the National Health Service (publd.:"Improving the National Health Service", in Resourcing the National Health ServiceEvidence to the Social Services Committee, House of Commons, Session 1987-88, HMSO, HC264-IV). [WSP 032] 1988, Out of Print

• Research Directions on the Future of the Welfare State: a View from Social Administration. [WSP 004] , Out of Print

• Squaring the Circle: The Inconsistencies and Constraints of Beveridge's Plan. (Revised version published in Beveridge and Social Secutiry: An international retrospective, J Hills, J Ditch and H Glennerster (eds.) , 1994. Clarendon Press).. [WSP 086] , January 1994

• The Development of Quasi-markets in Welfare Provision. Now published in International Journal of Health Services 25 (2), 1995. [WSP 102] , January 

• The Elderley: A Burden on the Economy? . [CEPCP071] , June  1999, 6-12 pages

• The English and Swedish Health Care ReformsManos Matsaganis (International Journal of Health Services, 24(2), 1994). [WSP 079] , January 1994

• Tibor Barna: The redistributive impact of taxes and social policies in the UK: 1937-2005. [CASE/115] , December 2006
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• US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past 25 years. [CASE 042] , October 2000
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• United Kingdom Education 1997-2001. [CASE 050] , November 2001
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• Working for Patients? The Right Approach? (Social Policy and Administration, 23:2, Aug 1989). [WSP 040] , January 

  Honours and Titles:

• Fellow of the British Academy

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

• Academician Social Sciences section of the Learned Societies