Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7955 7419
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7955 6951
e-mail:  j.hills@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,   R512

  Research interests:

• Social exclusion

• Welfare state

• Social security

• Income distribution

 Current research projects:

• ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion

• Income variability within the year

• Chair, National Equality Panel  [link]

 Selected publications:

• A More Equal Society: New labour, Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion (co-editor) Policy Press, Bristol, 2005  

• Inequality and the State Oxford University Press, 2004  

• Making Public Policy for the 21st Century (co-editor) Policy Press, Bristol, 2000  

• New Inequalities: the changing distribution of income and wealth in the UK (editor) Cambridge University Press, 1996  

• One Hundred Years of Poverty and Policy (co-author) Joseph Rowntree Foundation  

• Paying for Health, Education and Housing (co-author) Oxford University Press, 2000  

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

• Understanding Social Exclusion (co-editor) Oxford University Press, 2002  

 Other publications:  

• An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel. [CASEreport 60] , January 2010
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• Banding, Tilting, Gearing, Gaining and Losing: An Anatomy of the Proposed Council Tax (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 12(4), 1991). [WSP 063] 1991

• CASE Annual Report 1997/98. [CASEreport 02] , November 1998
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• CASE Annual Report 1998/99 . [CASEreport 06] , December 1999
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• CASE Annual Report 1999/2000. [CASEreport 10] , February 2001
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• Distributional Effects of Housing Subsidies in the United Kingdom. (Revised version in Journal of Public Economics, 44:3, 1991). [WSP 044] , January 

• Does Britain Have a 'Welfare Generation'? An Empirical Analysis of Intergenerational Equity (Revised versions in The Dynamic of Welfare: the welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).. [WSP 076] , January 1995

• Ends and Means: The future roles of social housing in England. [CASEreport 34] , February 2007, Out of Print
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• Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity. [CASE 004] , January 1998, Out of Print
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• From Beveridge to Turner: Demography, Distribution and the Future of Pensions in the UK. [CASE/110] , June 2006
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• From Right-to-Buy to Rent-to-Mortgage: Privatisation of Council Housing Since 1979. [WSP 061] , January 

• Housing Finance Aspects of the Green Paper. [CASEreport 12] , December 2000, Out of Print
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• Inclusion or Insurance? National Insurance and the future of the contributory principle. [CASE 068] , May 2003
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• Investigating Welfare: Final Report of the ESRC Welfare Research Programme. [WSP 092]

• New Cycles of Disadvantage? Report of a conference organised by CASE on behalf of ESRC for HM Treasury. [CASEreport 01] , July 1998
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• Putting a Price on Council Housing: ValuingVoluntary Transfers (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 13(1), 1992). [WSP 062] , January 1992

• Shifting Subsidy from Bricks and Mortar to People: Experiences in Britain and West Germany (Housing Studies, 5:3, 1990, pp.147-167). [WSP 041] , January 

• Social Security in Developed Countries: Are There Lessons for Developing Countries? (Ch3 in Social Security in Developing Countries, E Ahmad, J Drèze, J Hills, A Sen (eds) (1991), Oxford University Press). [WSP 038] , January 

• Subsidies to Social Housing in England: Their Behavioural Implications. (Revised version, Ch15 in Unravelling Housing Finance: Subsidies, Benefits and Taxation, J Hills (1991), Oxford University Press). [WSP 024] , January 1991

• Taxation for the Enabling State. [CASE 041] , August 2000
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• Thatcherism, New Labour and the Welfare State (chapter in "New Labour: A turning point in British Politics", H Kastgendiek and R Stimshoff (eds), Philo, 1999). [CASE 013] , August 1998
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• The Distribution of Welfare Benefits In Kind. [WSP 068] , Out of Print

• The Effects of Differences in Housing and Health Care Systems on International Comparions of Income Distribution. [WSP 110]

• The Voluntary Sector in Housing: The Role of British Housing Associations (in The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective: Studies in Comparative Culture and Policy, E James (ed) (1989), Oxford University Press). [WSP 020] , January 1989

• The Welfare State in Britain 1970-1985: Extent and Effectiveness (Ch.7 in The Performance of the British Economy, R Dornbusch and R Layard (eds) (1987), Oxford University Press). [WSP 009] , January 1987

• Tracking Income: How working families' incomes vary through the year. [CASEreport 32] , March 2006
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• Twenty-First Century Housing Subsidies:Durable Rent-Fixing and Subsidy Arrangementsfor Social Housing. (Revised and expanded versions of much of this paper are to be found in Unravelling Housing Finance (see above). [WSP 033] , January 

• View of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. [CASEreport 11] , December 2000
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• Welfare Reform: Learning from American Mistakes? Report of a seminar organised by LSE Housing and CASE. [CASEreport 03] , November 1998
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• When is a Grant not a Grant? The Current System of Housing Association Finance (Summarised in "How to Get Better Value from Subsidy to Housing Associations", Public Money, 7:1, June 1987; see also Unravelling Housing Finance, below). [WSP 013] , June 1987

• William Beveridge versus Robin Hood: Social Security and Redistribution over the Lifecycle. (Revised version in The Dynamic of Welfare; The welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).. [WSP 088] , January 1995

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