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Hayek Programme Conference: Narratives and Culture in Historical Perspective

20-21 June 2025 This conference, organised by LSE's Hayek Programme and the University of Bologna explores the intersection of political economy, culture, and narratives from a historical perspective. Find out more...
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LSE Festival 2025

16-21 June 2025 The 2025 Festival will take place from Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2025 on the theme of "Visions for the Future". STICERD and CASE participate with lectures and poster sessions: 'Reimagining the way we work', 'A society free of poverty', 'Insecure lives', and 'AI-led interviews'. Find out more...
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Long-term Unemployment, Volunteering and Re-envisioning the Nature of Work

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni, and Martina Zanella write about the challenges of reskilling workers in the face of technological advances in AI and robotics. Read more...

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CASEreport
Debt, ethnicity and local area deprivation in London

Eleni Karagiannaki

Drawing on Wave 13 of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society) and anonymised client records from StepChange, this research explores household over-indebtedness in London and maps its intersections wi...Read more...

Tuesday 17 June 2025

CASEreport
Insecure lives: The growth and impact of multiple insecurities

Irene Bucelli, Irena Grugulis, Stuart Henderson, Laura Lane, Helen Lomax, Anita Mangan, Abigail McKnight, Jonathan Payne, Sally Pearse, Laura Sorvala, Rebecca Tunstall and Jonathan Webb

‘Multiple insecurity’ is insecurity in more than one important dimension of life, such as money, work, housing, food, health or care. This research explored the prevalence and impact of multiple insecurities, through lit...Read more...

Friday 06 June 2025

CASEreport
Homelessness in Higher Education: Supporting Students in London

Joseph Usher and LSE Housing and Communities

The LSE’s Homelessness Initiative Activity Fund awarded a grant to LSE Housing and Communities in late 2024 to carry out research, bringing together relevant stakeholders to help universities in London better understand ...Read more...

Friday 30 May 2025

Econometrics Paper
Geodesic synthetic control methods for random objects and functional data

Daisuke Kurisu, Hans-Georg Mueller, Taisuke Otsu and Yidong Zhou

We introduce a geodesic synthetic control method for causal inference that extends existing synthetic control methods to scenarios where outcomes are elements in a geodesic metric space rather than scalars. Examples of s...Read more...

Thursday 01 May 2025

CASEreport
The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission: Report One - Learning from Experience

Ellie Benton and LSE Housing and Communities

The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission aims to explore ways of increasing co-operation and power sharing between social housing residents and landlords, and what happens when residents and social housing providers...Read more...

Thursday 06 March 2025

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CASE News
Debt, ethnicity and local area deprivation in London

New CASE research funded by the ESRC COLIF Fellowship programme, undertaken by Eleni Karagiannaki in partnership with StepChange maps how area deprivation and ethnicity intersects with household over-indebtedness in Lond... Read more...

Tuesday 17 June 2025

CASE News
New CASE research is reported in The Guardian today.

The report, Insecure Lives: The growth and impact of multiple insecurities reveals that millions of UK residents are experiencing insecurity in multiple important dimensions of their lives at the same time. For example, ... Read more...

Friday 06 June 2025

CASE News
LSE Festival 2025

The LSE Festival is an intellectually stimulating series of events, which engages a wide public audience with LSE research and expertise. It brings together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how... Read more...

Tuesday 03 June 2025

CASE News
Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building homes, communities, and neighbourhoods New Book by Professor Anne Power

Professor Anne Power presents her latest book, Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building homes, communities, and neighbourhoods. Published by Policy Press, Beyond Bricks and Mortar presents a history of social housing in the U... Read more...

Monday 19 May 2025

STICERD News
Professors Nava Ashraf and Oriana Bandiera Release New Working paper - Meaning at Work

Meaning at Work - Working Paper Series  Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni and Luigi Zingales We evaluate a firm's unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce t... Read more...

Wednesday 14 May 2025

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