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CASE Annual Report 2020

The 2020 CASE Annual Report includes an overview of our Centre’s work, updates from our staff, PhDs, and associates, and summaries of publications and events from the past year. It also features 16 articles showcasing th...Read more...

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief

Geographical inequalities in England on the eve of the pandemic

Polina Obolenskaya

This briefing forms part of the Nuffield Foundation funded research programme, Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain (SPDO), which examines social policies and social inequalities between the ...Read more...

CASEbrief

Little fish, big streams: How do early in-class maths ‘ability’-groups and early teacher judgements relate to primary school children’s later maths self-concept?

Tammy Campbell

This paper summarises research examining predictors of primary school children’s maths self-concept at age 11. It finds that the in-class ‘ability’ group children were placed in four years earlier, at age seven, strongly...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Ruling Parties’ Record on Homelessness and Complex Needs (May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020)

Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Glen Bramley

This paper provides a comparative analysis of homelessness policy goals, expenditure and outcomes across Great Britain in the post-2015 period, setting these developments in their longer-term perspective. In England, a r...Read more...

CASEpaper

The birthweight effects of universal child benefits in pregnancy: quasi-experimental evidence from England and Wales

Mary Reader

Over a decade ago, in April 2009, the UK Labour government introduced the Health in Pregnancy Grant (HPG), a cash transfer of the equivalent of child benefit over the third trimester (£190) as a lump sum to all pregnant ...Read more...

STICERD news

Professors Oriana Bandiera and Nava Ashraf receive the 29th Arrow Award

Congratulations to Professor Oriana Bandiera and Professor Nava Ashraf who, together with Edward Davenport and Scott S Lee, received the 29th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics. Nava Ashraf, Oriana B... Read more...

STICERD news

Camille Landais awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

Camille Landais has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the project "GENEQUALITY". The project will run for 5 years (2021-2026) and aims to understand the root causes of the strong specializ... Read more...

STICERD news

The careers and time use of mothers and fathers - Research by Oriana Bandiera and Camille Landais

New research on the gender pay gap has been published as part of the ongoing IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The research has been conducted by STICERD Professors Oriana Bandier... Read more...

CASE News

SPDO research finds child poverty is on the rise

Dr Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader wrote an article on the Independent about their newly published research, The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and O... Read more...

CASE News

SPDO research finds child poverty is on the rise

Dr Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader wrote an article on the Independent about their newly published research, The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and O... Read more...