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Morishima Lecture 2022

In May 2022 Professor Glenn Loury gave the 2022 Morishima Lecture. You can read his presentation on the our website. Read more...
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Hayek Programme call for research proposals

Deadline 30 June 2022: The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy invites applications for the second round of PhD Grants. This is a call for PhD students whose research proposals align with themes in Hayek's work. Find out more...
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Research Excellence Framework 2021

Research led by STICERD members Professor Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Professor Sir Tim Besley has contributed to the Department of Economics' ranking. Read more...

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CASEpaper
Living arrangements, intra-household inequality and children’s deprivation: Evidence from EU-SILC

Eleni Karagiannaki and Tania Burchardt

Evidence from the 2014 EU-SILC indicates that a non-negligible proportion of children in Europe live in multi-family households. Leaving aside more complex household types, around 4% of children live with their grandpare...Read more...

Wednesday 22 June 2022

CASEpaper
The two-child limit & ‘choices’ over family size: When policy presentation collides with lived experiences

Kate Andersen and Ruth Patrick

The two-child limit restricts the child element in Universal Credit and Tax Credits to two children in a household (for children born after April 2017). One objective of the two-child limit is to influence the fertility ...Read more...

Wednesday 15 June 2022

CASEreport
CASE Annual Report 2021

The 2021 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 14 articles showcasing th...Read more...

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper
Understanding recent patterns in intergenerational social mobility: differences by gender, ethnicity, education, and their intersections

Lindsey Macmillan and Abigail McKnight

This paper presents new estimates of recent social mobility in the UK by gender, education and ethnicity, and their intersections. We measure absolute social class mobility using data from the Labour Force Survey 2014-20...Read more...

Thursday 26 May 2022

CASEreport
Keeping Communities Together: How smaller social landlords and community-led housing can provide affordable, secure, low cost accommodation for communities in need

Ellie Benton, Anne Power and Ruby Russell

This report sets out the potential for small, community-based housing organisations to deliver homes for people in housing need, within their own communities. It uncovers innovative examples and models for how this can b...Read more...

Thursday 21 April 2022

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CASE News
LSE colleagues from across the School pay tribute to John Hills (1954-2020)

In December 2020 a shock wave went across the School, and reverberated well beyond, with the news of the premature death of our highly esteemed and greatly valued colleague John Hills. John embodied the very best of LSE ... Read more...

Friday 24 June 2022

STICERD News
Morishima Lecture

On Tuesday 31 May 2022 Professor Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, gave the 2022 Morishima Lecture. In exploring the persistence of racial ... Read more...

Tuesday 07 June 2022

STICERD News
Research Excellence Framework 2021

Overall, LSE's outstanding contribution to social science research has once again been recognised by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). LSE is shown as the top university (of multiple submissions) in the UK ba... Read more...

Wednesday 25 May 2022

CASE News
Research Excellence Framework 2021 results

We are proud that CASE research led to Impact Case Studies that were awarded a 4* world-leading grade in REF2021. Our research contributed to the Social Policy department (along with the Departments of Health Policy, P... Read more...

Thursday 12 May 2022

STICERD news
American Economic Association awards

Congratulations to Oriana Bandiera who received AEA's Foreign Honor Members award. The Foreign Honorary Members award is presented to foreign economists of distinction. Honorees are elected by the American Economic Assoc... Read more...

Thursday 05 May 2022

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