Biography
Eleni Karagiannaki is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a Faculty Associate at the International Inequalities Institute (III) and Economy & Public Policy research cluster Coordinator at the Hellenic Observatory Centre at the LSE. She has done work on range of issues relating to poverty and inequality measurement and analysis with a particular focus on understanding how the tax and benefit systems, the labour market and the families interplay to shape socio-economic inequalities.
Eleni Karagiannaki's current research interests are:
- Measurement and analysis of income and wealth inequality
- Social exclusion
- Material Deprivation
- Intergenerational mobility and intergenerational transfers
- Public economics and social policy
- Redistributive role of social and fiscal policies both within and across generations
Eleni's latest projects include:
- Debt, Ethnicity and Local Area Deprivation (2024), COLIF Fellowships
- The Challenge of Ethnic Wealth Inequalities: Building Understanding, British Academy Innovation Fellowship (Research Led)
- Transition to Adulthood in the UK in an Intergenerational Context (2021), Understanding Society Fellowship
- Intra-household Allocation of Resources: Implications for Poverty, Deprivation and Inequality in the European Union (2016-2020): ESRC: 1-RSE-C491, Co-I. (PI: T. Burchardt)
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