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Quantifying multiple insecurities in financial, housing, work, health and caring: trends, breakdowns by characteristics and impacts on wellbeing

Abigail McKnight

This novel quantitative study of multiple insecurity demonstrates that it is possible to operationalise the concept using data on adults living in the UK to estimate prevalence and trends, and identify who is most at ris...Read more...

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Replacing Empty Spaces with Productive, Green Places

Laura Lane and Bert Provan

LSE research, commissioned by Habitat for Humanity GB (HFHGB) and M&G plc, highlights opportunities for the conversion of disused buildings into new homes to help tackle housing affordability and the climate crisis. ...Read more...

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The Ethnic Wealth Divide in the UK: Mapping Disparities Across Time, Age and Immigrant Generations

Eleni Karagiannaki

This study uses data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society), to provide evidence on how ethnic wealth gaps have changed since 2012/14, how they evolve with age and whether there is any evidence...Read more...

CASEpaper

Does The Scottish Child Payment Weaken Work Incentives?

Suzanna Nesom, Kitty Stewart and Emma Tominey

The Scottish Child Payment (SCP), introduced in 2021, provides cash transfers for families with children receiving Universal Credit (UC) or related benefits. The eligibility link to UC can create a potential cliff-edge a...Read more...

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Investing in Children: Early findings on the difference the Scottish Child Payment makes to child well-being

Kate Andersen, Suzanna Nesom, Ruth Patrick, Ilona Pinter, Kitty Stewart and Emma Tominey

Recent years have seen a divergence in welfare of Scotland compared to other UK nations. The Scottish Government has used its devolved powers on social security to introduce a package of five Family Payments, the centrep...Read more...

Journal Article

Journal of social policy:

Refraining long-term care policy: from services to social determinants

Tania Burchardt

The organisation and financing of services dominate long-term care policy and research. This article argues for reorientation towards the social determinants of long-term care and the inequalities they generate. Building...Read more...

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Building Sustainable Communities: Learning from interviews with stakeholders

Ellie Benton, LSE Housing and Communities and Ruby Russell

This report presents findings from interviews with 75 stakeholders working across ten low-income neighbourhoods across England. This is the second publication in a series of reports summarising our current research into ...Read more...

CASEbrief

Why we won’t turn the tide on child poverty with employment alone

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves

Child poverty in the UK is high and rising, at huge cost both to individual lives and to society. Without action, the number of children living in poverty could rise from 4.5 to 4.7 million by the end of this parliament....Read more...

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Sustainable Communities: Findings from the resident interviews

Ellie Benton and LSE Housing and Communities

This report presents headline findings from interviews with 100 residents living in ten low-income neighbourhoods across England. This is the first in a series of reports summarising our current research into the areas. ...Read more...

CASEbrief

Baking inequality in from birth: New analysis of the way the two-child limit and the benefit cap intersect with ethnicity

Justice Aina, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves, Thomas Stephens and Kitty Stewart

This briefing paper contains new quantitative evidence on the way the twochild limit and benefit cap affect children from different ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on official statistics and our own analysis of the Family R...Read more...

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Insecure lives and the policy disconnect: overview of the literature on measures, trends, impact and mechanisms for six dimensions of insecurity

Irene Bucelli and Stuart Henderson

The Insecure Lives project developed a novel understanding of the concept of ‘multiple insecurities’. Understood as both objective or subjective downside risks for people’s quality of life, multiple insecurities encompas...Read more...

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CASE Annual Report 2024

The 2024 CASE Annual Report includes an overview of our Centre’s work, updates from our staff, PhDs, visitors and associates, and summaries of publications and events from last year. It includes a set of articles showcas...Read more...

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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...

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Insecure lives: The growth and impact of multiple insecurities

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

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Homelessness in Higher Education: Supporting Students in London

Joseph Usher

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...

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

Ellie Benton

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...

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Mitigating the Impacts of Overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham

Laura Lane and Bert Provan

Between 2022 and 2024, LSE Housing and Communities conducted research into overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham, and how the harms of overcrowding can be mitigated. This final report brings together data analysis...Read more...

CASEpaper

Unseen Children: The hidden lives of children in families seeking asylum in the UK

Ilona Pinter

Children seeking asylum with their families in the UK face significant challenges and marginalisation, yet they are rarely acknowledged in public and policy discourses and in publicly available data. This working paper s...Read more...

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Mapping Under-Occupation in London

Ellie Benton

This research aims to act as a preliminary piece of work that sets out an up-to-date picture of under-occupation in London, identifying which geographic areas, tenures, household types and ethnic groups are most likely t...Read more...

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A decade on: Walking the sharp edge of the UK’s social security system

Amanda Light and Ruth Patrick

The UK’s social security landscape and public services infrastructure have been transformed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, initially as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The collision of auste...Read more...

CASEpaper

Social Class and Social Mobility Differences in Intergenerational Exchanges of Practical and Financial Support in the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki, Tania Burchardt and Xingna Zhang

How do patterns of intergenerational support vary across social class groups and by upwards or downwards social mobility? Are the patterns observed consistent with reciprocity, altruism, status reproduction or something ...Read more...

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CASE Annual Report 2023

The 2023 CASE Annual Report includes an overview of our Centre’s work, updates from our staff, PhDs, visitors and associates, and summaries of publications and events from last year. It includes a set of articles showcas...Read more...

CASEpaper

Capped and trapped (in the UK's housing market): how the benefit cap makes it almost impossible to find affordable housing

Mark Fransham, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

The benefit cap places an upper limit on the total amount a family can receive in financial support from the government in a given year. Many of those subject to the cap live in high rent properties and one stated goal f...Read more...

CASEpaper

An impossible move? Households' experiences of trying to escape the Benefit Cap

Ruth Patrick, Kate Andersen, Kitty Stewart, Aaron Reeves and Mark Fransham

Recent governments have increasingly used their power to attempt to alter the behaviour of people in receipt of social security benefits. This can be seen in the case of the Benefit Cap, a policy introduced with a specif...Read more...

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Tackling London’s Household Debts Problem

Eleni Karagiannaki

Using data from wave 13 of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society) and StepChange clients’ database this report provides evidence on the prevalence and the nature of household over-indebtedness in Lo...Read more...

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The Value of Local: An evaluation of the neighbourhood management approach of EastendHomes

Laura Lane

The LSE Housing and Communities team at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) was commissioned in 2019 to carry out an evaluation of the neighbourhood management approach of EastendHomes. This report ...Read more...

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On Our Side: Improving services for young people experiencing homelessness

Laura Lane, Ellie Benton and Ruby Russell

Estimates suggest that almost half of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. And only 38% of those who do get a positive outcome. In the autumn of 2...Read more...

CASEpaper

Fair decarbonisation of housing in the UK: A sufficiency approach

Ian Gough, Stefan Horn, Charlotte Rogers and Rebecca Tunstall

This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the UK housing crisis: how to rapidly but fairly decarbonise the housing stock to meet tough net zero targets while meeting housing needs of the entire population. To do so the ...Read more...

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Creating a 21st Century Estate: The experiences of Lancaster West Estate residents. First Stage Report

LSE Housing and Communities

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, a commitment was made by all levels of government for Lancaster West Estate, where the Tower stands, to become a “model 21st century social housing estate”, through a resident-led re...Read more...

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Inclusive data: better data and evidence to understand the lives, circumstances and needs of children and young people from the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya and Chelsie Dolling

This research report provides open access to the findings of the project `Testing and demonstrating the value of the Growing Up in England (GUiE) dataset: Gypsy, Traveller and Roma children case study?. The research was ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Inequalities in provision for primary children with special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND) by local area deprivation

Tammy Campbell

This paper explores how area deprivation-level is related to primary school children’s chances of: a) being allocated statutory support for special educational needs and / or disabilities (SEND) through an Education, Hea...Read more...

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Independent Review of Krakow Metropolitan Area 2030 Strategy

Bert Provan, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo, Neil Lee, Max Herbertson and Kath Scanlon

This report was commissioned by the European Investment Bank to provide a review of the Krakow Metropolitan Area (KMA) Strategy 2030. The objectives were to review: How the strategic objectives in the KMA 2030 strate...Read more...

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The Social and Economic Value of Wheelchair User Homes

Bert Provan and Laura Lane

People who use wheelchairs can benefit in many ways from living in homes which are designed to meet their needs. They can enjoy a much greater independence and ability to do everyday tasks such as showering, cooking, usi...Read more...

CASEpaper

Change, stagnation, and polarisation in UK job quality, 2012-2021: Evidence from a new Quality of Work index

Thomas Stephens

This paper presents results from a new synthetic index of multi-dimensional Quality of Work (QoW) for the UK, using data from five waves of Understanding Society (Waves 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12) covering the years 2012-2013 to...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Trends in Adolescent Disadvantage: Policy and Outcomes for Young People under Labour, the Coalition, and the Conservatives (1997 to 2019)

Moira Wallace

Over the last two decades, England has seen two enormous waves of change in the government’s approach to children and young people. The first wave of change was conducted by the 1997-2010 Labour government and involved s...Read more...

CASEpaper

Making Work Pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families

Mary Reader, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

Child benefits are typically paid on a per-child basis, without restrictions on family size. In this paper we generate unique evidence on the effects of capping child benefits by family size by examining the introduction...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Governments' Record on Health from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Jarrod Hughes, Kritty Treebhoohun and Iona Wainwright

This research report examines developments in the progress that was made in promoting good physical and mental health and longevity, and reducing mortality and morbidity inequalities, over the five-year period between Ma...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Governments’ Record on Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Abigail McKnight and Polina Obolenskaya

In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of higher education policy in the period since the Conservative government took office in 2015 up until the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. We do this by fo...Read more...

CASEpaper

The sins of the parents: Conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves

A core element of a welfare state is the support that is provided to families with children, in recognition of the additional needs that dependent children create. Variation in the design, generosity and implementation o...Read more...

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CASE Annual Report 2022

We are delighted to share with you our annual report for 2022 which this year is a bumper edition. In September we celebrated our 25th birthday with a special event to mark the occasion and this year’s annual report is ...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Going backwards? The slowdown, stalling and reversal of progress in reducing child poverty in Britain during the second decade of the 21st century, and the groups of children that were affected.

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya and Kritty Treebhoohun

This paper has been written as part of the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) research programme and provides an in-depth assessment of the slowdown, stalling and reversal of progress in reducing child po...Read more...

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Community Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The cost-of-living crisis is affecting households across the UK, many of whom are increasingly struggling to meet day-to-day costs, including energy, food, transport, and other essentials. With limited state support to a...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Public and private welfare activity in England, 1979 to 2019 (Revised version June 2024).

Mary Reader and Tania Burchardt

(REVISED VERSION, published in June 2024) This paper offers an empirical account of the changing landscape of private and public welfare activity in England over the forty years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. It forms a...Read more...

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Cost-benefit analysis of extending support to domestic abuse victims with NRPF: A technical report for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner

Kath Scanlon, Bert Provan, Ria Ivandic, Mariña Fernández-Reino, Fanny Blanc and Christine Whitehead

This report provides the technical underpinning to the report by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Report1 laid before Parliament in December 2022. That report was in response to the Home Office request that she set out ...Read more...

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Rough Sleeping in Newham: Policy into practice 2019-2022

Bert Provan

The London Borough of Newham had one of the worst records for rough sleeping in 2018, and lacked an up to date Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy. Compiled over four years of engagement with the borough, this repor...Read more...

SPDO Research Note

Who is at risk of experiencing violence and has it changed overtime?

Kerris Cooper and Polina Obolenskaya

Published crime statistics show that following a long-term decline in violent crime there has been a flattening out in recent years and certain types of violent crime have increased. This research note examines who is mo...Read more...

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief

Layers of engagement: learning from the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes research programme public engagement exercise

Tania Burchardt, Bert Provan and Kerris Cooper

The purpose of this note is to share with the research community the lessons we feel we have learned from a public engagement exercise that we undertook, in collaboration with Sense about Science, as part of the Social P...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Governments’ Record on Employment: Policies, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Abigail McKnight and Kerris Cooper

In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of employment policy in the period since the Conservative Government took office in 2015 up until the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. We do this by followin...Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, Ruby Russell and Anne Power

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...

CASEreport

Social Cost Benefit Analysis of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy in London

Ellie Benton, Jacob Karlsson, Ilona Pinter, Bert Provan, Kath Scanlon and Christine Whitehead

This report estimates the monetised social and economic gains (benefits) of removing of the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition for certain household in England. It compares this to the costs of allowing them to...Read more...

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Climate Crisis/Housing Crisis: How can social landlords reconcile safety and energy saving?

Ellie Benton, Ruby Russell and Anne Power

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SPDO Research Note

distoutc and svydistoutc: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of categorical outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any categorical variable (e.g. employment status, poverty status etc) overall and for each of the groups i...Read more...

SPDO Research Note

distout and svydistout: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of continuous outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any continuous variable (e.g. earnings, equivalised household disposable income) overall and for each of t...Read more...

CASEbrief

Poverty and parenting in the UK: Patterns and pathways between economic hardship and mothers' parenting practices

Kerris Cooper

This research examines to what extent there are differences in parenting across income groups, and whether these differences are unique to low-income parents. When comparisons are made across all income groups, rather th...Read more...

CASEreport

Oasis Community Housing: Review of change through COVID and beyond

Anne Power and Bert Provan

Small, locally based housing associations provide invaluable local services to homeless and rough sleeping people. Oasis Community Housing undertakes this work in Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside, providing day c...Read more...

CASEpaper

No such thing as a free lunch? Exploring the consistency, validity, and uses of the ‘Free School Meals’ (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database

Tammy Campbell and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper examines the existing literature on what the Free School Meals (‘FSM’) measure in the National Pupil Database (NPD) can proxy, and on ways in which the measure is used and understood. Through new empirical ana...Read more...

CASEbrief

Children and Families Seeking Asylum in the UK

Ilona Pinter

This CASEBrief provides a summary of new administrative data on children and families seeking asylum in the UK and those receiving support from the Home Office under the Asylum Support system. Much of the recent debate o...Read more...

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What is the role of housing associations in providing intermediate and market rented housing?

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

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SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief

Social care inequalities in England: evidence briefing

Nic Brimblecombe and Tania Burchardt

Adult social care in England is once again high on the political agenda. The government has announced the introduction of a lifetime cap on eligible care costs and a slightly less harsh means-test for publicly-funded car...Read more...

CASEpaper

A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK

Kitty Stewart, Aaron Reeves and Ruth Patrick

Child poverty in the UK has seen rapid change over the last two decades, broadly falling from the late 1990s until 2012/13 and rising since then. As a result, child poverty rates converged with rates of poverty for worki...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...

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief

Ethnic inequalities on the eve of the pandemic

Kerris Cooper

This research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, evaluated the impact of changes in social policies on inequalities since 2015 up until the eve of the pandemic. This briefing focuses on the findings that relate to ethni...Read more...

CASEpaper

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities within the English primary school system: What can disproportionalities by season of birth contribute to understanding processes behind attributions and (lack of) provisions?

Tammy Campbell

This working paper uses de-identified National Pupil Database records spanning 2008 – 2018 (N children=6 million+) to map disproportionalities by birth season and gender in attributions of levels of Special Education...Read more...

CASEreport

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...

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...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Governments’ Record on Social Security: Policies, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Kerris Cooper and John Hills

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate how social security policies evolved, how public spending changed, the effects of these on the generosity of the system, and evidence ...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Overview Paper

The Conservative Governments' Record on Social Policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

This overview report provides an assessment of social policy developments under the three Conservative Governments that were in power between May 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. The report provid...Read more...

CASEreport

Community Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Case Study Report

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed created a unique set of circumstances: people over 70 and those with underlying health conditions were forced to self-isolate; day to day activities stopped; people be...Read more...

CASEreport

Community responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: How mutual aid can help

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic caused panic over job losses, food and toiletry shortages and social isolation, over and above the health impacts of the virus. People wanted to help on a mass scale and there was ...Read more...

CASEreport

Opening Doors: An evaluation of the London Borough of Newham's Housing First Pilot Project

Laura Lane, Anne Power and Bert Provan

In 2018, the London Borough of Newham (LBN) commissioned LSE Housing and Communities to undertake an evaluation of their "Housing First" pilot project. The main objectives for the evaluation were: 1. To understand the pr...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate the record of successive Conservative administrations on early childhood during the period between 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pa...Read more...

CASEpaper

Did the introduction of the benefit cap in Britain harm mental health? A natural experiment approach

Aaron Reeves, Mark Fransham, Kitty Stewart and Ruth Patrick

In November 2016, the UK government announced they would be lowering the benefit cap, the total amount a family with no-one in full-time employment can receive from the government in social security. This policy change r...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservatives’ Record on Adult Social Care: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Tania Burchardt, Polina Obolenskaya and Jarrod Hughes

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate developments in adult social care policies in England during the period between 2015 and the eve of COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservatives' Record on Compulsory education: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Ruth Lupton and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper reviews education policy in England for the period since the Conservative Government took office in 2015 to the eve of COVID-19 pandemic. We consider the effects of policies on the school system, teachers, cur...Read more...

CASEreport

Tackling Homelessness: Case Studies

LSE Housing and Communities

This report documents 17 case studies of homelessness provision and support in the United Kingdom. Promoting shared learning amongst the providers of homelessness support can improve the capacity and delivery of homeless...Read more...

CASEreport

Homelessness and Housing First: A guide to good practice

LSE Housing and Communities

This report explores the homelessness context in the UK, its causes, and the government's approach to tackling homelessness. It also provides evidence of successes and failures of three government funded Housing First pi...Read more...

CASEbrief

COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?

Caroline Bryson and Stephen McKay

The well-being and outcomes of children living in separated families are associated with the quality of their relationship with their non-resident parent, and child maintenance provided by that parent. It is therefore im...Read more...

SPDO Research Note

The post war welfare state: stages and disputes

Howard Glennerster

It has been suggested that the COVID epidemic, and its profound economic and social consequences, may produce major changes in the dominant ideas that help set the boundaries to social action. This note reflects on sig...Read more...

CASEreport

City of Walbrzych: Technical Assistance for Mitigating the Social and Economic Challenges of The City

Bert Provan, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo and Maciej Borsa

This report addresses options for city renewal in the medium sized, but shrinking, Polish city of Walbrzych. It provides an overview of the impact of the rapid closure of the mining industry in the mid-1990s, in terms o...Read more...

SPDO Research Note

Does COVID-19 represent a 'new Beveridge' moment, a crisis that will wash away, or a call to action?

Tania Burchardt

Report of a roundtable discussion on theories of welfare...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2019

The 2019 CASE Annual Report includes: an overview of our Centre’s work; updates from our staff, PhDs, and associates; and summaries of events held and publications over the past year. It also features 16 articles showcas...Read more...

CASEpaper

When and why might choice in public services have intrinsic (dis)value?

Aveek Bhattacharya

Governments in several countries have sought to increase choice in public services. Proponents claim the value of such choice is both instrumental (it improves outcomes) and intrinsic (choice is valuable in itself). Yet ...Read more...

CASEpaper

The financial resilience of households: 22 country study with new estimates, breakdowns by household characteristics and a review of policy options

Abigail McKnight and Mark Rucci

Some households are less resilient to financial shocks than others. This may be because they have low levels of savings, have limited access to affordable credit, already hold high levels of debt or lack the skills requi...Read more...

Journal Article

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies:

Young British adults homeownership circumstances and the role of intergenerational transfers

Ellie Suh

Despite the continuing preference for homeownership, it has become increasingly difficult for young adults to own a home in Britain. House prices have increased faster than real earnings between the mid-1990s and the 201...Read more...

CASEbrief

The National Living Wage and falling earnings inequality

Abigail McKnight and Kerris Cooper

The more generous National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees aged 25 and over in April 2016. In April 2020 it is due to increase to 60% of the average wage. In this policy brief we assess the ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Intra-household inequality and adult material deprivation in Europe

Eleni Karagiannaki and Tania Burchardt

In most research on living standards, material deprivation is measured using household-level material deprivation indicators. However, if resources are not shared equally within households, conventional material deprivat...Read more...

CASEreport

Extending the "move-on" period for newly granted refugees: Analysis of impacts and costs

Bert Provan

This report considers the impact of extending the "move-on" period (currently 28 days) which is allowed to refugees, once they are awarded Leave to Remain in the UK. This question arises for those refugees who were in re...Read more...

CASEreport

SUMMARY – Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

Tania Burchardt, Abigail Davis, Ian Gough, Katharina Hecht, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

There is widespread public and political concern about economic inequality in the UK today but relatively little research exploring people’s opinions about high incomes, wealth and what it means to be rich. This innovati...Read more...

CASEreport

Living on Different Incomes in London: Can public consensus identify a 'riches line'?

Abigail Davis, Katharina Hecht, Tania Burchardt, Ian Gough, Donald Hirsch, Karen Rowlingson and Kate Summers

London is home to vast and visible economic inequality, where the richest 10 per cent own 61 per cent of overall wealth, while at the same time four in ten Londoners do not earn enough for what is considered by the publi...Read more...

Journal Article

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice:

Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives

Kate Summers and David Young

A key aim of Universal Credit is to simplify the social security system. While several aspects of its introduction have received critical attention, this overarching aim continues to receive acceptance and support. Drawi...Read more...

CASEreport

Understanding the relationship between inequalities and poverty: policy toolkit

Irene Bucelli, Abigail McKnight and Kate Summers

This toolkit examines policies with a potential 'double dividend': policies that could lead to reductions in both poverty and inequality in the UK. The selection of policies has been informed by a larger research progra...Read more...

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Launch of policy toolkit: poverty and inequality reduction policies

Irene Bucelli, Abigail McKnight and Kate Summers

This toolkit examines policies with a potential 'double dividend': policies that could lead to reductions in both poverty and inequality in the UK. The selection of policies has been informed by a larger research progra...Read more...

CASEbrief

Caught between the local and the (trans)national: EU citizens at the front-line of German welfare policy

Nora Ratzmann

The study reflected on what happens when EU migrant applicants claim poverty-relieving, non-contributory UB II benefits in local German job centres. The data challenged the common pretence of EU policy debates that the s...Read more...

CASEpaper

Understanding the relationship between inequalities and poverty: a review of dynamic mechanisms

Magali Duque and Abigail McKnight

In this paper we examine the evidence on how dynamic mechanisms, which include earnings and income mobility, poverty dynamics, social mobility and the accumulation of risk and advantage over the lifecycle, may be a contr...Read more...

Special or Commissioned Report

Report for Age International:

Understanding, Beliefs and Treatment of Dementia in Pakistan

Asghar Zaidi, Rosalind Willis, Nicolas Farina, Sara Balouch, Hussain Jafri, Irfan Ahmed, Quratulain Khan and Rubina Jaffri

This study investigates the experiences of people with dementia and their family carers, as well as wider understanding of the condition in Pakistan. Methodology Interviews with 40 dementia patients and caregivers, ...Read more...

CASEreport

Estate Regeneration and Social Value

Bert Provan and Anne Power

Home Group is committed to assessing the social value to low income communities of regeneration and upgrading. This research was commissioned by Home Group and closely links to their recently developed “Customer Promise”...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Physical safety and Security: Policies, spending and outcomes 2015-2020

Kerris Cooper and Nicola Lacey

This paper sets out to evaluate the development of policy in relation to physical safety and security in the period since the Conservative Government took office in 2015. Whilst people’s physical safety and security depe...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2018

This is our annual report for the calendar year 2018, which includes some new features - CASE notes, highlighting 10 key insights from our research this year, ‘2018 in numbers’, and a fresh format for the report as a wh...Read more...

CASEpaper

Understanding the relationship between poverty, inequality and growth: a review of existing evidence

Abigail McKnight

This paper reviews the theoretical literature and empirical evidence on the relationship between poverty, inequality and economic growth. It finds evidence that economic inequality is good for growth as well as new conv...Read more...

CASEreport

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Managing the Unmanageable: Debt and Financial Resilience in Newham

Laura Lane and Anne Power

An executive summary of CASEreport 123 (https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/casereport123.pdf) which aims to understand the links between work, low pay, benefits, credit, debt, and savings among low-income households i...Read more...

CASEreport

Managing the Unmanageable: Debt and financial resilience in Newham

Laura Lane and Anne Power

This research aims to understand the links between work, low pay, benefits, credit, debt, and savings among low-income households in East London. Our work around debt and financial resilience in Newham goes back a number...Read more...

CASEpaper

Understanding the relationship between inequalities and poverty: mechanisms associated with crime, the legal system and punitive sanctions

Magali Duque and Abigail McKnight

This paper outlines the various issues pertaining to how crime, the legal system and punitive sanctions may provide a mechanism through which inequality is positively related to poverty. We analyse trends in crime rates...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK

Polina Obolenskaya and John Hills

This paper analyses what happened to economic inequalities in the United Kingdom in the two decades from 1995-96. In aggregate, inequality changes were unremarkable, especially by comparison with sharp increases in the ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Inequalities in the experience of early education in England: Access, peer groups and transitions

Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambaro and Kitty Stewart

This paper summarises the output of a Nuffield-funded research project exploring inequalities in three aspects of children’s experience in early education in England. The main focus of the project was on ‘peer effects’ i...Read more...

CASEbrief

Inequalities in the experience of early education in England: Access, peer groups and transitions

Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambaro and Kitty Stewart

There are long-standing disparities in child development between children from different backgrounds. Progress in narrowing gaps is slow and differences remain wide, especially by household income. This Nuffield Found...Read more...

CASEpaper

Reducing Mommy Penalties with Daddy Quotas

Allison Dunatchik and Berkay Özcan

This paper investigates whether daddy quotas - non-transferable paternity leave policies - mitigate motherhood penalties women face in the labor market. Using the introduction of a daddy quota in Quebec, Canada as a natu...Read more...

CASEreport

LSE-IMF Joint Workshop Social Protection in a Changing World

Tania Burchardt, Andrea Brandolini, Domingo Hernandez, Clement Julien and Thomas Stubbs

This is a summary report of 'Social Protection in a Changing World' - a workshop jointly sponsored by the LSE and IMF and held at the London School of Economics in November 2018. As part of its strategic focus, the LSE ...Read more...

CASEreport

Retrofit to the Rescue: Environmental upgrading of multi-storey estates

Ellie Benton, Alice Belotti, Laura Lane and Anne Power

'Retrofit to the Rescue' looks at the ambitious refurbishment of Wilmcote House in Portsmouth for a new study on the social impact of retrofit works. In 2010 LSE Housing and Communities were asked to conduct interviews...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

What does Brexit mean for social policy in the UK? An exploration of the potential consequences of the 2016 referendum for public services, inequalities and social rights

Kitty Stewart, Kerris Cooper and Isabel Shutes

The paper was written as part of a major research programme on trends in the distribution of social and economic outcomes in the UK and the design and impact of social policies. The paper seeks to map out the potential i...Read more...

Journal Article

Demography:

IncomeRelated Gaps in Early Child Cognitive Development: Why Are They Larger in the US Compared to the UK, Australia and Canada?

Bruce Bradbury, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

Previous research has documented significantly larger income-related gaps in children's early cognitive development in the United States than in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In this study, we investigate th...Read more...

CASEreport

Understanding the Relationship between Poverty and Inequality, Overview report

John Hills, Abigail McKnight, Irene Bucelli, Eleni Karagiannaki, Polly Vizard, Lin Yang, Magali Duque and Mark Rucci

An understanding that poverty and inequality are inextricably linked has given rise to a number of large international organisations setting joint inequality-poverty reduction targets on the basis that poverty cannot be...Read more...

Journal Article

Child Indicators Research:

Child Poverty Amongst Young Carers in the UK: Prevalence and Trends in the Wake of the Financial Crisis, Economic Downturn and Onset of Austerity

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya and Tania Burchardt

The article provides the first estimates of prevalence and trends in child poverty amongst young carers aged 5–19 in the UK using specialized income data from the Family Resources Survey / the Households Below Average In...Read more...

Journal Article

Oxford Economic Papers:

The ‘mighty girl’ effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms?

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font and Julia Philipp

We study the effect of parenting daughters on attitudes towards gender norms in the UK; specifically, attitudes towards the traditional male breadwinner norm in which it is the husband's role to work and the wife's to st...Read more...

CASEbrief

Money and Meaning: How working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money

Kate Summers

This CASEBrief summarises Kate Summers’ doctoral research. The research aimed to develop a detailed picture of how working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money. Forty-three indepth, quali...Read more...

CASEpaper

The net effect of housing-related costs and advantages on the relationship between inequality and poverty

Lin Yang

This paper reviews the evidence of how the welfare state can shape the relationship between economic inequality and poverty through the channels of taxes, transfers and public good provision. In particular, we examine ho...Read more...

CASEpaper

The relationship between poverty and inequality: Resource constraint mechanisms

Lin Yang

This paper examines how inequality from the interaction of income and housing circumstances changes the relative position of households in the income distribution, and influences the incidence and socio-demographic prof...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

City-region devolution in England

Ruth Lupton, Ceri Hughes, Sian Peake-Jones and Kerris Cooper

This paper explores recent developments in the devolution of powers to subnational governments in England and its implications for social policy making and the distribution of economic and social outcomes. It is general...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

Country level devolution: Scotland

Mark Stephens and Suzanne Fitzpatrick

The Scottish Parliament has been in existence for nearly two decades. Its powers have been extended to cover a number of taxes and areas of social security in recent years. This paper examines the use of these powers and...Read more...

CASEpaper

Non-resident parents: Why are they hard to capture in surveys and what can we do about it?

Caroline Bryson and Stephen McKay

The under-representation of non-resident parents in surveys has long hindered research on family separation, leaving key evidence gaps for those making policy and practice decisions related to separating and separated fa...Read more...

CASEreport

Never Just a Number: Evaluating the impact of a holistic approach to UK poverty

Anne Power, Bert Provan, Laura Lane and Ellie Benton

The core aim of the research is to show the social value of CAP’s work in tackling poverty and related problems of debt, joblessness, dependency, and low capacity. The evaluation covers the four main strands of CAP’s app...Read more...

Journal Article

Journal of Social Policy:

Formal and Informal Long-Term Care in the Community: Interlocking or Incoherent Systems?

Tania Burchardt, Emily Jones and Polina Obolenskaya

Help with activities of daily living for people in the community is provided through formal services (public and private) and informal (often unpaid) care. This paper investigates how these systems interlock and who is a...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2017

Kerris Cooper and Abigail McKnight

A summary of the output of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion: The work programme of the Centre includes monitoring social spending, policies and outcomes in the UK, international comparisons of poverty and of t...Read more...

CASEpaper

Does Part-Time Mothering Help Get a Job? The Role of Shared Custody in Women’s Employment

Carole Bonnet, Bertrand Garbinti and Anne Solaz

Though shared custody arrangements after divorce are more and more frequent in many countries, little is known about their economic consequences for parents. By relaxing family time constraints, does shared custody help ...Read more...

CASEreport

Overcoming the Stigma of Social Housing: Can social housing rebuild its reputation?

Anne Power and Bert Provan

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CASEreport

Overcoming the Stigma of Social Housing: Findings from Tenant Think Tanks

Anne Power

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CASEreport

Child poverty and multidimensional disadvantage: Tackling "data exclusion" and extending the evidence base on "missing" and "invisible" children (Overview report)

Tania Burchardt, Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Isabel Shutes and Mario Battaglini

This report provides an overview of the findings from the Nuffield Foundation research project, ‘Multidimensional child poverty and disadvantage: tackling “data exclusion” and extending the evidence base on “missing” a...Read more...

CASEpaper

Experience of multiple disadvantage among Roma, Gypsy and Traveller children in England and Wales

Tania Burchardt, Polina Obolenskaya, Polly Vizard and Mario Battaglini

Roma, Gypsy and Traveller children across Europe experience high levels of disadvantage and have repeatedly been identified as a priority in European Commission policy documents, yet they are often missing or invisible i...Read more...

CASEreport

Private Renting: How can social landlords help?

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Book

Decent incomes for all: Improving policies in Europe

Edited by Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé and John Hills

This book aims to shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union, responses by European welfare states, and how progress can be made to realize a decent income for all. The text analyzes the effect of ...Read more...

Special or Commissioned Report

LSE Consulting Report for Public Health England:

Children's Wellbeing and Development Outcomes for Ages 5, 7 and 11, and their Predictors

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Kerris Cooper, Joan Costa-Font, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Ozcan and Lucinda Platt

In this report, the authors aim to identify the factors present during pregnancy, infancy, and the early years of life that are associated with a wide range of outcomes for children at ages 5, 7, and 11 by conducting...Read more...

CASEpaper

Multidimensional poverty and income inequality in the EU

Lin Yang and Polly Vizard

This paper examines the link between the way a country's most deprived individuals experience disadvantage across multiple dimensions of life and how this may relate to its level of income inequality. By expanding the de...Read more...

CASEpaper

The empirical relationship between income poverty and income inequality in rich and middle income countries

Eleni Karagiannaki

This research draws on inequality and poverty statistics from various databases including the European Union Statistics on Incomes and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD) and the Worl...Read more...

CASEpaper

The relationship between poverty and inequality: Concepts and measurement

Lin Yang

This paper defines and maps the variety of different concepts and measures of poverty and inequality that have been developed and used in research. These reflect differing views of what constitutes a minimum acceptable q...Read more...

CASEpaper

Inequality, poverty and the grounds of our normative concerns

Irene Bucelli

Policy debates surrounding poverty and inequality try to find practical solutions to what we should do to tackle these phenomena. But what are the grounds for being concerned about poverty or about inequality? To what ex...Read more...

Special or Commissioned Report

Research report for Oxfam:

Double Trouble: A review of the relationship between UK poverty and economic inequality

AbigailMcKnight, Magali Duque and Mark Rucci

The link between inequality and poverty has been highlighted by a number of international organisations, which have outlined a series of policy recommendations supporting the view that high levels of inequality need to...Read more...

Book

Heat, Greed and Human Need
Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing

Ian Gough

Watch Professor Ian Gough present his new book which aims to build an essential bridge between climate change and social policy: Download slides from the launch event here This book buil...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Effects of English Secondary School System Reforms (2002-2014) on Pupil Sorting and Social Segregation: A Greater Manchester Case Study

Stephanie Thomson and Ruth Lupton

The English secondary school system has been undergoing rapid change. 60% of secondary schools are now Academies. Opponents of these changes fear, among other things, greater social segregation, while supporters argue t...Read more...

Journal Article

The Political Quarterly:

Mixing Communities? Riots, Regeneration and Renewal on Problem Estates in France and England

Bert Provan

Riots, social exclusion, and endless improvement programmes have been a feature of the poorest neighbourhoods in France and England for the last thirty-five years or more—particularly focused on large social housing esta...Read more...

CASEpaper

Does Money Affect Children's Outcomes? An update

Kerris Cooper and Kitty Stewart

This report provides an update to Does Money Affect Children’s Outcomes?: A Systematic Review, published in October 2013. Using systematic search approaches, we review the literature examining the relationship between ho...Read more...

Special or Commissioned Report

LSE Consulting Report for the Social Mobility Commission:

Low Cost Home Ownership Schemes

Bert Provan, Alice Belotti, Laura Lane and Anne Power

Low Cost Home Ownership (LCHO) schemes are common in many countries. OECD evidence suggests this is based on the idea that they promote wealth accumulation, better outcomes for children, and higher levels of social cap...Read more...

CASEpaper

Measuring individual well-being: A multidimensional index integrating subjective well-being and preferences

Lin Yang

Policymakers have begun looking for measures to assess the well-being of their citizens beyond GDP per capita and disposable income levels. However, the multidimensional and subjective nature of human well-being makes de...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2016

Kerris Cooper and Kitty Stewart

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Book

Good Times, Bad Times
The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

John Hills

Revised edition. Previous edition: 2015. Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and pub...Read more...

CASEreport

An Agenda for Housing Plus

Anne Power

This Agenda for Housing Plus pulls together evidence that Housing Plus is fundamental to the way social landlords do business. Housing Plus refers to the wider activities and impact of social landlords on the communities...Read more...

CASEpaper

Inequality and the Capability Approach

Tania Burchardt and Rod Hick

Inequality has acquired a newfound prominence in academic and political debate. While scholars working with the capability approach have succeeded in influencing the nature of debate about the conceptualisation and measu...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

New research evidence on social mobility and educational attainment

John Hills

based on research by Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Ellen Greaves, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan, Abigail McKnight, Luke Sibieta and Anna Vignoles...Read more...

CASEpaper

Citizen's Income: Rights and Wrongs

David Piachaud

A Citizen’s Income, or a Basic Income, is not a new idea but it has been receiving increasing attention. There is confusion about the idea and an attempt is made to distinguish different concepts. Then a full Citizen’s I...Read more...

CASEreport

Community Enterprise: Creating Sustainable Communities Report from a Community Enterprise Think Tank

Alice Belotti

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CASEpaper

Benefit `myths'? The accuracy and inaccuracy of public beliefs about the benefits system

Ben Baumberg Geiger

There is a widespread assumption that increasingly negative public attitudes to the benefits system are due to ‘myths’ held by the British public. However, there is little prior research on whether the public believe the...Read more...

CASEpaper

Pareto and the upper tail of the income distribution in the UK: 1799 to the present

Anthony B. Atkinson

The Pareto distribution has long been a source of fascination to economists, and the Pareto coefficient is widely used, in theoretical and empirical studies, as a summary of the degree of concentration of top incomes. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Changing Rules and Spending Cuts: Helping tenants help themselves and their landlords. Report from two Tenant Think Tanks

Alice Belotti

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CASEreport

No Place Like An Accessible Home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people with accessible housing needs

Bert Provan, Tania Burchardt and Ellie Suh

Habinteg Housing and Papworth Trust commissioned CASE at LSE to report, primarily in relation to working age disabled people, on: 1. The extent of need for housing which has accessible features (for example a stair lift...Read more...

CASEpaper

How do experts think child poverty should be measured in the UK? An analysis of the Coalition Government’s consultation on child poverty measurement 2012-13

Kitty Stewart and Nick Roberts

This paper examines responses to a 2012-13 government consultation on child poverty measurement. It explores what these responses tell us about attitudes towards the child poverty indicators in the Child Poverty Act 2010...Read more...

CASEpaper

Spatial microsimulation estimates of household income distributions in London boroughs, 2001 and 2011

Alex Fenton

Spatial microsimulation (SMS) is a range of techniques for estimating the local distribution of a variable – here, household income – by combining social survey microdata with Census or administrative population totals. ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Gentrification in London: A progress report, 2001-2013

Alex Fenton

This paper investigates changes in the composition and spatial distribution of income poverty in London from 2001 to 2013, and considers them as evidence of gentrification. It is first argued that income poverty measures...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the North of England Since the Recession

Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan

The Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme had two major components: first an analysis of the social policies and spending of Labour and Coalition governments from 1997 to 2015, and theirimpacts on poverty, i...Read more...

CASEpaper

Income Poverty, Affluence and Polarisation Viewed From The Median

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony B. Atkinson and Henrik Sigstad

The present paper brings together different features of the distribution of income – poverty, affluence and dispersion – in a single framework that allows ready comparisons across countries. We believe that such a unifie...Read more...

CASEpaper

Public and Private Welfare Activity in England

Polina Obolenskaya and Tania Burchardt

This paper is the latest in a series of publications documenting the shifting boundaries of private and public welfare activity for the years 1979/80, 1995/96, 1999/00 and 2007/08, and now 2013/14. It records who finance...Read more...

CASEreport

Bilbao City Story

Anne Power

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Leipzig City Story

Anne Power and Eileen Herden

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Torino City Story

Anne Power

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Saint-Étienne City Story

Bert Provan

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Lille City Story

Bert Provan

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Sheffield City Story

Laura Lane, Ben Grubb and Anne Power

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Belfast City Story

Laura Lane, Ben Grubb and Anne Power

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th...Read more...

CASEreport

Moving on without moving out: the impacts of regeneration on the Rayners Lane Estate

Bert Provan, Alice Belotti and Anne Power

Rayners Lane is an estate in the London Borough of Harrow, comprising 591 homes at the point of transfer from council ownership to Home Group, following a ballot of tenants. Tenants were involved in planning the redevel...Read more...

Book

Social Policy in a Cold Climate: policies and their consequences since the crisis

Edited by Ruth Lupton, Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard

A new book published by Policy Press offers a data-rich, evidence-based analysis of the impact government policies from 2007/08 to 2015 have had on inequality and on the delivery of services such as health, education...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2015

Kitty Stewart and Kate Summers

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CASEreport

Estate Regeneration and Community Impacts: Challenges and lessons for social landlords, developers and local councils

Alice Belotti

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CASEreport

Housing for Victims of Miscarriages of Justice. Report for Commonweal Housing.

Bert Provan

Commonweal Housing commissioned this study to look in more detail at the housing and other problems – including lack of any formal support, faced by victims of “miscarriages of justice”, which arise where a convicted cri...Read more...

CASEreport

Does money in adulthood affect adult outcomes?

Kerris Cooper and Kitty Stewart

There is ample evidence that adults with lower incomes tend to have worse outcomes including worse health, lower life expectancy and lower subjective wellbeing than individuals with more. But is money in adulthood itself...Read more...

CASEreport

Moving the Goal Posts: Poverty And Access To Sport For Young People

Gwenno Edwards, Ben Grubb, Anne Power and Nicola Serle

StreetGames is a charity set up in 2007 to help break down the barriers created by poverty and area disadvantage that prevent young people participating in sport. StreetGames works with local community organisations, spo...Read more...

CASEreport

Findings from the Trafford Hall Energy Plus Think Tank

LSE Housing and Communities

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CASEreport

Tenant Futures Programme 2014-15: External evaluation of the National Communities Resource Centre’s Tenant Training Programme for the Financial Year 2014-15

Alice Belotti

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CASEreport

Tenant Futures Grant Programme 2014-15: External evaluation of the National Communities Resource Centre’s Tenant Futures Grant Programme for the Financial Year 2014-2015

Alice Belotti

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SPCC Working Paper

Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London

Jo Blanden, Ellen Greaves, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Luke Sibieta

London is an educational success story, with especially good schooling results for more disadvantaged pupils. This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. This paper uses a combination of administrative and survey data to ...Read more...

CASEpaper

The changing distribution of individual incomes in the UK before and after the recession

Eleni Karagiannaki and Lucinda Platt

While there has been substantial research on the impacts of the Great Recession on household incomes, there has been less attention paid to the effects on individual income. Using pooled data from the Family Resources Su...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010-2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes: an end-of-term update

Paola De Agostini, John Hills and Holly Sutherland

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of ch...Read more...

WSP Discussion Paper

Beveridge, the National Minimum, and its Future in a European Context (Chapter 15 in Incomes and the Welfare State, A B Atkinson (1995). Cambridge University Press); also cchapter 15 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Targetting of Family Allowance in Hungary

Sarah J Jarvis and John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper

Income Support, Contracting Costs and Social Welfare in Britain

Jean-Yves Duclos

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WSP Discussion Paper

Policy Responses to Changing Housing Markets: Towards a European Housing Policy?

Mark Kleinman

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Distribution of Income in Eastern Europe

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Take-up of State Benefits: An Application to Supplementary Benefits in Britain Using the FES

Jean-Yves Duclos

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WSP Discussion Paper

Income Distribution and Redistribution across the Lifecycle: Evidence from Australia

Ann Harding

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WSP Discussion Paper

Progressivity, Redistribution and Equity, with Application to 1985 Britain

Jean-Yves Duclos

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Distribution of Welfare Benefits In Kind

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Income Support for the Unemployed in Hungary

John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Social Safety Net

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

From Right-to-Buy to Rent-to-Mortgage: Privatisation of Council Housing Since 1979

John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

A Cohort Analysis of Chronic Morbidity and Unemployment in the General Household Survey

David Winter

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WSP Discussion Paper

Regional Inequalities in Mortality

Raymond Illsley, Julian Le Grand and Christine Mullings

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WSP Discussion Paper

Dynamic Microsimulation Models: Problems andProspects

Ann Harding

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WSP Discussion Paper

How Much Do We Care? A Comment on the Government's Community Care Proposals (Social Policy and Administration, 24:2, 93-103, Aug 1990)

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper

Equity and the Distribution of National HealthService Resources (Journal of Health Economics, 10, 1-19, June 1991)

Owen O'Donnell and Carol Propper

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WSP Discussion Paper

Distributional Effects of Housing Subsidies in the United Kingdom. (Revised version in Journal of Public Economics, 44:3, 1991)

John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

Administration, Compliance and Governability

Patrick Troy

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WSP Discussion Paper

How Far is the Poll Tax a 'Community Charge'? The Implications of Service Usage Evidence (Policy and Politics, 17:3, 187-205, 1989)

Glen Bramley, Julian Le Grand and William Low

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WSP Discussion Paper

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

John Hills, Franz Hubert, Horst Tomann and Christine Whitehead

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WSP Discussion Paper

Working for Patients? The Right Approach? (Social Policy and Administration, 23:2, Aug 1989)

Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

A New Era for Social Policy: A New Enlightenment or a New Leviathan? (Journal of Social Policy, 20:3, 389-414, July 1991)

Howard Glennerster, Anne Power and Tony Travers

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WSP Discussion Paper

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)

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

Income Maintenance for the Unemployed in Britain and the Response to High Unemployment (Ethics, 100, 569-585, 1990; also chapter 9 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson, (Cambridge Univ. Press,1995)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Equity versus Efficiency: The Elusive Trade-off (Ethics, 100, 554-568, 1990)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Fifty Years On: The Income and Household Composition of the Elderly in Britain (Ch.12 in Welfare and the Ageing Experience, B Bytheway and J Johnson (eds.) (1990), Avebury)

Jane Falkingham and Chris Gordon

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Mirage of Private Unemployment Insurance

Nicholas Barr

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WSP Discussion Paper

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)

John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

Enterprise Welfare in Japan

Rachel Hall

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WSP Discussion Paper

Student Grants and Student Poverty

Nicholas Barr and William Low

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WSP Discussion Paper

Council Housing: Conflict, Change and Decision-Making

Anne Power

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WSP Discussion Paper

Non-Wage Labour Costs: Their Rationales and the Economic Effects

Toshiaki Tachibanaki

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WSP Discussion Paper

Social Justice and the Redistributive Effect ofSocial Expenditure in Poland

Wlodek Okrasa

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The Use of Domiciliary Services by the Elderly: A Survey

Maria Evandrou

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Measurement of Inequality in Health (Economics and Health, A Williams (ed) (1987), Macmillan)

Raymond Illsley and Julian Le Grand

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Service Credits: A New Currency for the Welfare State

Edgar Cahn

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The Scandinavian Welfare State: Anatomy, Logic and Some Problems (in The Economic Development of Denmark and Norway since 1870, K G Persson (ed) (1993), Edward Elgar)

Gunnar Persson

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On Researching the Distributional Consequences of Public Policies (Ch. 2 in Not Only the Poor: the Middle Classes and the Welfare State, R Goodin and J Le Grand (eds) (1987), Unwin Hyman)

Julian Le Grand

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Research Directions on the Future of the Welfare State: a View from Social Administration

Howard Glennerster

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Growing Old in the 21st Century: Lessons from Four Cohorts in Britain 1974-93

Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham

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WSP Discussion Paper

Giving Credit Where it's Due? The Success of Family Credit Reassessed

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

Chunnel Vision: Poverty, Social Exclusion and The Debate on Social Welfare in France and Britain

Martin Evans, Serge Paugam and Joseph Prélis

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Problem of Lone Mother Families in Twentieth Century Britain

Jane Lewis

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WSP Discussion Paper

Transition to Parenthood: Young Mothers, Young Fathers - Associated factors and later life experiences. (Version published as Becoming a Parent: A Longitudinal Study of Associated Factors, in British Journal of Sociology, 48(3), 1997)

Kathleen E Kiernan

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WSP Discussion Paper

Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese Social Welfare in Comparative Perspective

Roger Goodman and Ito Peng

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WSP Discussion Paper

The incomes of the non-household population and the effect of their exclusion from national income profiles

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Effects of Differences in Housing and Health Care Systems on International Comparions of Income Distribution

Jane Falkingham, Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Welfare State and Economic Performance. Now published in National Tax Journal 48(2), (1995), pp.171-198

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Evaluating the Pin Money Hypothesis: The relationship between women's labour market activity, family income and poverty in Britain

Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper

Seeking to Explain the Distribution of Income. Now published in New Inequalities: The changing distribution of income and wealth in the UK, J Hills (ed.) (1996), Cambridge University Press

Anthony B. Atkinson

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Designed for the Poor - Poorer by Design? The Effects of the 1986 Social Security Acton Family Incomes

Martin Evans, David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

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WSP Discussion Paper

State Pensions for Today and Tomorrow. (Published by the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, 1994; also chapter 16 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Decline of the Male Breadwinner: Changing Shares of Husbands' and Wives' Earnings in Family Income

Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Development of Quasi-markets in Welfare Provision. Now published in International Journal of Health Services 25 (2), 1995

Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Not Granted? An Assessment of the Change from Single Payments to the Social Fund

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

A Survey of Income Inequality Over the Last Twenty Years: How Does the UK Compare?

Karen Gardiner

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WSP Discussion Paper

On Targeting Social Security: Theory and Western Experience with Family Benefits (in Public Spending and the Poor, D van de Walle and K Nead (eds.) (1996), Johns Hopkins University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Institution of an Official Poverty Line and Economic Policy

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Capabilities, Exclusion, and the Supply of Goods (in Choice, Welfare and Development, K Basu, P Pattanaik and K Suzumura (eds.) (1995), Clarendon Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Investing in Skills: Responses to Learning should Pay and Paying for Learning

Robert J Bennett

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Low Income Population in Spain and a Comparison with France and the UK: Evidence from the Household Expenditure Surveys

Magda Mercader-Prats

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Paying for Learning

Nicholas Barr and Jane Falkingham

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Women Working for Less: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Family Gap. (Version to be published in Oxford Economic Papers, vol.47 (October 1995).

Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper

Investigating Welfare: Final Report of the ESRC Welfare Research Programme

Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Who Benefits from Local Services? Comparative Evidence from Different Local Authorities

Glen Bramley and Gavin Smart

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WSP Discussion Paper

A Unified Funded Pension Scheme (UFPS) for Britain. (Revised version in The Dynamic of Welfare: the welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).

Jane Falkingham and Paul Johnson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Informal Carers and the Labour Market inBritain

Maria Evandrou and David Winter

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SPCC Working Paper

When and Why do Initially High Attaining Poor Children Fall Behind?

Claire Crawford, Lindsey Macmillan and Anna Vignoles

The role of education as a potential driver of social mobility has been well established in both the theoretical (Blau and Duncan, 1967; Becker and Tomes, 1986) and empirical literature (Atkinson, 1980; Atkinson and Jenk...Read more...

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Older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays: Secondary data analysis using the Adult Inpatient Survey

Polly Vizard and Tania Burchardt

The report uses the Adult Inpatient Survey 2012 to build up an in-depth quantitative evidence base on older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays in England. We find that just under one-quar...Read more...

CASEbrief

Older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays: Secondary data analysis using the Adult Inpatient Survey

Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard

The report uses the Adult Inpatient Survey 2012 to build up an in-depth quantitative evidence base on older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays in England. The survey covers adults aged 16...Read more...

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A fresh look at an old question: is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

Abigail McKnight

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning...Read more...

Special or Commissioned Report

Research Report for the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission:

Downward mobility, opportunity hoarding and the ‘glass floor’

Abigail McKnight

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Mothers, parenting and the impact of separation

Lucinda Platt, Tina Haux and Rachel Rosenberg

This paper investigates the impact of separation on mothers’ perception of their competence as parents. Using the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a largescale nationally representative cohort study of children born in the...Read more...

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Parenting and post-separation contact: what are the links?

Tina Haux, Lucinda Platt and Rachel Rosenberg

High rates of parental separation and the extent to which non-resident fathers lose contact with their child have led to concerns about the involvement of fathers in their children’s lives. In this paper, we draw on a na...Read more...

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Monitoring the evolution of income poverty and real incomes over time

Anthony B. Atkinson, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier

This paper brings together two approaches to the monitoring of household living standards: the macro-economic (national accounts) analysis of aggregates and the social indicators based on household microdata (European Un...Read more...

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The Coalition's Record on Employment: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Abigail McKnight

The evaluation of the Coalition’s employment policy shows that although the labour market was remarkably resilient over the recession in terms of employment rates, this was largely driven by falling real wages and increa...Read more...

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Is Welfare Reform Working? Impacts on working age tenants

Eileen Herden, Anne Power and Bert Provan

This report presents evidence on whether the aim of moving people who are dependent on benefits into work has been achieved, and considers three important questions: Are welfare reforms encouraging tenants into work or t...Read more...

SPCC Research Report

The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in London (2007-2013)

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Eleni Karagiannaki, Jack Cunliffe, Stephanie Thomson, Chris Grollman and Ruth Lupton

In this report we examine changing patterns of inequality in London over the period 2007-2013. We examine how the distribution of key economic outcomes - including income and wealth, employment and unemployment, earnings...Read more...

SPCC Research Report

Falling Behind, Getting Ahead: The Changing Structure of Inequality in the UK, 2007-2013

John Hills, Jack Cunliffe, Polina Obolenskaya and Eleni Karagiannaki

This report looks in detail at inequality within the UK, 2007-2013, which groups have gained and lost - comparing men and women, and housing tenure, region, ethnicity, and disability as well as age group. Detailed examin...Read more...

CASEreport

Energy Plus: Energy Efficiency in Social Housing

Bert Provan and Anne Marie Brady

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CASE Annual Report 2014

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Bridging the Gap: The Haringey Support Fund

Laura Lane, Bert Provan, Alice Belotti and Anne Power

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Social Housing Tenants: Findings from two Think Tanks

LSE Housing and Communities

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The income distribution in the UK: A picture of advantage and disadvantage

Stephen P Jenkins

This paper describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple perspectives on the distrib...Read more...

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Piketty in the long run

Frank A Cowell

I examine the idea of 'the long run' in Piketty (2014) and related works. In contrast to simplistic interpretations of long-run models of income- and wealth-distribution Piketty (2014) draws on a rich economic analysis t...Read more...

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High Rise Hope Revisited: The social implications of upgrading large estates

Laura Lane, Anne Power and Bert Provan

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SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Schools: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson

In May 2010, David Cameron and Nick Clegg committed the Coalition to sweeping school reforms, promising “a breaking open of the state monopoly”. They also pledged to protect school spending and give extra money to the ed...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Area Regeneration and Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Ruth Lupton and Amanda Fitzgerald

In the decade to 2010, substantial progess had been made to improve living conditions, and outcomes in the poorest neighbourhoods. But large gaps remained. This paper looks at how the Coalition tackled this issue, and wh...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Housing: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Rebecca Tunstall

Coalition Ministers were highly critical of the state of UK housing when they took power. How far were they able to improve a system they had described as 'dysfunctional'?...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Adult Social Care: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Tania Burchardt, Polina Obolenskaya and Polly Vizard

Approaching 1.3 million older people and younger disabled and mentally ill adults use social care services in England, and 3.2 million are cared for informally, by their families and friends. How did the Coalition respon...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Health: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Polly Vizard and Polina Obolenskaya

David Cameron promised in 2010 to 'cut the deficit, not the NHS'. But how have the Coalition's policies - including health reforms which are widely viewed as going beyond election commitments - impacted on health?...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Employment: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Abigail McKnight

The Coalition came to power amid a continuing economic crisis and rising unemployment. How successfully did its active labour market policies contribute to employment growth?...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Further Education, Skills and Access to Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Ruth Lupton, Lorna Unwin and Stephanie Thomson

The Coalition inherited some long-term problems in the provision of further education (FE) and skills training as well unresolved challenges about the funding of higher education (HE). What did it do and with what result...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Under Fives 2010-2015

Kitty Stewart

The Government's strategy for improving social mobility emphasised the importance of early childhood. Against a backdrop of tightening austerity, what happened in practice to children's services, family incomes and early...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty and Inequality 2010-2015

John Hills

Presenting his 2010 spending review, George Osborne, the Chancellor, insisted that 'those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden'. How did the Coalition's benefit and direct tax policies affect the d...Read more...

SPCC Research Report

The Coalition's Social Policy Record: Policy Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

Ruth Lupton, Tania Burchardt, Amanda Fitzgerald, John Hills, Abigail McKnight, Polina Obolenskaya, Kitty Stewart, Stephanie Thomson, Rebecca Tunstall and Polly Vizard

This paper summarises nine detailed reports assessing the social policies of the UK Coalition government elected in 2010. What did the Coalition set out to achieve? How much was spent and saved? What policies were enacte...Read more...

CASEpaper

Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics for Public Participation in Policy Decisions

Rikki Dean

From the World Bank to the Occupy Movement, support for greater citizen participation in social policy decisions has become ubiquitous. This paper argues that existing typologies of participation are problematic in that ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Does early centre-based care have an impact on child cognitive and socio-emotional development? Evidence from Chile

Marigen Narea

Worldwide, non-maternal child care during the first years of life has gradually become more prevalent. However, there is little evidence for Chile about the benefit of early attendance at centre-based care—especially uni...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes

Paola De Agostini, John Hills and Holly Sutherland

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct (but not indirect) taxes between the systems in place in May 2010 at the time of the Election and in 2014/15. It...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts on three deprived neighbourhoods. Final report.

Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton and Anne Marie Brady

In the context of what was described as the worst financial settlement in living memory for local government, we set out in this study to establish how residents living in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods of Lond...Read more...

CASEpaper

Climate Change and Sustainable Welfare: An Argument for the Centrality of Human Needs

Ian Gough

Since climate change threatens human wellbeing across the globe and into the future, we require a concept of wellbeing that encompasses an equivalent ambit. This paper argues that only a concept of human need can do the ...Read more...

CASEreport

Tenant Futures: External evaluation of the National Communities Resource Centre Tenant Training Programme

Eileen Herden

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Facing Debt: Economic Resilience in Newham

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SPCC Research Note

Hard Times, New Directions? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London (Interim Report Summary)

Amanda Fitzgerald and Ruth Lupton

Key Points: London local government has taken a 33 per cent real terms cut in service funding from central government between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Councils have been making strenuous efforts to make large savings without...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2013

he CASE annual report containing interesting articles and summaries of research from the previous year....Read more...

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Disabled People's Financial Histories: Uncovering the disability wealth-penalty

Abigail McKnight

It is well established that on average disabled people and the households in which they live face greater financial disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare i...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Education, Equity and Social Mobility: A Summary of Three Research Papers

David Utting

This paper summarises key themes and research findings from papers presented at an event hosted by CASE on 23rd January 2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindran...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given...Read more...

CASEreport

Work and Welfare Reform: Impacts in the South West

Anne Power, Bert Provan and Eileen Herden

In 2013, members of HAILO commissioned the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to conduct an 18 month longitudinal study looking at how the government’s welfare reform programme will influence tenants’...Read more...

CASEpaper

Richard Titmuss: Forty years on

Howard Glennerster

Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was highly influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the subject we now call social policy. What would he make of th...Read more...

CASEpaper

Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Hard Times, New Directions? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London (Interim Report)

Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, Ronan Smyth and Polly Vizard

Key Points: London local government has taken a 33 per cent real terms cut in service funding from central government between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Councils have been making strenuous efforts to make large savings without...Read more...

CASEpaper

Wealth and Inheritance in Britain from 1896 to the Present

Anthony B. Atkinson

There has been a large rise in the UK ratio of personal wealth to national income. Personal wealth has grown since the 1970s about twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Labour's Record on Neighbourhood Renewal in England: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Ruth Lupton, Alex Fenton and Amanda Fitzgerald

When he came to power in 1997, Tony Blair reacted to widening disparities between poorer and richer neighbourhoods by declaring that no one in future decades should be seriously disadvantaged by where they lived. This pa...Read more...

CASEpaper

Labour's Record on the Under Fives: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Kitty Stewart

When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children’s health, education and wider life chances. Early childhood was considered central to the strategy, and considerable resources ...Read more...

CASEreport

Does money affect children's outcomes?

Kerris Cooper and Kitty Stewart

Children in low-income households do less well than their better-off peers on many outcomes in life, such as education or health, simply because they are poorer. While a parent's level of education, attitude towards brin...Read more...

CASEreport

Tenant Futures: External Evaluation of the National Communities Resource Centre's Tenant Training Programme

Eileen Herden

This is the final evaluation of the Tenant Futures training programme, developed and run by the National Communities Resource Centre at Trafford Hall and funded by the Department of Communities and Local Government. The ...Read more...

CASEreport

Developing an indicator-based framework for monitoring older people's human rights: key findings for Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan

Polly Vizard

This project was commissioned by HelpAge International as a basis for broader efforts to develop an indicator-based system for monitoring older people’s human rights in different countries across the world. The project h...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Small-area measures of income poverty

Alex Fenton

This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or “neighbourhoods”, in Britain. The ultimate purpose is applying such statistics to investigating how the micro-spatial ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Labour's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty, Inequality and the Lifecycle 1997 - 2010

John Hills

Cash transfers (benefits and tax credits) are crucial to the way that inequalities develop over time. This paper looks at how Labour’s aims, policies and achievements on poverty and inequality related to its reforms of a...Read more...

CASEreport

Divided City? The value of mixed communities in expensive neighbourhoods

Katie Bates, Laura Lane, Anne Power and Nicola Serle

Headlines: [1] Octavia Housing, a long-established social landlord in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, provides low cost rented homes to low-income local residents in high-cost areas. In doing so it helps to overc...Read more...

SPCC Research Report

Prosperity, Poverty and Inequality in London 2000/01-2010/11

Ruth Lupton, Polly Vizard, Amanda Fitzgerald, Alex Fenton, Ludovica Gambaro and Jack Cunliffe

This report looks at changes in poverty and inequality in London during the 2000s, with a focus on the impact of recession from 2008. It also considers how a decade has changed the geography of poverty in the Capital....Read more...

SPCC Research Report

Winners and Losers in the Crisis: The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK 2007 - 2010

John Hills, Jack Cunliffe, Ludovica Gambaro, Polina Obolenskaya and Ruth Lupton

Despite being better qualified than previous generations, people in their twenties were worst hit by the crisis in terms of unemployment, pay and incomes....Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Neighbourhood Renewal in England: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Ruth Lupton, Alex Fenton and Amanda Fitzgerald

When he came to power in 1997, Tony Blair reacted to widening disparities between poorer and richer neighbourhoods by declaring that no one in future decades should be seriously disadvantaged by where they lived. What po...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty, Inequality and the Lifecycle 1997 - 2010

John Hills

Cash transfers (benefits and tax credits) are crucial to the way that inequalities develop over time. This paper looks at how Labour’s aims, policies and achievements on poverty and inequality related to its reforms of a...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on the Under Fives: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997 - 2010

Kitty Stewart

When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children’s health, education and wider life chances. How far did it act on these commitments, at what cost, and with what impact?...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Ruth Lupton and Polina Obolenskaya

As we write in 2013, a broad consensus appears to have emerged in English politics about the importance of reducing educational inequalities between richer and poorer pupils, as well as improving educational standards ov...Read more...

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Health (1997-2010)

Polly Vizard and Polina Obolenskaya

The aim of this research report is to provide an overall evaluation of Labour’s record on health 1997-2010 as an input into the Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme. The report summarises, brings together a...Read more...

SPCC Research Report

Labour's Social Policy Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010

Ruth Lupton, John Hills, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard

This is the first major report in a wider programme assessing the impact of the recession, government policy reforms and public spending on poverty and inequality in the UK. Later work will assess the Coalition’s social ...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Low-demand Housing and Unpopular Neighbourhoods Under Labour

Alex Fenton and Ruth Lupton

When the last Labour government took office in 1997, pledging to combat social exclusion, renew neighbourhoods and eliminate ‘no-go’ areas, a critical issue was to address the phenomenon of ‘low-demand’ housing and unpop...Read more...

CASEpaper

Public policy and inequalities of choice and autonomy

Tania Burchardt, Martin Evans and Holly Holder

This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, ...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Urban Area and Hinterland: Defining Large Cities in England, Scotland and Wales in terms of their constituent neighbourhoods

Alex Fenton

This note describes a method for defining the 'core urban area' and 'hinterland' of large and metropolitan cities in Britain. The definitions are made in terms of small-area ('neighbourhood') geographies used in standard...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Post-censal household estimates for small areas

Alex Fenton

The Censuses of Population in the constituent countries of the UK provide counts of households at small area level and above every 10 years. All four countries in the UK also produce annual household projections and esti...Read more...

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CASE Annual Report 2012

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Wealth distribution, accumulation and policy

Francesca Bastagli, Frank A Cowell, Howard Glennerster, John Hills, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

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Small-area measures of income poverty

Alex Fenton

This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or “neighbourhoods”, in Britain. The ultimate purpose is applying such statistics to investigating how the micro-spatial ...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

The Distribution of Local Government Finance by Local Authority-Level Deprivation

Ruth Lupton, Amanda Fitzgerald and Alex Fenton

This research note describes the methodology adopted in SPCC to track the relationship between central government spending and deprivation at the local authority level, thus addressing the question, over time and under d...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Re-visiting the conceptual framework for public/private boundaries in welfare

Tania Burchardt

Under the Conservative administration 1979-1997, there was considerable debate about the boundaries of the welfare state: what should be provided by the state, what could or should be provided through the market, what mi...Read more...

SPCC Research Note

Social Policy in a Cold Climate: A Framework for Analysing the Effects of Social Policy

Ruth Lupton, Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007/8, social policy and the welfare state in the UK have been undergoing a period of extraordinary change. After a decade of welfare state expansion to 2007, with part...Read more...

CASEpaper

How best to measure pension adequacy

Aaron George Grech

Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore. As ...Read more...

CASEpaper

A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children’s background. By using different indicators of quality, the research also explored how the relationship varies ...Read more...

CASEpaper

What Gives? Household Consumption Patterns and the 'Big Trade Off' with Public Consumption

Francesca Bastagli and John Hills

At the centre of politics in Britain and other countries is what is sometimes called 'the big trade-off'- where to strike the balance between private consumption and collective goods and social spending – and hence the s...Read more...

CASEbrief

Equal access to high quality early education and care? Evidence from England and lessons from other countries

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty

Stephen P Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators ac...Read more...

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Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality

Frank A Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

This paper adopts a counterfactual decomposition analysis to analyse cross-country differences in the size of household wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest...Read more...

CASEpaper

On 'Consistent' Poverty

Rod Hick

The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems of poverty measurement within Social Policy of the last three decades. Often treated as if they were synonymous, ‘indire...Read more...

CASEpaper

Wealth accumulation in Great Britain 1995-2005: The role of house prices and the life cycle

Francesca Bastagli and John Hills

This paper examines trends in the distribution of household wealth in Great Britain from 1995 to 2005 using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The data show that wealth is very unevenly distributed and reveal a w...Read more...

CASEpaper

Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis

Frank A Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

In this paper we compare the level, composition and distribution of household wealth in five industrial countries: the UK, US, Italy, Finland and Sweden. We exploit the harmonized data within the Luxembourg Wealth Study,...Read more...

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High Rise Hope

Katie Bates, Laura Lane and Anne Power

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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

Eleni Karagiannaki

This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes e...Read more...

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Using play to help families learn: Evaluation of Trafford Hall’s Playing 2 Learn Programme 2008-11

Laura Lane and Liz Richardson

The report describes the results of a three-year evaluation by LSE Housing and Communities of a family learning programme called Playing 2 Learn. The Playing 2 Learn programme was open to vulnerable families from low inc...Read more...

CASEreport

Measuring Inequality: Autonomy The degree of empowerment in decisions about one's own life

Tania Burchardt, Martin Evans and Holly Holder

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Migrants, Landlords and their Uneven Experiences of the Beijing Olympic Games

Hyun Bang Shin and Bingqin Li

Hosting of mega-events such as the Olympic Games tends to be accompanied by voluminous media coverage on the negative social impact of the Games, and the people in the affected areas are often considered to be one victim...Read more...

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Evaluating the possible impact of pension reforms on future living standards in Europe

Aaron George Grech

Successive reforms enacted since the 1990s have dramatically changed Europe’s pensions landscape. This paper tries to assess the impact of recent reforms on the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living...Read more...

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CASE Annual Report 2011

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Localisation and the means test: A case study of support for English students from Autumn 2012

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The combination of spending cuts, efforts to protect the poorest from some of their effects, and ‘localised’ decision-making are leading to an increase in the numbers of means tests designed by lower level institutions. ...Read more...

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Deliberative research as a tool to make value judgements

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The ‘deliberative turn’ in democratic theory has generated a wealth of deliberative experiments. The purpose of deliberation as a research technique (as opposed to policymaking or public consultation) is distinctive: to ...Read more...

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Getting the measure of fuel poverty: Executive summary

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Final report of the Hills Independent Fuel Poverty Review: Getting the Measure of Fuel Poverty

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The review confirms that fuel poverty is a serious national problem and shows that it is set to rise rapidly. It affects people with low incomes and energy costs above typical levels. It proposes a new way of measuring t...Read more...

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The Impact of School Context: What headteachers say

Martin Thrupp and Ruth Lupton

This paper reports the accounts of fifteen headteachers of primary schools in one local authority in the South East of England, including headteachers of schools that are amongst the most advantaged five per cent of scho...Read more...

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Pathways and penalties: Mothers’ employment trajectories and wage growth in the Families and Children Study

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This paper uses panel data from the British Families and Children Study to analyse the employment patterns of women with children and the ways in which part-time work and interruptions in paid employment influence the wa...Read more...

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Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts

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The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise...Read more...

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Employment Pathways and Wage Progression for Mothers in Low-Skilled Work: Evidence from Three British Datasets

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The Shifting Balance of Private and Public Welfare Activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007

Daniel Edmiston

The balance between private and public sectors in welfare activity in the UK has been documented by Burchardt (1997) and Smithies (2005) for three time periods; 1979/1980, 1995/1996 and 1999/2000. The existing evidence s...Read more...

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Report to Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture on progress in France’s former industrial cities

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Towards the ‘Big Society’: What role for neighbourhood working? Evidence from a comparative European study

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Under the New Labour government, the neighbourhood emerged prominently as a site for policy interventions and as a space for civic activity, resulting in the widespread establishment of neighbourhood-level structures for...Read more...

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By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and priv...Read more...

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The distribution of total greenhouse gas emissions by households in the UK, and some implications for social policy

Ian Gough, Saamah Abdallah, Victoria Johnson, Josh Ryan-Collins and Cindy Smith

This paper maps the distribution of total direct and embodied emissions of greenhouse gases by households in the UK and goes on to analyse their main drivers. Previous research has studied the distribution of direct emis...Read more...

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The Magnitude and Correlates of Inter-vivos Transfers in the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Attitudes to Inheritances Survey to estimate the magnitude of and the factors that are correlated with private inter-household transfers from parents t...Read more...

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Inequality among the Wealthy

Frank A Cowell

Using the evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study it appears that the distribution of wealth in the UK is considerably less than in Canada, the US or Sweden. But does this result come from an underestimate of inequalit...Read more...

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Estimates of the asset-effect: The search for a causal effect of assets on adult health and employment outcomes

Abigail McKnight

In this paper we seek to determine the effect of assets held in early adult life on later outcomes. We specifically look at wages, employment prospects, general health and Malaise. The identification of an asset-effect t...Read more...

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The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth: Evidence from the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

In this paper we examine how the distribution of wealth has been changing in UK over the period 1995 to 2005 and how the sum of inheritance received between 1996-2004 contributed to the observed trends in wealth accumula...Read more...

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A Wealth Tax Abandoned: The role of the UK Treasury 1974-6

Howard Glennerster

The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the importance of inherited wealth. In 1974 a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It l...Read more...

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Recent trends in the size and the distribution of inherited wealth in the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

In this paper we document the evolution of the annual flow of inheritances in the UK during the period 1984-2005 and provide estimates for the overall magnitude and the distribution of inherited wealth. Our results indic...Read more...

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Fiscal costs of climate mitigation programmes in the UK: A challenge for social policy?

Samuel Marden and Ian Gough

This paper asks whether the policies and programmes enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will compete with other goals of public policy, in particular social policy goals. The Climate Change Act 2008 has ...Read more...

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Employment trajectories and later employment outcomes for mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: An analysis by skill level

Kitty Stewart

Maternal employment formed a central plank in the former Labour Government’s strategy to reduce child poverty. Even where potential jobs were low-skilled and low-paid, policy was explicitly work (rather than training) fi...Read more...

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Obstacles and Opportunities: Today’s children, tomorrow’s families

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Growing Up in Social Housing in the New Millennium: Housing, Neighbourhoods, and Early Outcomes for Children Born in 2000

Rebecca Tunstall, Ruth Lupton, Dylan Kneale and Andrew Jenkins

This study draws on the Millennium Cohort Study to explore the housing and neighbourhood circumstances of children born in England in 2000 at the age of 5 in 2006. The majority of children experienced good housing condit...Read more...

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Place Typologies and their Policy Applications

Ruth Lupton, Alex Fenton, Rebecca Tunstall and Richard Harris

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Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study

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Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study

Rebecca Tunstall, Ruth Lupton, Dylan Kneale and Andrew Jenkins

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Developing and agreeing a capability list in the British context: What can be learnt from social survey data on 'rights'?

Polly Vizard

The paper examines what can be learnt about the ‘valuation’ of freedoms and opportunities (or capabilities) using a general population social survey data source on values. On the assumption that rights can be understood ...Read more...

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Are there neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood in the UK, and does it matter for policy? A review of theory and evidence

Ruth Lupton and Dylan Kneale

This paper is a forerunner to an empirical study of neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood using the British Cohort Study (BCS70). It reviews evidence for the existence of such effects within the quantitative 'neigh...Read more...

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Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe

Aaron George Grech

Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe's pensions landscape. Nevertheless there remain concerns about future costs, while unease about adequacy is ...Read more...

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Housing Futures: our homes and communities. A report for the Federation of Master Builders

Laura Lane and Anne Power

Forward by Ron Storer, President, Federation of Master Builders: The housing system is intrinsically linked to almost every major area of government policy from the economy and taxation to the environment and education. ...Read more...

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What do the public think about economic and social rights? Research Report to Inform the Debate about a Bill of Rights and a Written Constitution

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What do the public think about economic and social rights

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CASE Annual Report 2009

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An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel

John Hills

Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are le...Read more...

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Low Income Housing Estates: A report to Hammersmith United Charities on supporting communities, preventing social exclusion and tackling need in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

Laura Lane and Anne Power

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Women’s family histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Tom Sefton

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women’s families histories and their personal incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany, By comp...Read more...

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Reducing the Risks to Health: The role of social protection Report of the Social Protection Task Group for the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010

Howard Glennerster

We demonstrate that the introduction of social protection systems as well as their generosity and coverage have significant impacts on health. Who receives the benefits within the household affects the health outcomes fo...Read more...

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The relationship between women’s work histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

Tom Sefton, Jane Falkingham and Maria Evandrou

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women’s personal incomes and their work histories in the UK, US and West Germany. By comparing three countr...Read more...

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The Effect of Health on Consumption Decisions in Later Life: Evidence from the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

The analysis in this paper focuses on the impact of health on the savings and consumption decisions of the elderly. In principle, there are at least five alternative channels through which health may affect consumption a...Read more...

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Family ties: Women’s work and family histories and their association with incomes in later life in the UK

Tom Sefton, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham

This paper examines the relationship between the family and work histories of older women in the UK and their individual incomes in later life, using retrospective data from the first fifteen waves of the British Househo...Read more...

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Time and Income Poverty

Tania Burchardt

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The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement

Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight

This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living i...Read more...

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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market

Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into Britain has increased over the last 25 years, with a big increase in inflows in recent years. The pape...Read more...

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Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6

Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that includes both those with secure patterns of employment and a wider group who experience periods withou...Read more...

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'Teach in' on Energy and Existing Homes - restoring neighbourhoods and slowing climate change

Anne Power, Laura Lane and Nicola Serle

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Report to Incommunities on the About Turn Project

Anne Power, Laura Lane and Nicola Serle

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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy (with commentaries by Kitty Stewart, David Piachaud and Howard Glennerster)

James Midgley

Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lesso...Read more...

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Case Study 5: Belfast's Gasworks Employment Matching Service

Jorg Ploger

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Case Study 4: Leipzig's Municipal Job Agency

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Case Study 3: Bremen's Innovation Policy

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Case Study 2: Torino's Associazione Apolie drop-in centre

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CASE Study 1: Sheffield's Construction JOBMatch Programme

Astrid Winkler

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Transforming Cities across Europe: An interim report on problems and progress

Anne Power, Jorg Ploger and Astrid Winkler

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Driven to swim with the tide? Urban redevelopment and community participation in China

Hyun Bang Shin

Over the last decade, there has been growing attention to the issue of neighbourhood governance and community participation in China. The focus has been on the extent to which community involvement in rule-making and dec...Read more...

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Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: A decomposition analysis

Paul Gregg, Carol Propper and Elizabeth Washbrook

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school performance), socio-emotional outcomes (self esteem, locus of control and behavioural problems) and physical ...Read more...

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Are current levels of air pollution in England too high? The impact of pollution on population mortality

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and J. Vernon Henderson

We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day England. The current air quality limit values are low by both historical and international standards, and t...Read more...

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Sheffield City Report

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Belfast City Report

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Bilbao City Report

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Leipzig City Report

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Torino City Report

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Tenants and their Communities: Summary report to the DCLG on the consultation with tenants on the future roles of social housing

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Communities and Demolition: Findings from a workshop at the National Communities Resource Centre

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Saint-Étienne City Report

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Bremen City Report

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Freedom to be a Child: Commercial Pressures on Children

David Piachaud

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes have increased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, new products have been developed and commercial pressur...Read more...

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Welfare Reforms and Child Well-Being in the US and UK

Jane Waldfogel

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and d...Read more...

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Socio-Economic Status and Child Behaviour: Evidence from a contemporary UK cohort

Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children’s behavioural development in today’s children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant so...Read more...

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Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferred and Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data

Vincent Vandenberghe and O Debande

The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investment and offering deferred and income-contingent paym...Read more...

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance across the EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vincent Vandenberghe

There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from poorer backgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. This correlation is often used to justify monetary ...Read more...

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Social Capital within the Neighbourhood

Anne Power and Helen Willmot

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CASE Annual Report 2006

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Understanding low achievement in English schools

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Robert Cassen

Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus...Read more...

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Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: Evidence from the British Lone Parent Cohort

Kitty Stewart

UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign...Read more...

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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement

Polly Vizard and Tania Burchardt

In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of ...Read more...

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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement

Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard

In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of ...Read more...

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Child Support Awards in Britain: An analysis of data from the Families and Children Study

Stephen Morris

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore...Read more...

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Report on the consultation with tenants on the future of social housing at Trafford Hall

Anne Power

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Ends and Means: The future roles of social housing in England

John Hills

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Using the British Household Panel Survey to explore changes in housing tenure in England

Tom Sefton

Very little information exists about households’ longer-term movements between tenures. Some cross-section datasets include information on length of stay in any residence but we have no systematic study of movement over ...Read more...

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Families’ and children’s experience of sport and informal activity in Olympic areas of the East End

Rosemary Davidson and Anne Power

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Pension Policy in EU25 and its Possible Impact on Elderly Poverty

Asghar Zaidi, Aaron George Grech and Michael Fuchs

This paper reviews changes in pension policies in EU countries between 1995 and 2005 and describes how they might affect risk of poverty for future pensioner populations. The pension landscape in Europe has changed consi...Read more...

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Tibor Barna: The redistributive impact of taxes and social policies in the UK: 1937-2005

Howard Glennerster

Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK are intended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash and kind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. ...Read more...

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Work-Life Balance in a Low-Income Neighbourhood

Hartley Dean and Alice Coulter

‘Work-life balance’ generally refers to how people may combine paid employment with family responsibilities. The UK government’s attempts to promote work-life balance are connected to wider concerns to maximise labour-fo...Read more...

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The Social Protection of Rural Workers in the Construction Industry in Urban China

Bingqin Li and Huamin Peng

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industr...Read more...

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Transition from Work to Retirement in EU25

Asghar Zaidi, Mattia Makovec and Michael Fuchs

The policy agenda of extending working lives requires a holistic understanding of factors underlying the decision of older workers to withdraw from work and to retire. This brief paper presents employment patterns and tr...Read more...

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Foundations for measuring equality: A discussion paper for the Equalities Review

Tania Burchardt

The Equalities Review is an independent panel set up by the UK government in 2005 to investigate the persistence of social inequalities and to make recommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equality...Read more...

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From Beveridge to Turner: Demography, Distribution and the Future of Pensions in the UK

John Hills

This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were based, including projections of demographic change, trends in private pension saving, and evolution of...Read more...

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Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health

Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the inciden...Read more...

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Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity

Lucinda Platt

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good soc...Read more...

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Tracking Income: How working families' incomes vary through the year

John Hills, Rachel Smithies and Abigail McKnight

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Exploring the effects of integrated benefit systems and active labour market policies: Evidence from Jobcentre Plus in the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

In April 2002 Jobcentre Plus started to operate in the UK bringing together the service of the Benefits Agency and the Employment Service. Offering a fully integrated benefit claiming and work placement/job-seeking servi...Read more...

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Modelling poverty by not modelling poverty: An application of a simultaneous hazards approach to the UK

Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson and Carol Propper

We pursue an economic approach to analysing poverty. This requires a focus on the variables that individuals can influence, such as forming or dissolving a union or having children. We argue that this indirect approach t...Read more...

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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England's Ethnic Minorities

Deborah Wilson, Simon Burgess and Adam Briggs

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linked test score records to document the evolution of attainment through school for different ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of strikin...Read more...

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Environmental issues and human behaviour in low-income areas in the UK

Anne Power and Jake Elster

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Changes in the Living Arrangements of Elderly People in Greece: 1974-1999

Eleni Karagiannaki

During the period 1974-1999 the percentage of elderly living with their children in Greece reduced from 55 per cent to about 32 per cent. In this paper we examine determinants of the decrease in intergenerational co-resi...Read more...

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Labour Market Disadvantage amongst Disabled People: A longitudinal perspective

John A. Rigg

Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employment rates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is known about the progression of disabled people in employment. This stud...Read more...

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Narrowing the Gap? The trajectory of England's poor neighbourhoods, 1991-2001

Alan Berube

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Health Supplier Quality and the Distribution of Child Health

Carol Propper, John A. Rigg and Simon Burgess

There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between the health of poor and more affluent children in the UK do not widen over early childhood. One reason may be that through the universal public fund...Read more...

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Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods

Simon Burgess, Deborah Wilson and Ruth Lupton

We provide evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data we employ the indices of dissimila...Read more...

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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kathleen E Kiernan

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neither cohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood that commences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Co...Read more...

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Expenditure Patterns Post-Welfare Reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up?

Paul Gregg, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government’s welfare reforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in low-income families. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership o...Read more...

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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage?

Darcy Hango

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child ...Read more...

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Jobcentre Plus or Minus? Exploring the performance of Jobcentre Plus for non-jobseekers

Eleni Karagiannaki

Since April 2002 Jobcentre Plus has started to operate nationwide in the UK providing fully integrated benefit claiming and work placement/job-seeking activities for people of working age. This new organisation put an ex...Read more...

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Perceptions of Redistribution: Report on exploratory qualitative research

Alan Hedges

This paper represents the results of a small-scale qualitative study, exploring public perceptions of the redistributive effects of taxation and public spending in the UK. Redistribution is not at the top of people’s min...Read more...

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An exploration of childhood antecedents of female adult malaise in two British birth cohorts: Combining Bayesian model averaging and recursive partitioning

John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton

We use information from two prospective British birth cohort studies to explore the antecedents of adult malaise, an indicator of incipient depression. These studies include a wealth of information on childhood circumsta...Read more...

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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Orsolya Lelkes

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the ...Read more...

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Changing Neighbourhoods? Mapping the geography of poverty and worklessness using the 1991 and 2001 Census

Ruth Lupton

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Public and Private Welfare Activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999

Rachel Smithies

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Five sectors – education, health, personal social services, housing, an...Read more...

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Helter Skelter: Families, disabled children and the benefit system

Gabrielle Preston

Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disa...Read more...

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Americans and Britons: Key Population Data from the Last Three US and UK Censuses

Rebecca Tunstall

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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights

Polly Vizard

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights dis...Read more...

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'The future's changed': Local impacts of housing, environment and regeneration policy since 1997

Caroline Paskell and Anne Power

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Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States

Robert D. Plotnick

Using data collected in 2000 on a racially and ethnically diverse sample of high school seniors (typically 17-18 years old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and be...Read more...

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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany

Asghar Zaidi, Joachim R. Frick and Felix Büchel

The increases in human longevity in recent decades and the trends for early retirement have posed new challenges for policy makers, and require a holistic understanding of the processes that influence the economic resour...Read more...

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One man's rags are another man's riches: Identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Tania Burchardt

One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is relate...Read more...

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Aiming High - An evaluation of the potential contribution of Warm Front towards meeting the Government's fuel poverty target in England

Tom Sefton

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Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain

Ruth Lupton and Anne Power

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Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years

Jane Waldfogel

It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because chi...Read more...

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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

Bingqin Li and David Piachaud

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People’s Republic: the central plannin...Read more...

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Inequality and the State

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'Inequality and the State' by John Hills, published by Oxford University Press...Read more...

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What We Know about Neighbourhood Change: A literature review

Ruth Lupton and Anne Power

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LSE Evaluation of the Trafford Hall Making Things Happen Capacity Building Programme 1999-2003

Helen Beck and Liz Richardson

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The Growth and Decline of Cities and Regions

Ruth Lupton and Anne Power

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A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway: Executive Summary

This CASEbrief is an executive summary of A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway - a 3 volume report by LSE Housing and Enterprise LSE Cities (Anne Power, Liz Richardson, Kelly Seshimo, Kathryn Firth, with ...Read more...

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The Impact of Low Income on Child Health: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or be...Read more...

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A Fair Share of Welfare: Public Spending on Children in England

Tom Sefton

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CASE Annual Report 2003

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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Matt Dickson

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution...Read more...

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Developing Family Development Accounts in Taipei: Policy innovation from income to assets

Li-Chen Cheng

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program, Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden¿s asset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts for...Read more...

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Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China

Bingqin Li

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In...Read more...

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Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle

John A. Rigg and Tom Sefton

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A person¿s age and family circumstances ¿ the factors that shape their life cycle ¿ affect the likeli...Read more...

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The Economic Basis of Social Class

John H Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight

In this paper we adopt a theory of class positions based on employment relations to assess what implications individuals¿ class positions have for their economic life. In particular we consider economic security (the ris...Read more...

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Ethnic Segretation in England's Schools

Simon Burgess and Deborah Wilson

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the p...Read more...

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Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

Wendy Sigle-Rushton

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationships between childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adult well-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the Nati...Read more...

CASEreport

Sustainable communities and sustainable development: A review of the Sustainable Communities Plan

Anne Power

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Summary Report of a Think Tank on Low Demand for Housing

Liz Richardson

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Neighbourhood Management and the Future of Urban Areas

Anne Power

This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation and management. It is not a study in deprivation, but is about problem-solving, about the reforms in delivery underway in Britain, about long run attempts...Read more...

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Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality

Ruth Lupton

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the rela...Read more...

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Individual Choice and Social Exclusion

Julian Le Grand

Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ¿voluntary¿ social exclusion ¿ when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society? Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, a...Read more...

CASEbrief

Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal' by Ruth Lupton, published by Policy Press...Read more...

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Disability and Disadvantage: Selection, onset and duration effects

Stephen P Jenkins and John A. Rigg

This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working-age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled person...Read more...

CASEreport

Being and becoming: Social exclusion and the onset of disability

Tania Burchardt

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'Neighbourhood Effects': Can we measure them and does it matter?

Ruth Lupton

Renewed interest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is generating increasing research activity. Current work includes qualitative community studies and quantitative investigations of area effects on individual outcomes. Thi...Read more...

CASEbrief

East-Enders: Family and community in East London

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'East Enders: Family and community in East London' by Katharine Mumford and Anne Power, published by Policy Press...Read more...

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The Effect of Unobservables on Labour Supply Decisions: The formal and informal sector during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increased activities in the informal sector. However despite prevalent delays in wage payments many workers were still observed to be working full-time in the ...Read more...

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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz Labour Market: Some Implications for the National Poverty Reduction Strategy

Sabine Bernabe and Alexandre Kolev

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working poor and precarious workers, and to the existence of multiple labor-related risks faced by specific g...Read more...

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Is Targeting Deprived Areas an Effective Means to Reach Poor People? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes

Rebecca Tunstall and Ruth Lupton

Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK. One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This p...Read more...

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Why Labour Hoarding may be Rational: A model of firm behaviour during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by large falls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slow adjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using various means to mai...Read more...

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Inclusion or Insurance? National Insurance and the future of the contributory principle

John Hills

This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessed by its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution of the ¿contributory principle¿ on which it was originally bas...Read more...

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Reviewing the Terms of Inclusion: Transactional processes, currencies and context

Sally Witcher

This paper sets out an overarching theoretical framework for explaining and exploring the processes of social exclusion, incorporating themes from the literature. It proposes that inclusion hinges on participation in soc...Read more...

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Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young Adult Disadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort

John Hobcraft

A life-course account of the pathways to adult social exclusion for children born in 1958 is explored. We identify the pervasive childhood factors, associated with a wide range of adult disadvantage, and specific life-co...Read more...

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Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

Kathleen E Kiernan

Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst the generations of children born since the 1970s in European countries. This study analyses data on the partnership and parenthood behaviour of those children wh...Read more...

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Comparing incomes when needs differ: Equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in the UK

Asghar Zaidi and Tania Burchardt

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality; adjustments to take account of other variations in needs are rarely made. This paper explores the f...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 2002

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Changing Poverty Post-1997

David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A poverty level of 60 percent of median equivalised income is used. The first part examines the changes that occurred between 1996/7 and 2000/1 as shown by the...Read more...

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Recent Changes in the Distribution of the Social Wage

Tom Sefton

This paper examines the distribution of the ¿social wage¿ benefits in kind from welfare services, including the National Health Service, state education, social housing, and personal social services. The current Governme...Read more...

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The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as the solution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive current returns fro...Read more...

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Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and Social Exclusion

David Piachaud

Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, of communities and of nations to avoid poverty and social exclusion are analysed. This analysis draws on changing explanations of economic growth and the recen...Read more...

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Tasting Freedom: Happiness, religion and economic transition

Orsolya Lelkes

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect all equally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contribu...Read more...

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Smart Growth: The Future of the American Metropolis?

Bruce Katz

In the past few years, widespread frustration with sprawling development patterns has precipitated an explosion in innovative thinking and action across the United States. This new thinking ¿ generally labeled as ¿smart ...Read more...

CASEbrief

Understanding Social Exclusion

This CASEbrief summarises 'Understanding Social Exclusion' edited by John Hills, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud, published by Oxford University Press...Read more...

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Outsider and Insider Expertise: The response of residents of deprived neighbourhoods to an academic definition of social exclusion

Liz Richardson and Julian Le Grand

The aim of this paper is to compare academic interpretations of the term social exclusion with the understanding of people with direct experience of the phenomenon. A pre-selected group of residents of deprived neighbour...Read more...

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition: A conceptual framework

Sabine Bernabe

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition has increasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media. The term ¿informal sector¿ has been used to describe an extremely wide spec...Read more...

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Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary non-employment

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary non-employment by Tania Burchardt and Julian Le Grand, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/...Read more...

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Constraint and Opportunity: Identifying Voluntary Non-Employment

Tania Burchardt and Julian Le Grand

This paper assesses the extent to which the behaviour of an individual is the result of the constraints that he or she faces, or the result of his or her preferences. It concentrates on participation or non-participation...Read more...

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Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation in the UK Graduate Earnings Premium

Robin A. Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Abigail McKnight

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, w...Read more...

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Measuring Well-Being and Exclusion in Europe's Regions

Kitty Stewart

The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning w...Read more...

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Expanding the Domain of Policy-Relevant Scholarship in the Social Sciences

William Julius Wilson

In this paper the author argues that social scientists need to do more to provide policy-relevant research. Rapid technological and economic change raise new issues about how policy should adjust that are not adequately ...Read more...

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Social Exclusion and Children: A European view for a US debate

John Micklewright

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. ...Read more...

CASEreport

Heroin and Crack Cocaine Markets in Deprived Areas: Seven local case studies

Andrew Wilson, Tiggey May, Hamish Warburton, Ruth Lupton and Paul J Turnbull

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Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield: A report on the first stage of the research

Helen Bowman

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Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 18, Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield: A report on the first stage of the research, by Helen Bowman, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/cas...Read more...

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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Howard Glennerster

This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government's education policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that his Government would make education a priority. The first part of the paper reviews the scale...Read more...

CASEreport

Research Report 1997 - 2001

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Research Report 1997 - 2001 Appendix: Performance Indicators

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Growing Up: School, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn fr...Read more...

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The Future of Social Justice in Britain: A New Mission for the Community Legal Service

Jonas Stein

This paper explores the disjuncture in the New Labour Government between the largest reform in fifty years of the nation's Legal Aid system and the concurrent pursuit of progressive anti-poverty, social inclusion, commun...Read more...

CASEpaper

Welfare Reform and Lone Mothers' Employment in the US

Jane Waldfogel, Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 represents a dramatic change in the US welfare state. One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with young children, fr...Read more...

CASEbrief

Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: Lessons from Abroad

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 15, Welfare To Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: Lessons From Abroad by Martin Evans, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport1...Read more...

CASEreport

Barefoot Basic Skills Work and Intensive Learning: Two experimental basic skills projects

Sara Awan and Liz Richardson

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CASEreport

Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: Lessons from Abroad

Martin Evans

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CASEreport

Places Apart? The initial report of CASE's areas study

Ruth Lupton

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CASEreport

Indicators of Progress: A discussion of approaches to monitor the Government's strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion

Report of a workshop organised by DSS and CASE

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CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 1999/2000

John Hills

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CASEreport

Talking to Families in East London: A report on the first stage of the research

Katharine Mumford

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Why rising tides don't lift all boats? An explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

Abstract: This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and ho...Read more...

CASEreport

Sprouting Seeds - Outcomes from a community-based employment programme

Helen Evans

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CASEbrief

Talking to Families in East London

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 09, Talking to Families in East London: A report on the first stage of the research, by Katharine Mumford, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/c...Read more...

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Sprouting Seeds - Outcomesd from a community-based employment programme

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport07, Sprouting Seeds - Outcomes from a community-based employment programme, by Helen Evans, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport7.pd...Read more...

CASEreport

Housing Finance Aspects of the Green Paper

John Hills and Alex Marsh

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CASEreport

View of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

John Hills and Liz Richardson

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CASEpaper

Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to public services in deprived areas

Bobby Duffy

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widely thought that public services meet the needs of residents less well in deprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed on services bein...Read more...

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The Roles of Schooling and Educational Qualifications in the Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion

John Hobcraft

From a detailed analysis of the roles of childhood experience, schooling and educational qualifications in the emergence of adult social exclusion, two key patterns emerge: Educational qualifications show a strong relati...Read more...

CASEpaper

Getting Less for More: Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field

Tom Sefton

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisions about the use of scarce resources in an explicit and rational manner, yet economic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of social welfare. ...Read more...

CASEpaper

US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past 25 years

Howard Glennerster

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that t...Read more...

CASEbrief

Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords

This CASEbrief summarises 'Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the centre pull the purse strings? by Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Tony Travers, with Ross Hendry, published by the Oxford University Pr...Read more...

CASEpaper

Taxation for the Enabling State

John Hills

This paper takes as its starting point Henry Neuburger's injunction that taxation must be seen as a contribution to the maintenance of the welfare state, not as a dead-weight burden. It sets recent developments in the UK...Read more...

CASEbrief

Measuring Income Risk

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Measuring Income Risk by Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper, which can be downloaded at http://sticer...Read more...

CASEpaper

Measuring Income Risk

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen P Jenkins and Carol Propper

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contr...Read more...

CASEpaper

A Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan

Jane Falkingham

This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remote and poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Data is used from the first nationally representative household survey conducted...Read more...

CASEbrief

How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 38, How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?, by David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland, which can be do...Read more...

CASEpaper

How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?

David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of child poverty one of its central objectives. This paper describes the specific initiatives involved in Labour's approach and weighs them up in terms of their...Read more...

CASEpaper

Homelessness and Vulnerable Young People: A social audit of KeyChange Charity's supported accommodation

Megan Ravenhill

Homelessness is still an ever-present problem in many towns and cities in the UK today. This paper is part of a more in-depth study of homelessness and social exclusion. It presents the results of a small-scale study, wh...Read more...

CASEpaper

The Dynamics of Being Disabled

Tania Burchardt

Government policies on disability - and criticism of them - rest in part on an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informed by cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into 'the disabled' an...Read more...

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities

Anne Power and William Julius Wilson

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses o...Read more...

CASEpaper

Investing in Children: What do we know? What should we do?

Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel

In 1998, a conference brought together US psychologists, economists, sociologists, demographers, political scientists, social workers, and medical doctors, to review what we know about the processes that affect child dev...Read more...

CASEpaper

Low Inequality with Low Redistribution? An analysis of income distribution in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan compared to Britain

Didier Jacobs

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population g...Read more...

CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 1998/99

John Hills

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CASEbrief

Social Security, Redistribution and Public Opinion

This CASEbrief summarises 'Social security, selective universalism and patchwork redistribution' by John Hills and Orsolya Lelkes in British Social Attitudes, the 16th Report: Who shares New Labour values? edited by R. J...Read more...

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The Class of '81: The effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school...Read more...

CASEpaper

Neighbourhood Management

Anne Power and Emmet Bergin

The way we run urban neighbourhoods in Britain is a key to reversing social exclusion, crime and poor performance on almost every front in our cities. This study for the Social Exclusion Unit of seven models of neighbour...Read more...

CASEpaper

The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialised Countries

Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without c...Read more...

CASEreport

Cycling and Social Exclusion

Jake Elster

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CASEbrief

The Family Gap in Pay

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 30, The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from seven industrialised countries by Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case...Read more...

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Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 29, Schools, Education and Social Exclusion by Jo Sparkes, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper29.pdf...Read more...

CASEpaper

Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

Jo Sparkes

A review of research evidence suggests that low levels of educational attainment are crucial in generating and sustaining social exclusion. Test scores at school are the most effective predictor of many adult outcomes. S...Read more...

CASEpaper

Childhood Poverty, Early Motherhood and Adult Social Exclusion

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the political agenda. The key new issue addressed in this research is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes...Read more...

CASEpaper

Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia: Testing Asian Values

Huck-ju Kwon

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to the living standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whether familial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still taken s...Read more...

CASEpaper

The Evolution of Disability Benefits in the UK: Re-weighting the basket

Tania Burchardt

This paper attempts to clarify the significance of reforms to disability benefits proposed by the New Labour government in 1998, by setting them in the context of the development of disability benefits in the early 1970s...Read more...

CASEbrief

Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 25, Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting, by Gillian R Smith, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper25....Read more...

CASEpaper

Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting

Gillian R Smith

This paper explores the rationale for area targeting and the growth of new area-based initiatives. The author examines the geographical concentration of deprivation, the extent, and whether there is a polarisation betwee...Read more...

CASEbrief

The Pensions Green Paper.

This CASEbrief summarises the responses to the Pensions Green Paper - A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions - made by members of CASE in CASEpaper 23, Tightropes and Tripwires: New Labour's proposals and me...Read more...

CASEpaper

Partnership in Pensions? Responses to the Pensions Green Paper

Phil Agulnik, Nicholas Barr, Jane Falkingham and Katherine Rake

The government's pensions Green Paper 'a new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions' proposes fundamental changes to the UK's retirement income system. Members of CASE and the Department of Social Policy at LSE ha...Read more...

CASEpaper

Tightropes and Tripwires: New Labour's Proposals and Means-testing in Old Age

Katherine Rake, Jane Falkingham and Martin Evans

This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to protect individuals from...Read more...

CASEreport

Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality: The evidence.

Proceedings from a workshop organised by HM Treasury and CASE

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CASEpaper

Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion

Howard Glennerster, Ruth Lupton, Philip Noden and Anne Power

Are-based policies have become a significant part of the new Labour Government's approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviews the long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make a significant ...Read more...

CASEbrief

The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 19, The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain, by Nigel Campbell, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps...Read more...

CASEpaper

Early Childhood Interventions and Outcomes (summarised in CASEreport 5, 'Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality')

Jane Waldfogel

Recent advances in brain research have provided new evidence that early experience matters and have greatly increased interest in the effects of early childhood interventions on outcomes for children. This paper reviews ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty and Well-being in Central Asia

Jane Falkingham

This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, along with the Republ...Read more...

CASEreport

Tackling Difficult Estates: CASE/Social Exclusion Unit Seminar

Liz Richardson

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CASEpaper

The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain

Nigel Campbell

Older men have experienced the largest falls in employment over the last twenty years. Two-fifths of men aged between 55 and 65 are without work, compared to one-fifth in 1979, equivalent to 600,000 fewer jobs. Older wom...Read more...

CASEreport

Welfare Reform: Learning from American Mistakes? Report of a seminar organised by LSE Housing and CASE

William Julius Wilson, Geoff Mulgan, John Hills and David Piachaud

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CASEreport

CASE Annual Report 1997/98

John Hills

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CASEbrief

Childhood experiences and the risks of social exclusion in adulthood

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 15, Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences of Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption, and Contact with the Police by John Hobcraft, ...Read more...

CASEpaper

Fair Shares for All? The development of needs based governmental funding in education, health and housing

Ross Hendry

Furthering equity as an achievable public policy objective is based on the ability to assess needs accurately, and distribute resources accordingly. This paper plots the development of the formulae governing resouce allo...Read more...

CASEpaper

When Work Disappears: New Implications for Race and Urban Poverty in the Global Economy

William Julius Wilson

This paper discusses the impact of growing joblessness and dwindling work opportunities on inner-city areas in America. The lack of low-skilled manual work in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolutio...Read more...

CASEpaper

Measuring Income Mobility with Dirty Data (published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(3), May 1999)

Frank A Cowell and Christian Schluter

We examine the performance of measures of mobility when allowance is made for the possibility of data contamination. We find that 'single-stage' indices - those that are applied directly to a sample from a multivariate i...Read more...

CASEpaper

Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences and Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption and Contact with the Police

John Hobcraft

This study uses data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a longitudinal study of children born in 1958, to examine the following questions. How far is social exclusion and disadvantage transmitted from pare...Read more...

CASEpaper

Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement in the USA (This CASEpaper is a summary of the book by the same title and authors, published by the Russel Sage Foundation, 1998)

Irwin Garfinkel, Sara Mclanahan, Daniel Meyer and Judith Seltzer

In the shadow of rising divorce and non-marital birth rates, nearly two-thirds of all American children today will live apart from at least one of their parents, usually the father. Clearly this astonishing proportion of...Read more...

CASEpaper

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)

John Hills

This paper examines the extent to which the policies towards the welfare state pursued by the Labour Government in its first fifteen months represent a break with those of its Conservative predecessor and with earlier po...Read more...

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distribution of Income

Brian Barry

Social exclusion can be distinguished from social isolation, defining social isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of an individual or group) in a society's mainstream institutions, while reserving 'social ex...Read more...

CASEpaper

Include Me Out? The New Politics of Place and Poverty (published in 'Policy Studies', 21:1, April 2000)

Mark Kleinman

London is being successfully regenerated at present, yet poverty and social exclusion are increasing. The paradox is explained in part by the openness of the London economy and the lack of basic skills of a substantial m...Read more...

CASEreport

New Cycles of Disadvantage? Report of a conference organised by CASE on behalf of ESRC for HM Treasury

Anthony Lee and John Hills

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CASEbrief

Social Welfare in East Asia: Low Public Spending but Low Income Inequality?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 10, East Asian Social Welfare: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare, by Didier Jacobs. which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/paper10...Read more...

CASEpaper

Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis including Private Welfare

Didier Jacobs

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects,...Read more...

CASEpaper

An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics, with an Application to Poverty Dynamics among American Women

Simon Burgess and Carol Propper

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in contrast to the literature on individual earnings inequality, there has been little work modelling (as op...Read more...

CASEbrief

Who are the divorced, and who divorces?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 07, The Divorced and Who Divorces? by Kathleen Kiernan and Ganka Mueller which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/Paper7.pdf...Read more...

CASEpaper

Income Dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Christian Schluter

This paper is about the distributional dynamics of net household income in Germany, the US and the UK. We reject the common wisdom that Germany is a country in statsis: stable cross-sectional distributions are deceptive,...Read more...

CASEpaper

The Divorced and Who Divorces? (published as ch.16 in 'Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s', S McRae (ed), OUP, 1999)

Kathleen E Kiernan and Ganka Mueller

The Family Resources Survey was used to identify the characteristics of the divorced population and two longitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were...Read more...

CASEbrief

The State of Welfare

This CASEbrief summarises findings from The State of Welfare: The economics of social spending (second edition), ed. H. Glennerster and J. Hills, published by Oxford University Press...Read more...

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Tax Relief and Partnership Pensions

CASEbrief04 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 05, Tax Relief and Partnership Pensions, by Julian Le Grand and Phil Agulnik, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/P...Read more...

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Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity

CASEbrief03 is a detailed summary of a collection of papers published as CASEpaper 04, Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity, edited by Tony Atkinson and John Hills, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website ...Read more...

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Early Health Related Behaviours and their Impact on Later Life Chances: Evidence from the US (OUT (publ. in Health Economics, 7(5), 1998)

Simon Burgess and Carol Propper

This paper uses evidence from the US to examine the impact of adolescent illegal consumption and violent behaviour on later life chances. Specifically, we look at the effect of such behaviour by young men in late adolsce...Read more...

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Tax Relief and Partnership Pensions (A version of this paper has now been published in the journal Fiscal Studies, vol.19 No.4 ,1998)

Julian Le Grand and Phil Agulnik

Government support of private (occupational and personal) pensions through the system of tax reliefs is large: between one quarter and one third of that of direct support of state pensions through public expenditure. How...Read more...

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Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth

CASEbrief02 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 03, Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain, and Japan, by Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi, and Masahiro Ab...Read more...

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Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Hills

The relationships between employment, education, opportunity, social exclusion and poverty are central to current policy debates. Atkinson argues that the concepts of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion are closel...Read more...

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Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan

Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi and Masahiro Abe

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain and Japan to examine the effects of family leave coverage on women's employment after childbirth. The United States had no national family leave legislation until...Read more...

CASEbrief

Boundaries between Public and Private Welfare

CASEbrief01 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 02, Boundaries between Public and Private Welfare: a typology and map of services, by Tania Burchardt, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website at http://sticer...Read more...

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Boundaries between Public and Private Welfare: a typology and map of services (publ.as Private Welfare and Public Policy, Burchardt, Hills and Propper, Rowntree Foundation, Jan 1999)

Tania Burchardt

This paper develops a typology of welfare services and attempts to illustrate its use in clarifying discussions about the privatisation of welfare and in analysing changes in expenditure. A third dimension, which concern...Read more...

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The Legacy of Parental Divorce: Social, economic and demographic experiences in adulthood

Kathleen E Kiernan

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorce during childhood have long-term consequences for the educational attainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, and paren...Read more...

WSP Discussion Paper

The Emergence of Lone Motherhood as a Problem in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Hilary Land and Jane Lewis

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WSP Discussion Paper

Poverty and Family Background in Greece:The Role of Father's Occupation and Education

Christos Papatheodorou

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WSP Discussion Paper

Categorical Benefits in Welfare States: Findings from Britain and Israel. Now published in International Social Security Review, 51(1), 1998

John Gal

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WSP Discussion Paper

Minimum Pensions and Safety Nets in Old Age: A Comparative Analysis

Martin Evans and Jane Falkingham

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WSP Discussion Paper

Stability of Estimates of the Compensationfor Danger

Reza Arabsheibani and A Marin

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WSP Discussion Paper

What Price Security? Assessing Private Insurance for Long-Term Care, Income Replacement During Incapacity, and Unemployment for Mortgagors

Tania Burchardt

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WSP Discussion Paper

Student Loans: Where are we now? Repayment Rates for Student Loans: Some sensitivity tests

Nicholas Barr, Iain Crawford and Jane Falkingham

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WSP Discussion Paper

Caring for the Very Old: Public and Private Solutions

Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper

A Place for Fathers: Fathers and social policy in the post-war period

Sophie Sarre

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WSP Discussion Paper

What do we expect Lone Mothers to do? Competing agendas for welfare reform in the United States

Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper

Alternatives to Fundholding. Now published in International Journal of Health Services, 28(1),(1988),pp.47-66

Virginia Bovell, Anna Cohen and Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Wages of Motherhood: Better or Worse? Now published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.23, No.5 (September 1999) pp.543-564

Heather Joshi, Pierella Paci and Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper

Price and Competition in the NHS Internal Market in GP Fundholer Procedures

Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Housing Benefit Problems and Dilemmas: What can we learn from France and Germany?

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

Families on the Dole in Britain, France and Germany

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

Means-testing the Unemployed in Britain, France and Germany

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper

Comparing Poverty in France and theUnited Kingdom (in The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production, S Jenkins, A Kapteyn and B van Praag (eds.) (1996), Cambridge University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson, Karen Gardiner, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

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WSP Discussion Paper

Becoming a Parent in Europe

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan

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WSP Discussion Paper

Investing in Skill: Expected Returns to Vocational Studies (Revised version published in Education Economics, vol.3, 1995)

Robert J Bennett, Howard Glennerster and Douglas Nevison

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WSP Discussion Paper

Towards a European Social Safety Net? (Fiscal Studies, 13(3), 1992); also chapter 14 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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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).

Helen Bowman and John Hills

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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).

Jane Falkingham, John Hills and Carli Lessof

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WSP Discussion Paper

Area-based Poverty, Social Problems and Resident Empowerment

Anne Power

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WSP Discussion Paper

The English and Swedish Health Care ReformsManos Matsaganis (International Journal of Health Services, 24(2), 1994)

Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper

Squaring the Circle: The Inconsistencies and Constraints of Beveridge's Plan. (Revised version published in Beveridge and Social Secutiry: An international retrospective, J Hills, J Ditch and H Glennerster (eds.) , 1994. Clarendon Press).

Martin Evans and Howard Glennerster

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Paying for Welfare: Issues for the Nineties (Ch.1 in The Costs of Welfare, R Page and N Deakin (eds) 1993, Avebury)

Howard Glennerster

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The Western Experience with Social Safety Nets (in Economics in a Changing World, Vol.3, D Bös (ed.), (1993), Macmallian); also chapter 13 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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European Social Policy: Models and Rationales (Journal of European Social Policy, 3(1), 1993)

Mark Kleinman and David Piachaud

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Distribution of the Tax Burden: 30 Years After The Theory of Public Finance (published in Modern Public Finance, J Quigley and E Smolensky (eds) (Harvard Unversity Press, 1993)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

What is Happening to the Distribution of Income in the UK? Now published in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.82 (1993), pp.317-351; also chapter 1 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Economic Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Reinterpretation (Journal of Economic Literature, 30, 741-803, June 1992)

Nicholas Barr

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WSP Discussion Paper

Investing in Skill: To stay on or not to stay on? (Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8(2), 1992)

Robert J Bennett, Howard Glennerster and Douglas Nevison

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WSP Discussion Paper

Putting a Price on Council Housing: ValuingVoluntary Transfers (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 13(1), 1992)

Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Mark Kleinman and Sandra McNally

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WSP Discussion Paper

Two Nations in Early Retirement?: The Case of Britain (Ch.6 in: Age, Work and Social Security, A B Atkinson and M Rein (eds) (1992), Macmillan)

Anthony B. Atkinson and Holly Sutherland

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Equity in Health and Social Care (Journal of Social Policy, 21:4, 1992)

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Julian Le Grand and David Winter

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WSP Discussion Paper

Institutional Features of Unemployment Insurance and the Working of the Labour Market (Economic Analysis of Markets and Games, Dasgupta et al (eds) (MIT Press, 1992)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Challenging the Invisibility of Carers: Mapping Informal Care Nationally (published in Social Policy and Older People, C Victor and F Lascko (eds) (Gower, 1992)

Maria Evandrou

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Myth of the Woopie?: Incomes, the Elderly, and Targeting Welfare (Ageing and Society, 11:4, Dec 1991)

Jane Falkingham and Christina Victor

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WSP Discussion Paper

Social Insurance (Geneva Papers on Risk and Social Insurance Theory, 16(2), 113-131, 1991); also chapter 11 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Distribution of Public Expenditure on Health Care Revisited (Journal of Health Economics, 10, 239-245, 1991)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Banding, Tilting, Gearing, Gaining and Losing: An Anatomy of the Proposed Council Tax (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 12(4), 1991)

John Hills and Holly Sutherland

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Development of State Pensions in the United Kingdom (in: The Future of Basic and Supplementary Pension Schemes in the European Community-1992 and Beyond, W Schmähl (ed)(1991) Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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Comparing Poverty Rates Internationally: Lessons from Recent Studies in OECD Countries (The World Bank Economic Review, 5:1, 3-21, 1991); also in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe,(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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A National Minimum? A History of Ambiguity in the Determination of Benefit Scales in Britain (published in The State and Social Welfare, T and D Wilson (eds) (1991, Longman)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

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)

John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

Three Essays on Equity. (Revised and expanded version of these papers in Equity and Choice, J Le Grand (1991), Routledge)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

Poverty, Statistics, and Progress in Europe (in Analysing Poverty in the European Community, Eurostat News Special Edition 1-1990, Eurostat, Luxembourg); also chapter 3 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson

Anthony B. Atkinson

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Britain's Ageing Population: The Engine BehindIncreased Dependency Ratios (version in Journal of Social Policy, 18:2, April 1989)

Jane Falkingham

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WSP Discussion Paper

Differentiation in Later Life: Social Class and Housing Tenure Cleavages. (Becoming and Being Old, B Bytheway (ed) (1989), Sage)

Maria Evandrou and Christina Victor

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WSP Discussion Paper

In Search of Postwar Consensus. (The LSE Quarterly, 3:1, Spring 1989)

Nicholas Deakin

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Welfare State as an Efficiency Device ('Social Insurance as an Efficiency Device' in Journal of Public Policy, 9:1, 59-82, July 1989)

Nicholas Barr

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WSP Discussion Paper

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)

John Hills

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WSP Discussion Paper

Social Insurance and Income Maintenance (Atkinson: Poverty and Social Security (1989), Harvester Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper

An Econometric Approach to the Measurement of Poverty. (Oxford Economic Papers, 40:3, 505-522, Sept 1988)

Meghnad Desai and Anup Shah

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Reform and the National Health Service (publd.:'Improving the National Health Service', in Resourcing the National Health ServiceEvidence to the Social Services Committee, House of Commons, Session 1987-88, HMSO, HC264-IV)

Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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The Myth of Family Care? The Elderlyin the early 1930s (Ageing and Society, 8:2/3, June/Sept 1988)

Chris Gordon

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The Distribution of Domiciliary and Primary Health Care in Britain. (Chapter 8 in Social Welfare in Britain and Poland, J Le Grand and W Okrasa (eds)(1988), STICERD Occasional Paper 12)

Maria Evandrou and David Winter

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WSP Discussion Paper

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)

John Hills

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The Crisis in Council Housing: Is Public Housing Manageable? (The Political Quarterly, 58:3, July-Sept 1987)

Anne Power

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WSP Discussion Paper

An International Comparison of Health Inequalities (versions in European Economic Review, 31, 182-191, 1987, and in Health Inequalities in European Countries, J Fox (ed) (1989), Gower)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper

The Middle Classes and the Welfare State (Journal of Public Policy, 6:4, 399-430, 1987. Also version in Chapter 8 in Not Only the Poor (see above))

Julian Le Grand and David Winter

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The Middle Class Infiltration of the Welfare State: Some Evidence from Australia (Journal of Public Policy, 6, 255-274, 1987. Also Chapter 6 in Not Only the Poor (see above))

Robert E Goodin and Julian Le Grand

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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)

Anthony B. Atkinson, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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Income Maintenance and Social Insurance: A Survey. (Chapter 13 in Handbook of Public Economics, Vol.II, A Auerbach and M Feldstein (eds) (1987), Elsevier Science Publishers)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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The Historical Dimensions of the Welfare State 'Crisis'. (Journal of Social Policy, 15:4, 443-465, Oct 1986)

Paul Johnson

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WSP Discussion Paper

Inequalities in Health: the Human Capital Approach. (Version with M Rabin in Public and Private Health Services, A Culyer and B Jonsson (eds) (1986), Basil Blackwell

Julian Le Grand

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