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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this fifteenth edition to Timothy J. Besley, Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini. Read more...
Research led by STICERD members Professor Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Professor Sir Tim Besley has contributed to the Department of Economics' ranking. Read more...
Overview of a ten-year update of the empirical claims in Besley and Persson's 2011 book 'Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters'. In addition to a new dataset that covers many of the themes in the book, we recreate almost all charts and tables with better data for a cross-section ten years later. Read more...
Research for the World, LSE's social research magazine, features two articles by STICERD members Mary Reader and Michael Callen. Mary Reader's resarch entitled 'Starting child benefits during pregnancy could help tackle... Read more...
25 May 2023
Mary Reader is a research officer at STICERD's Hub for Equal Representation (and previous research officer in CASE). She has published her research in the Journal of Health Economics and has written an item for The Guard... Read more...
31 March 2023
Our building has been officially renamed after Nobel Prize winning economist and LSE’s first black academic Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915-1991), who studied, taught and researched at the School. Formerly kn... Read more...
While the Chancellor’s pledge to invest in early years childcare is a positive step, there remain serious questions about whether the resources are sufficient, and whether the current funding and provision model is... Read more...
20 March 2023
Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute Thursday 23 March 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Online and in-person public event. The Auditorium, Centre Building. Speakers:Dr Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow in Economic Studie... Read more...
16 March 2023
Congratulations to Dr Kitty Stewart, Associate Director of CASE and Associate Professor of Social Policy, has been newly conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences following her nomination by the Social Poli... Read more...
13 March 2023
CASE was commissioned by the Itla Children’s Foundation in Finland to conduct a review of published international evidence on policies and programmes designed to reduce child poverty. Child income poverty rates in ... Read more...
7 March 2023
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this fifteenth edition to Timothy J. Besley (London School of Economics), Torsten Persson (Institute of International Econ... Read more...
3 March 2023
A new Intergenerational support: evidence briefing summarises key findings on practical and financial exchanges between parents and their adult children, and sets out policy implications. This is based on work by Eleni K... Read more...
1 March 2023
New research from LSE Housing has shown that many community groups originally set up to provide support during the pandemic have become a central part of the local response to the cost-of-living crisis. These organ... Read more...
17 February 2023
