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