Ludovica Gambaro

CASE Visiting Senior Fellow and Senior Researcher (PhD)

Expertise: family policy, early education and care services and policies, migration and residential mobility, child development

Email:

l.f.gambaro@lse.ac.uk

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Biography

I completed my PhD in Social Policy at the LSE in 2012, on the subject of pay and working conditions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the UK. Since then, I have held research positions at the LSE, University College London, German Institute for Economic Research, the University of Tübingen and I am currently senior researcher at the German Federal Institute for Population Research. My work has broadly focused on understanding inequalities in childhood, and the way diverging developmental trajectories may relate to social policies affecting family and education services, housing and neighbourhoods. In Germany my work has concentrated on refugee and migrant families. My research has been funded, among others, though the Horizon 2020 programme with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and by the Nuffield Foundation.

Ludovica Gambaro's current research interests are:

Family and education policies
Residential mobility
Refugees in Europe

Ludovica's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEbriefs

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

07 June 2019

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...

CASEpapers

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

07 June 2019

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...

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Reports

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

01 July 2013

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...

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Reports

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

01 July 2013

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...

CASEbriefs

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

01 March 2013

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

CASEpapers

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

01 March 2013

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...