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Research Focus

This section showcases the range of research STICERD undertakes and the impact it has

Misallocation of State Capacity? Evidence from Two Million Primary Schools.

Large amounts of government resources and development aid are dedicated to education worldwide, yet educational attainment and learning remain low in many developing countries.

In harm's way? Infrastructure investmenets and the persistence of coastal cities

Data from Vietnam suggest that coastal favouritism in infrastructure investments has significant costs, especially in the context of a changing climate

LSE-IMF Joint Workshop: Social protection in a changing world

Driven by factors such as high inequality, perceived unfairness surrounding the gains from globalization and technological change, and anxiety about the future of work, trust in institutions is waning and social discontent is rising. Adding in population aging and climate change, the present moment surely calls for a re-assessment of existing approaches to social protection to better align policies and instruments with these 21st Century challenges.

How Lives Change: A long term view of development

How lives change is the central concern of development economics. Economists have tried to explain the functioning of societies and economies for centuries through their models of markets and agents. So do social scientists, who have attempted to understand the social and political structures of societies and how they have changed. But there have been few opportunities to observe the working of these theories and models on ground over a long period.

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