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 and a Faculty Associate at the International Inequalities Institute at 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:
- Income and wealth distribution analysis: Measurement and analysis of income and wealth inequality; poverty, material deprivation, social exclusion; social mobility; intrahousehold inequality and poverty; intergenerational mobility and intergenerational transfers
- Public Economics and Social Policy: Redistributive role of social and fiscal policies both within and across generations
- Household Economics: Economic behaviour and decision-making processes of single and multi-person households
Eleni's latest projects include:
- The scale and causes of ethnic wealth gap across the wealth distribution: Evidence from Understanding Society
- Analysis of the determinants, distribution and dynamics of child poverty during the COVID-19 era
- Intra-household Allocation of Resources: Implications for poverty, deprivation and inequality in the European Union
- Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal Dyadic Data, with Applications to Intergenerational Exchanges of Family Support
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