Professor Howard Glennerster CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

Biography

Professor Howard Glennerster's current research interests are:

The economics and finance of health education and long term care and other aspects of social welfare
The allocation of resources between areas
The history of social policy
The comparative study of social policy especially in respect to the United States

Howard's latest projects include:

A review of the funding and productivity of UK education in recent years
Social exclusion in 12 deprived areas of England and Wales. See the CASE web site

Latest

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Notes

The post war welfare state: stages and disputes

12 August 2020

Howard Glennerster

It has been suggested that the COVID epidemic, and its profound economic and social consequences, may produce major changes in the dominant ideas that help set the boundaries to social action. This note reflects on sig... Read more...

CASEpapers

Richard Titmuss: Forty years on

18 February 2014

Howard Glennerster

Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was highly influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the subject we now call social policy. What would he make of th... Read more...

CASEbriefs

Wealth distribution, accumulation and policy

03 June 2013

Francesca Bastagli, Frank A Cowell, Howard Glennerster, John Hills, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

CASEpapers

A Wealth Tax Abandoned: The role of the UK Treasury 1974-6

01 June 2011

Howard Glennerster

The distribution of wealth is widening in many countries and with it the importance of inherited wealth. In 1974 a Labour Government came to power in the United Kingdom committed to introducing an annual wealth tax. It l... Read more...

CASEpapers

Reducing the Risks to Health: The role of social protection Report of the Social Protection Task Group for the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010

01 June 2009

Howard Glennerster

We demonstrate that the introduction of social protection systems as well as their generosity and coverage have significant impacts on health. Who receives the benefits within the household affects the health outcomes fo... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

What future for western welfare states? Followed by book launch of Making Social Policy Work

31 October 2007

Howard Glennerster (London School of Economics)

CASEpapers

Tibor Barna: The redistributive impact of taxes and social policies in the UK: 1937-2005

01 December 2006

Howard Glennerster

Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK are intended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash and kind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. ... Read more...

CASEpapers

United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

01 November 2001

Howard Glennerster

This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government's education policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that his Government would make education a priority. The first part of the paper reviews the scale... Read more...

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

The Elderley: A Burden on the Economy?

01 June 1999

Howard Glennerster

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

Investing in Skill: Expected Returns to Vocational Studies (Revised version published in Education Economics, vol.3, 1995)

01 January 1995

Robert J Bennett, Howard Glennerster and Douglas Nevison

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

Paying for Welfare: Issues for the Nineties (Ch.1 in The Costs of Welfare, R Page and N Deakin (eds) 1993, Avebury)

01 January 1993

Howard Glennerster

Selected Work:

Understanding the Cost of Welfare (Third edition),
Bristol: Policy Press (2017)
The Coalition and Society (III): Health and long-term care,
The Coalition Effect (eds) A Seldon and M Finn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
Wealth in the UK: Distribution, accumulation and policy,
J Hills et al, Oxford: Oxford University Press, paper edition 2015 (Chapters 7-9 on 'Wealth and Policy' with J Hills)
Why was a wealth tax for the UK abandoned? Lessons for the policy process and tackling wealth inequality,
Journal of Social Policy, 41:2, April 2012
British Social Policy 1945 to the Present.
3rd edition, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2007.
'A capital start but how far do we go?'
(with A McKnight) in W Paxton and S White (eds), The Citizen's Stake: Exploring the future of universal asset policies. Policy Press, 2006.

One hundred years of poverty and policy
with J Hills, D Piachaud and J Webb. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2004.

'US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past twenty-five years'
Social Service Review Fall 2001 (75th Anniversary Issue) University of Chicago Press

Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the centre pull the purse strings?
with J Hills and T Travers. Oxford University Press, 2000.
The State of Welfare: The economics of social spending
(co-editor), Oxford University Press, 1998.
Implementing GP Fundholding: Wild card or winning hand?
Open University Press, Buckingham, 1994.