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Kitty Stewart

Kitty Stewart

Associate Director of CASE and Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, LSE.

Expertise: poverty, social security, early childhood policy, inequality

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 7343
Email:
k.j.stewart@lse.ac.uk
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LSE Social Policy

Biography

Kitty Stewart's current research interests are:

  • Child poverty and outcomes for children
  • Early years policy
  • Social security, poverty and inequality
  • Brexit and social policy
  • Employment and wage progression

Kitty's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEpapers
Capped and trapped (in the UK's housing market): how the benefit cap makes it almost impossible to find affordable housing

31 July 2024

Mark Fransham, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

The benefit cap places an upper limit on the total amount a family can receive in financial support from the government in a given year. Many of those subject to the cap live in high rent properties and one stated goal f... Read more...
CASEpapers
An impossible move? Households' experiences of trying to escape the Benefit Cap

31 July 2024

Ruth Patrick, Kate Andersen, Kitty Stewart, Aaron Reeves and Mark Fransham

Recent governments have increasingly used their power to attempt to alter the behaviour of people in receipt of social security benefits. This can be seen in the case of the Benefit Cap, a policy introduced with a specif... Read more...
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Ending Child Poverty: Why and How?

21 February 2024

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE), Alison Garnham (Child Poverty Action Group), Alison McGovern (Labour MP for Wirral South and Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions)

Too many children are growing up in poverty in the UK. In a new guide from Child Poverty Action Group, Ending Child Poverty: Why and How, Kitty Stewart, Jane Millar, Alan Marsh and Jonathan Bradshaw set out the evidence ... Read more...
CASEpapers
Making Work Pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families

01 June 2023

Mary Reader, Kate Andersen, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves and Kitty Stewart

Child benefits are typically paid on a per-child basis, without restrictions on family size. In this paper we generate unique evidence on the effects of capping child benefits by family size by examining the introduction... Read more...
CASEpapers
The sins of the parents: Conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy

27 April 2023

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves

A core element of a welfare state is the support that is provided to families with children, in recognition of the additional needs that dependent children create. Variation in the design, generosity and implementation o... Read more...
CASEpapers
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK

28 July 2021

Kitty Stewart, Aaron Reeves and Ruth Patrick

Child poverty in the UK has seen rapid change over the last two decades, broadly falling from the late 1990s until 2012/13 and rising since then. As a result, child poverty rates converged with rates of poverty for worki... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

01 February 2021

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate the record of successive Conservative administrations on early childhood during the period between 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pa... Read more...
CASEpapers
Did the introduction of the benefit cap in Britain harm mental health? A natural experiment approach

26 November 2020

Aaron Reeves, Mark Fransham, Kitty Stewart and Ruth Patrick

In November 2016, the UK government announced they would be lowering the benefit cap, the total amount a family with no-one in full-time employment can receive from the government in social security. This policy change r... Read more...
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: The Conservatives' Record on Early Childhood: Policy, Spending and Outcomes from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

21 October 2020

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

Kitty Stewart and Mary Reader will present recent work examining the record of the Conservative Government (2015-2020) on services and cash benefits for young children. They examine the aims and goals of the three Conser... Read more...
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 Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
What does Brexit mean for social policy in the UK? An exploration of the potential consequences of the 2016 referendum for public services, inequalities and social rights

26 February 2019

Kitty Stewart, Kerris Cooper and Isabel Shutes

The paper was written as part of a major research programme on trends in the distribution of social and economic outcomes in the UK and the design and impact of social policies. The paper seeks to map out the potential i... Read more...
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
What does Brexit mean for social policy in the UK? An exploration of the potential consequences of the 2016 referendum for public services, inequalities and social rights (SPDO seminar series)

21 November 2018

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

Kitty Stewart and Kerris Cooper will present findings from the forthcoming paper which explores the potential consequences of the EU referendum result for social policy in Britain. Written while negotiations continue, wi... Read more...
CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
The Future of Child Poverty Measurement

04 November 2015

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
Election special: The outlook for social policy

11 March 2015

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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Wellbeing Seminars
Does money affect mental health and happiness? Evidence from a systematic review of the literature

03 July 2014

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Book launch: An Equal Start? Providing quality early education and care to disadvantaged children.

19 February 2014

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Does money affect children's outcomes? A systematic review

04 December 2013

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Early childhood education and care: How is Britain doing and what can we learn from other countries?

06 March 2013

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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STICERD Work in Progress Seminars
Social class and cognitive development in childhood - the debate over the Feinstein graph

11 November 2011

Kitty Stewart (CASE, LSE)

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