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Why we won't turn the tide on child poverty with employment alone

Child poverty in the UK is high and rising, at huge cost both to individual lives and to society. Without action, the number of children living in poverty could rise from 4.5 to 4.7 million by the end of this parliament....Read more

Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves

12 November 2025

Baking inequality in from birth: New analysis of the way the two-child limit and the benefit cap intersect with ethnicity

This briefing paper contains new quantitative evidence on the way the twochild limit and benefit cap affect children from different ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on official statistics and our own analysis of the Family R...Read more

Justice Aina, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Reeves, Thomas Stephens and Kitty Stewart

10 July 2025

Poverty and parenting in the UK: Patterns and pathways between economic hardship and mothers' parenting practices

This research examines to what extent there are differences in parenting across income groups, and whether these differences are unique to low-income parents. When comparisons are made across all income groups, rather th...Read more

Kerris Cooper

11 January 2022

Children and Families Seeking Asylum in the UK

This CASEBrief provides a summary of new administrative data on children and families seeking asylum in the UK and those receiving support from the Home Office under the Asylum Support system. Much of the recent debate o...Read more

Ilona Pinter

28 October 2021

Little fish, big streams: How do early in-class maths 'ability'-groups and early teacher judgements relate to primary school children's later maths self-concept?

This paper summarises research examining predictors of primary school children?s maths self-concept at age 11. It finds that the in-class `ability? group children were placed in four years earlier, at age seven, strongly...Read more

Tammy Campbell

19 March 2021

COVID-19: has the pandemic affected relationships between children and their non-resident parents?

The well-being and outcomes of children living in separated families are associated with the quality of their relationship with their non-resident parent, and child maintenance provided by that parent. It is therefore im...Read more

Caroline Bryson and Stephen McKay

10 September 2020

The National Living Wage and falling earnings inequality

The more generous National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees aged 25 and over in April 2016. In April 2020 it is due to increase to 60% of the average wage. In this policy brief we assess the ...Read more

Abigail McKnight and Kerris Cooper

6 March 2020

Caught between the local and the (trans)national: EU citizens at the front-line of German welfare policy

The study reflected on what happens when EU migrant applicants claim poverty-relieving, non-contributory UB II benefits in local German job centres. The data challenged the common pretence of EU policy debates that the s...Read more

Nora Ratzmann

20 January 2020

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

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

Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambaro and Kitty Stewart

7 June 2019

Money and Meaning: How working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money

This CASEBrief summarises Kate Summers? doctoral research. The research aimed to develop a detailed picture of how working-age social security benefit recipients understand and use their money. Forty-three indepth, quali...Read more

Kate Summers

13 December 2018

Older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays: Secondary data analysis using the Adult Inpatient Survey

The report uses the Adult Inpatient Survey 2012 to build up an in-depth quantitative evidence base on older people's experiences of dignity and nutrition during hospital stays in England. The survey covers adults aged 16...Read more

Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard

16 July 2015

Wealth distribution, accumulation and policy

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

3 June 2013

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

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

1 March 2013

Getting the measure of fuel poverty: Executive summary

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John Hills

1 March 2012

Employment Pathways and Wage Progression for Mothers in Low-Skilled Work: Evidence from Three British Datasets

Kitty Stewart and Francesca Bastagli

1 December 2011

Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study

Rebecca Tunstall, Ruth Lupton, Dylan Kneale and Andrew Jenkins

January 2011

What do the public think about economic and social rights

Polly Vizard

May 2010

A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway: Executive Summary

This CASEbrief is an executive summary of A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway - a 3 volume report by LSE Housing and Enterprise LSE Cities (Anne Power, Liz Richardson, Kelly Seshimo, Kathryn Firth, with ...Read more

May 2004

Inequality and the State

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'Inequality and the State' by John Hills, published by Oxford University Press...Read more

October 2004

Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal' by Ruth Lupton, published by Policy Press...Read more

November 2003

East-Enders: Family and community in East London

This CASEbrief summarises findings from 'East Enders: Family and community in East London' by Katharine Mumford and Anne Power, published by Policy Press...Read more

June 2003

Understanding Social Exclusion

This CASEbrief summarises 'Understanding Social Exclusion' edited by John Hills, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud, published by Oxford University Press...Read more

June 2002

Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary non-employment

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary non-employment by Tania Burchardt and Julian Le Grand, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/...Read more

April 2002

Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 18, Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield: A report on the first stage of the research, by Helen Bowman, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/cas...Read more

November 2001

Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: Lessons from Abroad

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 15, Welfare To Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: Lessons From Abroad by Martin Evans, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport1...Read more

May 2001

Talking to Families in East London

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport 09, Talking to Families in East London: A report on the first stage of the research, by Katharine Mumford, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/c...Read more

January 2001

Sprouting Seeds - Outcomesd from a community-based employment programme

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEreport07, Sprouting Seeds - Outcomes from a community-based employment programme, by Helen Evans, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport7.pd...Read more

January 2001

Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords

This CASEbrief summarises 'Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the centre pull the purse strings? by Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Tony Travers, with Ross Hendry, published by the Oxford University Pr...Read more

August 2000

Measuring Income Risk

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Measuring Income Risk by Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper, which can be downloaded at http://sticer...Read more

June 2000

How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 38, How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?, by David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland, which can be do...Read more

March 2000

Social Security, Redistribution and Public Opinion

This CASEbrief summarises 'Social security, selective universalism and patchwork redistribution' by John Hills and Orsolya Lelkes in British Social Attitudes, the 16th Report: Who shares New Labour values? edited by R. J...Read more

December 1999

The Family Gap in Pay

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 30, The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from seven industrialised countries by Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case...Read more

November 1999

Schools, Education and Social Exclusion

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 29, Schools, Education and Social Exclusion by Jo Sparkes, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper29.pdf...Read more

November 1999

Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 25, Area-based Initiatives: The rationale and options for area targeting, by Gillian R Smith, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper25....Read more

May 1999

The Pensions Green Paper.

This CASEbrief summarises the responses to the Pensions Green Paper - A new contract for welfare: partnership in pensions - made by members of CASE in CASEpaper 23, Tightropes and Tripwires: New Labour's proposals and me...Read more

April 1999

The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 19, The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain, by Nigel Campbell, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps...Read more

February 1999

Childhood experiences and the risks of social exclusion in adulthood

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 15, Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences of Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption, and Contact with the Police by John Hobcraft, ...Read more

November 1998

Social Welfare in East Asia: Low Public Spending but Low Income Inequality?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 10, East Asian Social Welfare: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare, by Didier Jacobs. which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/paper10...Read more

July 1998

Who are the divorced, and who divorces?

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 07, The Divorced and Who Divorces? by Kathleen Kiernan and Ganka Mueller which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/Paper7.pdf...Read more

June 1998

The State of Welfare

This CASEbrief summarises findings from The State of Welfare: The economics of social spending (second edition), ed. H. Glennerster and J. Hills, published by Oxford University Press...Read more

April 1998

Tax Relief and Partnership Pensions

CASEbrief04 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 05, Tax Relief and Partnership Pensions, by Julian Le Grand and Phil Agulnik, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/P...Read more

February 1998

Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity

CASEbrief03 is a detailed summary of a collection of papers published as CASEpaper 04, Exclusion, Employment and Opportunity, edited by Tony Atkinson and John Hills, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website ...Read more

February 1998

Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth

CASEbrief02 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 03, Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain, and Japan, by Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi, and Masahiro Ab...Read more

January 1998

Boundaries between Public and Private Welfare

CASEbrief01 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 02, Boundaries between Public and Private Welfare: a typology and map of services, by Tania Burchardt, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website at http://sticer...Read more

November 1997