Following the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, LSE Housing and Communities was grant funded to bring together residents from multi-storey estates around the country to share their views of living in blocks of flats, then document these experiences and the lessons learnt. …

Recent CASE research for the Social Mobility Commission examined whether the government’s approach to assisting first time buyers actually improved social mobility through increasing home ownership among low income families. Here Bert Provan summarises the main findings from this research which found that current schemes mainly benefit the already well-off. …

During her visit to CASE in 2017, Anne Solaz continued her research examining the impact of shared-care of dependent children after divorce. Using data for France, Anne and her co-authors find higher rates of employment for mothers with shared-care arrangements. The main residency of dependent children with mothers (sole custody)…

Tammy Campbell, Research Officer at CASE, discusses a recent article of hers which explores the relationship between streaming in primary school and teachers’ judgments of their students. Despite evidence that streaming children according to their “ability” contributes to inequalities in attainment, the practice is increasingly used in English primary schools…

Roma, Gypsy and Traveller (RGT) children, as well as the RGT population as a whole, are recognised as a highly vulnerable and disadvantaged group in England and Wales as well as across Europe. Their outcomes relating to living standards, education and health have been flagged up in quantitative work as…

Abigail McKnight, CASE Associate Director, explains her work with colleagues at SOAS, CASE, the International Inequalities Institute and Oxfam, to develop a practical yet theoretically grounded framework for measuring multidimensional inequality. During 2017 a team of researchers at CASE and the III (International Inequalities Institute) have been working with Oxfam…

Nora Ratzmann, a third year PhD student at CASE, completed her fieldwork in summer 2017. Here she reflects on the process of collecting qualitative data with an ethnographic sensibility in the context of a complex bureaucratic organisational setting. Research overview My PhD research explores how EU migrants’ basic social security…

Howard Glennerster draws on analysis in his recent book Understanding the cost of welfare (3rd Edition) to set out the funding challenges we face, in particular those related to changing health and social care needs. The Beveridge Report of 1942 was essentially a detailed blueprint for the future of post…

Ellie Suh, a third year PhD student in CASE, talks about her first paper, which examines retirement saving activity among young British adults. The much-improved living standard of British pensioners in recent years has given the impression to the younger age population that there is little to be concerned about…