BRITAIN
Research
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
The Economic and Social Research Council Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), which was founded in 1997 and is mainly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), is a multidisciplinary research center with strong links to the Department of Social Policy at LSE. CASE’s research explores “what experiences and processes generate social exclusion or promote resilience, and what is the impact of policy and policy change?”
CASE employs about 20 researchers, 15 research associates and 15 research students. CASE’s Director is Professor John Hills. Professors Anne Power, Howard Glennerster, Kathleen Kiernan, Julian Le Grand and Carol Propper are Co-Directors.
These are CASE’s main research areas:
> Generational and life course dynamics
> Poverty, local services and outcomes
> The dynamics of low-income areas
> The CASE neighborhood study, a longitudinal study of family life in low-income neighborhoods
> Education and social exclusion
> Social networks and social capital
> Employment, welfare and exclusion
> Policies, concepts and measurement of social exclusion
(Source: CASE Annual Report 2003: 3)
CASE researchers currently investigate the following questions:
> What are the impacts of childhood circumstances on later life?
> How do family structures and parenting contribute?
> How does education affect patterns of advantage and disadvantage?
> How does the area where people live affect their life chances?
> What is the role of social networks and social capital?
> How do processes of inclusion and exclusion operate in the labor market?
> How do these processes in the UK compare with other countries?(Source: Ruth Lupton’s presentation on CASE at Harvard Inequality Summer Institute, June 19, 2004)
Researchers at CASE
Research areas: educational quality and outcomes; poverty and household income dynamics; neighborhood effects on income growth; child health and poverty; ethnic segregation of children in schools and neighborhoods; spatial issues in labor markets
Research areas: public finance of education policies; economics and funding of health (NHS resource allocation); U.S. and U.K. social policy
Research areas: welfare and income distribution; public attitudes toward growth of inequality and welfare in Britain over the past 20 years; evaluation of New Labor’s policies
Research areas: rise of unmarried parenthood, its development and consequences in Europe; teenage motherhood; divorce; childhood poverty
Research areas: models of public service delivery; social exclusion and neighborhoods; health care provision
Research areas: schools, poverty and neighborhoods
Research areas: urban problems in the U.S. and Europe; urban regeneration; housing and management problems; family and community; social exclusion
Research areas: quality in health care and education; poverty dynamics; marriage and divorce transitions of young Americans; social mobility of low-income parents
Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
The Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) studies the links between globalization, technology and labor market and educational policies/institutions and their impact on companies’ and workers’ productivity, employment status and social inequality. The Center carries out research in five areas:
> Education and skills, directed by Stephen Machin
> Labor markets, directed by Alan Manning
> Globalization, directed by Tony Venables
> Innovation and productivity, directed by John van Reenen
> Technology and growth, directed by Chris Pissarides
Researchers at CEP
Research areas: earnings inequality; comparative industrial and employment relations
Research areas: international changes in wage and employment structures, with particular attention to technological change and the declining role of labor market institutions; the economic impact of minimum wage floors; intergenerational earnings and educational attainment mobility in Britain; employer provided training and job mobility; child development and relative success or failure in the youth labor market; crime and the labor market in Britain
Research areas: labor economics; low pay; minimum wages; unemployment; wages councils
Research areas: impact of innovation on jobs, skills, wages and productivity; labor markets, competition policy, industrial economics, health systems and econometrics
Research areas: international economics
Datasets
Among the datasets available at CASE and CEP are the National Child Development Study, the Birth Cohort Study, the British Household Panel Study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Survey, the Census of Population, the 12 Areas Study, which includes interviews and field observations from 1999 and 2001, the Neighborhood Study, consisting of repeated qualitative interviews conducted with 200 families in four urban areas in Britain, and the Survey of week-by-week patterns of household income.
For a complete list of datasets available at CASE and CEP and for information on how to access these datasets, visit the RLAB Data Service website and the CEP Data Library website. For specific questions about these datasets, please contact CASE’s and CEP’s Data Manager, Tanvi Desai at t.desai@lse.ac.uk, or Gordon Knowles at G.M.Knowles@lse.ac.uk.
Library access
Inequality Fellows can get a visitor library card with borrowing rights by sending an email to CASE’s administrator, Jane Dickson at j.dickson@lse.ac.uk, requesting the forms they need to gain library access. The email address of CEP’s administrator, Gillian Lodge, is g.e.lodge@lse.ac.uk.
Research seminars
Seminars at CASE and CEP are open to the public. Most seminars do not run in June and July. CASE organizes occasional Ph.D. writing workshops, and the organizer will decide on whether Inequality Fellows can participate.
Practical information
Accommodation
LSE residence halls are open to everyone during the summer (June, July through September). Students may be able to negotiate discounts if they stay longer than five weeks. For information on accommodation in London during the academic year, see the LSE housing website and the website of the University of London Accommodation Office.
Budget
The LSE’s Finance Guide gives you a good idea of the cost of living in London.
Health insurance
The US State Department provides extensive information on health insurance for Americans traveling abroad.
Office space and computer access
If space permits, Inequality Fellows will have access to a desk, computer and a phone. Phone calls are only possible within London and exclude calls to cell phones. Fellows can also get an email address through LSE.
Timing
The best time to be at CASE and CEP is from October to June. For information on LSE’s academic calendar, see LSE’s academic timetable.
Transportation
The most cost-effective way to travel in London is with a weekly or monthly Travelcard. For train travel in Britain, the National Rail Inquiries website provides helpful information. A fast and convenient way to travel from London to Brussels and Paris is by Eurostar. As a rule, train tickets are cheaper the earlier one books them. For a list of low-cost airlines operating in Europe, visit http://www.discountairfares.com/lcosteur.htm. To print out a location on a map, go to http://www.mappy.com./
Visa information
Inequality Fellows who are U.S. citizens and who enter the U.K. as academic visitors for less than six months do not need a visa to enter the U.K. However, they will need to show evidence to British Immigration that they will be able to sustain themselves during their stay in Britain, and that they have a return ticket to the U.S. For the latest visa-related information, see the US State Department, the LSE webpage on information for overseas students and the Home Office’s website on UK visas.
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