ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion ASE CENTRE FOR ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION An ESRC Research Centre annual report 2006 CASEreport 37 Staff and Associates 2006 Director Dr Christian Schluter (Southampton) Administrator Professor John Hills Dr Wendy Sigle-Rushton Ms Jane Dickson Professor Holly Sutherland (Essex) Deputy Director Dr Rebecca Tunstall Administrative and IT Support Professor Anne Power Dr Polly Vizard Ms Naomi Achie-Anku (until Sept 2006) Professor Jane Waldfogel (Columbia) Ms Nicola Serle Co-Directors Dr Asghar Zaidi (European Centre for Mr Joe Joannes Professor Emeritus Howard Glennerster Social Welfare Policy and Research) Ms Laura Lane Professor Kathleen Kiernan Mr Yusuf Osman (until Sept 2006) Professor Julian Le Grand Visitors Ms Anna Tamas (from Sept 2006) Professor Carol Propper Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania) Mr Nic Warner John Goering (City University of New Research Staff York) Advisory Committee Dr Francesca Borgonovi Lane Kenworthy (University of Arizona) Ms Sue Duncan, Cabinet Office (Chair) Dr Tania Burchardt Nathan Fosse (Harvard University) Professor Daniel Dorling, Sheffield Ms Alice Coulter (until Sept 2006) Mattia Makovec (European Centre, University Dr Rosey Davidson (until Oct 2006) Vienna) Mr Norman Glass, National Centre for Dr Carmen Huerta Steve Morris (Department for Work and Social Research Dr Eleni Karagiannaki Pensions) Professor Janet Finch, Keele University Dr Abigail McKnight Petra Nahmias (Princeton University) Professor Stephen Jenkins, Essex University Dr Caroline Paskell (until Nov 2006) Lucinda Platt (University of Essex) Mr Joe Montgomery, Office of the Deputy Dr Jörg Plöger (from Feb 2006) Matthias Till (University of Vienna) Prime Minister (until February 2006) Ms Elizabeth Richardson (until July 2006) Mr Nicholas Timmins, Financial Times Dr John Rigg (until September 2006) Research Students Mr Adrian Towse, Office of Health Mr Tom Sefton Ms Francesca Bastagli Economics Dr Kitty Stewart Ms Sheere Brooks Ms Moira Wallace, Home Office Dr Helen Willmot (until Oct 2006) Ms Mingzhu Dong Ms Sally Witcher, Edinburgh University Ms Astrid Winkler (from Jan 2006) Mr Aaron Grech (from Sept 2006) Professor Sarah Worthington, London Mr Bryan Jones (from Sept 2006) School of Economics and Political Science Associates Ms Geraldine Mitchell-Smith Dr Arnstein Aassve (Essex) Ms Julia Morgan Professor Simon Burgess (Bristol) Mr Hyun-Bang Shin Professor Robert Cassen Ms Emily Silverman (until Nov 2006) Professor Frank Cowell Ms Sarah Thomas de Benitez Dr Martin Evans (Oxford) Ms Catalina Turcu Professor Paul Gregg (Bristol) Ms Yuka Uzuki (from Sept 2006) Professor John Hobcraft (York) Professor Jane Falkingham Research assistants (Southampton) Ms Sarah Bullman (Jan-Apr 2006) Dr Orsolya Lelkes (European Centre for Mr Adam Kaasa (Jan-Aug 2006) Social Welfare Policy and Research) Ms Seema de Silva (Jan-Aug 2006) Dr Bingqin Li Mr Ben Baumberg (from May 2006) Dr Ruth Lupton (Institute of Education) Ms Catalina Turcu (from June 2006) Professor John Micklewright Ms Tiffany Tsang (July-Nov 2006) (Southampton) Ms Katharina Janke (from Oct 2006) Professor David Piachaud Ms Florencia Lopez-Boo (March-Dec 2006) Contents CASE – An Introduction 2 Review of the Year, 2006 3 Generational and Life Course Dynamics: 8 Pathways into and out of Social Exclusion Non-resident Fatherhood and Child Involvement 9 Poverty, Local Services and Outcomes 10 Work and Family Life 11 Low Income Areas, the CASE Neighbourhood Study and Social Networks 12 Jigsaw Cities 13 Employment, Welfare, Education and Exclusion 14 Short-term Income Volatility for Low-income Families 15 Policies, Concepts and Measurement of Social Exclusion 16 A Framework for Measuring Equality 17 Appendix 1 – Current Research and Research Staff 18 Appendix 2 – List of Publications 2006 20 Appendix 3 – Key Performance Indicators 26 How to Find Us 28 CASE – An Introduction The ESRC Research Centre for the STICERD, including funding of its Toyota This report presents some of the main Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) Research Fellow. It currently houses nine findings from our research in each area is based at the London School of postgraduate students working on topics during 2006: most of our ninth and part Economics and Political Science related to its core areas of interest. of our tenth year. It also details the other (LSE), within the Suntory and Toyota activities of the Centre. More detail can International Centres for Economics and This breadth of experience and research be found in the publications listed in Related Disciplines (STICERD). It was interests enables CASE to bring a wide Appendix 2, which include CASE’s own established in 997 with core funding range of approaches and methodologies discussion paper series (CASE papers), from the Economic and Social Research to the study of social exclusion. Our research and conference reports (CASE Council, and its funding now runs until work is linked by two themes: what reports) and summaries of findings (CASE the end of 007. The Centre is also experiences and processes generate briefs), all of which are disseminated free financially supported by the LSE and by social exclusion or promote resilience, in printed form or via the web. a wide range of other organisations, and what is the impact of policy and including the Joseph Rowntree policy change? Our specific research is For more information about the Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation, divided into eight main areas: Centre and its work, including the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, texts of our publications, please the Sutton Trust, the British Academy, 1 Generational and life course dynamics. visit our website: http://sticerd. the Department of Communities and lse.ac.uk/case/ Local Governments, HM Revenue and 2 Poverty, local services and outcomes. Customs, the Department for Trade and Industry, the Department for Work and 3 The dynamics of low income areas. Pensions and the Scottish Executive. 4 The CASE neighbourhood study, a CASE is a multi-disciplinary research longitudinal study of family life in low centre. It employs researchers income neighbourhoods. recruited specifically for its ESRC- funded work programme, and also 5 Education and social exclusion. includes the research and consultancy group LSE Housing. Several staff 6 Social networks and social capital. divide their time between CASE and 7 Employment, welfare and exclusion. the Leverhulme Centre for Market and Public Organisation at Bristol 8 Policies, concepts and measurement of University. The Centre is affiliated to social exclusion. the LSE Department for Social Policy, and also benefits from support from Review of the Year, 2006 The Year at a Glance • Papers flowed from our analysis of CASE with the Brookings Institution This report covers CASE’s activities during large longitudinal datasets, including as part of the ‘Weak Market Cities’ the calendar year 2006 (with financial the Millennium Cohort Study, the programme which started during and related information for the 2005-06 British Household Panel Study and the year. They also included a special academic year). This is the ninth year the Avon Longitudinal Study of conference in October 006 at of the Centre’s core funding from the Parents and Children. We published which papers in honour of CASE’s Council, which will end in December our study tracking working families’ Co-Director, Professor Howard 007. The Centre is currently exploring incomes week-by-week across the Glennerster, were presented, to be alternative ways of continuing its research year, revealing surprising amounts published in 007 in a book, Making programme after December 2007, has of variability. We completed visits Social Policy Work. already secured several grants for the and interviews for our two area- The ESRC provided just over half of the period from 2008, and is awaiting the related studies, of the 12 low-income • Centre’s total funding of £.4 million results of other applications. neighbourhoods and of families in the academic year 2005-06, with living within four of them. One book host institution support providing 15 • The year saw publication of Polly resulting from these studies is now in per cent of the total and co-funding Vizard’s book, Poverty and Human press and two more are in preparation. Rights: Sen’s capability framework from other bodies 28 per cent. New explored, and the book which CASE • CASE members were invited to carry grants of £96,000 were secured associate Jane Waldfogel wrote out two major reviews for government during the year. while at CASE, What Children Need, – one by Tania Burchardt and Polly Overall research staff inputs were launched at CASE in June by the Vizard on a framework for analysing • 4.4 FTEs. Just under two-fifths (5.4 Minister for Children. equalities for the Equalities Review, FTEs) were ESRC-funded. Associated and one by John Hills on the aims academic staff contributed . FTEs, • Other major publications in the of social housing for the Secretary and support staff 4. FTEs. year included Rebecca Tunstall and of State for Communities and Local Alice Coulter’s report for the Joseph Government. Both have been very well CASE’s research programme Rowntree Foundation, 25 Years on received and their recommendations The seven specific issues on which Twenty Estates, reporting on the latest are being taken further. position of originally unpopular estates our research programme agreed with ESRC for the five years 00 to 007 is that CASE members have studied since • We continued to disseminate