ASE CENTRE FOR ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION CentreAn ESRC for Resear Analysisch Centre of Social Exclusion annual report 2015 CASEreport 98 Staff and Associates 2015 Director LSE Associates Administrative and IT Professor John Hills Professor Emeritus Robert Cassen Support Professor Frank Cowell Ms Cheryl Conner Deputy Director Professor Emeritus Howard Glennerster Ms Emma Glassey (to October) Dr Tania Burchardt Professor Stephen Jenkins Mr Joe Joannes Ms Jessica Rowan (from October) Research Staff Dr Neil Lee Mr Nic Warner Ms Amanda Fitzgerald (to September) Professor Julian Le Grand Professor David Piachaud Ms Laura Lane Advisory Committee Professor Lucinda Platt Dr Eleni Karagiannaki Ms Alison Park (National Centre Dr Abigail McKnight Dr Amanda Sheely for Social Research; chair) Dr Polina Obolenskaya Dr Hyun-Bang Shin Dr Tania Burchardt Professor Anne Power Professor Wendy Sigle (Deputy Director of CASE) Dr Bert Provan Mr Tom Clark (The Guardian) Visitors Ms Nicola Serle Ms Cathy Francis Professor Bea Cantillon (Antwerp) (Communities and Local Government) Dr Kitty Stewart Mr Pieter Cools (Antwerp) Professor Howard Glennerster Dr Polly Vizard Dr Stijn Oosterlynck (Antwerp) (Emeritus Professor of Social Policy) (Total 6.05 FTE in October 2015) Professor John Hills (Director of CASE) Research Students Visiting Professors and Mr Trevor Huddleston Ms Caroline Bryson (from November) Research Fellows (Department for Work and Pensions) Ms Kerris Cooper Professor Francesca Klug Dr Francesca Bastagli (ODI) Mr Jack Cunliffe (to December) (LSE Human Rights, to July) Dr Jo Blanden (Surrey) Mr Rikki Dean Professor David Lewis, Head of LSE Social Professor Simon Burgess Policy Department (ex-officio) (Bristol, to March) Ms Eileen Herden Professor David Piachaud Ms Elena Mariani Dr Moira Dustin (Equality and Diversity (LSE Social Policy Department) Forum) Mr Nick Mathers Professor Carol Propper Dr Martin Evans (UNICEF, to March) Ms Alice Miles (Bristol University and Imperial College) Dr Leon Feinstein Mrs Kênia Parsons (to April) (Early Intervention Foundation) Ms Nora Ratzmann (from October) Mr Alex Fenton (independent researcher, Ms Ellie Suh (from October) to November) Ms Kate Summers Dr Ludovica Gambaro Ms Milo Vandemoortele (UCL Institute of Education) Professor Ian Gough Research assistants Dr Aaron Grech (Bank of Malta) Ms Alice Belotti Mr Bruce Katz (Brookings) Mr Jack Cunliffe Professor Ruth Lupton (Manchester) Ms Gwenno Edwards Dr Lindsey Macmillan Mr Ben Grubb (Institute of Education) Ms Eileen Herden Ms Liz Richardson (Manchester) Ms Emily Jones (from June) Professor Holly Sutherland (Essex) Mr Nick Roberts (September – November) Professor Rebecca Tunstall (York, to May) Ms Ellie Suh (to July) Professor Jane Waldfogel (Columbia) Ms Moira Wallace (Oriel College) Centre Manager Professor Asghar Zaidi Ms Jane Dickson (University of Southampton) Contents Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion 2 2015: The year at a glance 3 2015: Review of the year 5 John Hills and Tania Burchardt 2016: Looking forward to the year ahead 7 Public and private welfare 8 Tania Burchardt and Polina Obolenskaya Is welfare reform working? 10 Eileen Alexander, Anne Power and Bert Provan The changing distribution of individual incomes in the 12 UK before and after the recession and its implications for the gender income gap Eleni Karagiannaki and Lucinda Platt Older people’s experiences of dignity and nutrition 14 during hospital stays Polly Vizard and Tania Burchardt Is limited downward mobility a hindrance 16 to improving social mobility? Abigail McKnight Too Many Children Left Behind 18 Jane Waldfogel Social Advantage and Disadvantage 19 Lucinda Platt Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged 20 pupils in London Lindsey Macmillan How do experts think child poverty should be measured in the UK? 22 Kitty Stewart and Nick Roberts Social innovation and poverty reduction 24 Stijn Oosterlynck LSE Housing and Communities 25 PhD Spotlight: Public participation in policy decision making 28 Rikki Dean Life as a PhD student at CASE 30 Kerris Cooper Knowledge exchange update 31 Cheryl Conner and Emily Jones Research staff and PhD students: Current research 32 CASE publications 2015 37 CASE seminars and events 2015 43 1 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion The Centre for Analysis of Social CASE is associated with the Department CASE is part of the Suntory and Toyota Exclusion (CASE), established in October of Social Policy and a number of International Centres for Economics 1997 in the London School of Economics postgraduate students are members of and Related Disciplines (STICERD). and Political Science (LSE), is a multi- the Centre. We are always interested in CASE was originally funded by the disciplinary research centre exploring working with high quality PhD students Economic and Social Research Council various aspects of social disadvantage and post-doctoral fellows exploring (ESRC) and now receives funding from and the impact of public policy on areas of research of central relevance to a range of organisations including disadvantage and inequality, particularly our work. CASE also hosts visitors from charitable foundations (for example, from longitudinal and neighbourhood the UK and overseas, and members of Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree perspectives. Its work programme LSE teaching staff on sabbatical leave. Foundation, Trust for London), research includes monitoring the performance of councils (for example, ESRC), UK Regular seminars on significant the welfare state in the UK, international government departments, the European contemporary empirical and theoretical comparisons of the impact of social Union, a range of Registered Social issues are held in the Centre, including policy and social outcomes, analysing Landlords, and a number of other the monthly Welfare Policy and Analysis patterns of social inequality, including charities and organisations in the UK seminar series, which is supported by wealth inequality, between groups and and abroad. the Department for Work and Pensions. over time, developing applications of the For more information about the capability approach and human rights We publish a series of CASEpapers and Centre and its work, please visit measurement, and increasingly studying CASEbriefs, discussing and summarising sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/ the intersection of climate change policy our research. Longer research reports and and social policy – particularly in relation reports on special events can be found to fuel poverty. in our occasional CASEreports series. All of our publications, including this Annual CASE incorporates the research and Report, can be downloaded from our consultancy group LSE Housing and website, where you can also find links to Communities, which investigates the the data underlying many of the charts impact of policies on social housing and and diagrams in our publications. other tenures with a particular focus on residents in disadvantaged areas. 2 2015: The year at a glance January February University Press, and launched at an We launched the results from our We had the first two of a series of event at LSE. Making a Difference in Social Policy in a Cold Climate research “Election Special” seminars this month, Education: What the evidence says, by programme, The Coalition’s Social Policy one on the outlook for living standards Robert Cassen, Sandra McNally and Anna Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes by Gavin Kelly and “where next for Vignoles, was published by Routledge 2010-2015 on 28 January in the form of welfare policy?” by Jonathan Portes, plus this month, and was launched in the LSE nine new reports including an overview seminars by Giovanni Razzu on gender Works series on 6 May. of the Coalition’s social policy record differentials and the economic cycle by April also saw our last “Election and separate papers on taxes and Daniela Silcock on pension reform. Special” seminar by John van Reenen benefits, health, adult social care, under- on economic and business policy, and fives, further and higher education March a special seminar joint with the Smith and skills, employment, housing, area We had another “Election Special” Institute by Alan Berube on poverty in regeneration. A further paper on schools seminar on the outlook for Social American surburbia. was launched on 10 February, following Policy by Kitty Stewart, John Hills and Kênia Parsons successfully defended release of further GCSE results in late Abigail McKnight, plus seminars on top her thesis with only minor corrections January. Each paper contained thorough incomes and middle income growth on how the Brazilian Bolsa Família analysis of policy, spending and trends (Tim Smeeding) and on understanding programme reaches out to the chronic in outcomes, showing how the Coalition and reducing the use of food banks poor. She continues her appointment as tackled the fiscal and social policy (Tom Sefton). challenges it faced in 2010. a visiting academic at the Social Policy April Research Centre, University of New Does Money in Adulthood Affect Adult South Wales. In the first joint event with the new Outcomes?, by Kerris Cooper and Kitty International Inequalities Institute, Tony Stewart was published on 26 January by Atkinson’s new book, Inequality: What the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. can be done?, was published by Harvard Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison’s seminar on the “class ceiling” 3 2015: The year at a glance (continued) May Ruth Lupton and Heather Joshi presented a seminar on moving home in the early years