Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

Dr Kitty Stewart talks about the results of a recent systematic review funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which examines the evidence on whether household financial resources have a causal effect on children's health, cognitive and behavioural outcomes.

Tania Burchardt, of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, explains more about the role that the capability approach might play in helping to integrate the equality and human rights approach.

Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Oxford and LSE Date: 30th April 2015 Venue: The London School of Economics and Political Science Increasing inequality is a salient issue in public discourse, but debate often centres on the causes rather than any possible solutions. Introducing his new book, Inequality: what can be done? Professor Atkinson argues we can do much more about inequality than the skeptics might imagine.

Speakers: Professor John Hills, Dr Polly Vizard Chair: Bharat Mehta Recorded on 12 March 2015 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. John Hills will present new findings from the Social Policy in a Cold Climate programme of research on the ways in which patterns of economic inequality changed in the UK over the economic crisis 2007-13. Dr Polly Vizard will present new findings on the patterns of inequality in London, and how the distribution of key economic outcomes - including income and wealth, employment and unemployment, earnings and wages, and educational qualifications - have changed amongst different population groups. John Hills is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE. His research interests include the distribution of income and wealth, the welfare state, social security, pensions, housing and taxation. He led a review of fuel poverty for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (2011-2012), was Chair of the Nati