JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) H - Public Economics (1336) H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies (295) H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs (46)
Number of items at this level: 46.
2025
  • Barr, Nicholas (2025). Welfare state. In Besley, Tim, Bucelli, Irene, Velasco, Andrés (Eds.), The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century (pp. 351 - 390). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tlc.k picture_as_pdf
  • Baumberg Geiger, Ben, Scullion, Lisa, Edmiston, Daniel, de Vries, Robert, Summers, Kate, Ingold, Jo, Young, David (2025). Benefits conditionality in the United Kingdom is it common, and is it perceived to be reasonable? Social Policy and Administration, 59(7), 1241 - 1252. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13119 picture_as_pdf
  • Caridi-Ross, Siena, Mumtaz, Zahid (2025). A hybrid classification approach for exploring Iraq’s welfare regime. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 41(2), 160 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2025.10080 picture_as_pdf
  • Carrera, Leandro, Angelaki, Marina (2025). Where next with pension policy change in Latin America? Comparative insights from Chile and Uruguay. Politics & Policy, 53(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70078 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2025). The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2025.07.012 picture_as_pdf
  • Edmiston, Daniel (2025). Indentured: benefit deductions, debt recovery and welfare disciplining. Social Policy and Administration, 59(2), 360 - 375. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13021 picture_as_pdf
  • Hu, Bo, Hancock, Ruth, Wittenberg, Raphael, King, Derek, Morciano, Marcello (2025). Reforming the funding of long-term care for older people: costs and distributional impacts of planned changes in England. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133125000088 picture_as_pdf
  • Iacono, Roberto (2025). The welfare versus work paradox. PLOS ONE, 20(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321564 picture_as_pdf
  • Jara, H. Xavier, Montesdeoca, Lourdes, Colmenarez, María Gabriela, Moreno, Lorena (2025). Two decades of tax-benefit reforms in Ecuador how much have they contributed to poverty and inequality reduction? World Development, 190, p. 106976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106976 picture_as_pdf
  • Nichelatti, Enrico, Oppel, Annalena, Tagem, Abrams (2025). The rising tide: floods as drivers of income and welfare inequality in South Africa. (III Working Paper 153). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.jkqjf1nhmzj2 picture_as_pdf
  • Nikoloski, Zlatko, Zapata, Maria Elisa, Mossialos, Elias (2025). Impact of conditional cash transfer programs on health outcomes in Argentina: a retrospective, observational analysis based on MICS 2019/2020. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101011 picture_as_pdf
  • Reader, Mary, Portes, Jonathan, Patrick, Ruth (2025). Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? Evidence from the UK’s two-child limit. Population Research and Policy Review, 44(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09935-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Tan, Jolene, Cui, Qi, Uchikoshi, Fumiya (2025). The increasing importance of changes in nuptiality: policy mismatch and fertility decline in low-fertility Asian societies. Chinese Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2025.2480296 picture_as_pdf
  • 2024
  • Hjalmarsson, Randi, Machin, Stephen, Pinotti, Paolo (2024). Crime and the labor market. In Dustmann, Christian, Lemieux, Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics (pp. 679 - 759). Elsevier (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.heslab.2024.11.008
  • Jara, H. Xavier, Palacio Ludeña, María Gabriela (2024). Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic: guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador. Journal of International Development, 36(3), 1738 - 1764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3878 picture_as_pdf
  • Olivera, Javier, Schokkaert, Erik, van Kerm, Philippe (2024). The role of information in eliciting support for inheritance taxation. (III Working Paper 157). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Schechtl, Manuel, Waitkus, Nora (2024). Where income becomes wealth: how redistribution moderates the association between income and wealth. Socius, 10, 1 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241261599 picture_as_pdf
  • 2023
  • Stampini, Marco, Medellín, Nadin, Ibarrarán, Pablo (2023). Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. (III Working Papers 116). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.8lv8ze9fpudt picture_as_pdf
  • 2022
  • Tselios, Vassilis, Rodriguez-Pose, Andres (2022). Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe? Territory, Politics, Governance, https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2022.2098174 picture_as_pdf
  • 2018
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Vilaplana, Cristina (2018). Does long-term care subsidization reduce hospital admissions and utilization? Journal of Health Economics, 58, 43-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.01.002
  • 2017
  • Cooper, Kerris, Stewart, Kitty (2017). Does Money Affect Children’s Outcomes? An update. (CASEpapers 203). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • 2016
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Vilaplana, Cristina (2016). Does long-term care subsidisation reduce hospital admissions? (CESifo working papers 6078). CESifo Group.
  • Piachaud, David (2016). Citizen's income: rights and wrongs. (CASEpapers 200). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • 2015
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (III Working Paper 3). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.p78ftr7d9y5j picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (CESifo working paper 5412). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1362). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • De Agostini, Paola, Hills, John Robert, Sutherland, Holly (2015). Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010-2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes: an end-of-term update. (Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers SPCCWP22). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • 2014
  • Pendle, Naomi (2014). Interrupting the balance: reconsidering the complexities of conflict in South Sudan. Disasters, 38(2), 227-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12055
  • 2012
  • Glennerster, Howard (2012). Paying for welfare. In Alcock, Pete, May, Margaret, Wright, Sharon (Eds.), The Student's Companion to Social Policy (pp. 241-247). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Schelkle, Waltraud (2012). Collapsing worlds and varieties of welfare capitalism: in search of a new political economy of welfare. (LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series 54/2012). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • 2011
  • Fleckenstein, Timo (2011). Institutions, ideas and learning in welfare state change: labour market reforms in Germany. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Fleckenstein, Timo (2011). The politics of ideas in welfare state transformations: Christian democracy and the reform of family policy in Germany. Social Politics, 18(4), 543-571. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxr022
  • Fleckenstein, Timo, Saunders, A. M., Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin (2011). The dual transformation of social protection and human capital: comparing Britain and Germany. Comparative Political Studies, 44(12), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414011407473
  • Fleckenstein, Timo, Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin (2011). Business, skills and the welfare state: the political economy of employment-oriented family policies in Britain and Germany. Journal of European Social Policy, 21(2), 136-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928710380483
  • Manacorda, Marco, Miguel, Edward, Vigorito, Andrea (2011). Government transfers and political support. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.3.3.1
  • 2010
  • Mokhtar, Christina, Platt, Lucinda (2010). Lone mothers, ethnicity and welfare dynamics. Journal of Social Policy, 39(01), 95-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279409990031
  • Simoni, Marco (2010). Labour and welfare reforms: the short life of labour unity in contemporary Italy. In Mammone, Andrea, Veltri, Giuseppe A. (Eds.), Italy Today: the Sick Man of Europe . Routledge.
  • 2009
  • Ahmad, Ehtisham (2009). Fiscal policy instruments and the political economy of designing programs to reach the poorest. (Working Paper 25). Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ngai, L. Rachel, Pissarides, Christopher A. (2009). Welfare policy and the distribution of hours of work. (CEP Discussion Paper 962). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Sefton, Tom (2009). A child’s portion: an analysis of public expenditure on children in the UK. (CASEreport 59). Save the Children.
  • 2008
  • Schady, Norbert, Araujo, Maria Caridad (2008). Cash transfers, conditions, and school enrollment in Ecuador. Economía, 8(2), 43 - 70. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.0.0004 picture_as_pdf
  • Sutherland, Holly, Evans, Martin, Hancock, Ruth, Hills, John, Zantomio, Francesca (2008). The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
  • 2007
  • Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, Fleckenstein, Timo (2007). Discourse, learning and welfare state change: the case of German labour market reforms. Social Policy and Administration, 41(5), 427-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00566.x
  • 2005
  • Smithies, Rachel (2005). Public and private welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999. (CASEpaper 93). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • 1997
  • Noble, Michael, Platt, Lucinda, Smith, George, Daly, Michael (1997). The spread of disability living allowance. Disability and Society, 12(5), 741-752. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599727029
  • 1993
  • Le Grand, Julian (1993). Can we afford the welfare state? British Medical Journal, 307(6911), 1018-1019. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1018