Are Welfare Programmes Just Keeping People Out of Work? An Economist's Take on Benefits Street

Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lecture with Dr Camille Landais

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Are Welfare Programmes Just Keeping People Out of Work? An Economist's Take on Benefits Street
Date: Tuesday 17 February 2015 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: New Theatre, East Building Speaker: Dr Camille Landais Chair: Professor Wouter Den Haan Dr Landais will examine the latest research into the best ways of determining the optimal level of welfare provision and social insurance in developed economies.
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17 February @LSEEcon & @CFMUK lecture by Camille Landais #LSEEcon http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/newsEventsSeminars/lecturesAndEvents.aspx#camillelandais …
Mon, Feb 02 2015 17:12:06
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#LSEEcon Don't miss this Tuesday 17/2 @LSEEcon & @cfm public lecture by Camille Landais about welfare programmes http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/newsEventsSeminars/lecturesAndEvents.aspx#camillelandais …
Fri, Feb 13 2015 17:18:17
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TONIGHT: Are Welfare Programmes Just Keeping People Out of Work? @LSEEcon & @CFMUK #LSEecon talk http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2015/02/20150217t1830vNT.aspx …
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Lecture about to start, @wouter_denhaan introduces Camille Landais #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:32:26
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Landais: over time we spent more on the welfare state - more than 60% #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:36:57
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Landais: what is the case against the welfare state? Keeping people out of work and in poverty traps (1) #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:38:55
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Landais: inducing low investment in human capital, developing family welfare cultures, imposing costs on hard-working (2) #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:41:24
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Landais: what are welfare programmes: transfer money or resources to population via means-tested & categorical programmes #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:45:06
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Landais: the basic trade-off of welfare programmes - value because they bring redistribution and/or insurance benefits #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:49:56
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Landais: but they come at the cost of distorting incentives & therefore behaviours (moral hazard costs and asymmetric info) #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 18:57:04
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Landais: does welfare promote a culture of dependency?Correlation in welfare use across generations is obvsl not necessarily casual #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 19:06:02
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Landais debunks ordeal mechanisms as way of reducing moral hazard costs #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 19:14:47
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Great lecture last night frm @LSEEcon Landais econ perspective on if welfare progs keep people out of wrk pic.twitter.com/1eGkBYjMg9
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Landais refutes the argument about welfare crowding out private charity #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 19:24:44
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Camille Landais: lack of Welfare state is not covered by Private charities in the US @LSEpublicevents @LSEEcon pic.twitter.com/w12YNoig25
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Camille Landais "trust, cohesiveness, social mobility are positively correlated to the size of the Welfare state" @LSEEcon @LSEpublicevents
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Thank you Camille Landais for a clear and insightful look at new economic thinking on welfare #lseecon
Tue, Feb 17 2015 20:00:15
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Camille Landais' take on Benefits Street, podcast of @LSEEcon & @CFMUK lecture available http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=2890 … #LSEEcon
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Are Welfare Programmes Just Keeping People Out of Work? An Economist's Take on Benefits Street [Audio] by LSE Podcasts
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