Eleni Karagiannaki is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Faculty Associate at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. She has worked on numerous funded research projects, including policy-related research for organizations such as the European Commission and the Department for Work and Pensions. She is an applied micro economist with expertise in inequality and poverty analysis and measurement. Her research focuses on understanding how the tax and benefit systems, the labour market and the families interplay to shape socio-economic inequalities.

Research interests: 

• Income and wealth distribution analysis: Measurement and analysis of income and wealth inequality; poverty, material deprivation, social exclusion; social mobility; intrahousehold inequality and poverty; intergenerational mobility and intergenerational transfers
• Public Economics and Social Policy: Redistributive role of social and fiscal policies both within and across generations
• Household Economics: Economic behaviour and decision-making processes of single and multi-person households