Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck

Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) onderzoekt al meer dan 40 jaar de sociale ongelijkheid en het verdelingsvraagstuk in de welvaartsstaat.

Het CSB verricht onderzoek naar de volgende kernthema's:

Armoede en inkomensverdeling
Sociale zekerheid en fiscaliteit
Europees Sociaal Beleid
Arbeid, Gezin, Gezondheid, Migratie, Onderwijs en Vergrijzing

CSB Nieuws

NEW CSB Working Paper 19/11: The Impact of the Ebola Crisis on Mortality and Welfare in Liberia

18/11/19

This paper assesses the welfare impacts of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia, focusing on changes in age and sex specific mortality rates. The first part of the paper derives a survival function for a counterfactual no-EVD scenario, using mortality data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). >>

CSB Working Paper 19/10: Putting inadequate incomes at the heart of food insecurity. A Study of the financial constraints to access a healthy diet in Europe

08/11/19

In Europe, food insecurity is still a serious concern for individual and public health. Although progress has been made in reducing undernourishment, other types of malnutrition such as obesity are on the rise. Policies that aim at improving healthy eating and addressing food insecurity tend to focus on public education, and financial incentives, such as a sugar tax. >>

CSB Working Paper 19/09: A safety net that holds? Tracking minimum income protection adequacy for the elderly, the working and the non-working of active age

14/10/19

This paper for the first time compares trends in minimum income protection for three different target groups: the working, the non-working (but able to work) of active age and the elderly. >>