Camille Landais

Deputy Director of STICERD, Public Economics Programme Co-director, Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Co-director and Professor of Economics

Expertise: public finance, labour economics, applied microeconomics, microeconometrics

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 7864

Email:

c.landais@lse.ac.uk

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Links:

Public Economics
Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy
Cohesive Capitalism
Department of Economics

Biography

Camille Landais is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and an associate of LSE's International Inequalities Institute. At STICERD he is Director of the Public Economics Programme and Co-Director of the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy.

Latest

Journal Articles

The Child Penalty Atlas

01 October 2025

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais and Gabriel Leite-Mariante

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on microdata from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. ... Read more...

Journal article

Explaining variation in child penalties: the role of gender norms and policies

18 March 2025

Camille Landais, Gabriel Leite-Mariante and Sveva Manfredi

This paper contributes to understanding global variation in child and marriage penalties by focusing on the role of patriarchal control, gender norms, and public policies. We introduce a new measure of gender norms, the ... Read more...

Journal Articles

Explaining Variation in Child Penalties: The Role of Gender Norms and Policies

14 March 2025

Camille Landais, Gabriel Leite-Mariante and Sveva Manfredi

Blogs

Camille Landais: The gender gap stems from the unequal allocation of childcare work between partners

04 September 2024

Anna Bevan and Camille Landais

Having children can slow down career progression significantly for women, but not for men. LSE Professor Camille Landais studied this difference in outcomes and labelled it the ?child penalty?. He sat down for a chat wit... Read more...

Journal Articles

Women and men at work

17 July 2024

Alison Andrew, Oriana Bandiera, Monica Costa Dias and Camille Landais

We explore gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work with a focus on the UK. The average working-age woman in the UK earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019; sizeable gender gaps in participation, hours worke... Read more...

Blog

The 'child penalty' creates most of the gender earnings gaps in rich countries

08 March 2024

Anneliese Dodds, Myung Jin, Camille Landais and Almudena Sevilla

After having children, women tend to change their working hours and wage rates, and even transition to new jobs. This phenomenon, known as the child penalty, explains the bulk of the gender earnings gap in developed coun... Read more...

CEP Public Events

Women, work and economics: evidence and experience

28 February 2024

Camille Landais (LSE), Almudena Sevilla (CEP and LSE), Anneliese Dodds (Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities in the UK), Felicia Odamtten (Resolution Foundation and The Black Economists Network)

An event exploring childcare and the gender pay gap around the world and an interview with Felicia Odamtten, founder of the Black Economists Network.... Read more...

Journal article

Subsidizing labor hoarding in recessions: the employment and welfare effects of short time work

28 December 2022

Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais

Short-time work (STW) policies provide subsidies for hour reductions to workers in firms experiencing temporary shocks. They are the main policy tool used to support labour hoarding during downturns and were aggressively... Read more...

Journal article

Should we insure workers or jobs during recessions?

01 May 2022

Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais and Alice Lapeyre

What is the most efficient way to respond to recessions in the labor market? To this question, policymakers on the two sides of the pond gave diametrically opposed answers during the COVID-19 crisis. In the United States... Read more...

Blog

The hidden costs of incentivising later retirement

22 March 2022

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn

Over the past two decades, many countries have reformed their public pension systems in pursuit of desirable fiscal effects, often by introducing or strengthening incentives for later retirement. However, the welfare eff... Read more...

External publications

The careers and time use of mothers and fathers

12 March 2021

Alison Andrew, Oriana Bandiera, Monica Costa Dias and Camille Landais

The large decline in women?s paid work after childbirth cannot be explained by couples prioritising the paid work of the higher-wage parents. ... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

24 February 2021

Camille Landais (LSE)

This paper uses patterns in consumption from Swedish administrative data to evaluate the welfare costs of increasing incentives for later retirement. We find that increasing the steepness of the pension benefits profile,... Read more...