Ludovica Gambaro

Ludovica Gambaro is a Visiting Professor and Senior Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), affiliated with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and the Department of Social Policy. Her work focuses on childhood inequalities, family policy, and the impact of migration and residential mobility on child development.

• PhD in Social Policy (2012) at LSE
• Current affiliations: German Federal Institute for Population Research, LSE

Her research explores how social policies affect family dynamics, early education access, and disparities in child development. She investigates topics like peer effects in European early education, refugee family arrangements, and parental employment attitudes in cross-cultural contexts.

Recent publications analyze informal vs. formal childcare in Germany, gender ideologies post-divorce in the UK, and refugee integration. Funded by Horizon 2020 and the Nuffield Foundation, she holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Gambaro's work spans longitudinal studies, policy evaluations, and comparative analyses of social equity in childcare and housing.

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (Horizon 2020)
• Nuffield Foundation Grant

She contributes to understanding multidimensional poverty, economic inactivity, and the interplay between demographics, education, and public services. Her methodological expertise includes statistical modeling of social determinants and policy reviews across European and US contexts.