About
Bo Hu is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC), London School of Economics and Political Science. He joined CPEC in 2013 and has since held research roles of increasing seniority. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from LSE and a PhD in Economics from Nankai University.
His work examines long-term care and ageing from economic, social policy and life-course perspectives. He has particular expertise in projecting future demand and expenditure, evaluating long-term care financing reforms, and analysing inequalities in care needs, access and outcomes. His research also addresses unpaid care, dementia, housing and neighbourhood environments, mental health, and long-term care systems in England and East Asia.
Expertise
Long-term care, Ageing, Social policy and Quantitative methods
Research
My research focuses on how population ageing, health, socioeconomic circumstances and the wider environment shape long-term care needs, use, costs and outcomes. A central strand of my work develops simulation models to project future demand for formal and unpaid care and associated expenditure, and to assess the costs and distributional consequences of alternative long-term care funding reforms.
I also use longitudinal survey and administrative data to investigate inequalities in access to care and unmet need. This work examines how housing quality, neighbourhood conditions, income and family circumstances affect the onset and progression of care needs and people’s ability to obtain support. Related research considers unpaid caregiving trajectories, the relationship between formal and unpaid care, and the economic value and future supply of unpaid care.
My research is comparative and policy-oriented, with a particular focus on England, China and other East Asian long-term care systems. Methodologically, I specialise in quantitative longitudinal analysis, macrosimulation, multistate modelling, latent-variable methods and quasi-experimental policy evaluation. Across these areas, my aim is to produce rigorous evidence that can inform the design, financing and delivery of equitable and sustainable long-term care systems.