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Exam crop
The negative impact of positive Ofsted ratings

GCSE results suffer as parents back off from supporting their children, according to new analysis by ISER with a research team from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, University of Sussex, UCL and Bristol

Cultural heritage crop
One in ten ethnic minorities reports experiencing racial harassment

ESRC-funded study of the prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health during the period 2009 to 2014

Economy housing
Universal credit to hit 1.9 million by over £1,000 per year – though for many these losses are temporary

New study led by MiSoC Director, Professor Mike Brewer with researchers at Institute for Fiscal Studies, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

2019 child poverty in scotland
What could change rising child poverty rates in Scotland?

Dr Paola De Agostini has been working with the research team at the Scottish Parliament on testing policy reforms

Crop surveys
New ISER research at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019

From pill scares to how the rich save, childhood obesity to intergenerational mobility, gender pay gap to mortality rates, new studies from 16 ISER researchers presented at the prestigious annual conference

Sonia crop
Women in Social Science Conference: Professor Sonia Bhalotra on the challenges women have faced over the past 50 years

Academy of Social Sciences half day event in London on 3 April discusses the achievements and challenges with senior female academics and early career researchers

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  1. Productivity Effects of Dengue in Brazil

    Sonia Bhalotra and Rudi Rocha

  2. Parental responses to information about school quality: evidence from linked survey and administrative data

    Ellen Greaves, Iftikhar Hussain, Birgitta Rabe, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy

  3. The efficiency and distributive effects of local taxes: evidence from Italian municipalities

    Enrico Rubolino

    1. Area Effects
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Taxation

Understanding Society

  1. A review of new technologies and data sources for measuring household finances: implications for total survey error

    Annette Jäckle, Alessandra Gaia, Carli Lessof, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Households
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Finance

  2. The influence of device characteristics on data collection using a Mobile App.

    Brendan Read

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Survey Methodology

  3. IntCount: a Stata command for estimating count data models from interval data

    Stephen Pudney

    1. Computing
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health

EUROMOD

  1. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova and Jekaterina Navicke

  2. Second earners and in-work poverty in the EU

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Daria Popova

  3. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, Katrin Gasior, et al.

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