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ISER's role in new international community of researchers working on major new European survey of children's wellbeing

Interdisciplinary social scientist Dr Gundi Knies, social epidemiologist Dr Cara Booker and survey methodologist Professor Peter Lynn, join the international research team implementing the first Europe-wide longitudinal study to track the wellbeing of children aged 0-25

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Basic income in the UK - modelling the trade-offs with our microsimulation model UKMOD

The Women’s Budget Group and our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis host an online discussion event on 30 April on Basic Income & UKMOD – Modelling Trade-Offs.

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Changing Families Conference - featuring new research from Understanding Society over 4 days of online sessions

How families are changing - the impact of the pandemic, insecure work, different family structures, providing care and gender equalities - new research from the UK Household Longitudinal Study led by ISER

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MiSoC Gender Pay Gap Research Workshop - featuring two days of new research presented by international experts

Online event on April 15-16 with 11 presentations and a panel discussion on future research priorities and opportunities for impact

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New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard

Emotional and behavioural problems increased significantly after the first round of school closures - prompting fears that the latest school closures will have caused further damage

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The impact of reversing Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit uplifts

New research by our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis for the Greater London Authority finds prolonging the £20 a week uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax credit would keep 780,000 people out of poverty this year

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ISER

  1. Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice

    Oriol Bosch and Peter Lynn

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Debt: Indebtedness

  2. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. Peer groups, social support, and well-being: evidence from a large online maternity community

    Lingqing Jiang and Zhen Zhu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

Understanding Society

  1. High frequency online data collection in an annual household panel study: some evidence on bias prevention and bias adjustment

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health
    4. Covid 19

  2. Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys

    Sandra Walzenbach, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Surveys

  3. Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

EUROMOD

  1. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  2. Universal Independence Income. A EUROMOD Utopian Simulation in the UK

    Franco Bonomi Bezzo

  3. Effects of Tax-Benefit Policy Changes across the Income Distributions of the EU-27 Countries and the UK: 2019-2020

    EUROMOD

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