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Universal Basic Income - presenting new research at the ESRC Festival of Social Science
Experts discuss the latest research findings at our open Westminster event on 5 November and consider how or whether the increasingly popular idea of a universal basic income could help reduce poverty and increase living standards
The unhelpful language of student debt and impact on access - new research on higher education funding
Dr Angus Holford explains his new research to audiences as part of a prestigious panel discussion at the New Statesman fringe events at the Labour and Conservative conferences
Over 15 million people in Europe live in precarious housing and over a quarter of UK children are growing up in private rented accommodation
What is the evidence that insecure housing can impact on health and wellbeing - MiSoC event discusses new research as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science
How can we best tackle the gender pay gap and ‘motherhood penalty’? New evidence from Understanding Society
Debate event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science asks how can employers make a much bigger difference to gender equality? Can equality at work be acheived without equality in the home? What does a gender perspective on social security reveal and what are the effects of Universal Credit for women on low income?
Income-based policies in Scotland - how would they affect health and health inequalities?
New NHS Scotland report tests policy ideas using our tax-benefit microsimulation model to see the potential impact on premature death rates and other health inequalities
New analysis from EUROMOD in World Bank flagship report on Europe and Central Asia
‘Toward a New Social Contract : Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia’ proposes three overall policy principles to help address rising inequality and increased vulnerability in society
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Understanding Society
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IntCount: a Stata command for estimating count data models from interval data
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Understanding data linkage consent in longitudinal surveys
Annette Jäckle, Kelsey Beninger, Jonathan Burton, et al.
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: results from methodological experiments
Tarek Al Baghal, Caroline Bryson, Hayley Fisher, et al.
EUROMOD
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Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms
Bart Capéau, André Decoster, Sebastiaan Maes, et al.
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To what extent do welfare states compensate for the cost of children? A hypothetical household approach to policy evaluations
Tess Penne, Tine Hufkens, Tim Goedemé, et al.
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Comparing redistributive efficiency of tax-benefit systems in Europe
