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Launching UKMOD Explore - policy-testing tool created by our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis

New web-based microsimulation model for testing UK tax and benefits reforms

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Transforming social policies: bridgeheads for change - two online open events with the British Academy

Professor Sir John Curtice among the speakers at two events discussing two new reports from the British Academy using data from Understanding Society. As the UK emerges from the pandemic, how can it create a new economic, social and health dynamic and equilibrium?

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Cuts to housing benefits led to 75,000 more overcrowded households during the pandemic

Dr Amy Clair’s new analysis of the government policy and the implications of overcrowding on health during the COVID pandemic

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Little inequality in homeschool provision and engagement - other factors may cause achievement gaps

Lockdown closures: schools’ improved homeschooling provision led to increased time engagement from students and parents, according to a new COVID 19 Rapid Response research report published by ISER

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ISER experts review Higher Education Statistics Agency's Graduate Outcomes survey data

HESA commissioned ISER to conduct an expert review of the UK-wide survey of recent graduates

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Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models

Our Centre for MIcrosimulation and Policy Analysis hosts InGRID event for academics and researchers in supra-national and international organisations and data providers, in the wake of the Covid-19 employment shock and related government support policies

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ISER

  1. Relative wages and pupil performance, evidence from TIMSS

    Joshua Fullard

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Child Development
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Economics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being
    9. Health

  2. Bad economy, good teachers? The countercyclicality of enrolment Into Initial Teacher Training Programmes in the UK

    Joshua Fullard

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Higher Education

  3. Intergenerational wealth transmission in Great Britain

    Paul Gregg and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Households
    2. Savings And Assets

Understanding Society

  1. How and why does the mode of data collection affect consent to data linkage?

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

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

  2. 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

  3. 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

EUROMOD

  1. The Income Protection Role of an EMUWide Unemployment Insurance System: the Case of Atypical Workers

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

  2. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

  3. 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

CeMPA

  1. Assessing the cushioning effect of tax-benefit policies in the Andean region during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Andrés Avellaneda, Rodrigo Chang, Diego Collado, et al.

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

  2. UKMOD – a new tax-benefit model for the four nations of the UK

    Matteo Richiardi, Diego Collado, and Daria Popova

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Covid 19

  3. The income protection role of an EMU-wide unemployment insurance system: the case of atypical workers

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Microsimulation
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