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Who did the housework in Lockdown Britain, and what happened next?

New study finds we did become a little bit more egalitarian during Lockdown 1 but many women ended up doing more than their fair share again once restrictions eased

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Registration open for Insights 2022 - the latest evidence from Understanding Society data

How did the pandemic impact on children? Did furlough really help and protect jobs and livelihoods? What is the legacy of COVID 19 on mental health? Join a panel of experts to discuss the academic analysis of the latest data from our UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society, over three mornings in January.

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Helping charities and community groups assess how they can make a difference

Our online resources, developed by survey expert Dr Neli Demireva, are designed to guide charities and commmunity groups through the process of surveying their users to assess need in the local area or to find out how their support is helping them

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University Access - what happened during COVID-19 - the impact on the diversity of the 2020 undergraduate intake

Grade inflation led to a squeeze on clearing places which had a negative impact on access to university for Black and South Asian students

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How Education Fared during the First Wave of COVID-19 Lockdowns? International Evidence

Professor Birgitta Rabe presented our latest research findings to an audience of over 1,500 delegates from around the world at a joint seminar organised by OECD and the American Educational Research Association

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Understanding Society - Wave 11 data released

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study run by a team of scientific experts at ISER, now covers the period from 2009 to 2020, and includes the harmonised British Household Panel Survey data from 1991.

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ISER

  1. In and out of unemployment – labour market transitions and the role of testosterone

    Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  2. Investigating the role of debt advice on borrowers' well-being. An encouragement study on a new sample of over-indebted people in Britain

    Laura Fumagalli, Peter Lynn, and Jair Muñoz-Bugarin

    1. Psychology
    2. Information Networks
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Surveys
    8. Finance

  3. The effect of formal debt advice on financial management and knowledge: insights from a new longitudinal study in Britain

    Laura Fumagalli, Peter Lynn, and Jair Muñoz-Bugarin

    1. Psychology
    2. Information Networks
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Surveys
    8. Finance

Understanding Society

  1. COVID-19 and mode selection effects in Understanding Society

    Pablo Cabrera Alvarez, Jonathan Burton, and Peter Lynn

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Covid 19

  2. How do survey respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage?

    Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Taxation

  3. Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 13: results from methodological experiments

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. 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. Covid-19 and financial hardship in London

    Diego Collado, Daria Popova, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Household Economics
    7. Ethnic Groups
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Economic Policy
    12. Covid 19

  2. 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

  3. 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
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