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Wave 9 data from Understanding Society released

New data from our long-running UK household longitudinal study, includes new questions on the 2017 General Election, on pension drawdown, reasons for giving up smoking, lonelines and a child-specific module on parental help with homework and tutoring

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New fully funded PhD studentships with our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change

ISER launches new scholarships for PhDs linked to our new five-year ESRC-funded research programme

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Family support amid rising life expectancy - Resolution Foundation event on intergenerational interdependence

Professor Emily Grundy joins expert panel including Baroness Camilla Cavendish, chaired by Lord David Willetts

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Gender equality at work: our new Government-commissioned research on the barriers to women’s progression

New series of academic evidence reviews on family friendly policies and women’s progression as part of the Workplace and Gender Equality Research Programme.

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Expensive childcare is making it harder for women to return to work

New study by ISER’s Dr Alina Pelikh and Dr Magda Borkowska finds women who lived in the top 25% most expensive areas of the UK for childcare costs were significantly less likely to take up part-time work compared to women who lived in areas with cheaper childcare

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Inequality and the very rich: what do we know?

Professor Mike Brewer among the speakers at ISER’s open event with the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London on 5th November as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science

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  1. Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

    Yuliya Kazakova

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Caregiving

  2. Market concentration, supply, quality and prices paid by local authorities in the English care home market

    Ferran Espuny Pujol, Ruth Hancock, Morten Hviid, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Economics
    3. Health

  3. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

    Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

Understanding Society

  1. Event-triggered data collection

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, and Mick P. Couper

  2. What is shared care?

    Tina Haux and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Social Change
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Caregiving

  3. The implementation of fieldwork design initiatives to improve survey quality

    Hannah Carpenter, Violetta Parutis, and Jonathan Burton

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Young People
    3. Economics
    4. Survey Methodology

EUROMOD

  1. The tax structure of an economy in crisis: Greece 2009-2017

    Chrysa Leventi and Fidel Picos

  2. The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU

    Salvador Barrios, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Francesco Figari, et al.

  3. Work incentives at the extensive and intensive margin in Europe: the role of taxes, benefits and population characteristics

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Katrin Gasior, and Mattia Makovec

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