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Senior roles at ISER - four leadership positions open for application

ISER seeks to appoint three new positions at the Professorial level, and one at the level of Reader or Professor, following continued success in securing research funding

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Is there a better measure than BMI to look at the impact of poverty and education on obesity levels?

A new ISER study by Apostolos Davillas and Professor Michaela Benzeval looks at alternative measures to standard BMI by using data from Understanding Society to unpick the link between social inequalities and growing levels of obesity

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Reducing global inequality: how can we achieve a fairer world? Professor Sonia Bhalotra joins British Academy panel debate

Expert panel to discuss how nations could tackle a range of issues - from reducing inequality within and among countries to achieving gender equality - at British Academy debate on 29 November

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Education for All: Beyond the Classroom - Insights from Understanding Society - 10 November

Leading experts and practitioners will debate new evidence from Understanding Society and consider how the establishment of a single Department for Education, providing an end to end view of education and skills, presents opportunities for fresh thinking.

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ISER

  1. Survey-based cross-country comparisons where countries vary in sample design: issues and solutions

    Olena Kaminska and Peter Lynn

  2. In or out? Poverty dynamics among older individuals in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics

  3. Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

    Stephen P. Jenkins

    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Households
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Surveys

Understanding Society

  1. Total survey error for longitudinal surveys

    Peter Lynn and Peter Lugtig

  2. The advantage and disadvantage of implicitly stratified sampling

    Peter Lynn

  3. Is that still the same? Has that changed? On the accuracy of measuring change with dependent interviewing

    Annette Jäckle and Stephanie Eckman

EUROMOD

  1. Accounting for gender differences in the distributional effects of tax and benefit policy changes

    Silvia Avram, Daria Popova, and Olga Rastrigina

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Household Economics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  2. Nowcasting: estimating developments in median household income and risk of poverty in 2014 and 2015

    Olga Rastrigina, Chrysa Leventi, Sanja Vujackov, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  3. The effect of changes in tax-benefit policies on the income distribution in 2008-2015

    Paola De Agostini, Alari Paulus, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
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