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Understanding Society data release - Wave 10 now available

The milestone of Wave 10 data released from our world-leading UK household longitudinal study, with extra modules including sleep quality, pensioner deprivation, commuting, voluntary work and voting in the last General Election

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Pay insecurity before and after Covid-19 crisis - Nuffield Foundation event discusses new research by Dr Silvia Avram

Even before the pandemic, pay insecurity was rising in Britain driven by the boom in the ‘gig’ economy, rising self-employment and growth of zero-hours and other types of jobs that guarantee no or only limited earnings.

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Where next for school food provision? Webinar to discuss new research on impact of Universal Infant Free School Meals policy

Event will launch the final report of ISER’s research into the controversial government policy by Dr Birgitta Rabe and Dr Angus Holford

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New updated version of UKMOD now available to policy makers and researchers

An updated version of UKMOD – the only tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK that is entirely open and accessible to policy makers, researchers and the interested public – has been released

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We trust our neighbours less - lockdown and a decline in community cohesion

New study by ISER’s Dr Magda Borkowska with Dr James Laurence at the University of Manchester suggests the portrayal of lockdown as a time of neighbourliness and communities coming together may not reflect the reality of the situation

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Professor Meena Kumari joins David Dimbleby for panel discussion Who Needs Experts Anyway?

Panel of leading Essex academics join the eminent broadcaster for debate as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science

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ISER

  1. MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

    Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Savings And Assets
    6. Household Economics
    7. Health
    8. Finance
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  2. Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

    Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Lisa Spantig

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. Worker productivity during lockdown and working from home: evidence from self-reports

    Ben Etheridge, Yikai Wang, and Li Tang

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

Understanding Society

  1. The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: evidence from high quality panel data

    Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Fisher, and Hamish Low

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Health
    10. Economic Policy
    11. Covid 19

  2. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context

    Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Households
    8. Living Standards
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Covid 19

  3. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

EUROMOD

  1. An Assessment of Wealth Taxes in a Joint Income-Wealth Perspective

    Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, and Gerlinde Verbist

  2. Trapped in Inactivity? The Austrian Social Assistance Reform in 2019 and its Impact on Labour Supply

    Michael Christl and Silvia Di Poli

  3. Effects of Tax-Benefit Policy Changes across the Income Distributions of the EU-28 countries: 2018-2019

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