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UKMOD: a new, free-to-use, tax-and-benefit microsimulation model for the UK

Professor Mike Brewer is leading an innovative project to create a new open access model for testing UK tax and benefit policies

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The impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

New briefing published by United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) on using microsimulation to test policies to reduce poverty in six African nations, based on ISER research

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Professor Mike Brewer's new book What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Inequality?

Professor Mike Brewer discusses “What We Know” about economic inequalities in the UK, presenting new analysis of the top 1% and 0.1% in the UK, and summarising the causes and consequences of high levels of inequality

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Professor Sonia Bhalotra wins The Conversation Prize for her article on price of gold and link to baby girl death rates

‘When gold prices go up, so does the cost of a dowry – and baby girl survival rates in India fall’ wins prize presented as the most downloaded social science article

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ISER research informs new European Commission policy briefs on fairness

Comparative research uses our tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, to look at social mobility, regional and inter-generational inequalities

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ISER experts advise on designing policies to tackle poverty and inequality in Colombia

ISER’s experts in microsimulation have been working alongside Colombian academics and policymakers

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ISER

  1. Regression with an imputed dependent variable

    Thomas F. Crossley, Peter Levell, and Stavros Poupakis

    1. Economics
    2. Surveys

  2. Top Incomes in the UK: Analysis of the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

  3. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

Understanding Society

  1. Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics

  2. Understanding Society and its income data

    Paul Fisher, Laura Fumagalli, Nick Buck, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Research
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Surveys

  3. Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 11: results from methodological experiments

    Jonathan Burton, Roxanne Connelly, Mick P. Couper, et al.

EUROMOD

  1. A comparison of the fiscal and distributional effects of alternative basic income implementation modes across the EU28

    Luke Martinelli and Kathryn O'Neill

  2. Static microsimulation research on Citizen’s Basic Income for the UK: a personal summary and further reflections

    Malcolm Torry

  3. Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe

    Francesco Figari, Katarina Hollan, Manos Matsaganis, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Housing Market
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