Skip to content
University of Essex

Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex

Research news

15194573 10155630625413298 341872693045308188 o
Government announces new £6.2 million funding for our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change

Announcing funding for four centres, Science and Innovation Minister Jo Johnson said: “These projects each have the potential to strengthen the social fabric of our country, while keeping the UK at the forefront of global social science.”

Arizona state university
MiSoC research network on subjective expectations to meet in Arizona

Call for papers for workshop to be held at Arizona State University in March 2020.

School dinner big
New research on impact of Universal Infant Free School Meals policy to be presented at Labour and Conservative Party Conferences

Shadow ministers and key campaigners among commentators joining panel discussions on ISER’s new Nuffield Foundation-funded study at New Statesman fringe events

Iphone crop
Neighbourhood ethinic diversity discourages teens from 'hanging around'

Teenagers living in the most ethnically diverse local authority areas were between 9-13% less likely to hang around with friends near home than those in a local authority with a median level of ethnic concentration

Ukmod
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

Cape town
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

More news Follow ISER:

Explore ISER

Centres and surveys

Ukhls
Bhps
Euromod
Misoc

Latest working papers

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. Labour Mobility and Earnings in the UK, 1992-2016

    Fabien Postel-Vinay and Alireza Sepahsalariz

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

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

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics

  3. Understanding Society and its income data

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

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

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
More publications
Sign up

Subscribe to the bi-monthly ISER e-news for the latest publications and reports, events and workshops and updates on our household surveys

ISER Newsletter

Current issue

Download our bi-annual Newsletter for an overview of our recent research and news