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Homeschool crop again
Little inequality in homeschool provision and engagement - other factors may cause achievement gaps

Lockdown closures: schools’ improved homeschooling provision led to increased time engagement from students and parents, according to a new COVID 19 Rapid Response research report published by ISER

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ISER experts review Higher Education Statistics Agency's Graduate Outcomes survey data

HESA commissioned ISER to conduct an expert review of the UK-wide survey of recent graduates

Goodbye shops
Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models

Our Centre for MIcrosimulation and Policy Analysis hosts InGRID event for academics and researchers in supra-national and international organisations and data providers, in the wake of the Covid-19 employment shock and related government support policies

School dinner big
Building back healthier and fairer - is it time for universal school meals?

Dr Angus Holford presents findings from our recent policy analysis for the Nuffield Foundation at Sustain debate

Work pay
New ISER research and policy insights shared with Department of Work and Pensions

New work shared as part of the Areas of Research Interest workshop organised with the Universities of Essex, Kent and UEA.

Covid legs
The value of keeping ethnic ties: why adherence to recommended COVID-19 health behaviours differs among young adults

Professor Renee Luthra writes for the International Public Policy Observatory about our latest ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change study on behaviours during lockdown

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ISER

  1. Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK

    Liza Benny, Sonia Bhalotra, and Manuel Fernández

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Higher Education

  2. Intergenerational wealth transmission in Great Britain

    Paul Gregg and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Households
    2. Savings And Assets

  3. Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice

    Oriol Bosch and Peter Lynn

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Debt: Indebtedness
    3. Surveys

Understanding Society

  1. How and why does the mode of data collection affect consent to data linkage?

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology

  2. High frequency online data collection in an annual household panel study: some evidence on bias prevention and bias adjustment

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

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health
    4. Covid 19

  3. Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys

    Sandra Walzenbach, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Surveys

EUROMOD

  1. The Income Protection Role of an EMUWide Unemployment Insurance System: the Case of Atypical Workers

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

  2. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

  3. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

CeMPA

  1. The income protection role of an EMU-wide unemployment insurance system: the case of atypical workers

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Microsimulation

  2. Assessing the cushioning effect of tax-benefit policies in the Andean region during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Andrés Avellaneda, Rodrigo Chang, Diego Collado, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Health
    8. Microsimulation
    9. Taxation
    10. Covid 19

  3. UKMOD – a new tax-benefit model for the four nations of the UK

    Matteo Richiardi, Diego Collado, and Daria Popova

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Covid 19
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