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Opening the black box: towards a transparent and widely-used tax-benefit model for the UK
New project funded by the Nuffield Foundation and led by Professor Mike Brewer will facilitate the analysis of policy options in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland & England separately as well as the UK as a whole
New data released from Understanding Society
Our latest data release features eight waves of Understanding Society data, plus 18 waves of harmonised British Household Panel Survey data, following the lives of the inhabitants of thousands of UK households in our huge panel study
Maintaining links with your cultural heritage is good for your health
New study by Professor Michaela Benzeval, Dr Alita Nandi and Dr Renee Luthra unpicks the paradox of why immigrants’ life expectancy decreases as they become more immersed in their new country
Gender gaps in university education and pay
In a study newly published by the European Economic Review, MiSoC researchers Matthias Parey and Marco Francesconi look at the gender gaps in pay and university education after graduation, and explore the reasons behind them
Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society
New study shows that grandparents’ class still affects grandchildren’s life chances in contemporary UK society just as earlier research showed for mid-20th century Britain
Cost of housing overburdening for families in UK, Greece, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany and Romania
Inflated house prices and high rents in major cities are damaging the employment prospects for millions of young workers across the European Union, according to a new World Bank report, using our microsimulation tool EUROMOD, for key analysis
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
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Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers
Kompal Sinha, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, et al.
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Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers
Understanding Society
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IntCount: a Stata command for estimating count data models from interval data
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Understanding data linkage consent in longitudinal surveys
Annette Jäckle, Kelsey Beninger, Jonathan Burton, et al.
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: results from methodological experiments
Tarek Al Baghal, Caroline Bryson, Hayley Fisher, et al.
