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Taking the Global View - new publication showing our microsimulation work around the world

Our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis celebrates the advancing geographical reach and policy of impact of our tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD

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The good news out of lockdown - many families felt closer and happier despite financial uncertainties

New analysis of our latest Covid-19 data from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study

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Beyond averages - Fairness in an economy that works for people

Our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis contributes to new European Commission publication

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What difference will the COVID Summer Food Fund make to children’s lives? New analysis by Dr Birgitta Rabe and colleagues from IFS

Following a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford, the government’s COVID Summer Food Fund will provide food vouchers for children from low-income families who are eligible for free school meals. What are the likely results?

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Tributes to Dr Malcolm Brynin

The academic community pays tribute to our longest-serving member of staff, Dr Malcolm Brynin, Reader at ISER, and a leading expert on race and gender pay gaps and inequalities, who has died from cancer

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New Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis to be based at ISER

CeMPA will bring together our team of microsimulation experts at ISER with Essex researchers specialising in Computer Science, Political Science, Data Analytics, Sociology, Economics and Mathematics, alongside internationally renowned collaborators

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ISER

  1. Inequalities in home learning and schools’ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK

    Sait Bayrakdar and Ayse Guveli

    1. Social Groups
    2. Time Use
    3. Lone Parents
    4. Young People
    5. Education
    6. Child Development
    7. Households
    8. Poverty
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Health
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Covid 19

  2. The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

    Ben Etheridge and Lisa Spantig

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Demography
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Covid 19

  3. The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

Understanding Society

  1. 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

  2. Briefing note COVID-19 Survey: the economic effects

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

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Savings And Assets
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Household Economics
    11. Debt: Indebtedness
    12. Health
    13. Finance
    14. Caregiving
    15. Covid 19

  3. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: home schooling

    Michaela Benzeval, Magda Borkowska, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Covid 19

EUROMOD

  1. Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-transfer Rules

    Ugo Colombino, Ugo Colombino, Nizamul Islam, et al.

  2. Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-transfer Rules

    Ugo Colombino, Ugo Colombino, Nizamul Islam, et al.

  3. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

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