Blog

ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.

Does women’s education reduce rates of death in childbirth?
  1. Sonia Bhalotra

Maternal mortality rates need to be reduced by two-thirds over the next 15 years to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. New research by Professor Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex) and Professor Damian Clarke (University of Santiago de Chile) shows that a focus on girls’ education may be one means of meeting this objective.

The benefits of time spent with children
  1. Emilia Del Bono

Professor Emilia Del Bono, together with Marco Francesconi (University of Essex), Yvonne Kelly and Amanda Sacker (both of UCL) explore whether more time with mothers may be better for children’s development

Getting the most from political panel data
  1. Nicole Martin
  2. Anja Neundorf

At the end of May, a small group of presenters gathered at the University of Essex to discuss the state of longitudinal methods in the discipline. Through a series of substantive papers demonstrating the utility of different techniques, a consensus grew that renewed awareness and engagement with longitudinal data can help us make real substantive discoveries – even in questions that appear to be settled with cross-sectional analysis.

Winners and losers in changing tax and benefit policies in Europe
  1. Alari Paulus
  2. Iva Valentinova Tasseva

Iva Tasseva and Alari Paulus have produced an ‘Evidence in Focus’ briefing for the European Commission DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion comparing policies and their impacts in each of the 28 EU states.

Are Tax Expenditures a Good Way to Redistribute?
  1. Silvia Avram

Dr Silvia Avram investigates the prevalence and distributional effects of legal provisions that lower taxable income (tax allowances) or the final tax liability (tax credits) have on specific groups of personal income tax payers.