Blog

ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.

Can unemployment kill?

Senior Research Officer Amanda Hughes on the links between unemployment and killer diseases such as heart disease

Living with hate and harassment

  1. Alita Nandi
  2. Renee Luthra
  3. Michaela Benzeval
  4. Shamit Saggar

ISER researchers are beginning a new ESRC Secondary Data Initiative study into the prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health using longitudinal analysis

Where does the money go?

  1. Thomas Crossley

Dr Annette Jäckle, Professor Thomas Crossley and an international interdisciplinary team are working on a new ESRC/NCRM research project to develop new ways of collecting information on household finances

Counting the wages of sin: Illicit drug markets and the National Accounts

  1. Stephen Pudney

National statistical agencies within the EU are now required to include illicit economic activity in the National Accounts. But is this a good idea? Professor Stephen Pudney summarises the conclusions of an ISER review of the methodology used by the UK Office for National Statistics for measuring the contribution of illegal drugs markets to GDP.