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.
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ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Are we looking for happiness in all the wrong places? An academic’s role in ‘The Happiness Project’ by the Roundhouse
- Gundi Knies
Dr Gundi Knies on how her research became the basis for an unusual arts and science collaboration
EU students do very well out of studying in the UK – Brexit might scupper that
- Renee Luthra
- Greta Morando
Dr Renee Luthra and Greta Morando on how British science and innovation could lose the best graduates from UK universities
Sharing research tools with developing countries
Professor Holly Sutherland explains how ISER’s expertise embodied in the EUROMOD model is being shared with developing countries across the world
Can unemployment kill?
Senior Research Officer Amanda Hughes on the links between unemployment and killer diseases such as heart disease
The key questions for the consultation into the future of the Attendance Allowance for older disabled people
- Stephen Pudney
In an article for the UK Admininstrative Justice Institute, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Professor Pudney describes his own recent research and proposes the potential key questions for the future government consultation
Why we stick our heads in the sand about the risk of unemployment
Dr Karon Gush on how couples coped with the threat of job loss during the Recession
A comment on the use of results from “Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK”, Journal of Population Economics, in Adam Perkins’ book, The Welfare Trait.
- Mike Brewer
Professor Mike Brewer unpicks the citing of his research in Adam Perkins’ book
On youth and happiness in a rapidly changing world
- Gundi Knies
- Cara Booker
ISER’s research into the wellbeing of children and young people is having a positive impact on the policy agenda as thinktanks, third sector and industry absorb the findings
Do ethnic minority candidates mobilise ethnic minority voters? Mostly not.
- Nicole Martin
Dr Nicole Martin argues that the idea that ethnic minority candidates mobilise ethnic minority voters in great number isn’t necessarily borne out by the evidence.
Living with hate and harassment
- Renee Luthra
- Michaela Benzeval
- Alita Nandi
- 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?
- 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