Senior Research Officer Amanda Hughes on the links between unemployment and killer diseases such as heart disease
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ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
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
Losing benefits hurts more than paying taxes: implications for policy making
By framing policy differently, it may be possible to alter the design of welfare benefits so as to encourage people to take up work without necessarily cutting financial support
Counting the wages of sin: Illicit drug markets and the National Accounts
- 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.
New ways of measuring poverty
- Mike Brewer
Measuring poverty to understand how policies could best combat inequality will remain a priority for policy makers and poverty campaigners.
Professor Mike Brewer describes ISER’s innovative approaches to analysing poverty data
Society and health are intricately related
Professor Michaela Benzeval and Professor Meena Kumari on new data to predict the health needs of the future