- Sonia Bhalotra
In a short video for VoxDev, Professor Sonia Bhalotra discusses her research on how a decline in child mortality influences women’s choices of labour market participation, marriage, and fertility.
Blog
ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Food bank users in Britain are dealing with significant housing problems
- Amy Clair
Writing for the Social Policy Blog, a study by Amy Clair and researchers from the University of Lancaster and King’s College London find that over four-fifths of food bank users in Britain were experiencing at least one significant housing issue
The case for universal infant free school meals
Writing for the New Statesman, Angus Holford discusses the effects of free school meals and the origins of the policy
Stress levels of working mothers: what could help improve their health?
Dr Cara Booker explains the findings of a pioneering new study using biological markers collected in blood samples alongside socio-economic data, to understand how working patterns exacerbate or alleviate stress in working mothers
Flexibility or insecurity: Are jobs with no or few guaranteed hours really desirable for workers?
Dr Silvia Avram’s study funded by the Nuffield Foundation looks at the impact of pay insecurity on employment
How do students want to fund Higher Education?
Dr Angus Holford describes ISER’s innovative study of a unique cohort of current students to find out how much they understand about our complex student funding system and what they think would be fair for future students
Food banks and the housing crisis
- Amy Clair
Dr Amy Clair describes new research on who uses food banks and finds a link between high rents and food poverty
UKMOD: a new, free-to-use, tax-and-benefit microsimulation model for the UK
- Mike Brewer
Professor Mike Brewer is leading an innovative project to create a new open access model for testing UK tax and benefit policies
The surprisingly negative impact of good news from OFSTED
Dr Birgitta Rabe and a team of researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Bristol, the University of Sussex and UCL have examined a range of data sets to understand how parents react to a better-than-expected school inspection report
Family fortunes – and how they persist over generations
- Min Zhang
ISER’S Dr Min Zhang and Professor Yaojun Li of the Cathie March Institute for Social Research at the University of Manchester explore what impact grandparents’ social class has on their grandchildren’s opportunities, from childhood through to later life
Economic uncertainty and fertility cycles: The case of the post-WWII baby boom
- Bastien Chabe-Ferret
In a blog for Vox EU, Bastien Chabe-Ferret and his CEPR colleague Paula Gobbi explore the drivers of fertility over the past century and to what extent it is affected by economic climate.