Professor Mike Brewer Director of MiSoC, University of Essex
- mbrewer@essex.ac.uk
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- 01206 873374
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- 2N2.5A.11
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- https://mikebrewereconomics.com/
Research Interests
- labour economics, and especially evaluating the impact of labour market or welfare interventions
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inequality, poverty and measuring household living standards
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microsimulation and labour supply modelling, especially of families with children
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dynamics of family formation, and impacts of parental separation
Mike's main research interests are in how welfare benefits, labour market programmes, childcare provision and the tax system affects decisions made by households. He is also interested in poverty and inequality, and ways of measuring household living standards. He has been a long-time proponent of a simpler and more integrated welfare system, and his work on an integrated benefit system has been acknowledged as having informed current government policy.
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Publications
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Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
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How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective
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Inference with difference-in-differences revisited
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Progression and retention in the labour market: what have we learned from IWC and ERA?
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Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?
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Universal remedy: ensuring Universal Credit is fit for purpose
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The National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage and the tax and benefit system
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Improving the measurement of income and spending in surveys
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: results from methodological experiments
Michaela Benzeval, Annamaria Bianchi, Mike Brewer, et al.
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Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers
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Lone parents, time-limited in-work credits and the dynamics of work and welfare
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Refining the bootstrap methodology for HBAI statistics
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Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Does free childcare help parents work?
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
Media
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