Prosociality and well-being in young people -PhD thesis-

[…] suggested that the discrepancy in ratings of prosociality may be more important in predicting psychological problems than overall ratings by individual informants. Results support the relevance of prosociality to well-being in young people and highlight how factors such as the measurement of prosociality and the interpersonal context within which it occurs impact upon this relationship.

Understanding Society – a geographical profile of respondents

[…] a wide range of health, social and economic indicators as well as covering aspects of identity and attitudes. Studies like this are very important for understanding the impact of changes to policies over a number of years, e.g. changes to pension age or the length of the maternity leave. The sample was created by […]

Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and work incentives in the European Union

In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU). Using EUROMOD, the EU-wide taxbenefit microsimulation model, we disentangle the role of taxes, benefits and social insurance contributions in influencing country specific Gini coefficients and Marginal Effective Tax […]

Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence from Britain

[…] smokers with time-inconsistent preferences commit to giving up or reducing the amount they smoke. We use almost 20 years of British individual-level panel data to explore the impact on self-reported psychological well-being of two policy interventions: large real-terms increases in tobacco excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places. We use a difference-in-differences […]

Poverty and income inequality in Scotland: 2011-12

[…] 2011 to March 2012. The latest figures cover a period where the Scottish economy and wider UK economy were both showing little GDP growth and average earnings fell in real terms. These figures include the impact of some changes to benefits resulting from welfare reform, but precede the more significant changes implemented in April 2013.