Search Results for: impact

Universal Free School Meals reduce child obesity and improve children’s reading scores

We study the impacts of providing Universal Free School Meals (UFSM), as opposed to means-tested Free School Meals (FSM), on primary school children’s take-up of school meals, educational attainment, health and household finances. We focus on four London local authorities that rolled out UFSM to all primary-age children: Newham (from academic year-ending 2010), Islington (2011), […]

Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure

This is groundbreaking new research lays out the public health impact of a Basic Income – and how much it could save our NHS. Researchers at the Universities of Northumbria, York, Bath and Strathclyde, in collaboration ourselves and Autonomy, have presented groundbreaking evidence on the role that Basic Income can play in dealing with […]

Northern exposure: COVID-19 and regional inequalities in health and wealth

[…] book demonstrates how COVID-19 has impacted the country unequally in terms of mortality, mental health and the economy. The book provides a striking empirical overview of the impact of the pandemic on regional inequalities and explores why the North fared worse. It sets out what needs to be learnt from the pandemic to prevent […]

Austerity and young people’s political attitudes in the UK

This article studies the impact of the 2012 British austerity policies on youth political attitudes using a difference-in-differences. The study achieves this by combining longitudinal survey data from “Understanding Society” with a district-level estimate of the austerity shock that each individual faced between the years 2013 and 2015. The findings indicate that the welfare […]

The impact of mixing survey modes on estimates of change: a quasi-experimental study

[…] traditional single-mode longitudinal designs to mixed-mode designs. Nevertheless, there are concerns that mixing survey modes may affect coefficients of change at the individual level. We investigate the impact of mixing survey modes on estimates of change using a quasi-experimental design implemented in a long-running UK panel study. Two types of comparisons are carried out: […]

Does volunteering make us happier, or are happier people more likely to volunteer? Addressing the problem of reverse causality when estimating the wellbeing impacts of volunteering

[…] date this research has had limited success in accounting for the factors that are likely to drive self-selection into volunteering by ‘happier’ people. To better isolate the impact that volunteering has on people’s wellbeing, we explore nationally representative UK household datasets with an extensive longitudinal component, to run panel analysis which controls for the […]