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First- and second-generation impacts of the Biafran War
The ‘Bologna process’ and College enrolment decisions
We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the ‘Bologna process’ to estimate the impact of the reform on the decision to go to college. We find that individuals leaving high school after the reform have a probability of going to […]
Family Formation and the Housing Market
The aim of the paper is to study the impact of partnership instability and fertility on the housing market. While there are aggregate ‘compositional effects’ of family formation and dissolution events on the housing market, working through the number and size distribution of households, the paper focuses on the impact of such events on […]
Family Formation and the Housing Market
The aim of the paper is to study the impact of partnership instability and fertility on the housing market. While there are aggregate ‘compositional effects’ of family formation and dissolution events on the housing market, working through the number and size distribution of households, the paper focuses on the impact of such events on […]
Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes
This paper assesses the impact on household incomes of the COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ policy responses in April 2020 in four large and severely hit European countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK. We provide comparative evidence on the level of relative and absolute welfare resilience at the onset of the pandemic, by creating […]
Estimating the distributional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the remedial tax and benefit policies on poverty in Indonesia
[…] that have impacted on many people’s lives and financial security. In the absence of any known cures or preventative vaccines, governments quickly implemented policies to minimize its impact. In particular, public health policies were rolled out which focused on containing the spread of the virus but these measures in turn had a detrimental impact […]
A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis
The impact of working conditions on mental health: novel evidence from the UK
This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our empirical strategy accounts for the endogenous sorting of individuals into occupations by including individual […]
First findings on the impact of COVID-19 on self-employment in the UK – evidence from the Understanding Society household survey
[…] other European countries, the level and previous increase in self-employment in the UK makes for an exceptional case (Hatfield, 2015), and this makes the monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on self-employment particularly important for UK economic and social policy. This summary provides the first findings of the impact of the COVID-19 […]