[…] reverse causality as two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that religious involvement, measured by frequency of religious service attendance, on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and cooperation. Compared with religious attendance, other indicators of religious involvement, such as subjective importance of religion or whether one is religiously […]

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), […]

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 […]

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

[…] 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: […]

[…] providing care in early adulthood may have longer-term consequences, given the importance of this life stage for educational and employment transitions. This study aims to investigate the impact of informal care in early adulthood on educational attainment and employment in the UK and to test whether these associations differ by gender or socio-economic circumstances. […]

[…] providing care in early adulthood may have longer-term consequences, given the importance of this life stage for educational and employment transitions. This study aims to investigate the impact of informal care in early adulthood on educational attainment and employment in the UK and to test whether these associations differ by gender or socio-economic circumstances. […]