Search Results for: impact

The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination: who benefits the most?

We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel survey representative of the UK population. Exploiting exogenous variation in the timing of vaccinations, we find that vaccination increases psychological well-being by 0.12 standard deviation, compensating for around one half of the overall decrease caused by the pandemic. […]

Broadband Internet and social capital

We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s […]

Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 13: results from methodological experiments

[…]   IP13 employed a web-first and telephone follow-up mixed-mode design, which differed from past waves but was necessitated due Covid-19. It also continued ongoing experiments on the impact of incentives, and as with prior waves, several other methodological experiments were included in the survey. Experiments were conducted on how to best collect contact information […]

Broadband Internet and social capital

We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s […]

Going regional: distributional effect of taxes and transfers in six EU countries and the UK

[…] and transfers at the regional level in Czechia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and the UK. Using microsimulation techniques, we provide descriptive statistics and estimates of the impact of 2019 tax-benefit policies on poverty and within and between-region inequality. Within-region inequality is found to be the primary explanatory factor of total inequality in all […]

LABSim: a dynamic life course model of individual life course trajectories for Italy

[…] specified within the model. One of the key innovations in LABSim is its linkage with EUROMOD, a static tax-benefit microsimulation model used to evaluate the immediate distributional impact of policy changes (the “morning after” effect). The static model allows ex-post evaluation of policies, as well as ex-ante evaluation of hypothetical policy changes. When combined […]