Impact of equity in social protection spending on income poverty and inequality

[…] (poverty measured at Int$1.90 a day and inequality measured by the Gini index). Moreover, in low- and middle-income countries in our sample the poverty and inequality reducing impact of this equity measure is stronger than in the sample including all countries. The presence of a significant gap in equity of social protection spending between […]

Impact of equity in social protection spending on income poverty and inequality

[…] (poverty measured at Int$1.90 a day and inequality measured by the Gini index). Moreover, in low- and middle-income countries in our sample the poverty and inequality reducing impact of this equity measure is stronger than in the sample including all countries. The presence of a significant gap in equity of social protection spending between […]

Assessing the impact of participation in People’s Health Trust programmes: summary report Wave 2

This summary report provides an overview of the fndings of the first two waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on the website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to […]

Assessing the impact of participation in People’s Health Trust programmes: key findings (Wave 2)

This report describes the findings of the first two waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on the website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine the ways in […]

Assessing the impact of participation in People’s Health Trust programmes: summary report (Wave 3)

This summary report provides an overview of the key results from three waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on our website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine […]

Assessing the impact of participation in People’s Health Trust programmes: key findings (Wave 3)

This report describes the key results from three waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on our website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine the ways in which […]

Understanding recent trends in ill health-driven fallout from the UK job market

SOM has today released the first in-depth study into the impact of ill-health on the UK’s working population, “Understanding Recent Trends in Ill-Health Driven Fallout from the UK Job Market”. Launched following Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24th September), the report analyses data trends – providing a comprehensive picture of the current health challenges experienced […]

The impact of religious involvement on trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness: evidence from two British panels

[…] to account for time-invariant confounders and reverse causality—two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that frequency of religious service attendance on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness. Other indicators of religious involvement have weaker effects. We also find variation across religious traditions: the effects of religious […]

The impact of religious attendance on trust, volunteering, and cooperation: a cross-lagged panel analysis with individual fixed-effects

[…] 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 […]