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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Expectations about the productivity of effort and academic outcomes: evidence from a randomized information intervention

  1. Angus Holford
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sonkurt Sen
  4. Adeline Delavande
  5. Vedran Lesic
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Journal Article - June 1, 2026
  1. Psychology
  2. Economics
  3. Education
  4. Young People
  5. Higher Education
  6. Social Psychology

Written evidence submitted by the Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex (YEET0046) [House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee. Youth employment, education and training inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - March 19, 2026
  1. Labour Market
  2. Demography
  3. Unemployment
  4. Education
  5. Young People
  6. Higher Education
  7. Training: Labour Market
  8. Sociology Of Households

Future expectations amongst young people in the United Kingdom: prevalence and patterns across generations and socioeconomic groups

  1. Alexander W. O'Donnell
  2. Alexandra Wake
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-04 - October 20, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Household Economics
  6. Unemployment
  7. Family Formation And Dissolution
  8. Childbearing: Fertility
  9. Education
  10. Social Stratification
  11. Young People
  12. Higher Education

Racial representation among academics and students’ academic and labor market outcomes

  1. Angus Holford
  2. Sonkurt Sen
Journal Article - October 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Education
  3. Higher Education
  4. Ethnic Groups

Parental effect of higher education on attitudes towards immigrants: a family approach

  1. Victoria Donnaloja
  2. Magda Borkowska
Journal Article - June 22, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Social Attitudes
  4. Education
  5. Migration
  6. Higher Education
  7. Sociology Of Households
  8. Social Psychology
  9. Sociology

Assortative mating and wealth inequality in Great Britain: evidence from the baby boomer and Gen X cohorts

  1. Ricky Kanabar
ISER Working Paper Series, 2024-04 - November 25, 2024 - download  
  1. Household Economics
  2. Demography
  3. Family Formation And Dissolution
  4. Savings And Assets
  5. Education
  6. Housing Market
  7. Higher Education

Student preferences over module design

  1. Joshua Fullard
Journal Article - October 4, 2024
  1. Psychology
  2. Young People
  3. Higher Education

Using games to improve students’ engagement and understanding of statistics in higher education

  1. Joshua Fullard
Journal Article - March 18, 2024
  1. Psychology
  2. Statistical Analysis
  3. Economics
  4. Education
  5. Young People
  6. Higher Education
  7. Econometrics

The effect of foreign students in higher education on native students’ outcomes

  1. Julián Costas-Fernández
  2. Greta Morando
  3. Angus Holford
Journal Article - November 15, 2023
  1. Labour Market
  2. Migration
  3. Higher Education

‘Women are choosing to have children later regardless of their education levels’

  1. John Ermisch
Media - July 17, 2023
  1. Demography
  2. Childbearing: Fertility
  3. Education
  4. Social Change
  5. Social Stratification
  6. Social Groups
  7. Higher Education
  8. Social Mobility
  9. Sociology Of Households

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