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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.

Unclaimed support: changes in the take-up of means-tested benefits in the UK since 2008
  1. Daria Popova
  2. Melchior Vella
  3. Lavinia Mitton
  4. Matteo Richiardi
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CeMPA6/26 - March 7, 2026 - download  
  1. Microsimulation
  2. Taxation
  3. Welfare Benefits

Trends in child benefit take-up in the UK since 2008
  1. Lavinia Mitton
  2. Melchior Vella
  3. Daria Popova
  4. Matteo Richiardi
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA5/26 - March 6, 2026 - download  
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Microsimulation
  3. Household Economics
  4. Taxation
  5. Welfare Benefits

Enhancing tax-benefit modelling functionality: labour supply responses in UKMOD
  1. Justin van de Ven
  2. Matteo Richiardi
  3. Natasha Brooks
  4. Daria Popova
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA4/26 - March 4, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Microsimulation
  3. Taxation
  4. Welfare Benefits

Policy impact assessment: Autumn budget statement 2026. UK-wide distributional analysis 2026-2030
  1. Rejoice Frimpong
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA3/26 - February 18, 2026 - download  
  1. Microsimulation
  2. Taxation
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Government
  5. Economic Policy

The health and economic costs of welfare reform: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the roll-out of Universal Credit in England
  1. Silas Amo-Agyei
  2. Luke Munford
  3. Konstantinos Daras
  4. Clare Bambra
  5. Ben Barr
    6. , et al
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA2/26 - February 12, 2026 - download  
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Economics
  5. Living Standards
  6. Well Being

Pushed into the wrong job? Assessing the link between conditionality and poor quality employment
  1. Max Mosley
  2. Tom Stephens
Report - February 1, 2026
  1. Labour Market
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Public Policy
  5. Area Effects
  6. Wages And Earnings
  7. Geography

The impact of income support interventions on children’s long-term health trajectories: a systematic review
  1. Francesca Candelora
  2. Silvia Maritano
  3. Costanza Pizzi
  4. Matteo Richiardi
  5. Lorenzo Richiardi
    6. , et al
Journal Article - November 26, 2025
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Household Economics
  5. Health
  6. Poverty
  7. Welfare Benefits
  8. Well Being
  9. Child Development

Invisible gaps: women’s individual poverty risks and the gendered failings of the adult worker model
  1. Katrin Gasior
  2. Silvia Avram
  3. Daria Popova
Journal Article - November 19, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Microsimulation
  4. Poverty
  5. Taxation
  6. Welfare Benefits
  7. Economics
  8. Public Policy
  9. Caregiving
  10. Unpaid Work

How COVID-19 employment protection influenced support for unemployment benefits and the unemployed—job retention versus job loss in four European countries
  1. Andrew Zola
  2. Elias Naumann
  3. Piotr Marzec
Book Chapter, Social life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy and the UK, Ch. 9 - November 11, 2025
  1. Elias Naumann
  2. Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi
  3. Alita Nandi
  4. Ettore Recchi
  1. Labour Market
  2. Psychology
  3. Social Attitudes
  4. Health
  5. Covid-19
  6. Welfare Benefits
  7. Public Policy
  8. Unemployment
  9. Public Opinion

Free school meals, diet quality and food insecurity in secondary school students: protocol for a multiple-methods study – the CANTEEN study
  1. Emma Alving-Jessep
  2. Miranda Pallan
  3. Ellie Ansell
  4. Lesley Hamill
  5. Cara McConnell
    6. , et al
Journal Article - October 20, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Poverty
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Economics
  5. Public Policy
  6. Living Standards
  7. Education
  8. Young People

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