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Displaying all 27 Publications

Current search: 'Public Policy' and 'Journal Article'

  1. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katrin Gasior, Tamara Premrov, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation

  2. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael J. Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Taxation
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys

  4. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and pandemic related stressors among adults in the UK

    Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, Cara L. Booker, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  5. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Living Standards
    6. Public Policy
    7. Welfare Benefits
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Health
    11. Covid 19

  6. A cross-national design to estimate effects of COVID-induced non-pharmacological interventions

    Dean Lillard

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Media
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Economics
    8. Public Policy
    9. Survey Methodology
    10. Research
    11. Health
    12. Surveys
    13. Covid 19

  7. Europe through the crisis: discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilisers

    Alari Paulus and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation

  8. In-work credits in the UK and the US

    Mike Brewer and Hilary Hoynes

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits

  9. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  10. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  11. Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works best where?

    Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  12. Usage and impact metrics for Parliamentary libraries

    Tarek Al Baghal

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Librarianship And Information Science
    3. Public Policy
    4. Government
    5. Research

  13. Fiscal vs. social welfare: support for affordable housing in seven EU countries

    Francesco Figari, Katarina Hollan, Manos Matsaganis, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Housing Market

  14. Simulation of an application of the Hartz-IV reform in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, and Katrin Gasior

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation

  15. Smoking behaviour and individual well-being: a fresh look at the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy

    Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri

    1. Public Policy
    2. Health
    3. Social Behaviour

  16. Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010-2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes

    Paola De Agostini, John Hills, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Pensions
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Taxation

  17. Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers

    Mike Brewer and Sarah Cattan

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Caregiving

  18. Socioeconomic position and early adolescent smoking development: evidence from the British Youth Panel Survey (1994-2008)

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification

  19. HIV/AIDS-related expectations and risky sexual behaviour in Malawi

    Adeline Delavande and Hans-Peter Kohler

    1. Public Policy
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Social Behaviour

  20. What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe?

    Jaap Dronkers and Silvia Avram

    1. Education
    2. Public Policy
    3. Government

  21. Health and the political agency of women

    Sonia Bhalotra and Irma Clots-Figueras

    1. Politics
    2. Public Policy

  22. A difference-in-differences analysis of the effect of free dental check-ups in Scotland

    Divine Ikenwilo

    1. Public Policy
    2. Health

  23. Volunteering, subjective well-being and public policy

    Martin Binder and Andreas Freytag

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Social Psychology

  24. The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England

    Ruth Hancock, Juliette Malley, Raphael Wittenberg, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Caregiving

  25. Provider incentives and access to dental care: evaluating NHS reforms in England

    William Whittaker and Stephen Birch

    1. Public Policy
    2. Health

  26. Are you sure that’s the answer? Uncertainty in evaluation questions

    Mike Brewer

    1. Public Policy
    2. Research

  27. One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior

    Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, and Thomas Siedler

    1. Public Policy
    2. Health
    3. Social Behaviour

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