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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 44 in total

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  1. Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

    A. Kapilashrami, M. Otis, D. Omodara, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Covid 19

  2. The effect of local housing allowance reductions on overcrowding in the private rented sector in England

    Amy Clair

    1. Living Standards
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Housing Market

  3. Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

    Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Caregiving

  4. Going universal. The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Health

  5. Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: protocol for a mixed methods study

    Peter Craig, Benjamin Barr, Andrew J. Baxter, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Covid 19

  6. Unstable jobs and time out of work: evidence from the UK

    Silvia Avram

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Unemployment
    6. Public Policy
    7. Wages And Earnings

  7. Does more free childcare help parents work more?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Caregiving

  8. MPCs in an economic crisis: spending, saving and private transfers

    Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Savings And Assets
    6. Household Economics
    7. Health
    8. Finance
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  9. Welfare within families beyond households: intergenerational exchanges of practical and financial support in the UK

    Tania Burchardt, Fiona Steele, Emily Grundy, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Geography
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Finance
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Sociology Of Households
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Mobility

  10. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  11. 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 James Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

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

  12. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  13. The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: evidence from high quality panel data

    Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Fisher, and Hamish Low

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Health
    10. Economic Policy
    11. Covid 19

  14. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU

    Salvador Barrios, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lockdown

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  22. 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

  23. The distributional impact of recurrent immovable property taxation in Greece

    Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Chrysa Leventi, et al.

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

  24. Welfare resilience in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo V. Fiorio

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation
    9. Covid 19

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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