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  1. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Access to social protection by immigrants, emigrants and resident nationals in the Russian Federation

    Daria Popova

    1. Insurance
    2. Area Effects
    3. Pensions
    4. Migration
    5. Labour Market
    6. Unemployment
    7. Public Policy
    8. Welfare Benefits
    9. Income Dynamics
    10. Health

  6. Good neighbours? No, UK’s community spirit fell in summer Covid lockdown

    Magda Borkowska and James Laurence

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Social Change
    8. Households
    9. Poverty
    10. Public Policy
    11. Ethnic Groups
    12. Well Being
    13. Societies
    14. Social Capital
    15. Health
    16. Life Course Analysis
    17. Social Attitudes
    18. Social Stratification
    19. Social Behaviour
    20. Social Psychology
    21. Covid 19

  7. Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them

    Raj Patel

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Information Networks
    3. Social Change
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Government
    7. Research
    8. Societies
    9. Surveys
    10. Social Policy

  8. Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England

    Magda Borkowska and James Laurence

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Social Change
    8. Households
    9. Poverty
    10. Public Policy
    11. Ethnic Groups
    12. Well Being
    13. Societies
    14. Social Capital
    15. Health
    16. Life Course Analysis
    17. Social Attitudes
    18. Social Stratification
    19. Social Behaviour
    20. Social Psychology
    21. Covid 19

  9. MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

    Thomas 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

  10. MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

    Thomas 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

  11. Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

    Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Lisa Spantig

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  12. Transforming social policies: insights, ideas and challenges for mobilising data and evidence

    Raj Patel

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Information Networks
    3. Social Change
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Government
    7. Research
    8. Societies
    9. Surveys
    10. Social Policy

  13. Working with the policy machinery

    Raj Patel

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Information Networks
    3. Social Change
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Government
    7. Research
    8. Societies
    9. Surveys
    10. Social Policy

  14. 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

  15. Covid generation: UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels'

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Social Change
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Debt: Indebtedness
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Housing Market
    15. Social Behaviour
    16. Covid 19

  16. Worker productivity during lockdown and working from home: evidence from self-reports

    Ben Etheridge, Yikai Wang, and Li Tang

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Unemployment rate: how many people are out of work?

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  23. Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

    Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, and Sara Riscado

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Poverty
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Microsimulation

  24. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

  25. 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

  26. How has the Covid-19 crisis impacted parents’ relationships with their children?

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Weird but true: lockdown has made many families happier

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  30. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Public Policy
    2. Covid 19

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