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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 142 in total

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  1. 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

  2. Inequalities in home learning and schools’ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK

    Sait Bayrakdar and Ayse Guveli

    1. Social Groups
    2. Time Use
    3. Lone Parents
    4. Young People
    5. Education
    6. Child Development
    7. Households
    8. Poverty
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Health
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Covid 19

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

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

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

  4. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down

    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

  5. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: health and caring

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  6. The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

    Ben Etheridge and Lisa Spantig

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Demography
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Covid 19

  7. Britons with life-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  8. The health impact of the pandemic: NHS hospital treatments for long-term health conditions fall by over 60% in April

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  9. 60% of cancer patients miss treatment during first month of the pandemic

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  10. The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  11. Financial disincentives to formal employment and tax-benefit systems in Latin America

    María Cecilia Deza Delgado, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Nicolás Oliva, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Finance

  12. Evaluation of a Recovery Basic Income, and of a sustainable revenue neutral Citizen’s Basic Income, with an appendix relating to different Universal Credit roll-out scenarios

    Malcolm Torry

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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Unresolved public policy challenges

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    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Societies

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

    Yuliya Kazakova

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Caregiving

  20. The impact of minimum wage upratings on wage growth and the wage distribution. A report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

    Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

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

  21. 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

  22. What do we know and what should we do about inequality?

    Mike Brewer

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Social Stratification

  23. Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe

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

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

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

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, Katrin Gasior, et al.

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

  25. How did universal infant free school meals affect children's bodyweight?

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

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

  26. Parental responses to information about school quality: evidence from linked survey and administrative data

    Ellen Greaves, Iftikhar Hussain, Birgitta Rabe, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy

  27. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

    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. 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

  30. 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

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