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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 35 in total

Current search: 'Public Policy' and '2020'

  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. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis

    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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Modelling the distributional impact of the Covid-19 Crisis in Ireland

    Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Public Policy
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Covid 19

  14. Welfare resilience in the first month of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo Fiorio

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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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