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  1. Single mothers’ income in twelve rich nations: differences in disadvantage across the distribution

    Susan Harkness

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  2. Do taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? Evidence from eight European welfare states

    Silvia Avram and Daria Popova

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Social Policy

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  7. Fiscal redistribution and social welfare: doing more or more to do?

    David Coady, Devin D’Angelo, and Brooks Evans

    1. Economics
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation
    4. Finance
    5. Social Policy

  8. A glass ceiling on poverty reduction? An empirical investigation into the structural constraints on minimum income protections

    Bea Cantillon, Zachary Parolin, and Diego Collado

    1. Unemployment
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Social Policy

  9. Decent incomes for all: improving policies in Europe

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  10. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  11. Written evidence from Understanding Society the UK Household Longitudinal Study (WSN0051) [Work and Pensions Select Committee. Welfare safety net inquiry]

    1. Social Exclusion
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  12. Women legislators and economic performance

    Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Social Policy

  13. Gender and economic inequality

    Susan Harkness

    1. Economics
    2. Social Policy

  14. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning – EUROMOD HHoT baseline indicators

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  15. Opinion: scaling up policy impact

    Raj Patel

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Social Change
    3. Public Policy
    4. Government
    5. Research
    6. Societies
    7. Surveys
    8. Social Policy

  16. Looking forward: afterword

    Susan Harkness

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Social Change
    3. Public Policy
    4. Research
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Surveys
    7. Social Policy

  17. Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe

    Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior, Eszter Zolyomi, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Policy

  18. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  19. Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  20. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Policy

  21. The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on work incentives and poverty in Lithuania

    Jekaterina Navicke, Silvia Avram, and Lilas Demmou

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

  22. Benefits, pensions, tax credits and direct taxes

    John Hills, Paola De Agostini, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Pensions
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

  23. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

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

    Paola De Agostini, John Hills, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Government
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Economic Policy
    7. Social Policy

  25. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  26. Impact on alcohol purchasing of a ban on multi-buy promotions: a quasi-experimental evaluation comparing Scotland with England and Wales

    R. Nakamura, M. Suhrcke, R. Pechey, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Policy

  27. Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK: implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs

    Ruth Hancock and Stephen Pudney

    1. Older People
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Social Policy

  28. State support for early childhood education and care in England

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, and Claire Crawford

    1. Childbearing: Fertility
    2. Social Policy
    3. Caregiving

  29. Simulating the costs and benefits of a Europe-wide Basic Income scheme for Children

    Horacio Levy, Manos Matsaganis, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Young People
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  30. Fairly sharing the social impact of the crisis in Greece

    Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Manos Matsaganis, Chrysa Leventi, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

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