ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Inequalities in child developmental outcomes emerge early in life and persist, with parents playing a critical role in determining these differences. MiSoC researcher Professor Sonia Bhalotra investigates the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation
MiSoC researcher Dr Neli Demireva, together with Dr Wouter Zwysen, investigate the employment outcomes and types of jobs migrants, ethnic minorities and white British majority members do
MiSoC’s Dr Alita Nandi and Professor Lucinda Platt (LSE) investigate the relationship between people’s political and ethnic identities across different majority / minority ethnicities
MiSoC’s Malcolm Brynin and Simonetta Longhi (now at Reading) have provided vital evidence to the debate on inequality in the labour market, in particular on pay gaps within jobs
MiSoC’s Dr Renee Luthra describes her new research into how Brexit was experienced by highly skilled migrants in the UK higher education sector, a sector reliant on EU migration, and the ways that employment in higher education buffered staff against its impact
MiSoC research shows that data from household surveys may not give the whole picture of the UK’s income inequality levels
An insight into pioneering work by MiSoC’s Adeline Delavande on the measurement of subjective expectations. She pushes forward the agenda of asking decision-makers directly about their subjective expectations, and, with collaborators, has pioneered the elicitation of subjective expectations in developing countries.
In a new blog for Child of our Time, Dr Cara Booker explains her research with Professor Yvonne Kelly of the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL, which tracks the health and happiness of the UK’s children
MiSoC’S Professor Susan Harkness and Dr Silvia Avram write about the findings of their two-year research project on the effect of the National Living Wage on wages for the Low Pay Commission
In a short video for VoxDev, Professor Sonia Bhalotra discusses her research on how a decline in child mortality influences women’s choices of labour market participation, marriage, and fertility.
Writing for the Social Policy Blog, a study by Amy Clair and researchers from the University of Lancaster and King’s College London find that over four-fifths of food bank users in Britain were experiencing at least one significant housing issue
Writing for the New Statesman, Angus Holford discusses the effects of free school meals and the origins of the policy