- Ayse Guveli
Writing for the LSE, MiSoC researcher Ayse Guveli explores the effect of Covid-19 related school closures on children’s educational opportunities and future outcomes, and how this varies by social and family background.
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ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
COVID-19 and educational losses: The case for sending the youngest back to school
- Jo Blanden
- Birgitta Rabe
In a blog for the LSE, ISER researcher Dr Birgitta Rabe and Dr Jo Blanden of the University of Surrey explore the decision to send the youngest students back to school this summer and explain why doing so may be important for children’s education and wellbeing, as long as health risks can be mitigated.
Homes, health, and COVID-19: how poor housing adds to the hardship of the coronavirus crisis
- Amy Clair
Writing for the Social Market Foundation’s Ask The Expert series, Dr Amy Clair explores how COVID-19, and the actions taken to mitigate its spread, highlight the central role of the home in people’s lives, and how that affects their health.
Maternal investments in children: the role of expected effort and returns
- Sonia Bhalotra
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
Do migrants undercut the job quality of natives?
- Neli Demireva
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
Political and ethnic identity
- Lucinda Platt
- Alita Nandi
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
Ethnic discrimination in the labour market
- Simonetta Longhi
- Malcolm Brynin
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
The impact of Brexit on the EU migrants in UK Higher Education
- Renee Luthra
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
Income inequality and the very rich
- Mike Brewer
MiSoC research shows that data from household surveys may not give the whole picture of the UK’s income inequality levels
Subjective Expectations: Measurement and analysis of decision-making under uncertainty
- Adeline Delavande
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.
Child of our Time: Do sexual minority teenagers have greater health risks?
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
The National Living Wage, inequality and job progression: final report for the Low Pay Commission
- Susan Harkness
- Silvia Avram
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