Food banks and the housing crisis
Dr Amy Clair describes new research on who uses food banks and finds a link between high rents and food poverty
Blog
ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Blog posts
UKMOD: a new, free-to-use, tax-and-benefit microsimulation model for the UK
Professor Mike Brewer is leading an innovative project to create a new open access model for testing UK tax and benefit policies
The surprisingly negative impact of good news from OFSTED
Dr Birgitta Rabe and a team of researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Bristol, the University of Sussex and UCL have examined a range of data sets to understand how parents react to a better-than-expected school inspection report
Family fortunes – and how they persist over generations
ISER'S Dr Min Zhang and Professor Yaojun Li of the Cathie March Institute for Social Research at the University of Manchester explore what impact grandparents’ social class has on their grandchildren’s opportunities, from childhood through to later life
Economic uncertainty and fertility cycles: The case of the post-WWII baby boom
In a blog for Vox EU, Bastien Chabe-Ferret and his CEPR colleague Paula Gobbi explore the drivers of fertility over the past century and to what extent it is affected by economic climate.
How renting could affect your health
Writing for The Conversation, Amy Clair and Amanda Hughes explain their findings on the link between people's housing situation and levels in their blood of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker associated with stress and infection.
The feminisation of Indian politics is an exciting phenomenon of our time
In an opinion piece for the Hindustan Times, Sonia Bhalotra explains how her research with co-authors T. Baskaran, B. Min, Y. Uppal demonstrates that raising the share of women in India’s state legislative assemblies is likely to lead to higher economic growth.
Are female legislators good for economic growth?
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. In a blog for the International Growth Centre, Professor Sonia Bhalotra and co-authors investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies.
Beyond Shelter: The role of home in health and wellbeing
Dr Amy Clair has been looking at the impact of insecurity at home on our health and wellbeing.
How leader identity impacts group coordination
In principle, leaders can facilitate group coordination towards a common goal but in diverse societies, their effectiveness may depend upon their social identity, and how citizens react to leader identity. Sonia Bhalotra and co-authors Irma Clots-Figueras (Madrid), Lakshmi Iyer (Notre Dame) and Joseph Vecci (Gothenburg) investigate in a blog for Ideas for India.
The ticking clock: how genetics may explain fertility traits
A new study by MiSoC Co-Director Nicola Barban, with Melinda Mills and Felix Tropf of the University of Oxford, allows the inclusion of a genetic variable or predictor of reproductive behaviour in social science research for the first time.