Driverless vehicles in fatal accidents: Who’s to blame?
ISER's Dr Kakia Chatsiou to host this lively public discussion at free event at Senate House Library, London, as part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science on 8th November
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New research on impact of Universal Infant Free School Meals policy to be presented at Labour and Conservative Party Conferences
Shadow ministers and key campaigners among commentators joining panel discussions on ISER's new Nuffield Foundation-funded study at New Statesman fringe events
Gender Differences in Tournament Performance Over Time: Can Women Catch-Up with Men? ISER 30th anniversary seminar
We are delighted to welcome back Professor Alison Booth, Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, who returns to give our 30th anniversary seminar over lunch on Wednesday 9th October
Government announces new £6.2 million funding for our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
Announcing funding for four centres, Science and Innovation Minister Jo Johnson said: “These projects each have the potential to strengthen the social fabric of our country, while keeping the UK at the forefront of global social science.”
Neighbourhood ethnic diversity discourages teens from ‘hanging around’
Teenagers living in the most ethnically diverse local authority areas were between 9-13% less likely to hang around with friends near home than those in a local authority with a median level of ethnic concentration
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 impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
New briefing published by United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) on using microsimulation to test policies to reduce poverty in six African nations, based on ISER research
Professor Mike Brewer’s new book What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Inequality?
Professor Mike Brewer discusses “What We Know” about economic inequalities in the UK, presenting new analysis of the top 1% and 0.1% in the UK, and summarising the causes and consequences of high levels of inequality
Professor Sonia Bhalotra wins The Conversation Prize for her article on price of gold and link to baby girl death rates
'When gold prices go up, so does the cost of a dowry – and baby girl survival rates in India fall' wins prize presented as the most downloaded social science article
ISER research informs new European Commission policy briefs on fairness
Comparative research uses our tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, to look at social mobility, regional and inter-generational inequalities
ISER experts advise on designing policies to tackle poverty and inequality in Colombia
ISER's experts in microsimulation have been working alongside Colombian academics and policymakers
The negative impact of positive Ofsted ratings
GCSE results suffer as parents back off from supporting their children, according to new analysis by ISER with a research team from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, University of Sussex, UCL and Bristol