Latest news, updates and announcements from the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Professor Sonia Bhalotra will lead an innovative and ground-breaking project to look at access to health care, health outcomes and hospital performance in Brazilian cities
Professor Emilia Del Bono's study of children born in 2000-2002 published in the Economic Journal looked at educational impact of time spent with mothers between the age of three and seven
New research by Professor Mike Brewer and Dr Birgitta Rabe with the IFS and the University of Warwick on the government’s plan to extend free childcare from 15 to 30 hours a week for 3- and 4-year-olds
Professor Shamit Saggar's new work for the Policy Network looks at inclusive integration and social cohesion in divisive times
Latest data release means researchers now have access to six waves of the UK's biggest household longitudinal study, including new additional detail on lives of immigrants.
Shamit Saggar, Professor of Public Policy at ISER is the lead author of thinktank Policy Exchange’s major new report on ethnic minority progression
Policy advisory group discuss our new research on risks of drop out for types of first year university student and a new study on outcomes for EU students
Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, has published its fifth annual report highlighting some of the new topical policy-relevant research conducted recently using data from the annual survey which began in 2009 with around 100,000 individuals from 40,000 households.
Bringing together national and international experts on childcare and its role in promoting parental labour supply to discuss how evidence can inform the current policy debate in England.
Biomarker Conference to be held on 15th March 2017 at RIBA, London, will give researchers the opportunity to showcase their current and ongoing work based on Understanding Society biomarker data
Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, congratulates EUROMOD on its 20th anniversary
The increasing use of temporary contracts, zero-hours contracts and other forms of flexible employment have made job insecurity a feature of much previously secure employment in high-income countries.