Latest news, updates and announcements from the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Our annual review explores some of our current research projects such as the impact of racial harassment on health, wellbeing in young people, incentives to work, microsimulation in developing countries and poverty for older disabled people.
BBC Radio 4 programme Down the Generations explores the longer term impact of the malnutrition of expectant mothers on the health and life outcomes of their babies with an interview with ISER's Professor Sonia Bhalotra
EUROMOD analysis looks at the effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on financial incentives to work and poverty in Lithuania
A new IZA Discussion Paper by Angus Holford investigates how parents and their teenage children interact to set the amounts of pocket money and part-time work.
Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo presented new EUROMOD work on the Feasibility and Value Added of a European Unemployment Insurance Scheme at high level Brussels conference organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies
Parliamentary launch of new report exploring evidence on Attendance Allowance, and the government’s proposal for transferring it to local authorities.
New experiments in survey design and questionnaires within a unique sample of ISER's huge UK household panel study, Understanding Society
One in five workers in the UK is employed on a low wage - a new analysis finds this can lead on to better employment prospects, depending on where you live
Sir Anthony Atkinson heads the programme for a prestigious conference celebrating 20 years of bridging the gap between policymaking and academic research using our innovative microsimulation model
Research published in the Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society finds that the free nursery care for three year olds has made little or no improvement to their primary school test results
ESRC awards £27.5 million to the Institute for Social and Economic Research to continue the huge panel survey of 100,000 people in the UK, Understanding Society
The number of people nationally who are in relationships which would be characterised within clinical practice as ‘distressed’ is nearly 1-in-5