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UKMOD: Fostering an inclusive and informed public debate of UK fiscal policies

Started

The project aims to maintain UKMOD – an open-source tax-benefit model – as a free resource, and support its transition to long-term sustainability by fostering use of the model by third sector financial advisory and advocacy organisations.

In progress

Long-Term Modelling Tools for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research

Started

The overall aim of the project is to develop and test a novel approach to long-term effect modelling for adolescent mental health and wellbeing (AMHW) research, based on lifecourse microsimulation, that can help address a range of important unanswered research questions about heterogeneity in the long-term effects of interventions on AMHW and in the lifecourse causes and consequences of AMHW.

In progress

Fiscal INCentives for Health improvement: repurposing consumption taxes on food (FINCH)

Started

The central research question in FINCH is whether indirect taxes on food and non-alcoholic beverages (FNABs) can be repurposed and restructured to create incentives for healthy food consumption, without increasing the tax burden on households and without adverse distributional impacts relative to the current taxation system.

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Study on ‘Poverty and Income Inequality in the Context of the Digital Transformation’

Started

The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of digital transformation on employment, earnings, poverty and income inequality in the last decade, as well as provide an indication of what this impact could be in the coming decade, across all EU Member States and in the EU as a whole.

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Evaluation of the health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study

Started

A project focusing on a mixed methods study comprising five closely related work packages (WPs) to answer the question: what is the impact of the introduction of UC on mental health and wellbeing, what are the implications for health inequalities, and how these effects are moderated by variation in implementation across Great Britain?