Research Centre on Micro-Social Change

Lead Research Organisation: University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research

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Szilvia Altorjai (2013) Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK in NORFACE Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers

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Tasseva I (2016) Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria in Journal of Comparative Economics

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Taylor M (2011) Financial capability and psychological health in Journal of Economic Psychology

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Taylor M (2010) Measuring Financial Capability and its Determinants Using Survey Data in Social Indicators Research

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Thomas Siedler (Author) (2012) The inheritance of social assistance receipt in Review of income and wealth

 
Description The Understanding Micro-Social Change was a 5-year Centre from 2009 to 2014 which sought to address the challenges and opportunities created by recent social change. MiSoC's programme comprises four strands (Family and social ties, Working lives, Inequalities and opportunities and Advances in research methods), each divided into themes (20 in total), covering specific research issues. Here, we give some highlights of the Centre's findings, under the following headings:

• Measuring income and understanding income dynamics
• Labour markets and the Great recession
• Labour market policy evaluations:
• Immigration
• Intergenerational transmission of religiosity
• Measuring Subjective Expectations to understand choices under uncertainty
• Wellbeing
• Breastfeeding
• Neighbourhood, family and school outcomes
• The long-term impact of social skills
• Disability benefits and social care for older people
• Improving the robustness of quantitative cross-national analysis.
• The sociology of attitudes
• Trust

Measuring income and understanding income dynamics. The measurement and analysis of household incomes has been at the heart of the MiSoC research agenda for many years. In our last annual report, we highlighted work on subjective wellbeing and mental health which reflects a broader view of welfare. However, we continue to emphasise the importance of income and its accurate measurement and have made major contributions to knowledge over the last year. Francesconi et al (2011) investigated differences in measures of earnings from the longitudinal British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and cross-section Family Resources Survey (FRS), finding substantial differences in the distribution of measured earnings in later years, which are likely to be the result of sample attrition. This emphasises the need for researchers using longitudinal data to consider the possible biases which may accumulate over time. Lynn et al (2012) also highlight the potential importance of income measurement error. They were able to match individual survey data with the records of the social security benefit system, finding a systematic tendency towards under-reporting of benefit receipt. This is a worrying finding, but the researchers were able to show that there is scope for reducing bias in longitudinal surveys by using 'dependent interviewing', where information from the previous interview is fed forward to prompt recall. Figari et al (2011) investigate the same issue, comparing survey estimates with simulated incomes from tax-benefit simulation models in four countries. Although survey measures are subject to under-reporting bias and simulation often over-estimates benefit take-up, the study reached the reassuring conclusion that important findings were little affected by the choice of measurement method. A fourth study (Jenkins et al 2012) looked at the problems for analysts caused by measures that are used by statistical authorities for preventing the possible identification of individuals in anonymised survey data - in this case by 'top coding' the income data form high-income individuals. A new method was developed and applied to US income data, allowing successful analysis despite the loss of detail in the upper tail of the income distribution.
In 2011, Stephen Jenkins published Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, a book that is the culmination of a sustained body of research carried out in MiSoC over many years. This work demonstrates the importance of taking a longitudinal view of poverty and inequality - looking at how individuals' incomes change over time, and how these changes relate to changes in family structure, employment and the tax-benefit system. The methods used in the book have provided the template for the way in which poverty dynamics are summarised in the UK's official income statistics: see the Low Income Dynamics supplements to the Households Below Average Income publication, a crucial source for policy-making.

Labour markets and the Great Recession. Economies around the world are struggling to recover from the first global recession since the Second World War, and in Britain unemployment (particularly youth unemployment) continues to rise. MiSoC researchers contributed to a group of projects which aimed to understand the micro-level consequences of this difficult and volatile economic climate. Carrillo-Tudela and Visschers (2013) highlights the importance of occupational reallocation over the business cycle and provides foundations for the rise of long-term unemployment in downturns. Rampino and Taylor (2012) and Tumino and Taylor (2014) examined how recessions affect educational aspirations of young people and staying-on rates, and Tumino (2015) examined the scarring impact of the post-crash recession on unemployed young people. Bryan and Longhi (2015) examined how the added-worker effect held in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and The quantitative analysis was complemented by an innovative linked qualitative study (using a sub-sample from Understanding Society) to investigate the coping strategies of households faced with economic uncertainty (Gush et al., 2015; Laurie et al., 2015a&b). At the international level, Stephen Jenkins led a project to investigate the impact of the 'Great Recession' on household incomes in 21 OECD countries (Brandolini et al., 2012). Comparing the experiences of countries with different economic structures and institutions leads to important lessons about how best to protect households from adverse macroeconomic shocks.

Labour market policy evaluations: Welfare-to-work programmes often involve multiple features and incentives. Disentangling the impacts of these different features is key to successful policy design but requires high-quality data on individuals' benefit receipt and behaviour. Mike Brewer led two projects using administrative data on lone parents (a key group of interest to policy makers) to examine the impact of welfare-to-work programmes on their decisions to work and claim benefits. The first project compared two in-work benefits - In-Work Credit and the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration - which are both intended to promote short- and medium-run job retention (Brewer and Cribb, 2016). By reconciling and synthesising the evidence on the two benefits, the project identified which specific features of those policies are the most likely to foster job retention for lone parents. The second project investigated the impact of "work activation" on lone parents receiving out-of-work benefits. It examined how outcomes for successive cohorts of lone parents changed as the eligibility conditions for claiming Income Support were altered between 2008 and 2011 (Avram et al., 2016). This research built on Brewer's connections with the "Programme Evaluation for Policy Analysis" (PEPA) node of the National Centre for Research Methods.

Immigration: Recent decades have seen an increase in immigration, and growing controversy surrounding government initiatives to address it, on both sides of the Atlantic. MiSoC has responded with research progress in the area of ethnicity and migration, reviewing existing measures of ethnicity and immigration impact, developing new data sources, and examining immigrant integration in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the US.
With 9% of the EU population reporting a foreign place of birth, migration and ethnic diversity have become topics of both political and demographic importance. Yet due to their fairly small numbers in nationally representative surveys, quality data on many minority subgroups is lacking, constraining quantitative research on immigration, ethnicity and inequality. One such subgroup is recently arrived immigrants. Newcomers differ from more established immigrants because of reduced exposure to the receiving country as well as selective return migration. Utilizing respondent driven sampling (RDS), a novel method for accessing hard-to-reach populations, together with colleagues in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany, MiSoC's Lucinda Platt and Renee Luthra employed these new measures in a major cross-national survey of new immigrants, interviewing Polish and Pakistani migrants in Birmingham and London. This project, co-funded by Norface, provided the first internationally comparable data on immigrants within their first 18 months of arrival, with a follow up study allowing us to track language acquisition, friendship formation, and attitudinal change among new immigrants over time. This data will be an invaluable resource for researchers interested in early cultural, economic, and linguistic assimilation patterns. We held a related workshop on applying RDS to immigrant populations, and contributed to an edited volume containing the most recent developments and applications of the method.
In continental Europe, MiSoC research has uncovered an optimistic picture of immigrant integration in Germany. Two studies reveal "immigrant advantage" in the educational outcomes of the second generation, as compared to the children of the native born in Germany (Luthra 2010) and the children in their parents' countries of origin (Luthra 2010a). MiSoC work also looked at the relationship between immigration and employment. Longhi et al 2010 provided a meta-analysis on the labour market impact of immigration. Longhi and Rockica (2012) analysed the characteristics and labour market outcomes of the post-2004 Eastern European immigrants. These immigrants located in different regions and segments of the UK labour market than natives and Western Europe immigrants, and are likely to accept relatively unfavourable working conditions. They may remain in the country for only a limited period of time. Longhi and Markaki (2012) analysed anti-immigration attitudes across European countries and found that such attitudes seem to be driven by perceptions about the size of the immigrant population rather than the actual proportion.
Intergenerational transmission of religiosity: The study of migration, ethnicity and religion is a core element of the MiSoC programme. An example of the shared interests of this group is their work on the position of Muslims in western society. This is currently the subject of intense debate, but the influence of the socio-economic environment on religious practice in the Muslim community is not yet well understood. What happens to the religious identity and practice of Muslims who settle in the West? Do they and their descendants become more secular, or is there a reaction against the dominant ethos? Voas and Fleischmann (2012) have reviewed the evidence, finding that processes maintaining religious commitment are specific to the local socio-cultural environment and that structural integration does not necessarily reduce religiosity, even at the second generation. Complementary research by Güveli and Platt (2011) compared the religious practices of Muslims of different backgrounds in the Netherlands and UK, and also showed the dangers of simple messages, concluding that patterns of religiosity and secularisation cannot be generalised across national contexts. McAndrew and Voas (2012) are looking at evidence on socio-political attitudes in Britain, and show that religiosity plays a significant role in mediating the effect of generational integration on generalised trust, with a direct effect in promoting civic and political engagement.

Measuring Subjective Expectations to understand choices under uncertainty. Many decisions are made under uncertainty, and individuals are likely to form subjective beliefs (expectations) about the probabilities of events that are relevant for their decisions. Preferences and expectations are then combined, potentially within a subjective expected utility framework, to reach a choice. Typically, researchers only observe the final outcomes and have data on choices. This leaves them with a basic identification problem when making inference on the decision-making process as many combinations of preferences and expectations can lead to the same observed choice. For example, the lack of investment in education in many developing countries could be due to systematic misperceptions about the returns to schooling, limited taste for acquiring education or both (along with other explanations such as credit constraints or lack of access to schools). One possibility to mitigate this identification problem is to ask decision-makers directly about their subjective expectations. Particularly relevant in developing countries where people face even more uncertainty than in developed countries. Delavande's earlier work shows that it is feasible and useful to ask probabilistic expectations from survey respondents in developing countries. We have continued doing this MiSoC, with important methodological development on how best to ask expectations in developing countries and with important methodological applications (HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, education in Pakistan, early childhood development in Pakistan). And Delavande (2014) reviews the growing literature that uses probabilistic expectations elicited from survey respondents in developing countries.
The risk of HIV infection is one of the most important examples of this, and recent MiSoC research has made an important contribution to our understanding of the role of HIV policy. Delavande and Kohler (2012), studying risky sexual behaviour in Malawi, implemented new methods for measuring individuals' expectations about the impact of HIV on survival, own and partners' HIV status and the risk of transmission. Analysis of the accuracy of these expectations showed that information policies would be beneficial if focused on mortality risks, but not if focused on transmission risk. Delavande at al (2012) examined the policy of prosecuting HIV+ people who expose others to infection. They showed that, despite the existence of some adverse unintended consequences, the policy is likely to be effective, with a doubling of the prosecution rate reducing new infections by a third in the long run.
One advantage of eliciting quantitative expectations (e.g. subjective probability of employment) rather than qualitative expectations is that we can investigate whether some groups in the population have misperceptions by comparing their answers to actual employment rates in this group. Another advantage is that we can use them to estimate a random utility model to evaluate the relative role of expectations about future employment and earnings and credit constraints in shaping youth's decision to attend university and which type of university to attend. We collected data on expectations on the return to a degree from youth currently attending university in Pakistan, Delavande and Zafar (2014) evaluated the role of future earnings, non-pecuniary outcomes and financial constraints in the choice of a university (between religious seminaries, Islamic universities or liberal universities) in urban Pakistan.


Wellbeing: Measurement of wellbeing and related concepts of mental health is critical to a large research literature spanning economics, psychology and sociology. It is also increasingly relevant to the policy debate, where conventional income-based measures of welfare are seen to have important limitations. MiSoC research brings an open mind and a careful approach to the issue of wellbeing measurement and the role of such measures in policy analysis. Our work has demonstrated the importance of dynamics in subjective data, and developed new methods of modelling. It has also demonstrated the importance of survey design for the reliability of research findings based on subjective measures of wellbeing or mental health. On job satisfaction, Salvatori (2010) has shown that both permanent and temporary employees gain from reforms that ease restrictions on temporary employment but leave firing costs for permanent workers unchanged, a finding that calls for revision of assumptions often made in the policy literature. Conti and Pudney (2011) show that survey measures of job satisfaction are strongly influenced by the details of survey mode and question design and that particular care is needed with respect to gender, where the apparent difference between the importance that men and women attach to pay relative to hours is largely an artefact of survey design, rather than a fundamental behavioural difference. Our work on measurement has been extended to measures of financial wellbeing, in an article by Pudney (2011) published in a special issue of the Journal of Public Economics marking the contribution of Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen to welfare analysis. This demonstrates a tendency of respondents to give temporally inconsistent assessments of financial wellbeing in longitudinal surveys, and the sluggish response of perceived wellbeing to changing circumstances, creating a necessity for methods of analysis that allow for complex dynamic adjustment of perceptions. MiSoC work on measurement is being followed up by analysis of experiments in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel (Pudney 2010), with results further underlining the importance of survey design for a good understanding of wellbeing. This work has been widely disseminated in academic seminars and conferences in the UK and at least five other countries, and has influenced the design of Understanding Society questions, and thus the data resources available to researchers far into the future. MiSoC research on the measurement of well-being is continuing to feed into official measurement initiatives: Steve Pudney was a member of the ONS' Technical Advisory Group and, Amanda Sacker was invited to join the Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework for the National Academies, Washington.

Breastfeeding Recent MiSoC research aims to isolate the true impact of breastfeeding from unobserved aspects of maternal behaviour and establish its effects on a range of individual outcomes pertaining to both the mother and the child. Three pieces of evidence are so far available. Iacovou and Sevilla-Sanz (2010) have compared the educational progress of breastfed and non-breastfed children using longitudinal data from ALSPAC. After matching mother-child pairs on a wide range of observable attributes, they show that breastfeeding improves children's SAT scores well into adolescence. Del Bono and Rabe (2011) have exploited variation in hospital participation in breastfeeding support policies (the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative) to show that breastfeeding has a large and significant causal impact on the cognitive attainment of the Millennium Cohort Study children at age 5 and 7, but almost no effects on their behaviour and emotional conduct. Iacovou and Sevilla-Sanz (2011) have extended the analysis into patterns of feeding, comparing schedule versus demand-led feeding. Contrary to claims in the popular press and many best-selling parenting books, they have found that children fed to a schedule perform slightly worse educationally than children fed on demand, although their mothers appear to be more content and confident throughout.

Neighbourhood, family and school outcomes. Using English school register data, Nicoletti and Rabe (2012) investigated the importance of pupils' neighbourhood and family background on education test scores. They find neighbourhood factors explain 10-15% of the variance in pupils' test scores, but the variance explained by family is 44-54% at age 11 and 47-61% at age 16. To investigate genetic effects, they compare twins and fraternal siblings, and they develop a new method to estimate correlations between genetically identical and non-identical twins that can be applied when the twin types are unobserved.

The long-term impact of social skills. Recent research on human capital has shifted emphasis from "hard" skills to "softer" non-cognitive skills. We investigate the returns to early social skills, using data on a cohort of respondents to the 1957 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, who were asked to report the names of up to three best friends from their senior class in high school. We develop an econometric model of friendship patterns and labour market success and find that early-developed social skills have a persistent return: moving from the 20th to 80th percentile of the high-school popularity distribution yields a 10% wage premium 35 years later.

Disability benefits and social care for older people. We have produced a long series of research studies dealing with the role of disability-related cash benefits for older people and the funding of social care. The underlying theme is to show that distributional analysis conducted in terms of the usual definition of net household cash income leads to wildly unreliable results for the large number of older people who have significant disability, and to demonstrate that rates of pensioner poverty are far higher than conventionally measured when disability costs are allowed for. In addition, a proposal for a randomised survey design experiment for the UKHLS Innovation Panel was developed by MiSoC's Professor Steve Pudney. The experiment used reactive dependent interviewing to investigate how to measure changes in self-assessed measures of long-standing illness or disability. It had three objectives: to identify reasons for the implausibly high rates of year-on-year change observed at the individual level; to investigate whether the initial filter question (about the existence of a long-standing health condition or impairment) acts to understate measured disability (by barring access to the more specific question about everyday activities); and to suggest options for redesigning the questions.

Improving the robustness of quantitative cross-national analysis. Sociologists, political scientists and economists often assess cross-national differences in outcomes using individual-level survey data from multiple countries. Researchers typically use regression-based approaches to analyse such data, including multilevel (or hierarchical) modelling. Bryan and Jenkins (2016) examined the limitations of these statistical methods and pointed out problems in the assessment of country-level factors that appear not to be widely appreciated. A better way to approach cross-national comparative research may be to combine a statistical approach to within-country differences with a greater reliance on discursive or graphical approaches to analysing cross-country differences. Given the prevalence of cross-country comparative research, this work has important implications for social scientists in a range of disciplines.


The sociology of attitudes. David Voas co-edited a special section on 'attitudes' for Sociological Research Online (and is the author of the first article in the set). Voas argues that, while the psychology of attitudes has made important contributions over many decades, it has tended to cause confusion in the study of social attitudes. From a sociological perspective, attitudes should be defined as prescriptive or evaluative judgements, not as individual predispositions to act in particular ways or to view something (un)favourably. A distinction that has been lost is that between personal preferences, tastes or feelings, and social attitudes; attitudes also need to be distinguished from beliefs and values. Contrary to the current consensus in psychology, Voas argues that attitudes are more usefully regarded as observable characteristics than as latent constructs.

Trust: One of the most difficult aspects of social research is the role of "intangible" attributes. An important example is trust, which is conceptually difficult to define and extremely hard to measure empirically. John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta and MiSoC collaborators have criticised existing definitions of generalised trust in the economics literature (Ermisch and Gambetta 2006) and developed and implemented a new experimental design linked to the UK ECHP sample, which allowed the results to be analysed in the context of the rich longitudinal information available for the experimental subjects. Trust and trustworthiness are shown by Ermisch et al (2009) to be strongly related to a range of personal characteristics, and Ermisch and Gambetta (2010) demonstrate that trust is heavily influenced by the strength of family and social ties, which act to limit external exposure. These are important substantive findings, since the concept of trust is central to community cohesion and social inclusion, but the work is also pioneering in a methodological sense, since it is very rare for experimental work in economics and the social sciences to exploit the opportunities offered by linkage of formal experiments to longitudinal survey data.
Exploitation Route The Centre produced many hundreds of outputs, and generated findings in many areas that are too numerous to document here.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other

URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications
 
Description The Understanding Micro-Social Change was a 5-year Centre from 2009 to 2014 which sought to address the challenges and opportunities created by recent social change. MiSoC's programme comprises four strands (Family and social ties, Working lives, Inequalities and opportunities and Advances in research methods), each divided into themes (20 in total), covering specific research issues. The Centre produced many hundreds of outputs, and generated findings in many areas that are too numerous to document here. Here, we give the key highlights of the how the Centre's findings have had an impact outside academia, and of some of the key elements of knowledge exchange that the centre has engaged in. Disability benefits and social care for older people: MiSoC has produced a long series of research studies dealing with the role of disability-related cash benefits for older people and the funding of social care. Much of this has been designed and funded in collaboration with the Nuffield Foundation and AgeUK; our work has thus been informed by views from the third sector and we believe that our work has, in turn, influenced the thinking behind recent policy views expressed by AgeUK. Engagement with the official policy process has been extensive and is continuing. It includes: written evidence to the 2009 Work & Pensions Select Committee inquiry; Ruth Hancock's membership of the academic panel of the 2010-11 Dilnot Commission and ongoing discussions with the commission; and participation of MiSoC members Ruth Hancock and Mike Brewer in the April 2011 SSC Public Debate on "Disability benefits, social care and welfare reform". A specific example of clear policy impact is our written evidence to the 2010 Health Select committee inquiry into social care (Report, vol II, pp.172-178), which provided the Committee's only rigorous academic evidence on the distributional pattern of disability benefits and which questioned the basis of the suggestion in the Green Paper on Social Care of withdrawing disability benefits. The Committee's report, explicitly quoting from our work (Report, vol I, paras 310-324), calls for a better evidential basis for policy design in relation to disability benefits (Report, vol I, recommendations 34 and 35). The subsequent White Paper backtracked on that proposal, although it remains on the policy agenda. The Head of Public Policy at Age UK has stated that: "we believe that their report, and your submission to them, influenced the then Government's decision not to reform AA or integrate it with means-tested care support It is our impression that the research has had an influence on the way the Department for Work and Pensions views the financial position of disabled older people in receipt of AA or DLA" The subsequent change of government led to the establishment of the Commission on Funding Care and Support (CFSC), whose report recommended retaining non means-tested disability benefits for older people. Before its report was funded we presented our research at a high-profile seminar organised by the Strategic Society Centre, which was attended by representatives from the CFSC, relevant government departments (HM Treasury, Department of Health, Department for Work and Pensions), voluntary sector organisations (e.g. Age UK), Local Authorities, the private insurance sector and academics. Papers and briefings published by the Strategic Society Centre and Age UK have quoted heavily from our work, and have continued to do so. In October 2012, Ruth Hancock and Steve Pudney discussed MiSoC research on social care and disability benefits with the No 10 Policy Unit. In January 2013, MiSoC contributed to the RSS conference "Statistics for Adult Social Care", itself partly a response to the Dilnot Commission on Funding Care of Support, which highlighted the limitations of data available for social care policy-making. Ruth Hancock co-organised and chaired the conference, Steve Pudney was an invited speaker. The 2012 Welfare Reform Act has replaced DLA with Personal Independence Payment for new claimants, which differs from DLA in detail but remains a non means-tested benefit for disabled people. AA is still in place. For the foreseeable future older people in the UK therefore retain access to non means-tested cash disability benefits to help them meet the costs that disability brings. As of 2012, they reach some 2.44 million people aged 65+ in Great Britain. These are the immediate beneficiaries of the decision to retain these benefits. Some of them would have lost as much as £77.45 per week (April 2012 rates) had AA and DLA been withdrawn completely. Perhaps more importantly, a public policy change based on an incorrect premise has been avoided. Income and poverty dynamics. In 2011, Stephen Jenkins published Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, a book that is the culmination of a sustained body of research carried out in MiSoC over a period of many years. This work demonstrates the importance of taking a longitudinal view of poverty and inequality - looking at how individuals' incomes change over time, and how these changes relate to changes in family structure, employment and the tax-benefit system. The methods used in the book have provided the template for the way in which poverty dynamics are summarised in the UK's official income statistics: see the Low Income Dynamics supplements to the Households Below Average Income publication, a crucial source for policy-making. The book was launched at a high-profile public lecture at the LSE, and a tailored presentation was given to the Social Mobility group in the Cabinet Office. The research has received wide media exposure, including being the lead item in the BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. It is also the subject of a forthcoming short film, one of eight that the ESRC has commissioned to showcase its work to research users. As a result of the work contained in Jenkins' book, a measure of persistent poverty was one of the four statutory measures of child poverty named in the Child Poverty Act 2010, against which future governments have to report progress.. These sorts of statistics continue to inform policymaking at the highest level: Figure 1.3 of the Cabinet Office's 2010 State of the nation report-a document which represents the current government's overall approach to poverty and disadvantage-cites statistics on persistent poverty. MiSoC has made a large contribution over many years to policy-makers' understanding of the pattern and movements of inequality and poverty over time, in terms of income, wealth, deprivation and, more recently, health. 2009-2010 saw a particularly large impact for MiSoC research, through our participation in the National Equality Panel (NEP), commissioned for the UK government by the then Minister for Equalities, Harriet Harman. The report provided an anatomy of economic inequality in the UK, identifying a range of deep-seated and systematic differences' between social groups across many dimensions of life, and it has attracted a great deal of policy and media attention. MiSoC's Stephen Jenkins was a member of the NEP and an author of its report, and the panel also commissioned members of MiSoC to produce special studies of income dynamics (Jenkins 2009) and ethno-religious and disability inequalities (Longhi et al 2009) and drew on other MiSoC research, presented to the panel during a visit to the Centre. EUROMOD and understand the effects of austerity in the EU. The all-EU 27 country version of EUROMOD was launched in 2012. This unique multi-country tax-benefit microsimulation model is available for academic and not-for-profit research by anyone with permission to access the EU-SILC micro-data. Built and maintained by MiSoC researchers (who also use it to inform their own research) and with inputs from an EU-wide network of national teams of experts, it represents the state of the art in this type of comparative, policy-relevant research. We have been encouraging as wide as possible use of the model by running training courses, a research workshop for model users and disseminating our existing work as exemplar analysis. In countries without their own national tax-benefit models, national teams are being supported to promote the use of EUROMOD as part of evidence-based policy-making at the official level, by informing policy-relevant independent and academic analysis. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion (DG-EMPL) makes extensive use of EUROMOD in policy formation and has stated that EUROMOD "provides comparative information of the highest available statistical standard in the EU, which is only scarcely available from other sources. This makes Euromod a particularly useful tool for analysis and policy formulation at the EU level". DG-EMPL has confirmed that "Euromod outputs regularly feed into the analytical reports published by the European Commission, such as the EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review or the annual flagship Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review These reports provide analytical underpinning for the policy formulation by the European Commission in the employment and social fields". For example, the Annual Report on Employment and Social Development (2012) cites EUROMOD in numerous places, including a number of explicit references to Essex research. Much of the DG-EMPL's use of EUROMOD has involved modelling the effects of austerity measures, and it has confirmed that "Euromod data are used to support the analysis of consolidation packages implemented in a number of Member States, which in turn underpins Commission policy recommendations to the Member States". For instance, the EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review of March 2013 models fiscal consolidation using EUROMOD, while that of December 2011 uses EUROMOD to model outcomes of austerity measures. One of our research papers comparing the distributional effects of post-financial crisis austerity measures in different EU countries attracted especially strong interest from the European Commission because it demonstrates how different policy choices addressing similar policy problems can have very different implications for income distribution and for the population groups bearing the cost of austerity in each country. MiSoC's Professor Sutherland has presented EUROMOD findings at DG-EMPL events and she was invited to present the paper that compares distributional effects in six countries at the European Commission conference on Inequalities in Europe and the Future of the Welfare State (December 2011). In November 2012 DG-EMPL held the Microsimulation for Policymaking in Times of Crisis conference, which included an opening presentation by Sutherland and a further talk on nowcasting from Essex researchers - both of which are available on the DG-EMPL's website. In related work, MiSoC's Mike Brewer was re-appointed in 2013 to an independent Expert Group that is advising the Scottish Government on how a welfare system might be designed in the event of an independent Scotland. As the Scottish government current lacks capacity to do microsimulation analysis of taxes and benefits, an important input into the Group's consideration was analysis from MiSoC researchers, using the EUROMOD model, of the nature of financial work incentives in Scotland and how they compared with the rest of the UK and with other EU countries. EUROMOD and nowcasting the income distribution: EUROMOD, the EU-tax-benefit microsimulation model developed and managed by MiSoC researchers, is now being used to predict the income distribution of the current year, giving policy-makers "real-time" estimates of poverty some 2-3 years before actual micro-data become available. "Nowcasting" is the estimation of current "at risk of poverty" statistics (and the income distribution generally) to overcome the time lag in the production of EU-SILC statistics (for example, in April 2015 the latest indicators about the income distribution are for incomes in 2012 incomes). The motivation of the European Commission is to put social and distributional issues on an equal footing with macro-economic criteria when assessing of the economic situation, and so the aim of the nowcasting exercise is to predict what the EU-SILC will show for the current year using a method that can be applied quickly, and updated easily, for EU-28. Using EUROMOD for nowcasting is an important component of the Joint Action Plan between DG-EMPL and Eurostat to improve the timelines of key social indicators, and has influenced Eurostat's plans for future content and design of the EU-SILC data (on which EUROMOD is based). A DG-EMPL working paper includes an analysis of nowcasting poverty using EUROMOD and draws on Navicke et al. (2013). DG-EMPL has confirmed that "the on-going EUROMOD work on nowcasting provides valuable and timely information on the most probable recent trends in the distribution of incomes and particularly in the share of population at risk of poverty". Family policy and social mobility: MiSoC research, carried out by John Ermisch, Emilia Del Bono, Maria Iacovou and others, on the family and inter-generational social mobility has played an important role in informing the policy debate. The centrepiece of this work is participation in a major research initiative covering ten countries, supported with co-funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Sutton Trust and the Pew Charitable Trust. The first fruit of this collaboration was a policy report published by the Sutton Trust in April 2010, unfortunately at a time when election purdah prevented media interviews with MiSoC staff, but the Sutton Trust used the research in discussions with government - in particular alerting the Cabinet Office which was preparing a social mobility strategy paper at the time, as well as in discussions with the Deputy Prime Minister. The report was also referred to in the Sutton Trust's submission to the House of Commons Education Select Committee inquiry into social mobility. The Sutton Trust has stated that "the research was a centrepiece for an international summit on social mobility attended by the leaders of the three main political parties. The policy influence from this was manifested in the Coalition's 2011 Social Mobility Strategy, which set out a number of key policies attempting to improve social mobility". In addition, the research on inequality in adolescence, as well as other international evidence on the interaction between educational institutions and social mobility, was presented at a workshop held at the British Academy in May 2011 to an audience of policymakers and journalists. The Russell Sage Foundation, an American charitable organisation, has outlined two specific impacts arising from Ermisch and Del Bono's (2012) chapter on inequality in adolescent achievement. Firstly, the findings of this work were central to the Foundation's engagement with policymakers and non-academic audiences. A non-technical summary of the From Parents to Children project, which highlighted the work of Ermisch and Del Bono, was devised for the purpose of engaging with such audiences. Secondly, the Foundation has confirmed that Ermisch and Del Bono's findings on income gradients have led to investment in "several grants looking at exactly these issues to build upon and extend the findings from the Ermisch and Del Bono work". Further to this, the Foundation now has four visiting scholars working on these issues and is looking to fund further projects on developmental patterns. Breastfeeding. MiSoC devised a programme of dissemination for the findings of the work on social mobility and breastfeeding, which has led to various impacts. In October 2011, Essex organised a policy workshop, 'Early Intervention and Social Mobility: Are pro-breastfeeding policies worth it?' at the British Academy in London to discuss some preliminary results from the research. The workshop was chaired by Dr Miriam Stoppard, a well-known author of books on child development. It featured a panel of healthcare experts and representatives of third-sector organisations, including Janet Fyle (Policy Advisor for the Royal College of Midwives), Alison Baum (CEO of Best Beginnings), Belinda Phipps (CEO of the National Childcare Trust), and an MP who is both a member of the Health Select Committee and chair of the All Party Group on Maternity Services. As an immediate consequence of this workshop, the MP addressed the under-secretary of State for Public Health in a parliamentary debate on 21st November 2011 to ask about the provisions set in place by the current Government to support breastfeeding in the long-term. The MP, now a Minister in the Department of Health, has confirmed that various policy decisions have been informed by the research, including the Government's support for the Healthy Child Programme, the inclusion of breastfeeding in the Public Health Outcomes Framework, supporting breastfeeding through increasing the number of health visitors, providing information about breastfeeding through the NHS Information Services, and promoting National Breastfeeding Awareness Week. MiSoC's research on breastfeeding and social mobility has also been vital to the work of UNICEF UK's Baby Friendly Initiative, which works with public services to promote and support breastfeeding. The Director of the programme writes that the "research has been valuable in giving strong evidence for the efficacy of the Baby Friendly Initiative - particularly in areas of lower socio-economic status, where breastfeeding is less common". The necessity of providing such evidence is that "it is important that we can show that the programme has a measurable impact on practice and breastfeeding rates in order that the investment in staff time and resources is justifiable - particularly during a time when budgets are being cut". The Director also states that the research has been providing vital evidence on why breastfeeding is important, especially in providing an effective methodology to demonstrate the association between breastfeeding and IQ. Further to this, Iacovou and Sevilla-Sanz's 2010 paper is cited multiple times in a 2012 report by UNICEF UK on the benefits to health services that breastfeeding provides. Most recently, the 2013 paper on breastfeeding and intergenerational social mobility from Archives in Diseases of Childhood has received extensive media coverage, including articles in the Independent and Daily Mail. It has also been the subject of a feature on the NHS Choices website. Legalising drugs. Steve Pudney, Mark Bryan and Emilia Del Bono undertook a major study, co-funded by the Open Society Institute, to evaluate the costs and benefits of two potential reforms to drugs policy in England and Wales: the creation of a regulated market for cannabis and the introduction of a national system of supervised heroin injection for registered addicts. The study is commissioned by the Beckley Foundation with the twin aims of expanding the evidence base on drugs policy reform, and helping to shift the policy formation process onto a more rational basis. The report attracted considerable media attention, and was cited directly by the Liberal Democrats election manifesto in 2017, nearly three years after the end of this Centre. And, as the international debate on cannabis policy has become more active as a result of the initiatives taken by Uruguay, Colorado and Washington State, so the MiSoC team has participated fully, including presentations to: the APPGs on Drug Policy Reform and (separately) Global Uncertainties, a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, and a transatlantic policy conference at the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Center, Brussels. The impact of free early years education and care: The UK government spends several billions of pounds a year on free to ensure that some 2 year olds, and all 3 and 4 year olds in England have access to childcare and early education for 15 hours a week, 38 weeks a year. There is ongoing debate in all UK nations about whether (and by how much) to increase families' entitlement, yet there is surprisingly little evidence on the causal impact of this specific (and very high cost) intervention. In autumn 2014, we published results from the most comprehensive attempt to date using UK data to analyse the effects of free childcare provision on maternal employment patterns and childhood outcomes. We exploited exogenous variation in the availability of free childcare for pre-school children in England across time and geographical areas, and between children born at different points in the year. This work involves many partnerships, with the work on the impact on children being joint with a research team led by the University of Surrey, and the work on the impact on maternal employment being joint with a research team from IFS. We are partnering with the Family and Daycare Trust and the ippr, who are both organising workshops where we will discuss our findings with practitioners and policy-makers from local and central government. We presented findings and discussed the implications at an event in July 2014 hosted by the Nuffield Foundation, and we gave oral and written evidence and advice to the House of Lords Committee on affordable childcare, who cited our work in their final report. Growing up in recession Britain. As part of its programme of recession research, MisoC hosted an event for policy makers and opinion formers in London in March 2013. Chaired by Lucy Rock of the Observer, the event combined MiSoC research with analysis of young peoples' labour market experiences, prospects and possible policy interventions by two outside experts (Jonathan Wadsworth of Royal Holloway and Richard Dorsett of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research). A panel of young people invited by the charity Rathbone then reacted to the presentations by reflecting on their experiences of recession. We held an event in June 2014 in collaboration with the Work Foundation, where we presented these findings and led an expert round table discussion of their policy implications and future challenges. Informing policy and guiding investment in the Church of England. MiSoC's David Voas was commissioned by the Church of England in 2012 to undertake a study to identify factors associated with church growth and decline, building on his expertise on analysing religious decline. The research led to a report, published online in 2014. The findings have been widely discussed in Church circles at all levels. The project steering group was chaired by the First Church Estates Commissioner (who could be viewed as the chair of the Church's 'board of directors') and included a number of influential Anglicans. Voas presented the findings at large conferences of Church leaders and numerous smaller meetings and workshops. In early 2014, the Church published a brochure entitled 'From Anecdote to Evidence' to highlight key findings. In early 2015, it followed up with another website and brochure designed to push people 'From Evidence to Action'. The introduction to 'From Evidence to Action' states that the project was "the first time that such a wide ranging and systematic study of factors relating to church growth has been undertaken within the Church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon. Justin Welby, has welcomed the research findings and all that they have highlighted. It is for this reason - because the findings prompt churches to act - that following on from the research, a toolkit, From Evidence to Action has been developed." Voas was invited by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to a residential meeting of their Council in June 2014, where they discussed the policy implications with the senior leadership. Justin Welby described the report as the most important study conducted by the Church for many years, and one that will have a real impact. Andreas Whittam Smith, the First Church Estates Commissioner, is proposing a major investment programme to change the fortunes of the Church. These investments are expected to amount to £100 million over the next ten years. The work done by Voas is explicitly cited as the justification for this major commitment. The research is having the following impact: • Cultural change - the research has helped to change culture within the Church of England, including a greater openness to using evidence / research to help inform decision making, increased awareness of the challenges faced by the Church and acceptance of the need for a sharper focus on the objective of numerical growth. • 'Renewal and Reform' - This major change programme, aimed at helping to reverse decades of numerical decline, has drawn on the findings from the growth research to inform their work (in terms of defining key issues to be tackled, making the case for change, helping to inform changes to funding etc.). • Fuelled research field / improvements in data processes - This quantitative social science type research around church growth was relatively new in the context of the Church of England. The Voas research, as well as pioneering this sort of approach within the C of E, has stimulated further quantitative research that is continuing to develop the evidence base. The challenges faced in carrying out the research have also helped drive increased efforts to improve data collection and collation processes in the Church, moving towards having more accurate and timely data to inform decision making. • Influence on resource allocation - The research is informing resource allocation decisions. Changing to funding systems as part of 'Renewal and Reform' require dioceses to submit applications for funding drawing on evidence. • Informed mission planning at a diocesan and parish level - 5,000 hard copies of the summary report distributed (plus web downloads) and over 5,000 copies of 'From Evidence to Action' tool distributed (which helps parishes to apply the findings as part of parish development processes). Dioceses have drawn on findings when developing their strategy (e.g. Birmingham and 'Growing Younger'). There is also considerable evidence of parishes using the findings as part of their mission planning processes. Collaboration with the commercial sector: social insurance and pension saving. The MiSoC strategy of engagement with the commercial sector has been very successful, with two high-impact studies carried out in collaboration with major insurers. Mark Taylor, Alex Skew and Steve Pudney produced an analysis (Pudney et al 2011) of the extent and consequences of withdrawal from work for health reasons, co-funded by Unum. The report highlighted the persistent adverse consequences for families of loss of work through ill-health and the limited extent to which these losses are offset by the welfare benefits system. The research was widely cited in national news media, including Channel 4 News, Radio 5, the Guardian, Mirror, Express and most online national dailies. It was also the subject of a breakfast policy event in the House of Commons, attended by ministers and members of both houses of parliament, to be followed in April by a larger event in the House of Lords. The creation of a new PhD studentship funded by Unum ensures that this strand of research continues to be developed over the remainder of the MiSoC programme. Mark Bryan, James Lloyd, Birgitta Rabe and Mark Taylor completed a study (Bryan et al 2011) of the key influences on retirement saving, in collaboration with the policy think-tank, the Strategic Society Centre, with funding from one of the UK's leading pension providers, Prudential plc. Of a set of factors including qualifications, earnings, household structure and financial engagement, the biggest drivers of pension saving (occupational and personal pensions combined) were eligibility for a workplace pension and the offer of employer contributions. The research was launched at a policy event attended by representatives of the Pensions Commission, industry and policy makers, including the Pensions Minister, who welcomed the results and noted that they raised a number of issues meriting further investigation. Discussions are in progress with the Strategic Society Centre and Prudential to extend the study to include newly released data. Follow up work by MiSoC's Mark Bryan explored why some employees reject workplace pensions despite being offered employer contributions. The research provides policymakers with evidence on the factors likely to be responsible for workers opting out of the new pensions; an accompanying SSC report recommends measures to minimise opt-outs. Example of early career impact: Stigma of free school meals. Research by MiSoC PhD student Angus Holford (2012) found that found parents were not registering for free school meals (FSM) because of fear of stigmatisation of their children. After widespread media coverage, the Local Authorities' Caterers' Association announced they would seek to introduce anonymised payment schemes and ensure FSM children could always eat with their peers. The Children's Food Trust launched a campaign with ASDA to provide information to parents on FSM eligibility, and the pressure group 38 Degrees launched an online petition.
First Year Of Impact 2009
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice
Impact Types Societal,Economic

 
Description Response to the House of Commons Scrutiny Committee on the Childcare Payments Bill, 2014-15
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Response to the House of Commons Scrutiny Committee on the Childcare Payments Bill, 2014-15
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Response to the Select Committee on Affordable Childcare's Call for Evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/affordable-childcare/Affordable-Childcare.pdf
 
Description Response to the Select Committee on Affordable Childcare's Call for Evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/affordable-childcare/Affordable-Childcare.pdf
 
Description AIG: Study of the role of information, advice and guidance in Young People's Eduction and Career Choices
Amount £34,800 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Education 
Department Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2010 
End 03/2010
 
Description Advising research on mortgage markets regulation
Amount £2,440 (GBP)
Organisation Financial Services Authority 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2011 
End 06/2011
 
Description An Examination of Poverty and Sexual Orientation in the UK
Amount £9,910 (GBP)
Funding ID 120901AC 
Organisation Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2013 
End 12/2013
 
Description An analysis of the impact of the National Minimum Wage on earnings, employment and hours through the recession
Amount £25,733 (GBP)
Organisation Low Pay Commission 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2012 
End 10/2012
 
Description Analysis of Wealth and Assets Survey and Household Annual Debtor Survey
Amount £27,554 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2010 
End 09/2010
 
Description Analysis of the Impact of National Minimum Wage in the Recession
Amount £24,942 (GBP)
Organisation Low Pay Commission 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2011 
End 09/2011
 
Description British Religion in Numbers - Academy Research Projects
Amount £25,000 (GBP)
Funding ID AN140004 
Organisation The British Academy 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2014 
End 05/2019
 
Description Can People Afford to Lose Attendance Allowance
Amount £20,794 (GBP)
Organisation Age UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2009 
End 09/2009
 
Description Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2014/15
Amount £4,900 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Education 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2014 
End 05/2015
 
Description Church Growth Research Project
Amount £131,798 (GBP)
Organisation Church of England 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2012 
End 10/2013
 
Description Contribution to brainstorming seminar for senior staff of DG EMPL and the Employment and Social affairs Commissioner on social economic stabilizers
Amount € 5,000 (EUR)
Funding ID VC/2012/0493 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 06/2012 
End 07/2012
 
Description Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage
Amount £9,722 (GBP)
Organisation The Sutton Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2011 
End 09/2011
 
Description Determine the economic impact of poverty-related risk factors for cognitive development and human capital
Amount $458,733 (CAD)
Organisation Government of Canada 
Department Grand Challenges Canada
Sector Public
Country Canada
Start 07/2013 
End 10/2014
 
Description Developing Effective Ex Ante Social Impact Assessment with a Focus on Methodology, Tools and Data Sources
Amount £5,100 (GBP)
Organisation OSB Consulting GmbH 
Sector Private
Country Germany
Start 09/2011 
End 01/2012
 
Description Developing Methods for Understanding Mechanism in Complex Interventions
Amount £13,241 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/K006185/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2013 
End 06/2016
 
Description Development of a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Namibia (NAMOD)
Amount $21,251 (USD)
Organisation UNICEF 
Sector Public
Country United States
Start 10/2012 
End 12/2013
 
Description Development of tax-benefit microsimulation model as an instrument of empirically based and socially responsible economic policy (serbiaMod)
Amount € 11,000 (EUR)
Organisation Foundation for the Advancement of Economics 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Serbia
Start 10/2009 
End 01/2010
 
Description Development of tools for ex ante evaluation of socio-economic policies in Flanders (FLEMOSI)
Amount € 124,200 (EUR)
Funding ID 90044 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 10/2010 
End 12/2013
 
Description Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Amount £2,845 (GBP)
Funding ID EME No 09/150/12 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2013 
End 08/2016
 
Description Disability and Care Needs in the Older Population: Disability Benefits, Social Care and Wellbeing
Amount £77,163 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K003852/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2012 
End 10/2014
 
Description Disparities in Children's Health and Behaviour: The Importance of Race/Ethnicity in the UK and US
Amount £33,136 (GBP)
Funding ID RES-177-25-0012 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2009 
End 04/2013
 
Description Ethnic Minority Women's Poverty and Economic Well-being
Amount £44,880 (GBP)
Organisation Government of the UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2009 
End 03/2010
 
Description Family, Friends and Fertility
Amount £71,269 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/103727X/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2012 
End 03/2013
 
Description Festival of Social Science - Am I in society? A day of social science for Year 9s
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2013 
End 11/2013
 
Description Festival of Social Science: Young People and well-being: what do you think?
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2011 
End 11/2011
 
Description Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Amount £14,598 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/J003271/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2012 
End 06/2013
 
Description How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market (NEUJOBS)
Amount € 30,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 266833 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 09/2013 
End 12/2014
 
Description IFS Funded Research - Joint Contract
Amount £114,232 (GBP)
Organisation Institute for Fiscal Studies 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2011 
End 09/2014
 
Description IMPROVE
Amount £397,369 (GBP)
Funding ID 290613 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 03/2012 
End 02/2016
 
Description InGRID
Amount £245,951 (GBP)
Funding ID 312691 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 02/2013 
End 01/2017
 
Description Inequality in access to good schools and educational attainments
Amount £18,064 (GBP)
Funding ID EDU/40192 
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2011 
End 07/2012
 
Description Interaction between the Minimum Wage, Tax and Universal Credit
Amount £28,307 (GBP)
Funding ID 40990 
Organisation Low Pay Commission 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2012 
End 02/2013
 
Description Job Polarisation and Job Quality
Amount £161,854 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K001116/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2012 
End 03/2016
 
Description LEMMA 3
Amount £93,076 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/I025065/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2013 
End 03/2015
 
Description Life Transitions and Travel Behaviour
Amount £34,300 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K00445X/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2012 
End 04/2014
 
Description Linking Experimental and Survey Data: Behavioural Experiments in Health and Wellbeing
Amount £40,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K001965/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2013 
End 03/2014
 
Description Lone Parent Obligations: An Impact Assessment
Amount £125,985 (GBP)
Funding ID FR1197 
Organisation Department for Work and Pensions 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2012 
End 12/2014
 
Description Making work pay: single parents and Universal Credit
Amount £10,420 (GBP)
Organisation Gingerbread 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2012 
End 03/2013
 
Description Marginal Tax Rates relating to the Constitutional Reform team's Expert Working Group on Welfare
Amount £1,144 (GBP)
Organisation Government of Scotland 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2014 
End 02/2014
 
Description Maternal Smoking and Low Birth Weight
Amount £6,527 (GBP)
Funding ID SG111344 
Organisation The British Academy 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2011 
End 11/2013
 
Description Migrant diversity and regional disparity in Europe Norface-496, MD-RDE
Amount € 311,367 (EUR)
Organisation New Opportunities for Research Funding Co-operation in Europe (NORFACE) 
Sector Academic/University
Country European Union (EU)
Start 10/2009 
End 01/2014
 
Description Migration in Europe: Social, Economic and Policy Dynamics
Amount € 636,696 (EUR)
Organisation New Opportunities for Research Funding Co-operation in Europe (NORFACE) 
Sector Academic/University
Country European Union (EU)
Start 12/2009 
End 12/2012
 
Description Modelling Generic Preference Based Outcome Measures: Development and Comparison of Methods - Methodology Research Panel
Amount £89,004 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/L022575/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2014 
End 02/2017
 
Description Multinational Advancement of Research Infrastructure on Ageing (SHARE)
Amount £64,224 (GBP)
Funding ID GA:261982 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2011 
End 12/2014
 
Description Partnership dissolution and formation: how do they affect income, employment and well-being?
Amount £54,853 (GBP)
Funding ID CRF/40221 
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2012 
End 09/2014
 
Description People, Energy and Buildings: Distribution, Diversity and Dynamics (PEB:D3)
Amount £17,301 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/H051112/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2010 
End 09/2013
 
Description Policy Evaluation for Programme Analysis (PEPA)
Amount £26,148 (GBP)
Funding ID ES-I02574X-1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2013 
End 09/2014
 
Description Post recession experience of poverty across ethnic groups
Amount £23,962 (GBP)
Funding ID 1103001H 
Organisation Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2014 
End 08/2014
 
Description Poverty and ethnicity: the impact of occupational segregation
Amount £38,509 (GBP)
Funding ID 1103001K 
Organisation Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2013 
End 09/2014
 
Description Pre- and Post-Tax and Transfer Child Poverty Rates
Amount £1,888 (GBP)
Organisation Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2014 
End 03/2014
 
Description Second Network for Analysis of EU-SILC (NetSILC2)
Amount € 35,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 10302.2010.004-2011 
Organisation CEPS/INSTEAD 
Sector Academic/University
Country Luxembourg
Start 06/2011 
End 05/2015
 
Description Smart Data Analytics for Business and Local Government
Amount £58,429 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/L011859/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2014 
End 01/2019
 
Description Social Mobility Indicators
Amount £6,470 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2012 
End 05/2012
 
Description Social Mobility Indicators
Amount £8,000 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2013 
End 01/2014
 
Description Social Policy in a Cold Climate: A Research Programme on Recession, Spending, Changes and Policy
Amount £16,000 (GBP)
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2013 
End 03/2014
 
Description Taxation and Women's Employment
Amount € 12,000 (EUR)
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 07/2013 
End 12/2014
 
Description The Distribution and Dynamics of UK Citizens' Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Actions
Amount £134,141 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K002988/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2013 
End 06/2014
 
Description The EU Social Situation Monitor (Observatory 2012)
Amount € 55,750 (EUR)
Funding ID VC/2011/1035 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2012 
End 12/2012
 
Description The EU Social Situation Monitor (Observatory 2013)
Amount € 84,100 (EUR)
Funding ID VC/2012/0699 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2013 
End 12/2013
 
Description The EU Social Situation Monitor 2014
Amount £86,843 (GBP)
Funding ID VC/2012/0699 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2014 
End 12/2014
 
Description The EU Social Situtation Monitor (Observatory 2010)
Amount € 54,150 (EUR)
Funding ID VC/2009/1379 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2010 
End 12/2010
 
Description The EU Social Situtation Monitor (Observatory 2011)
Amount € 59,350 (EUR)
Funding ID VC/2010/1545 
Organisation European Commission 
Sector Public
Country European Union (EU)
Start 01/2011 
End 12/2011
 
Description The Feasibility of Conducting a Universal Credit Panel Survey - Development Work and the Selection of an Optimal Design
Amount £28,433 (GBP)
Funding ID RF1524 
Organisation Department for Work and Pensions 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2014 
End 08/2014
 
Description The Longer Term Impacts of Financial (in)capability: Evidence from the BHPS
Amount £27,125 (GBP)
Organisation Financial Services Authority 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2009 
End 03/2010
 
Description The Political Adequacy of Quantitative Impact Assessment in the Social Field by Means of Micro-Simulation Models
Amount £4,463 (GBP)
Organisation Virtusa 
Sector Private
Country United States
Start 08/2014 
End 02/2015
 
Description The effect of free childcare on maternal labour supply and child development
Amount £145,044 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K003232/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2012 
End 09/2014
 
Description The effect of school inputs on educational attainments
Amount £2,250 (GBP)
Funding ID EDU/40192 
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2013 
End 11/2013
 
Description Think Forward Evaluation Report
Amount £8,000 (GBP)
Organisation Education Endowment Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2013 
End 08/2015
 
Description Transmitting Educational Disadvantage? Intergenerational Mobility in Immigrant Families
Amount $39,375 (USD)
Funding ID 201300023 
Organisation Spencer Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 09/2013 
End 08/2014
 
Description Two Innovations in Drugs Policy: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Amount $112,616 (USD)
Funding ID B8634 
Organisation Open Society Foundations 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 01/2011 
End 09/2011
 
Description Uncertainties of Religious Identity: The Census of Population and Other Attempts to Quantify Religion or Belief
Amount £4,000 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2013 
End 03/2013
 
Description Uncertainty, Expectation Formation and Decision Making
Amount $156,409 (USD)
Organisation National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
Sector Public
Country United States
Start 04/2014 
End 03/2019
 
Description Understanding Health Across the Lifecourse: An Integrated Developmental Approach (DEVHEALTH)
Amount € 426,126 (EUR)
Funding ID GA: 269874 
Organisation European Research Council (ERC) 
Sector Public
Country Belgium
Start 04/2011 
End 09/2014
 
Description Understanding Society for Social mobility Strategy
Amount £3,740 (GBP)
Organisation Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2011 
End 09/2011
 
Description Understanding the impact of recession on labour market behaviour in Britain
Amount £479,446 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/I037628/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2011 
End 02/2015
 
Description Understanding the links between skills, poverty and inequality
Amount £32,903 (GBP)
Funding ID 806211 
Organisation Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2010 
End 02/2011
 
Description Visiting Fellow
Amount £42,853 (GBP)
Funding ID F00213Q 
Organisation The Leverhulme Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2010 
End 10/2011
 
Description Wellbeing and finances: the relative contributions of household income and financial capability
Amount £5,200 (GBP)
Organisation Financial Services Authority 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2011 
End 05/2011
 
Description Who Saves for Retirement? Wave 2: Understanding Transitions
Amount £26,953 (GBP)
Organisation Prudential PLC 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2013 
End 03/2014
 
Description Who benefits the most from post-secondary schooling? : A cross-national comparison of selection and the economic returns to post-secondary education
Amount £7,491 (GBP)
Funding ID SG101724 
Organisation The British Academy 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2011 
End 07/2012
 
Description Who saves for retirement?
Amount £27,178 (GBP)
Funding ID RCS0585 
Organisation Prudential PLC 
Sector Private
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2011 
End 02/2012
 
Description Withdrawal from employment for health-related reasons
Amount £44,353 (GBP)
Organisation Unum Insurance 
Sector Private
Country United States
Start 04/2011 
End 01/2012
 
Description (Hancock) Personal Social Services Research Unit at LSE 
Organisation London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Department LSE Health and Social Care
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We have collaborated with PSSRU to produce projections of long-term care expenditure under various different scenarios. MiSoC researcher Hancock has expertise in modeling the costs of disability benefits
Collaborator Contribution We have collaborated with PSSRU to produce projections of long-term care expenditure under various different scenarios. PSSRU have expertise in modelling long-term care costs.
Impact Some of the projections have been used by OBR in their Economic and Fiscal Outlook and Fiscal Sustainability Reports.
Start Year 2010
 
Description (Hancockj/Pudney) Department of Health 
Organisation Department of Health (DH)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution • An existing body of research that we were able to discuss in detail with DH officials after which they had a much better understanding of the methods we had used.
Collaborator Contribution • DH had conducted their own analysis of the relationship between receipt of Attendance Allowance and reported difficulties with Activities of Daily Living, were surprised by the result and was aware of our work which seemed to reach a different conclusion. They contacted us for discussions and a comparison of methods. • As a result DH enabled MiSoc-funded research to be exposed and explained to a range of officials in DH, DWP and HMT (analysts and policy makers)
Impact • We produced a note, initially for DH which was then revised so that it was suitable for a wider audience
Start Year 2012
 
Description (Various) Collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies 
Organisation Institute for Fiscal Studies
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution MiSoC's Prof Brewer, Dr Rabe and Prof Crossley have undertaken joint research with researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. These have been in several areas: childcare policy; in-work benefits; household consumption and saving; inference in difference-in-differences; bootstrapping with very complex surveys; measuring living standards; tax and benefit policy design.
Collaborator Contribution MiSoC's Prof Brewer, Dr Rabe and Prof Crossley have undertaken joint research with researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. These have been in several areas: childcare policy; in-work benefits; household consumption and saving; inference in difference-in-differences; bootstrapping with very complex surveys; measuring living standards; tax and benefit policy design.
Impact The collaboration has led to several outputs (WPs and journal articles), all reported separately, and to 2 jointly-organised events about childcare evidence and policy.
Start Year 2011
 
Description AgeUK: Hancock and Pudney 
Organisation Age UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution • Technical expertise leading to rigorous analysis to address research questions generated collectively with Age UK • Provision of comments on Age UK draft documents referencing MiSoc research to ensure our research was used accurately This is mostly from Hancock and Pudney
Collaborator Contribution • Small amount of supplementary funding (grant called 'Can people afford to lose Attendance Allowance) • Expertise on details of disability benefits system and its history • Knowledge of how the system works on the ground • Insights into policy developments/DWP thinking through contacts with officials and desire to share information to help identify avenues for future MiSoc research • Commenting on drafts of MiSoc outputs intended to be accessible to non-academic audiences including written evidence to select committee inquiries • Ability and willingness to make use of MiSoc outputs in own outputs e.g. responses to government consultations, written and oral evidence to select committees [see REF 2014 Impact Case Study for implicit references in AGE UK oral evidence (Andy Harrop) to MiSoc written evidence]
Impact • Highly policy-relevant academic outputs and presentations • Written evidence to select committee inquiries • Successful applications for further funding (e.g. SDAI)
Start Year 2006
 
Description Collaboration with the Greek Council of Economic Advisers (SOE) of the Greek Ministry of Finance 
Organisation Council of Economic Advisers
Country Greece 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution I am contributing to the further development of the Greek module of the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD, which is used by SOE in their negotiations with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (i.e. the troika).
Collaborator Contribution Having learnt how to use EUROMOD, my partners have developed an alternative input dataset for the model based on administrative data. Running EUROMOD with this dataset provides output which is used for suggesting new tax-benefit policies and policy reforms to the troika.
Impact We informed the Greek government about the distributional and fiscal impact of the personal income tax reform and pension cuts in 2013 and, more recently, of the introduction of guaranteed minimum income and the provision of a social dividend.
Start Year 2012
 
Description Leeds 
Organisation University of Leeds
Department School of Business
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professors Delavande and Del Bono have undertaken joint research with Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Co-director of the Centre for Decision Research at the University of Leeds.
Collaborator Contribution Professors Delavande and Del Bono have undertaken joint research with Professor Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Co-director of the Centre for Decision Research at the University of Leeds.
Impact This collaboration has led to the design of new behavioural interventions to improve educational outcomes, to the creation of new datasets and to the organisation of one conferences on expectations in Economics and Psychology in 2014.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health 
Organisation University of Pennsylvania
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Misoc's Professor Delavande has been involved in the design and analysis of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health, one of very few long-standing publicly-available longitudinal cohort studies in a sub-Saharan African context. It provides a rare record of more than a decade of demographic, socioeconomic and health conditions in one of the world's poorest countries.
Collaborator Contribution Misoc's Professor Delavande has undertaken joint research with other researchers involved in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health.
Impact The collaboration has led to publications and working papers, all reported separately, to the creation of new datasets, and the joint applications for funding grants. The outputs are multidisciplinary (economics, sociology, demography, health).
 
Description Manski 
Organisation Northwestern University
Department Department of Economics
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Misoc's Professor Delavande has undertaken joint research with Professor Charles F Manski from Nortwhestern University, in the area of subjective expectations and elections.
Collaborator Contribution Misoc's Professor Delavande has undertaken joint research with Professor Charles F Manski from Nortwhestern University, in the area of subjective expectations and elections.
Impact The collaboration has led two publications, all reported separately, and to 3 jointly organized conferences on subjective expectations in 2014, 2015 and one forthcoming in 2018. The outputs were multidisciplinary (economics, survey methodology, politics).
 
Description NYFed 
Organisation Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution MiSoC's Prof Delavande has undertaken joint research with researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the areas of measuring expectations, attitudes, educations and development economics.
Collaborator Contribution MiSoC's Prof Delavande has undertaken joint research with researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the areas of measuring expectations, attitudes, educations and development economics.
Impact The collaboration has led to several outputs (WPs and journal articles), all reported separately, and to 3 jointly-organised events conferences on expectations in 2014, 2015 and (forthcoming) 2018.
Start Year 2007
 
Description RAND 
Organisation The RAND Corporation
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution MiSoC's Prof Delavande has undertaken joint research with researchers at the RAND Corporation. These have been in several areas: measuring expectations, survey methodology, retirement and ageing.
Collaborator Contribution MiSoC's Prof Delavande has undertaken joint research with researchers at the RAND Corporation. These have been in several areas: measuring expectations, survey methodology, retirement and ageing.
Impact The collaboration has led to several publications and working papers, all reported separately, and to the creation of new datasets.
 
Description SPICe 
Organisation Scottish Parliament
Department Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The collaboration between ISER and the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) has the following aims: 1) extending, testing and validating the UK module of EUROMOD, the tax and benefit microsimulation model of the European Union managed and maintained by ISER at Essex, to include tax and benefit reforms introduced in Scotland following the Smith's Commission Agreement and the devolution of new powers to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government; 2) providing training to SPICe on new features of the model; 3) support SPICe with the analysis of actual or proposed tax and benefit policy reforms.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration relies on the development, maintenance and use of a Scottish module of EUROMOD which draws on the UK-EUROMOD module and includes specific Scottish reforms to the tax and benefit system. The collaboration is intended to result in better understanding of the needs of SPICe, which may results in further developments and improvements of EUROMOD tools; when possible, jointly dissemination of results by SPICe and Essex, with credit accruing to each.
Impact no publication outputs yet
Start Year 2015
 
Description University of Queensland 
Organisation University of Queensland
Country Australia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, hosted by the University of Queensland, will be an international academic collaboration, with 32 Chief Investigators, Partner Investigators, and Associate Investigators and 21 Partner Organisations. MiSoC's Heather Laurie will be one of the International Partner Investigators, and the University of Essex will be a partner organisation
Collaborator Contribution The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, hosted by the University of Queensland, will be an international academic collaboration, with 32 Chief Investigators, Partner Investigators, and Associate Investigators and 21 Partner Organisations. MiSoC's Heather Laurie will be one of the International Partner Investigators, and the University of Essex will be a partner organisation
Impact http://www.lifecoursecentre.org.au/
Start Year 2014
 
Title (Brewer) Stata ado-file Hansen.ado to estimate robust FGLS on balanced group-time panel data-set 
Description A Stata ado-file, Hansen.ado, which estimates robust FGLS on a balanced group-time panel data-set. This is discussed in https://doi.org/10.1515/jem-2017-0005 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2017 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Other researchers are implementing the method 
URL https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jem.ahead-of-print/jem-2017-0005/suppl/jem-2017-0005_suppl.zip
 
Title intcount: a Stata command for fitting count-data models from interval data 
Description Freely available for download, use and modification from the Stata website. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2019 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The software has been developed and used by me for an analysis of healthcare costs which has been submitted for publication. It is expected that that work will be of interest to the health research and policy communities. It is expected to be potentially useful for statistical research in a wide range of fields, but it is too early to know how extensive use will be. 
URL https://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0571
 
Description Around 50% 'hold authoritarian views' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Long interview by PI of Residents of Colchester concerning immigration attitudes on the eve of the EU Referendum. Using research informed by surveys to construct the interviews.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36043219
 
Description "Are you sure thats the answer? Robust inference and policy evaluation" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Multilevel modelling of country effects: a cautionary tale
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description "Being in Britain" survey to provide first information on recent immigrants to the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Short Radio Interview with Sunrise Radio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description "Improving the measurement of household finances" workshop, to launch the start of ESRC TR grant ES/N006534/1 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This worskhop was organised to mark the start of the ESRC TR grant ES/N006534/1 "Understanding household finance through better measurement" and to engage with stakeholders.

The workshop included presentations by international researchers, presentations by our project team on the plans for our research, comments from discussants and general discussion.

Participants included survey practitioners and researchers engaged in the collection and/or analysis of data about household finances, inlcuding representatives from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Office for National Statistics, the Financial Conduct Authority, TNS BMRB, the European Central Bank, the Central Bank of Spain, the Dutch Central Bank, Eurostat, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Kentucky, University of Southern California, University of Munich, and the University of Essex.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, Greece, August 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Research findings were presented to an academic audience of sociologists. There were questions and discussions during and after the presentation. The conference was attended by over 500 people, but this specific session was attended by less than 10 people.This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://esa13thconference.eu/
 
Description 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, USA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a poster presentation which was attended conference participants who asked questions about the research and its findings. The conference itself was attended by over 1000 people from across the world. It is difficult to say how many people saw the poster so we have provided an estimate of the number of people this activity reached (51-100). This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.populationassociation.org/2017-annual-meeting-chicago-il/
 
Description 29th Annual Conference of EALE, St. Gallen, Switzerland, September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Research findings were presented to an academic audience of social scientists, primarily economists. There were questions and discussions during and after the presentation. The conference was attended by over 500 people, but this specific session was attended by 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.eale.nl/impression-of-eale-2017-switzerland-st-gallen/
 
Description 30th Annual meeting of the British Society for Population Studies, Winchester, September 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at this academic conference attended by social scientists and analysts from some third sector organisations. The specific session where this paper was presented was attended by around 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/2016-Conference-Win...
 
Description 31st Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, Glasgow, June 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was attended by social scientists from across the world. The conference overall was attended by over 500 people. There were various questions and discussion during and following the presentation which was attended by around 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.sbs.strath.ac.uk/espe2017/
 
Description 7th meeting of the task-force on the revision of the EU-SILC legal basis (Eurostat) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact questions and discussion

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description 7th meeting of the task-force on the revision of the EU-SILC legal basis (Eurostat) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Organised by Eurostat. Attended as a EUROMOD representative at the task-force on the revision of the EU-SILC legal basis. Discussion of the future SILC content.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description 8th meeting Eurostat Task Force on the revision of the legal basis of the EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I am an independent expert, member of this Task Force which is responsible for devising plans for a revised EU-SILC. The meeting was held at Eurostat in Luxembourg and was chaired by Jean-Louis Mercy. Other members include reps of selected NSIs, reps from policy DGs of the European Commission and 2 other independent experts. This was one in a series of meetings.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description 9th meeting Eurostat Task Force on the revision of the legal basis of the EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I am an independent expert, member of this Task Force which is responsible for devising plans for a revised EU-SILC. The meeting was held at Eurostat in Luxembourg and was chaired by Jean-Louis Mercy. Other members include reps of selected NSIs, reps from policy DGs of the European Commission and 2 other independent experts. This was one in a series of meetings.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description A Monte-Carlo Analysis of multilevel binary logit model estimator performance 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 19th UK Stata User Group meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.stata.com/meeting/uk13/abstracts/materials/uk13_jenkins.pdf
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact EUROMOD steering group - We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact ImPRovE project meeting - We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory - We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-2011 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact ImPRovE project meeting - We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description A lost decade? Decomposing changes in the EU income distribution in 2001-2011 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact We look at the effect of policy reforms in 7 EU countries on the income distribution and estimate the size of fiscal drag and benefit erosion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Academic Advisory Group Meeting Parental Time Investments in Children across Countries and Over Time: Implications for Inequality 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Academic Advisory Group Meeting of the ESRC (SDAI) funded project on: Parental Time Investments in Children across Countries and Over Time: Implications for Inequality

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Academic Advisory Group Meeting Parental Time Investments in Children across Countries and Over Time: Implications for Inequality 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Academic Advisory Group Meeting of the ESRC (SDAI) funded project on: Parental Time Investments in Children across Countries and Over Time: Implications for Inequality

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Academic access to EU-SILC for EUROMOD puposes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A meeting at Eurostat to discuss potential improvements to the data access process. With Aleksandra Bujnowska and Didier Dupre

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Academic access to Eurostat micro-data, especially EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a meeting established jointly by Luxembourg Income Study and EUROMOD to meet with senior people from Eurostat to disucss issues in relation to access to EU-SILC. The Eurostat people included Marie Bohata (Deputy Director General) and Eduardo Barredo-Capelot (Director of Social Statistics) and Jean-Louis Mercy (Head of unit in charge of the EU-SILC). We met at Eurostat in Luxembourg.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Academic access to Eurostat micro-data, especially EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact This was a meeting established jointly by Luxembourg Income Study and EUROMOD to meet with senior people from Eurostat to disucss issues in relation to access to EU-SILC. The Eurostat people included Marie Bohata (Deputy Director General) and Eduardo Barredo-Capelot (Director of Social Statistics) and Jean-Louis Mercy (Head of unit in charge of the EU-SILC). We met at Eurostat in Luxembourg.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Access to free part-time pre-school education and early educational achievement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the impacts of family inputs --- i.e., maternal employment, child care and home learning --- on the early development of British children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Access to free part-time pre-school education and early educational achievement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the impacts of family inputs --- i.e., maternal employment, child care and home learning --- on the early development of British children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Access to free part-time pre-school education and early educational achievement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Evaluation of the provision of free part-time education to all 3 year olds in England on children educational attainment at age 5 and 7.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Access to free part-time pre-school education and early educational achievement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Evaluation of the provision of free part-time education to all 3 year olds in England on children educational attainment at age 5 and 7.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Advice on calculation of Marginal Effective Tax Rates 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I had a discussion with Milagros Paniagua San Martín from the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (MINHAP) concerning the calculation of Marginal Effective Tax Rates (METR) with EUROMOD. Miss Milagros Paniagua San Martín contacted me for advice about the procedure to calculate METR with EUROMOD and how a similar technique could be used to obtain disposable income for discrete hours choices to estimate labour supply models.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Advice on calculation of Marginal Effective Tax Rates 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I had a discussion with Milagros Paniagua San Martín from the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (MINHAP) concerning the calculation of Marginal Effective Tax Rates (METR) with EUROMOD. Miss Milagros Paniagua San Martín contacted me for advice about the procedure to calculate METR with EUROMOD and how a similar technique could be used to obtain disposable income for discrete hours choices to estimate labour supply models.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Advice on the development of new survey data for evaluation of social security reform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Technical group of DWP policy analysts

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Advice on the use of hypo data and budget constraints with EUROMOD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Dirk Neumann from Catholic University Louvain (Belgium) contacted me about the use of hypothetical data with EUROMOD for creating budget constraint graphs for Belgium. Detailed instructions on how to produce hypothetical data with EUROMOD as well as bugdet constraint graphs was provided to Dr Dirk Neumann.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Advice to a researcher at Bank of Greece (Department of Economic Research) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Advice to Maria Flevotomou (by email communication), researcher at Bank of Greece (Department of Economic Research) on how to best proceed with the creation of a new dataset for EUROMOD, based on the Greek Household Budget Survey.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Advice to the Chief Actuarial Officer of the Cypriot Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Phone call and email communication with Costas Stavrakis, the Chief Actuarial Officer of the Cypriot Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. Advice was given on how to proceed with the estimation of the distributional impact

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Advices on the use of EUROMOD for a paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact 1) Salvador Barrios (JRC-SEVILLA) 2) I provided advices on the use of EUROMOD for a paper on tax expenditure

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Advised the Salvation Army on Research and Funding, Cardiff 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Give advise

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Advisory Group Meeting - Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Advisory Group Meeting, JRF - Gave a presentation on analysis from: Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Advisory workshop on "What do we need data about?" for Research scoping study on Understanding separating and separated families 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to this workshop to be part of an expert panel to discuss the data needs for understanding the lives of separating and separated families. This workshop was part of the "Research scoping study: data we have - and data we need - to understand the lives of separating and separated families" undertaken by a group of researchers from Bryson Purdon Social Research, The University of York, University of Exeter, University of Bath, University of Cambridge and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description All in the family British style : does family smoking cause British youth to smoke? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact SOEP Brown Bag Seminar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description An Introduction to Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact As part of an ESRC International Partnership, Cara Booker and Natasha Crawford visited the National Survey Research Centre at Renmin University of China for one week. We gave a 1-day course on Understanding Society to their researchers and students.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description An invited research presentation (Bank Estonia): Tax evasion and measurement error 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Open seminar at Bank of Estonia

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.eestipank.ee/en/research/open-seminars-eesti-pank
 
Description An invited workshop presentation (Polish Social Ministry): Microsimulation and policy analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact questions and discussion

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Analysis of data from First Tutors 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact This was a meeting to see whether we (ISER) could provide some analysis of the data collected by First Tutor, a private company specialising in matching school tutors with parents/children. A KTP was discussed.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description April 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's subscriber e-bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Archbishops Council, Sheffield 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Are you sure thats the answer? Robust inference and policy evaluation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact PEPA/NCRM workshop - Multilevel modelling of country effects: a cautionary tale

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Article written for the Conversation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact We wrote an article in the Conversation, based on the research conducted as part of the project, specifically, about the prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on mental health. The title was "How ethnic and racial harassment damages mental health"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://theconversation.com/how-ethnic-and-racial-harassment-damages-mental-health-73076
 
Description Blog article about my research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact I am not sure about the results.

I am not sure about the impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://societycentral.ac.uk/2015/03/19/breaking-barriers-social-mobility/
 
Description Blog article on the behavioural repsonses to tax frames [LSE British Politics and Policy] 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Short article summarizing the research findings from a study on the impact of different tax frames on labour supply. The article was published on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog platform.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/losing-benefits-hurts-more-than-paying-taxes/
 
Description Breastfeeding and cognitive development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health Policy Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Breastfeeding and cognitive development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Conference presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description CASE Welfare Policy Analysis Seminar and Podcast on Take-up of Free School Meals (Holford - 12/04/2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar - Podcast available at: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/events/audio.asp?id=4383

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/events/seminar.asp?ID=12
 
Description Cannabis policy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Paper at LSE workshop on Cannabis Policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Case Study: Knowledge Exchange for Postgraduates (Holford - 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Advice for postgraduate students on effective knowledge exchange activities related to their studies. Available at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/case-studies/angus-holford.aspx

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/case-studies/angus-holford.aspx
 
Description Changes in living standards and mental health amongst families who separate 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Presentation of results from project looking at changes in living standards and mental health amongst families who separate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Changes in living standards and mental health amongst families who separate 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Family structure, labour market participation and wellbeing - Presentation of results from project looking at changes in living standards and mental health amongst families who separate

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Child Poverty Unit consultation on 2014-2017 strategy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I attended a roundtable on labour market issues organised by the Child Poverty unit as part of their consultation to prepare their startegy for 2014-2017.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Child Poverty Unit consultation on 2014-2017 strategy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I attended a roundtable on labour market issues organised by the Child Poverty unit as part of their consultation to prepare their startegy for 2014-2017.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop presentation: Session 2: Repeated observation and measurement error, Survey Measurement and Measurement Error (a cemmap workshop)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Childcare and early child development. Evaluating the impact of universal part-time preschool education in England 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Applied MicroEconometric Seminar, University of York

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Christian youth workers consortium, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Church of England, Deanery, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Collecting biomeasures in the UKHLS : understanding society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Overview of design and collection of biomeasures for Understanding Society
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Comments on Bewley and Wilkinson (NIESR) project to estimate impact of the minimum wage on employment and hours 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Low Pay Commission Research Workshop: initial findings and methodological issues from the research programme for the 2015 report - I gave technical comments on proposed methods to estimate impact of the minimum wage on employment and hours

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Consultancy advice on a Child's Rights Impact Assessment of the Spending Review 2013 and Budget 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I am providing Consultancy advice to the Office of the Children's Commissioner in England on a Child's Rights Impact Assessment of the Spending Review 2013 and Budget 2014

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Consultancy advice on future living standards in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Provided consultancy advice to HM Treasury on future living standards in the UK

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy advice on future living standards in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Provided consultancy advice to HM Treasury on future living standards in the UK

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy advice on impact of Child Poverty Act 2010 on policies and practice in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Provided Consultancy advice to John Hancock, a Churchill Fellow from the Office of the Children's Commissioner in New Zealand on the impact of the UK's Child Poverty Act 2010 on policies and practice in the UK

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy advice on methods to combine administrative datasets to estimate benefit non-take-up in Northern Ireland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I am a member of a group providing advice to analysts in the government of Northern Ireland on methods to combine administrative datasets to estimate benefit non-take-up in Northern Ireland (the "Benefit Update Advisory Group")

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Consultancy advice on methods to estimate causal impact of policies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I provided consultancy advice to analysts from the Ministry of Justice on methods to estimate causal impact of policies

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy advice on methods to estimate causal impact of policies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I provided consultancy advice to analysts from the Ministry of Justice on methods to estimate causal impact of policies

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy advice on methods to evaluate impact of interventions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact I am a member of an Evaluation Steering Group, providing advice on how to estimate the impact of interventions delivered through the "Fulfilling Lives" policy

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Consultancy advice on using EUROMOD to model impact of tax and benefit reforms in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Provided consultancy advice to the Resolution Foundation on using EUROMOD to model impact of tax and benefit reforms in the UK

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Consultancy for Behavioural Insights Research Centre on English and Maths (Holford - May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Elspeth Kirkman, Head of the Behavioural Insights Research Centre on English and Maths (BIRCEM). I advised on suitable academics for their oversight board, key literature on interventions in adult literacy and numercy, and on integrating multiple experiments to understand the structure underlying 'causal effects'.

N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Conversation with BIS (Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We discussed the project (then still work in progress) during a visit to BIS on 17th September 2012.

We received positive comments and endorsement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact MiSoC workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Data on disability: you cant always get what you want (but if you try, might you get what you need?) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Statistics for adult social care policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Data on disability: you cant always get what you want (but if you try, might you get what you need?) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited speaker - User forum conference - Statistics for adult social care policy

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Design and early findings from understanding society : the UKHLS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Description key design elements of UKHLS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Design and early findings from understanding society, the UK household longitudinal study 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact DIW Seminar Series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Differences in opportunities? Wage, employment, and house-price effects on migration 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Recent Advances in Research on Housing Transitions and the Life Course - Published in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/research/housing/symposium/timetable.html
 
Description Discussed existing and future use of EUROMOD by individuals at DG ECFIN 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussed with Gilles Mourres (DG-ECFIN) and Serena Fatica (DG-ECFIN) possibilities of using EUROMOD for analysis done by ECFIN for their own reports.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Discussed existing and future use of EUROMOD by individuals at DG ECFIN (Avram) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussed with Gilles Mourres (DG-ECFIN) and Serena Fatica (DG-ECFIN) possibilities of using EUROMOD for analysis done by ECFIN for their own reports.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013,2014
 
Description Discussed possibilities of constructing a Korean tax-benefit model based on the EUROMOD platform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hyun Soo Choi, Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA). The discussion centered on the possibility of building a Korean tax-benefit model based on the EUROMOD platform- what the requirements are, previous examples of successful spin-offs and potential uses of such a model in Korea.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Discussed possibilities of constructing a Korean tax-benefit model based on the EUROMOD platform (Avram) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hyun Soo Choi, Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA). The discussion centered on the possibility of building a Korean tax-benefit model based on the EUROMOD platform- what the requirements are, previous examples of successful spin-offs and potential uses of such a model in Korea.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Discussion at DfE about the development of sibling indicator on National Pupil Database 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting with Tim Leunig (DfE), Paul Sinclair (DfE), Stephen Witt (DfE), Mike Treadaway (FFT) and some academics (Rebecca Allen, Anna Vignoles, George Leckie and me) to define a specification for the development of family indicators within the NPD. My previous work with Cheti Nicoletti on this was circulated before the meeting and I was asked whether I would supply code to FFT.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Discussion at DfE about the development of sibling indicator on National Pupil Database 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting with Tim Leunig (DfE), Paul Sinclair (DfE), Stephen Witt (DfE), Mike Treadaway (FFT) and some academics (Rebecca Allen, Anna Vignoles, George Leckie and me) to define a specification for the development of family indicators within the NPD. My previous work with Cheti Nicoletti on this was circulated before the meeting and I was asked whether I would supply code to FFT.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Discussion with HM Treasury officials about unemployment scarring and early interventions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Professor Mark Taylor discussed the evidence base on unemployment scarring and early interventions with economists and policy analysts from the HM Treasury Labour Market and Distributional Analysis team (Harriet Dew, Tom Wickersham, Anouka Dhadda). (2 hour phone conversation.)

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Distributional implications of public policies: the case of Greece 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact 'Athens University of Economics and Business Investigates' workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Distributional implications of tax evasion and the crisis in Greece 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact EUROSTAT/Net-SILC2 workshop on the use of registers in the context of EU-SILC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Internships on Labor Market Outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Verein für Socialpolitik,

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description EUROMOD's work on Children, Social Protection and Child Poverty: Policy simulation of benefits and taxation: applications to Middle Income Countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting at UNICEF headquarters

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description EUROMOD's work on Children, Social Protection and Child Poverty: Policy simulation of benefits and taxation: applications to Middle Income Countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting at UNICEF headquarters

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description EUROMOD: The European Union Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact EUROMOD Seminar - presented in Lithuanian

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description EUROMOD: The European Union Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact presented in Lithuanian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description EUROMOD: a EU-wide tool for economic analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited speaker - Winter school on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description EUROMOD: a EU-wide tool for economic analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description EUROMOD: research and policy uses 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to HMT economists visiting ISER

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description EUROMOD: research and policy uses 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to HMT economists visiting ISER

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description EVENT: CASE Social Exclusion Seminar: Target Efficiency of public support for disabled older people in Britain (Hancock & Pudney, 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Seminar: Target Efficiency of public support for disabled older people in Britain, presented by Ruth Hancock and Steve Pudney
Lead to invitation from James Collingwood to present a seminar at DWP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Early Intervention Foundation Evaluation Partnerships 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I spoke to various Council and Local Authorities representatives about the possibility to help them with the evaluation of various initiatives aimed at young children and vulnerable people. Following the meeting I made contact with Clare Burrel - Head of Commissioning for Vulnerable People at Essex City Council.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Earnings and Labour market volatility in Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Annual Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Earnings and Labour market volatility in Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Econometric analysis of health-related exits from employment 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact affiliated to the NETSPAR network on Ageing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Economic Journal 125th Anniversary Session on '(Almost) a century since Dalton (and Gini): where is inequality analysis going?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Economic downturn and stress-testing European welfare systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact National Institute of Economic and Social Research Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Economic principles behind current government policy on pre-school childcare 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Seminar on academic evidence on affordable childcare organised by House of Lords Select Committee on affordable childcare - Presentation on economic case of current government policy on pre-school childcare, partly based on http://www.ifs.org.uk/budgets/gb2014/gb2014_ch8.pdf.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Editorial Board AGM of the British Journal of Sociology, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact AGM

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Editorial Board Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Boston

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Energy Use and Changes in Household Circumstances in Household Circumstances 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I had a phone conversation with Andrew Mack (Head of Strategy at Ovo Energy) about my recent work on energy expenditures of UK households and about our project on environmental behaviour of UK citizens

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Energy Use and Changes in Household Circumstances in Household Circumstances 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I had a phone conversation with Andrew Mack (Head of Strategy at Ovo Energy) about my recent work on energy expenditures of UK households and about our project on environmental behaviour of UK citizens ESRC-SDAI project on The Distribution and Dynamics of UK Citizens' Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Actions

ESRC-SDAI project on The Distribution and Dynamics of UK Citizens' Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Actions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Equality in crisis: Understanding Inequality and its mechanisms 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact The great recession and the distribution of household income
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop presentation at "Health and Human Capital" workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Estimating the causal impact of breastfeeding on cognitive and noncognitive child outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact One-day workshop organized by Pia Schober, University of Cambridge, entitled Greater gender equality, (un)happier families?.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Ethnic and Gender Wage Gaps 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Departmental Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Ethnic differences in the relationship between trajectories of body mass index and height in early childhood. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Ethnic differences in the relationship between trajectories of body mass index and height in early childhood. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Research Workshop

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Ethnic minority poverty and disadvantage in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Social Situation Observatory Seminar on The Relative Position of Migrants
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Ethnicity, nationality and identity in the UK: the development of a comparative acculturation framework 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Comparing Scotland and the UK: Evidence from major UK surveys, Edinburgh - This paper looks at British and other competing cultural identities of UK residents across the four countries and across different ethnic groups. This conference was organised by AQMen to showcase some of the large data resources of the UK, this specific presentation was to showcase Understanding Society.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description European Values Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of the executive committee and chair of one of its two working groups - The theory Group

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description European Values Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of the executive committee and chair of one of its two working groups - The theory Group

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description European Values Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of the executive committee and chair of one of its two working groups - The theory Group

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description European Values Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of the executive committee and chair of one of its two working groups - The theory Group

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description European Values Study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of the executive committee and chair of one of its two working groups - The theory Group

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Eurostat Task Force on the revision of the legal basis of the EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact I am an independent expert, member of this Task Force which is responsible for devising plans for a revised EU-SILC. The meeting was held at Eurostat in Luxembourg and was chaired by Jean-Louis Mercy. Other members include reps of selected NSIs, reps from policy DGs of the European Commission and 2 other independent experts. This was one in a series of meetings.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Eurostat Task Force on the revision of the legal basis of the EU-SILC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I am an independent expert, member of this Task Force which is responsible for devising plans for a revised EU-SILC. The meeting was held at Eurostat in Luxembourg and was chaired by Jean-Louis Mercy. Other members include reps of selected NSIs, reps from policy DGs of the European Commission and 2 other independent experts. This was one in a series of meetings.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Eurostat Working Group on Income and Living Conditions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented "Disaggregation of the harmonised social benefits and pensions variables in EU-SILC: a proposal"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Evaluating the performance of the social assistance programmes in Bulgaria 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact EUROMOD Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Expert Working Group on Welfare in an independent Scotland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Member of "Expert Working Group on Welfare in an independent Scotland", August 2013 to April 2014

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Family Formation and Change Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented and discussed current data opportunities for researching families. Workshop held at the British Academy with a diverse audience including representatives from a variety of Government Depts., think tanks, charities, PhD students, academic researchers, independent researchers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Fertility health endowments and returns to Human capital: Quasi-experimental evidence from Twentieth century America 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Conference presentation - With D.Hollywood (UCL) and A.Venkataramani. In progress

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Final Meeting of Midi-Redie Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Five (Favourite) Anti-Poverty Related Policies: Sexual Orientation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Anti-poverty strategies for the UK: The bigger picture - 5 minute presentation of 5 main policies to address sexuality related poverty.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Policy/research roundtable involving Mike Emmott, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, Jenny Chanfreu, NatCen, Jonathan Swann, Working Families, Andrew Stocks, DWP, Katy Jones, The Work Foundation, Sarah Crown, Mumsnet Roundtable on Flexible Working Research Looking Beyond Productivity to Work/Life Balance

Roundtable on Flexible Working Research Looking Beyond Productivity to Work/Life Balance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Recent Developments in Labour Economics conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Roundtable on Flexible Working Research Looking Beyond Productivity to Work/Life Balance

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Framing effects and loss aversion in labour supply responses to work disincentives: Is there an endowment effect? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Essex Lab Brown Bag seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description From housewives to independent earners : can the tax system help Italian women to work? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact University of Genova - Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description From housewives to independent earners: can the tax system help Italian women to work? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact AlpPop Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description From welfare to work: linking best practice in inter-disciplinary research on employment, health and disability benefits 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited speaker - Seminar four

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description From welfare to work: linking best practice in inter-disciplinary research on employment, health and disability benefits 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker - Seminar four
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Gave advice to a researcher at Bank of Greece, Department of Economic Research (C. Leventi, March 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Advice to Maria Flevotomou (by email communication), researcher at Bank of Greece (Department of Economic Research) on how to best proceed with the creation of a new dataset for EUROMOD, based on the Greek Household Budget Survey.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Gender and Poverty: A Discussion 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Discussion of a paper "Gender and Poverty" by Fran Bennett and Mary Daly
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Gender and Poverty: A Discussion 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gender and Poverty - Discussion of a paper "Gender and Poverty" by Fran Bennett and Mary Daly

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Government Office for Science seminar on the use of advanced analytics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Guided the GO-Science approach to analysis for their Foresight project: Analysing the Challenges and Opportunities of an Ageing Society

The GO-Science team requested further information on our research related to their Foresight project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Growing Up in Recession event (London) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact New research showing the impact of growing up in the Recession will be presented to an audience of policy makers, opinion formers and academics at an event chaired by Lucy Rock from The Observer in London on Friday 15 March.
Mark Taylor, Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, presents new research on the impact of the macroeconomic climate on educational aspirations and attitudes of 11-15 year olds.
Jonathan Wadsworth, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London questions whether the outcomes of this recession on the youth labour market are unprecedented.
Richard Dorsett, Director of Policy Evaluation at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, examines the importance of early labour market experiences in young people's transitions into employment and illustrates how this can help the design of interventions aimed at improving young people's employment prospects.
The charity Rathbone will present a panel of young people from Bury and Chorley to reflect on their experiences, aspirations and ambitions growing up in Recession Britain. Rathbone is the UK-wide voluntary youth sector organisation providing opportunities for young people to transform their life-circumstances by re-engaging with learning, discovering their ability to succeed and achieving progression to further education, training and employment.


Engagement and exchange between charity sector and academics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/2013/03/11/young-people-living-through-the-recession
 
Description HMT workshop - 16th Feb 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion with HMT advisors about results of research into couple reactions to job loss (separate projects carried out by ISER and HMT). This generated exchanges on policy areas of interest to both ISER and the Treasury.
HMT advisors present: Melanie Pitt, Doug Rendle, Louise Hellem, Andrew Keep, Alasdair Hawkins, Tom Waters.


Links were established to continue exchanging information in the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Harman: socio-economic duty crucial to equality 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Harman: socio-economic duty crucial to equality
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Has income mobility in Britain changed over the last two decades? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop on 'The multiple dimensions of equality and fairness' (in honour of AB Atkinson)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Has the instability of personal incomes been growing? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop on Poverty and Inequality
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Has the instability of personal incomes been increasing? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines trends in the instability of personal incomes in Britain in terms of changes in the transitory variance and in volatility, measures that have received much recent attention in research about the USA. It is shown that, although US measures have trended upwards over the past two decades, there is no such trend in Britain between the early-1990s and the mid-2000s. Explanations for these differences are discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Health and health behaviours at ISER: An overview of recent research findings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting at the Department of Health to discuss health-related research that has been conducted at ISER and what can be done with UKHLS.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Health and health behaviours at ISER: An overview of recent research findings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting at the Department of Health to discuss health-related research that has been conducted at ISER and what can be done with UKHLS.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description INGRID Winter School in Cross-Country Microsimulation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact INGRID Winter School in Cross-Country Microsimulation

N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/2013/09/12/winter-school-in-cross-country-microsimulation
 
Description IPPR Childcare Steering Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting organised by Imogen Parker, IPPR with experts in the childcare field. Steering group for IPPR project on childcare. First meeting to discuss briefing paper reviewing the evidence on impacts of early years and childcare on child development; and a second on impacts of childcare on employment.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description IPPR Childcare Steering Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Meeting organised by Imogen Parker, IPPR with experts in the childcare field. Steering group for IPPR project on childcare. First meeting to discuss briefing paper reviewing the evidence on impacts of early years and childcare

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description ISER research cited in social care debate 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Article in Wyvern, May 2010 issue
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/wyvern/Archive/2010-05/Wyvern%20May%2010%2011300.pdf
 
Description Impact of cultural/ethnic diversity on wages and job satisfaction in England 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates to analyse the impact of cultural diversity on individual wages and on different aspects of job satisfaction. Do people living in more diverse areas have higher wages after controlling for other observable characteristics? Do they also benefit in terms of higher satisfaction with different aspects of their job? The results show that cultural diversity is positively associated with wages only when cross-section data are used; when individual heterogeneity is accounted for, there is no impact of diversity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Impact of cultural/ethnic diversity on wages and job satisfaction in England 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Impact of free childcare on maternal labour supply 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave advice to Camden Council on what research suggested was likely impact of free childcare on maternal labour supply, and how policies could be changed to encourage maternal employment

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Impact of free childcare on maternal labour supply 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave advice to Camden Council on what research suggested was likely impact of free childcare on maternal labour supply, and how policies could be changed to encourage maternal employment

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Impact of free childcare on maternal labour supply: likely impacts of SNP proposals 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Advised HMT on what existing evidence about the link between free childcare on maternal labour supply implied for recent SNP proposals for extending free childcare in Scotland

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Improving poverty reduction in Europe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Income Dynamics and Intergenerational Mobility 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact IX workshop in Public Policy Design - Earnings and Labour market volatility in Britain

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Income Dynamics and Intergenerational Mobility 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Earnings and Labour market volatility in Britain
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Department for Work and Pensions presentation

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain, 1991-2006 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar on Social Mobility, Social Situation Observatory - Network on Income Distribution and Living Conditions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Inequalities within couples in Europe : market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Paper at 'Family, Gender and the Welfare State', Hilary Term 2012 Seminar Series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Inequality and Poverty: The Longitudinal Perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact New Zealand Tresury presentation

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Inequality and Poverty: The Longitudinal Perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited Public Lecture, European Investment Bank Institute and University of Luxembourg

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Inequality neutral flat tax reforms in Europe : differences between East and West 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Paper at GINI workshop WP6
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Introduction to BHPS and understanding society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Introduction to the BHPS and the Understanding Society: UKHLS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Invited lecture, Conference on Social Mobility, Università Bocconi, Milan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Invited panelist, Banca d'Italia/European Commission/OECD/World Bank Workshop on Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity, Rome 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Invited speaker, 10th Festival dell'Economia, Trento IT - What's happening to social mobility, and why do we care? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description January 2011 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's subscriber e-bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description July 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's subscriber e-bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Language and Survey Questions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Roundtable Discussion with German Diplomats at Colchester English Centre

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Lax benefit rules not responsible for high disability figures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Why has the number of people claiming incapacity benefit soared? A new study undermines some common theories

The Guardian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/19/lax-benefit-rules-not-responsible-more-disability
 
Description Linking qualitative methods and longitudinal data 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop to discuss ways in which other studies are aiming to use qualitative data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description March 2011 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's subscriber e-bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Marginal effective tax rates in Scotland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We have been contacted by Audrey MacDougall from the Goverment of Scotland to conduct an analysis on the distribution of work incentives in Scotland in comparison to the rest of the UK

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Marginal effective tax rates in Scotland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We have been contacted by Audrey MacDougall from the Goverment of Scotland to conduct an analysis on the distribution of work incentives in Scotland in comparison to the rest of the UK

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Married for less than five years, young, childless : survey finds that's happiness 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A massive project gathering data from households over 20 years promises to create a 'living laboratory of British life'

The Guardian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/27/uk-survey-family-life
 
Description Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Paper given at The Wellbeing of Children in Australia Workshop: Lessons from International Experience and Policy Developments in English-Speaking Countries, Sydney, 6-7 April 2011.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Meeting at ONS to discuss nowcasting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting with Richard Tonkin at ONS (London) 18th December 2013 to discuss nowcasting methods and to explore whether and how we might be involved in the work ONS plans to do.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Meeting at ONS to discuss nowcasting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting with Richard Tonkin at ONS (London) 18th December 2013 to discuss nowcasting methods and to explore whether and how we might be involved in the work ONS plans to do.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Meeting at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Sevilla (Spain) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Present EUROMOD and specific simulation tools to analyse housing tax reforms

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Meeting of the EU MIDIS II Pre-Test survey Expert Panel 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was a member of the expert panel for the EU MIDIS II survey pre-test (survey organisation: Fundamental Rights Association). We met on 20 and 21 February 2014 to discuss and evaluate questions in the survey.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Meeting of the council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Member of the Advisory board of the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting in London

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Member of the Advisory board of the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting in London

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Member of the Advisory group for 'Religion among Scientists in Iternational context' (RASIC) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, based at Rice University, Houston.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Member of the Advisory group for 'Religion among Scientists in Iternational context' (RASIC) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, based at Rice University, Houston

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Mental health risks in adolescents and social media 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact University Parents' Support Network - Concerned about the amount of time your child spends online chatting or playing games? Wondering how much TV is too much? If you are interested in the possible effects of screen-based media use on the health and well-being of adolescents pleasejoin us for this informal lunchtime discussion with Dr Cara Booker, Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Met with the Maltese minister of finance (Edward Scicluna) to discuss the possibilities offered by EUROMOD for policy evaluation and policy planning. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Edward Sciluna (Minister of Finance). Dicussed what are the advantages and limitations of using EUROMOD to ex-ante evaluate proposed income tax reforms.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Met with the Maltese minister of finance (Edward Scicluna) to discuss the possibilities offered by EUROMOD for policy evaluation and policy planning. (Avram) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Edward Sciluna (Minister of Finance). Dicussed what are the advantages and limitations of using EUROMOD to ex-ante evaluate proposed income tax reforms.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Microsimulation and policy analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity: Evidence, Experience, and Analytical Tools
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Migration motivations and early intergration: the case of the Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Immigration - new research on attitudes, experiences and economic impact - Summary of research on migration motivations and early integrations of Poles

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Minority political representation and public goods provision 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited talk

N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Multilevel modelling of country effects: a cautionary tale 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Seminar

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Multilevel modelling of country effects: a cautionary tale 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Department of Statistics Seminar, LSE

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Novel use and application of methodologies: Economics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Lifelong Health & Wellbeing conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Numerical change in church attendance: national, local and individual factors 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Church of England General Synod

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description October 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's subscriber e-bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description On state dependence: a case for two-handed economists 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited Lecture, Economic Policy Series, ZEW Mannheim

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description On state dependence: a case for two-handed economists 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact International Workshop on "Dynamics of low wages, low pay and transfer receipt" - Invited Keynote lecture

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description On state dependence: a case for two-handed economists 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact International Workshop on "Dynamics of low wages, low pay and transfer receipt"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Committee on Welfare Reform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I provided oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Committee on Welfare Reform based on the report of the Expert Working Group on Welfare in an independent Scotland

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Committee on Welfare Reform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I provided oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Committee on Welfare Reform based on the report of the Expert Working Group on Welfare in an independent Scotland

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Participation in a workshop on "Simulating a guaranteed minimum income for Greece" (C. Leventi, 2013) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Workshop on 'Guaranteed minimum income: approaches and suggestions for the policy's pilot implementation in Greece' - Round table discussions on how to proceed with the pilot implementation of a guaranteed minimum income policy in Greece

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Piece for TheConversation.com - Have low-skill jobs really grown more than high-skill jobs in Britain? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This is an article that discusses the state of that graduate market in the UK and Europe more widely in light of research carried out with co-authors.The article was published in October 2015 and has been viewed by over 1600 users as of Jan 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://theconversation.com/have-low-skill-jobs-really-grown-more-than-high-skill-jobs-in-britain-46...
 
Description Plenary "LIS Lecture", 6th ECINEQ (Society for the Analysis of Economic Inequality) conference, Luxembourg - To what extent is inequality increasing? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Plenary Lecture: From Anecdote to evidence: Church growth facts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Faith in Research conference - Associated with the Church of England Project

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Plenary lecture, 'A more inclusive New Zealand' Forum - (Let's look at poverty longitudinally) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Policy implications of ISER research on pro-environmental behaviours and attitudes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting with Jeremy Vincent and colleagues at the Department for Energy and Climate Change, London. Purpose was to disseminate and discuss ISER research on pro-environmental behaviour, domestic energy use, attitudes and take-up of energy technology.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Politician Identity 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited Talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Poverty and ethnicity 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact the impact of occupational segregation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Presentation at the Colloquium "Social Mobility in the Americas" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion after the presentation.

Relevant suggestions to increase the quality of my paper and possibility of future joint work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/Social_Mobility_in_the_Americas.pdf
 
Description Presentation in the 6th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk raised several questions from the attendants to the session.

After the session, some of the attendants asked me details of the estimation procedure and possible extensions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.ecineq.org/ecineq_lux15/documents/ECINEQ%202015%20Lux%20FINAL%20last.pdf
 
Description Presentation of MiSoC research relevant to HM Treasury 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A presentation of MiSoC research to officials from HM Treasury on: labour markets and households; families, gender and children; inequalities and tax and benefit reforms; inequalities in access to higher education

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Presentation of MiSoC research relevant to HM Treasury 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting with MiSoC and HM Treasury - A presentation of MiSoC research to officials from HM Treasury on: labour markets and households; families, gender and children; inequalities and tax and benefit reforms; inequalities in access to higher education

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Presentation of project and first results 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Conference on family Economics

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Presentation of project and first results 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Conference on family Economics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Presentation of project and first results 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact PRIN conference: "A new childbearing and childrearing regime"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Presentation of project and first results 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact PRIN conference: "A new childbearing and childrearing regime"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Presentation of the Euromod micro-simulation model 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Meeting at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy). We met with Andrea SALTELLI (head of unit), Paolo PARUOLO, Beatrice D'Hombres and others from unit G03. The objective was (i) to introduce the tax-benefit micro simulation EUROMOD Model to Unit G03 and, (ii) to discuss about potential future collaborations between Essex and the JRC.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Presentation of the Euromod micro-simulation model 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy). We met with Andrea SALTELLI (head of unit), Paolo PARUOLO, Beatrice D'Hombres and others from unit G03. The objective was (i) to introduce the tax-benefit micro simulation EUROMOD Model to Unit G03 and, (ii) to discuss about potential future collaborations between Essex and the JRC.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Presentation on Secondary Earners at Conference "Individual taxation and employment" organized by the Ministry of Labour, Luxembourg (Rastrigina) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The conference was organized on the occasion of the 2015 Luxembourgish Presidency in the European Union within the context of mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy to increase employment. The conference discussed different social models and taxation systems and their relation to female employment. In particular, the focus was on individual vs. joint taxation. The conference proceedings are to be published in 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.eu2015lu.eu/en/agenda/2015/10/29-30-conf-emploi-fiscalite/index.html
 
Description Presentation on nowcasting at the working group on income and living conditions statistics, Luxembourg (Rastrigina & Leventi) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Update working group on the progress with nowcasting using EUROMOD and get their reactions on the use of such methodology by Eurostat in the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation on nowcasting at 4th European User Conference for EU-Microdata organized by GESIS and Eurostat, Mannheim (Rastrigina) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Conference provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on EU-SILC, EU-LFS, AES, SES, CIS, EHIS and HBS data. The aim of the conference is to encourage the discussion within the research community on both substantive and methodological issues, and to offer researchers the opportunity to give feedback to Eurostat.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.gesis.org/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/german-microdata-lab/european-user-confere...
 
Description Presentation on nowcasting at European Commission - DG EMPL conference "European Micro-simulation Modelling for Policymaking", Brussels (Rastrigina) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Micro-simulation models can be powerful tools for policy-makers to understand the effects of policies, particularly taxes and benefits, and related reforms. They can also help to assess the impact of a changing economic environment on the budgetary cost and effectiveness of policies and on the income distribution. This conference showcases some recent policy-relevant analysis using EUROMOD and other micro-simulation models.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/2015/06/01/Brussels%20conference
 
Description Presentation on nowcasting at the Euromod annual meeting, Athens (Rastrigina) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact EUROMOD annual meetings brings together 28 EUROMOD national teams to discuss development of the EU-wide tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and its research applications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation on nowcasting at the Indicators' Sub-Group (Rastrigina & Leventi) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Update national experts from each EU country and the European Commission on the progress on nowcasting activities using EUROMOD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation to HMT (Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 21st January 2014, we showcased our findings during a one-day visit by HM Treasury to ISER. The HMT team was headed by the Deputy Chief Economic Adviser and included specialists in labour market analysis and childcare policy.

HMT had expressed a specific interest in issues of labour supply and household time coordination, and our research was very well received and provoked numerous questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Productivity of school expenditure: differences across pupils from diverse 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Departmenta; seminar to the Department of Quantitative Social Science at the Institute of Education
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Project findings presented at a one-day event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact In November 2017, at the end of the ESRC funded project, Prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis, the findings from this project were presented to an audience comprising of policy makers, IPCC, government departments, third sector organisations and general public. There were around 20-25 participants. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session. After lunch there was an open round-table discussion within the entire audience about the key findings, gaps in evidence, and the way forward, suggestions about further dissemination of these findings to specific audiences. A 3-page briefing report was also handed to the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-and-racial-harassment-and-its-impact-on-health-new-findings-ti...
 
Description Provided estimates on happiness & ethnicity 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Provided estimates on happiness & ethnicity to Peter White of Insight Manager NORFACE funded "Migrant Diversity and Regional Disparity in Europe" project

NORFACE funded "Migrant Diversity and Regional Disparity in Europe" project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Recent research on ageing and disability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact ESRC social science festival - Launch event for publication "Britain in 2014"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Recent research on ageing and disability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Launch event for publication "Britain in 2014"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Recession leaves almost half of all young black people out of work 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Rate compares with fifth of white young without job but it is society's unfairness, not racial bias, which is being blamed

The Guardian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/black-unemployment-recession
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited Speaker

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited speaker

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited Speaker

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited Speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Reducing binge drinking? - The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Reducing extreme poverty in Greece: the role of a guaranteed minimum income scheme 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact 2013 EUROMOD Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Regius Lecture: Professor David Sanders 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Sanders employed data from the ESRC funded study for talk on the following: Authoritarian populism was a label used for Thatcherism. Although the UK political landscape has changed enormously since 1990, the popular sentiments that underpinned Margaret Thatcher's repeated electoral successes remain remarkably strong among British voters today. Using extensive survey evidence, Professor David Sanders will characterise what authoritarian populism means for voters in Britain today.
The analysis shows that there is a coherent set of beliefs - from cynicism about the EU to a virulent opposition to human rights - held by a surprisingly large proportion of the UK electorate, which can reasonably be described as authoritarian populist. These views have important consequences, not only for (dis)satisfaction with British democracy but for likely voting in the forthcoming referendum on the EU.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=10102
 
Description Regression Analysis of Country Effects using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Institute for Social Science Data Analysis, Inaugural Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Regression analysis of cross-national differences using multi-level data: a cautionary note 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Regression analysis of cross-national differences using multi-level data: a cautionary note 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Regression analysis of cross-national differences using multi-level data: a cautionary note 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Regression analysis of cross-national differences using multi-level data: a cautionary note 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Regression analysis of cross-national differences using multi-level data: a cautionary note 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Regulation of the cannabis market in England and Wales: towards a cost-benefit analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact "Time to rethink our policy on drugs - Experiences from Europe and the Americas"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Regulation of the cannabis market in England and Wales: towards a cost-benefit analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Transatlantic conference - Organised by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung - "Time to rethink our policy on drugs - Experiences from Europe and the Americas"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Renee Luthra - 4 December - Panelist discussing party manifestos on migration at BBC Newsnight 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Invited panelist to discuss party manifestos take in immigration before the 2019 General Election
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Researching lives through time 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar paper on UKHLS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Safety nets and Benefit dependence: Evidence and policy implications 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact World Bank Conference - The dynamics of social assistance receipt in Britain

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Salvation Army youth workers conference (FORGE) Crewe 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Science little help in lightening load of pregnancy myths 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Science little help in lightening load of pregnancy myths
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Secondary earners and fiscal policies in Europe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ENEGE (European Network of Experts on Gender Equality) meeting with associated experts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Secondary earners and fiscal policies in Europe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact ENEGE (European Network of Experts on Gender Equality) meeting with associated experts

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Seminar JNU, Delhi 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Questions and discussion with students and staff

Further projects with JNU developed following this visit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Seminar for HMT at ISER 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Research seminar for HMT. I presented my work on job polarisation within the research seminar organised by Prof. Mike Brewer at ISER for HMT.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Separating families - demographic context 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Descriptive statistics on different aspects of separating families, child maintenance payments and receipts, contact with non-resident children
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Separating families - demographic context 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Nuffield Foundation Research Seminar: Arrangements for Children following Relationship Breakdown - Descriptive statistics on different aspects of separating families, child maintenance payments and receipts, contact with non-resident children

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Sibling spillover effects in school test score 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact MiSoc Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Simulating a guaranteed minimum income for Greece 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Round table discussions on how to proceed with the pilot implementation of a guaranteed minimum income policy in Greece
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Smoking Bans and Heart Attacks 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact European Society for Population Economics (ESPE),

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Social Observatory Workshop, Muscat 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion and report produced on feasibility of establishing a Social Observatory in Oman to monitor poverty, education, health and other social services.

Following this workshop a Social Observatory was established in Oman.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011,2012
 
Description Steering group meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Associated with the church of England Project

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Stratgic Society Centre Public Debate on the Future of Disability Benefits, Social Care and Welfare Reform 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A presentation on patterns of receipt of disability benefits for older people and the likely distributional consequences of alternative forms of curtailment of these benefits.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Stressed nurses and G-computation: the solution? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Quarterly Centre Day, International Centre for Lifecourse Studies - The use of marginal structural models to account for measurement error in self-reported stress in an analysis of nurses' stress during NHS24 shifts.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls/events/Q011013
 
Description Stressed nurses and G-computation: the solution? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact The use of marginal structural models to account for measurement error in self-reported stress in an analysis of nurses' stress during NHS24 shifts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Summer 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's twice-yearly hard copy newsletter
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
URL http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/newsletters/ISER_News_Summer_2010.pdf
 
Description Survey response error and economic analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 4th Australasian workshop on Econometrics & Health Economics - Invited address and training course on health measurement

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Survey response error and economic analysis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited address and training course on health measurement
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Survey skills : understanding society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ESRC Survey Skills Workshop: Introduction to Understanding Society
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
URL http://www.surveynet.ac.uk/ssp/workshops/workshops.asp
 
Description THE REDISTRIBUTIVE AND STABILISING EFFECTS OF AN EMU UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SCHEME UNDER DIFFERENT UNEMPLOYMENT SCENARIOS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact European Commission/ Bertelsmann Stiftung conference on "Economic shock absorbers for the Eurozone. Deepening the debate on automatic stabilisers"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Tackling drugs: The UK's internationl and domestic strategy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited speaker - All party parliamentary group for global uncertainties breakfast meeting - Looking at the drugs trade and its links to organised crime in the UK and abroad

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Taking the long view 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's annual review for key stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/publications/iser-reports
 
Description Talk at Suffolk One College Social Sciences Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Presented 2 taster lectures "Hate Hurts" at for Suffolk One College, approximately 50 people attended the talk, College students and their teachers. The students as well as the teachers were very engaged and asked interesting questions; many seemed surprised by the survey methodology used. The College has since followed up again and wants a repeat of the same taster session again.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Talk on Poverty in Greece: trends in 2013 (C. Leventi, May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact 'SBC 8 Live' programme, presented by A. Voudouri - Live skype interview for SBC TV (Greek economic channel)

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Talk on the radio on the impact of the Greek crisis on poverty (C. Leventi, 2013) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact "Nine-ten" radio show, presented by the General Director of the station, Takis Kampylis - Live phone interview for Athens Municipal Radio (Athens 9.84)

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.athina984.gr/node/271130
 
Description Tax evasion and measurement error 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Open seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Telephone meeting with FHI 360 (USA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave some Advice for the evaluation of two social programs implemented in Mozambique

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Telephone meeting with Fondazione dell'Amore (Italy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact Discuss joint dissemination strategies for my reasearch on Mozambique.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Telephone meeting with Fondazione dell'Amore (Italy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discuss joint dissemination strategies for my reasearch on Mozambique.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Telephone meeting with Save the Children (USA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact I gave some Advice for the evaluation of two social programs implemented in Mozambique

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Telephone meeting with reasearchers form Sheffield Hallam University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave some Advice for the evaluation of the think forward initiative in London (with the EEF)

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Telephone meeting with reasearchers form Sheffield Hallam University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave some Advice for the evaluation of the think forward initiative in London (with the EEF)

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The Distribution and Dynamics of UK Citizens' Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Actions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This was not a paper but a summary of the aims of the ESRC-SDAI project on environmental behaviour
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household income 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description The Haiti's Deprivations and Vulneranility Index 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Haitis' national targeting instrument for social programs - I presented in a two days workshop intented to discuss among policy makers and international organizations that work on the country, a proposal to create a single national instrument of targeting that follows a multidimensional approach to poverty.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description The Weather and Politics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact BBC radio interview

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The consequences for families of health-related exits from employment 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Attended by parliamentarians and members of the insurance industry
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The design and distributional effects of fiscal consolidation measures in EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Fifth ECINEQ Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The design and distributional effects of fiscal consolidation measures in EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Fifth ECINEQ Meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Improve Conference - A comparison of six EU countries

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact EU WORKSHOP "The role of tax policy in times of fiscal consolidation"

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Improve Conference - A comparison of six EU countries

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures : a comparison of six EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar paper, presented at University of Antwerp
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures : a comparison of six EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact University of Tartu - seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures : a comparison of six EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact GINI workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The distributional effects of austerity measures : a comparison of six EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact EUROMOD Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The distributional effects of income tax expenditures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact EUROMOD Microsimulation Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The distributional effects of income tax expenditures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact EUROMODupdate2 Steering Group Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The dynamics of social assistance receipt in Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Summer Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The dynamics of social assistance receipt in Britain 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Summer Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The effect of local labour market conditions on educational choices a cross country comparison 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact ImPRoVE Meeting - The paper analyses the extent to which local labour market conditions influence some key educational choiches in Germany, Italy and the UK

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The effect of local labour market conditions on educational choices a cross country comparison 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact The paper analyses the extent to which local labour market conditions influence some key educational choiches in Germany, Italy and the UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The effects of Occupational knowledge: Job information Centers, Educational choices and Labour Market Outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact IX workshop in Public Policy Design: Income Dynamics and Intergenerational Mobility

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The effects of Occupational knowledge: Job information Centers, Educational choices and Labour Market Outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact IX workshop in Public Policy Design: Income Dynamics and Intergenerational
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The impact of indirect taxes and imputed rents on inequality : a comparison with cash transfers and direct taxes in five EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the redistributive impact of imputed rent (private and public) and indirect taxes (value added tax and excises), comparing this with the effects of cash transfers and direct taxes in five EU countries. The extended income concept, taking into account both imputed rent and indirect taxes, provides a more reliable picture of inequality differences across countries.



Our results show that indirect taxes have a regressive effect with respect to income in all countries considered but always smaller in magnitude than other tax-benefi t instruments. Imputed rent reduces overall inequality in particular where the prevalence of individuals living in own accommodation is high even among the poorest (Greece) and where the contribution of the public imputed rent is large (the UK).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The impact of indirect taxes and imputed rents on inequality : a comparison with cash transfers and direct taxes in five EU countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Workshop WP3 GINI



This paper examines the redistributive impact of imputed rent (private and public) and indirect taxes (value added tax and excises), comparing this with the effects of cash transfers and direct taxes in five EU countries. The extended income concept, taking into account both imputed rent and indirect taxes, provides a more reliable picture of inequality differences across countries.



Our results show that indirect taxes have a regressive effect with respect to income in all countries considered but always smaller in magnitude than other tax-benefi t instruments. Imputed rent reduces overall inequality in particular where the prevalence of individuals living in own accommodation is high even among the poorest (Greece) and where the contribution of the public imputed rent is large (the UK).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The impact of the Greek crisis on poverty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Live phone interview for Athens Municipal Radio (Athens 9.84)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The implications of an EMU unemployment insurance scheme for supporting incomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact DG-EMPL seminar on "Unemployment-based Supranational Automatic Stabilisers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The implications of an EMU unemployment insurance scheme for supporting incomes (provisional title) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact DG-EMPL seminar on "Unemployment-based Supranational Automatic Stabilisers

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description The long shadow of recession (podcast) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Online discussion of impacts of recession on young people and others.

The podcast was shared via social media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/podcasts/iser/2014/06
 
Description The long-run impact of attending an elite secondary school 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact seminar at the School of Economics & Finance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The long-run impact of attending an elite secondary school 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Presentation at the workshop on Widening Participation, by invitation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The redistributive effect and progressivity of taxes revisited: An International Comparison across the European Union 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact SIEP Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description The relationships between income, deprivation and "poverty" : longitudinal and cross-national perspectives 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Deprivation seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description The scarring effect of unemployment from the early'90s to the Great Recession 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Young people in the recovery: from false starts to rewarding careers - This work addresses two issues of great importance in the current economic climate. First, it analyses the extent to which unemployment experiences have a scarring effect on British men during the Great Recession.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Tilburg seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Academic seminar. Presentation of "Academic and non-Academic investments at university: The role of expectations and preferences" at the economics seminar series at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Towards a cost-benefit analysis of cannabis regulation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Conference on drug policy organised by the All-Part Parliamentary group for drug policy reform
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Trends in individual income growth: measurement methods and British evidence 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited speaker at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Trends in the employment of disabled people 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar presentation at Social Exclusion seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Trustee - Alister Hardy Trust 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting in Birmingham

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Trustee - Alister Hardy Trust 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting in Cardiff

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Understanding society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Introduction to Understanding Society, and the potential for Northern Ireland researchers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
URL http://www.ark.ac.uk/events/Burton.pdf
 
Description Understanding the SES Gradient in Early Child Development: Maternal Work, Home Learning, and Child Care Decisions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the impacts of family inputs --- i.e., maternal employment, child care and home learning --- on the early development of British children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Understanding the SES Gradient in Early Child Development: Maternal Work, Home Learning, and Child Care Decisions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the impacts of family inputs --- i.e., maternal employment, child care and home learning --- on the early development of British children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Understanding the SES Gradient in Early Child Development: Maternal Work, Home Learning, and Child Care Decisions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact This paper examines the impacts of family inputs --- i.e., maternal employment, child care and home learning --- on the early development of British children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Universal Credit: Making work pay in the UK? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact We look at the impact on low paid and single parent families of universal credit. Universal credit, which is being gradually introduced across the country from this October onwards, is rolling together six separate benefits into one payment. This is being done in order to simplify the system. The government has emphasised that this new welfare scheme is being designed to make work pay at each and every hour,: encouraging people to move into work, or increase their working hours.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes and Financial Constraints 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Seminar presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Updated GINI and poverty estimated with EUROMOD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Miss Valentina Flamini from the IMF contacted the EUROMOD team to ask for updated EUROMOD statistics on inequality and poverty. Chrysa Leventi and myself (Xavier Jara) worked on updating GINI and poverty statistics with the latest version of EUROMOD and datasets available at the time. A document containing GINI and poverty estimated with EUROMOD for years 2007 -2012 for 27 EU countries was provided to them.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Updated GINI and poverty estimated with EUROMOD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Miss Valentina Flamini from the IMF contacted the EUROMOD team to ask for updated EUROMOD statistics on inequality and poverty. Chrysa Leventi and myself (Xavier Jara) worked on updating GINI and poverty statistics with the latest version of EUROMOD and datasets available at the time. A document containing GINI and poverty estimated with EUROMOD for years 2007 -2012 for 27 EU countries was provided to them.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 2013 EUROMOD research workshop

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/euromod/events/archives/euromod-research-workshop
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact 2013 EUROMOD research workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty (an update) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact EUROMODupdate2 project Steering Group meeting

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact DG-EMPL / World Bank Joint technical workshop

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Presentation of a method that can be used to estimate ("nowcast") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC micro-data from a previous period. Delegates of the Indicators
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact DG-EMPL / World Bank Joint technical workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Using EUROMOD to nowcast risk of poverty in the EU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact MEETING OF THE INDICATORS' SUB-GROUP, Social Protection Committee - Presentation of a method that can be used to estimate ("nowcast") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC micro-data from a previous period. Delegates of the Indicators Sub-Group were invited to share their views on the methodology and the possibility of incorporating such indicators into the regular social reporting.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Was the period since 2001 a "missed opportunity" for poverty reduction? The effects of policy change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The distributive impact of social policies: Lessons for Europe 2020

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Wealth and Assets Survey questions about housing tenure 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Email discussion with Valerie Christian (Team Leader, WAS, ELSA & PI Surveys, Department for Work and Pensions) about suitability of variables currently in WAS for capturing quality and security of housing tenure. Discussion was in relation to finding presented on 29/1/14 at launch of Who Saves for Retirement 2 that tenants are more likely to reject workplace pensions. Conclusion was no change needed to WAS at present.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Wealth and Assets Survey questions about housing tenure 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Email discussion with Valerie Christian (Team Leader, WAS, ELSA & PI Surveys, Department for Work and Pensions) about suitability of variables currently in WAS for capturing quality and security of housing tenure. Discussion was in relation to finding presented on 29/1/14 at launch of Who Saves for Retirement 2 that tenants are more likely to reject workplace pensions. Conclusion was no change needed to WAS at present.

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Well-being measurement experiments in understanding society 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Wellbeing Seminar Series presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description What you don't see can't hurt you? : panel data analysis and the dynamics of unobservable factors 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Paper at MiSoC Research Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Where are they now? : pathways to adulthood : developing a mixed method 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Analysis of youth questionnaire qualitative data from BHPS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Who Pays for Austerity? The Design and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Luxembourg Income Study Annual Public Lecture

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Who Pays for Austerity? The Design and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Luxembourg Income Study Annual Public Lecture
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Who benefits from money spent in school? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Roundtable event with policy makers, 3rd sector organisations, head teachers and researchers to discuss results of Nuffield Foundation research on the effect of school inputs on educational achievements.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Who benefits from money spent in school? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The effect of school inputs on educational achievements - Roundtable event with policy makers, 3rd sector organisations, head teachers and researchers to discuss results of Nuffield Foundation research on the effect of school inputs on educational achievements.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Who saves for retirement? 2: eligible non-savers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Beyond Auto-enrolment: How can the government minimise pension opt-outs? - Research report

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.strategicsociety.org.uk/events/1913/#.UvOsbrSRLe0
 
Description Who saves for retirement? 2: eligible non-savers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Research report
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity
 
Description Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off? Measuring living standards with income and consumption 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The measurement of household consumption expenditures - he talk was based on "Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK", Brewer and O'Dea, http://ideas.repec.org/p/ese/iserwp/2012-05.html and "Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?", Brewer, Etheridge and O'Dea, http://ideas.repec.org/p/esx/essedp/736.html

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Why free childcare is not helping many mums back to work 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This is a blog article for a website. The article was shared through Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I am not aware of any resulting activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://theconversation.com/why-free-childcare-is-not-helping-many-mums-back-to-work-33291
 
Description Wilting greens : Britain falls out of love with environmentalism 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Newspaper article on environmentalism

Economist
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://www.economist.com/node/21541457
 
Description Winter 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact ISER's twice-yearly hard copy newsletter
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
URL http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/newsletters/ISER_News_Winter_2010.pdf
 
Description Workshop presentation on "Reducing extreme poverty in Greece: the role of a guaranteed minimum income scheme" (C. Leventi, 2013) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 2013 EUROMOD Research Workshop

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/euromod/events/archives/euromod-research-workshop
 
Description Workshop presentation on the "Distributional implications of public policies: the case of Greece" (C. Leventi, 2013) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact 'Athens University of Economics and Business Investigates' workshop

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://irakleitos.aueb.gr/index.php/home-2/12-greek-categories/2013-02-02-16-43-46/59-to-opa-erevna
 
Description Young Lives and Imagined Futures Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Questions and discussions

New research ideas generated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Young people in the recession and beyond 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact HM Treasury Labour Market Conference 2014 - Invited 10-minute presentation on young people in the recession from the ISER Recession project. Part of a panel discussion on Young people in the Labour Market.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Young people in the recovery: from false starts to rewarding careers - policy event at Work Foundation, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact End-of-programme policy event held at the Work Foundation, 4th June 2014. Presentation of research on the impacts of high unemployment on young people's educational aspirations and decisions, and their subsequent experiences in the labour market. Format was a roundtable discussion involving policy makers, academics, charity sector and business leaders. Discussion focussed on the research and the steps to ensure that this generation does not suffer the long-term consequences that young people have faced following previous recessions. Participants included LGA, CBI, DWP, BT, social enterprises and charities involved in Work Programme.
Accompanied by blog post on Work Foundation site: http://www.theworkfoundation.com/blog/1874/The-long-shadow-of-recession

Interchange of ideas between researchers and policy/practitioner communities. Highlighted importance of apprenticeships and not just FE/HE as a route to sustainable jobs for young people - a topic often neglected in academic research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.theworkfoundation.com/Events/343/Young-people-in-the-recovery-from-false-starts-to-reward...
 
Description Young voters and their "never Tory" mindset: the making of a Labour generation? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blog post discussing the entry of younger voters into the electorate for the first time in the wake of the 2017 general election and how partisan ties develop over time. Analysis draws extensively on results obtained by the authors via their analysis of the British Household Panel Study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/83991/1/politicsandpolicy-ge17-and-the-making-of-a-labour.pdf