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Wealth check: what the new Government needs to know about household wealth as it navigates the challenges ahead
Report - July 28, 2024
Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages
Media - July 18, 2024
In Londen zijn gratis schoolmaaltijden op basisscholen de norm
Media - July 16, 2024
In Londen zijn gratis schoolmaaltijden op basisscholen de norm – wanneer is Amsterdam aan de beurt?
Media - July 15, 2024
Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16–25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure: repeated cross-sectional analysis using the British household panel Survey/UK household longitudinal survey
Journal Article - July 15, 2024
Exploring the impact of ‘hostile environment’ policies on psychological distress of ethnic groups in the UK: a differences‑in‑differences analysis
Journal Article - July 8, 2024
Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages: methodology appendix
Report - July 1, 2024
Socio-economic differences in remote schoolwork during the COVID-19 pandemic: a trend analysis of the 2020 and 2021 school-closure periods using the UK Understanding Society data
Journal Article - July 1, 2024
A Bayesian interrupted time series framework for evaluating policy change on mental well-being: an application to England’s welfare reform
Journal Article - June 11, 2024
Fathers taking leave: evaluating the impact of shared parental leave in the UK
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17076 - June 1, 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment
Has the UK campaign to end loneliness reduced loneliness and improved mental health in older age? A difference-in-differences design
Journal Article - March 15, 2024
The effect of immigration policy reform on mental health in people from minoritised ethnic groups in England: an interrupted time series analysis of longitudinal data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study cohort
Journal Article - March 15, 2024
Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study
Journal Article - March 4, 2024
Valuing subjective well-being benefits from leisure activities: informing post-Covid public funding of arts, culture and sport
Journal Article - March 1, 2024
Immigration Act 2014 and Windrush scandal linked to decline in mental health for Britain’s Black Caribbean population
Media - February 21, 2024
The impacts of Universal Free School Meal schemes in England
Report - February 15, 2024
Universal Free School Meals reduce child obesity and improve children’s reading scores
Report, MiSoC Explainers - February 15, 2024
The male marital earnings premium contextualized: longitudinal evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Journal Article - February 15, 2024
Theresa May’s pre-Windrush policies caused mental distress for Black Britons, finds study
Media - February 14, 2024
Free school meals proven to ‘cut obesity and improve reading skills’
Media - February 8, 2024
Free school meals for all ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’
Media - February 4, 2024
Free school meals ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’ in England, study finds
Media - February 4, 2024
Residential mobility restrictions and adverse mental health outcomes during the COVID‑19 pandemic in the UK
Journal Article - January 20, 2024
UK poverty 2024: the essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Journal Article - December 15, 2023
Austerity and young people’s political attitudes in the UK
Journal Article - December 15, 2023
Using Understanding Society data to explore wellbeing in London
Media - December 11, 2023
What influences Londoners’ wellbeing, and what can help? A study by the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London and Centre for London
Report - November 15, 2023
Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom?
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 23/42 - November 15, 2023
Debt, credit payment holidays, and their relationship with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Journal Article - November 1, 2023