New EUROMOD research shows 'triple locking' child benefits in UK would take 310,000 children out of absolute poverty

UK children are more likely to be in poverty than pensioners. Modelling by ISER researchers, commissioned by the End Child Poverty Coalition, shows the potential impact of the Government’s ‘triple lock’ pensions strategy if applied to child benefits

Professor Nick Buck is new ISER Director

Nick is currently Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and has served as Deputy Director at ISER, since 1994, and as Director of the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre since 2001.

Expert workshop ‘Evaluating the effect of Childcare policies: improving comparative research tools’

InGRID workshop, 9-11 September at the University of Essex, open to researchers engaged in the topic of the distributive and labour supply impact of childcare policies, administrators collecting and processing data on national childcare policies, policy-makers and international organisations

Poor lose and rich gain from direct tax and benefit changes since 2010 – without cutting the deficit at all

A new study by ISER and LSE using EUROMOD finds the poor did lose the most under the Coalition policies on tax and benefits while the top 5% gained and the deficit remained undented.

Equity and Efficiency in the Latvian Tax-Benefit System

A new policy brief uses the Latvian component of EUROMOD to analyse the equity and efficiency of the Latvian tax-benefit system.

Poverty levels in Europe expected to rise despite first signs of recovery – EUROMOD research

New research from EUROMOD, ISER’s state-of-the-art tax-benefit microsimulation model is showing little improvement in the social situation across Europe despite the first signs of recovery.

IMF Fiscal Policy & Income Inequality policy paper: Evidence from EUROMOD

Drawing on six separate ISER research papers using EUROMOD as well as some additional data provided by ISER researchers, the International Monetary Fund has published a new policy paper on Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality.

ISER research for CPAG on child poverty rates across the EU27

ISER has completed a briefing for the Child Poverty Action Group to provide a comparison of the effect of the 2012 tax-benefit systems on child poverty across the EU27.