Research
Areas of research covered by the Institute include public finance and spending, pensions and saving, company taxation, consumer behaviour and poverty and inequality. Although most of the Institute's research is UK-focused, recent work has also looked at international development policies, for instance at education and nutrition programmes in Colombia.
The Institute is home to or a partner in the following research centres:
- Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP)
- Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT)
- Centre for the Economics of Education
- Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo)
- Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC)
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
- Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
- Centre for Economic Research on Ageing (CERA)
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“One of the most important findings to come out of our research is that being where you want to be is good for you. We found a very strong correlation between preferring the role you are in and well-being. The homemaker who is at home because she likes that “job,” because it meets her own desires and needs, tends to feel good about her life. The woman at work who wants to be there also rates high in well-being.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“Men talk, but rarely about anything personal. Recent research on friendship ... has shown that male relationships are based on shared activities: men tend to do things together rather than simply be together.... Female friendships, particularly close friendships, are usually based on self-disclosure, or on talking about intimate aspects of their lives.”
—Bettina Arndt (20th century)
“I did my research and decided I just had to live it.”
—Karina O’Malley, U.S. sociologist and educator. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A5 (September 16, 1992)