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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“The research on gender and morality shows that women and men looked at the world through very different moral frameworks. Men tend to think in terms of “justice” or absolute “right and wrong,” while women define morality through the filter of how relationships will be affected. Given these basic differences, why would men and women suddenly agree about disciplining children?”
—Ron Taffel (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)
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