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Failing before school: the gap between children in high and low income...
The clear links between early child development and later adult outcomes do not bode well for children of the poorest families, who, as new research has shown, are much more likely to exhibit...
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Book Review: Citizens, Context and Choice: How Context Shapes Citizens’...
Natacha Postel-Vinay is impressed by the radical and bold conclusions presented in this study of the ways in which institutions can affect our voting behaviour. Citizens, Context and Choice: How...
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Book Review: Work, Worklessness and the Political Economy of Health
In her new book Clare Bambra argues that social democratic policies – such as those practiced in Scandinavia – produce better, healthier environments for people to work in, and that we need to ‘think...
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The impact of austerity on vulnerable families should be an area of major...
Howard Reed predicts that the number of families who are especially vulnerable in the UK will increase by 14 per cent between 2010 and 2015, with public spending cuts hitting them particularly hard....
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The government should reconsider its proposed measure of child poverty and...
The government has proposed a new measure of child poverty which would combine information on eight aspects of a child’s life into one measure, moving away from the income-based approach. However, as...
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Does money buy happiness? It depends on the context
Ilka Gleibs explains how the money–happiness link is variable and highly context-dependent. Two studies she conducted showed that both money (individual income) and community (social capital) can be...
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Lessons for policy-makers, reflecting on UKIP’s successes, and what derailed...
John Curtice, writing at the IPPR’s Juncture, looks at UKIP’s successes in this year’s local elections, where it received an average of 25 per cent of the vote in the wards that it contested. He says...
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