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This paper adds to the evidence base on retirement income adequacy and how retirement incomes relate to lifetime earnings.
Aleks Collingwood, Rosie Green and Andy Ross
The results from this study provide robust evidence on the characteristics of bullying victims based on a representative cohort of young people aged 14 to 16 attending secondary schools in England between 2004 and 2006.
A new report, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), provides background analysis and context to aid interpretation of data on the distribution of wealth in Great Britain available from the first wave of the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS).
Rosie Green and Andy Ross
This study is designed to clarify young people's drinking patterns, with particular emphasis on chains of behaviour that may lead to negative outcomes.
Francesca Foliano, Elena Meschi and Anna Vignoles
This paper explores the role of individual experiences and school characteristics in determining changes in disengagement between the age of 14 and 16.
Efficiency savings alone won't be enough to sort out the UK's massive deficit and there will have to be cuts in the quality and/or quantity of public services coupled with cuts to welfare benefits and increases in tax, write Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Alissa Goodman and Paul Gregg (eds)
This report examines the extent to which the aspirations, attitudes and behaviour of parents and children can help explain why poor children typically do worse at school than children from richer backgrounds. It is based on the analysis of a number of large-scale longitudinal data sources capturing groups of children in the UK from early childhood through to late adolescence.
The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.
This report documents the dynamic patterns in work and poverty for families using data for the years 2001 to 2006 from the Families and Children Study.
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