1 in 4 older people could be in poverty by 2040, according to our new research commissioned by Independent Age. Read the full report here: housingevidence.ac.uk/publications/p…

Each year UKDataService runs a dissertation prize for undergraduate dissertations based on data in their collection. This year one of the winners used Understanding Society! Congratulations to James Marris who explored carbon pricing and fuel poverty. ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/07/22/win…

Powerful piece, with some uncomfortable observations. '... proponents of income redistribution were less likely to give blood. “If everyone in the population gave at the same rate as government aid advocates, the supply would drop by about 30 percent."' A short 🧵-->

The global economy for the past 3 years

YIMBYs are right to focus on housing supply

The FT wins the award for greatest trolling in 2024 😈 ft.com/content/d973dc…

Extraordinary graph showing how % people facing housing payment problems in the UK has yet to recover from the surge following the Global Financial Crisis. See excellent blog by Rhiannon Williams on the scarring effects of the GFC in the UK housingevidence.ac.uk/uk-housing-aff…

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

I love this article by Dr Alice Evans (Alice Evans, KCL) in which she presents romantic love as an underrated driver of gender equality.

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

"A study by LSE finds that the rich are, in fact, very unlikely to relocate because of tax rises alone, particularly those living in some of the world’s largest cities, such as New York, London and Tokyo." ft.com/content/42327e…

I love this article by Dr Alice Evans (Alice Evans, KCL) in which she presents romantic love as an underrated driver of gender equality. See link below: ggd.world/p/romantic-lov…

British national identity is increasingly more "civic" and less "ethnic". New research (based on British Social Attitudes Survey data) from Alex Scholes & John Curtice. natcen.ac.uk/publications/b…

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

France sees Channel migrant deaths as a problem of Britain's making bbc.com/news/articles/…

Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies): --> 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' --> [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases' -->'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'

Reviewing studies of degrowth "the large majority (almost 90%) of [degrowth] studies are opinions rather than analysis; few studies use quantitative or qualitative data, and even fewer ones use formal modelling.. tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases"