Start date:
October 2017Research Topic:
Poverty and welfare: an intergenerational approachResearch pathway:
Social PolicyResearch Supervisor:
Dr Rod Hick and Dr Marco PomatiSupervising school:
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff UniversityPrimary funding source:
ESRC StudentshipExternal Sponsor:
Office for National StatisticsMy research will explore relative poverty changes within and between generations over time in the UK. This will largely involve secondary data analysis of the Households Below Average Income surveys. Furthermore, I will analyse anti-poverty effects of social security on specific generations by using microsimulation to estimate hypothetical policy change.
Email:
KeatingM2@cardiff.ac.uk