Dr. Yekaterina Chzhen

• Anna Gromada, Gwyther Rees, Yekaterina Chzhen, Comparing inequality in adolescents' reading achievement across 37 countries and over time: outcomes versus opportunities, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Zlata Bruckauf, Household income and sticky floors in children's cognitive development: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 10, (3), 2019, p307 - 326Journal Article, 2019, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Moor, Irene, Pickett, William, Toczydlowska, Emilia, Stevens, Gonneke W J M, International trends in 'bottom-end' inequality in adolescent physical activity and nutrition: HBSC study 2002-2014, European Journal of Public Health, 28, (4), 2018, p624-630Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Bruckauf, Zlata, Toczydlowska, Emilia, Monitoring progress towards sustainable development: multidimensional child poverty in the European Union, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 26, (2), 2018, p129-150Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Ferrone, Lucia, Chzhen, Yekaterina, How to Reach the Sustainable Development Goal 1.2? Simulating Different Strategies to Reduce Multidimensional Child Poverty in Two Middle-Income Countries, Child Indicators Research, 11, (3), 2018, p711-728Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Gordon, David, Handa, Sudhanshu, Measuring Multidimensional Child Poverty in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals, Child Indicators Research, 11, (3), 2018, p707-709Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Bruckauf, Zlata, Toczydlowska, Emilia, Elgar, Frank J., Moreno-Maldonado, Concepcion, Stevens, Gonneke W.J.M., Sigmundová, Dagmar, Gariépy, Geneviève, Multidimensional Poverty Among Adolescents in 38 Countries: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) 2013/14 Study, Child Indicators Research, 11, (3), 2018, p729-753Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Ferrone, Lucia, Multidimensional Child Deprivation and Poverty Measurement: Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Social Indicators Research, 131, (3), 2017, p999-1014Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Perceptions of the Economic Crisis in Europe: Do Adults in Households with Children Feel a Greater Impact?, Social Indicators Research, 127, (1), 2016, p341-360Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Bradshaw, Jonathan, Lone parents, poverty and policy in the European Union, Journal of European Social Policy, 22, (5), 2012, p487-506Journal Article, 2012, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Unemployment, social protection spending and child poverty in the European Union during the Great Recession, Journal of European Social Policy, 27, (2), 2017, p123-137Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Employee training and wage dispersion: white- and blue-collar workers in Britain in, editor(s)S.W. Polacheck and K. Tatsiramos , Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-being (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 30), Bingley , Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010, pp35 - 60, [Almeida-Santos, Filipe, Chzhen, Yekaterina, Mumford, Karen]Book Chapter, 2010, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Mumford, Karen, Gender gaps across the earnings distribution for full-time employees in Britain: Allowing for sample selection, Labour Economics, 18, (6), 2011, p837-844Journal Article, 2011, DOI
• Chzhen, Yekaterina, Mumford, Karen, Nicodemo, Catia, The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant Across the Earnings Distribution?, Economic Record, 89, (286), 2013, p367-381Journal Article, 2013, DOI
• Evans, Geoffrey, Chzhen, Kat, Explaining Voters' Defection from Labour over the 2005"10 Electoral Cycle: Leadership, Economics and the Rising Importance of Immigration, Political Studies, 61, (1_suppl), 2013, p138-157Journal Article, 2013, DOI
• Chzhen, Kat, Evans, Geoffrey, Pickup, Mark, When do Economic Perceptions Matter for Party Approval?, Political Behavior, 36, (2), 2014, p291-313Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Evans, Geoffrey, Chzhen, Kat, Re-evaluating the Valence Model of Political Choice, Political Science Research and Methods, 4, (1), 2016, p199-220Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Jonathan Bradshaw, Yekaterina Chzhen, Child poverty policies across Europe, Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 21, (2), 2009Journal Article, 2009
• Jonathan Bradshaw, Yekaterina Chzhen, The outcome of the crisis for pensioners and children, Belgisch tijdschrift voor Sociale Zekerheid, 1, 2015, p37 - 49Journal Article, 2015
• Impact of the Economic crisis on Children in Rich Countries in, editor(s)Bea Cantillon, Yekaterina Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa, and Brian Nolan , Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, [Yekaterina Chzhen, Brian Nolan, Bea Cantillon, and Sudhanshu Handa]Book Chapter, 2017
• Impact of the Recession on Children in the United Kingdom in, editor(s)Children of Austerity Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries , Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, [Jonathan Bradshaw, Yekaterina Chzhen, and Gill Main]Book Chapter, 2017
• Cash benefits and poverty in single-parent families in, editor(s)Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado , The triple bind of single-parent families, Bristol, Policy Press, 2018, [Jonathan Bradshaw, Antonia Keung and Yekaterina Chzhen]Book Chapter, 2018
• Introduction: Scope and Methods in, editor(s)Bea Cantillon, Yekaterina Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa, and Brian Nolan , Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, [Yekaterina Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa, Bea Cantillon, and Brian Nolan]Book Chapter, 2017
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Chris de Neubourg, Ilze Plavgo, Marlous de Milliano, Child poverty in the European Union: The multiple overlapping deprivation analysis approach (EU-MODA), Child Indicators Research , 9, (2), 2016, p335 - 356Journal Article, 2016
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Leah Prencipe, Frank Eetaama, Paul Luchemba, Tumpe Mnyawami Lukongo, Tia Palermo, and Tanzania Adolescent Cash Plus Evaluation Team, Impacts of a Cash Plus intervention on gender attitudes among Tanzanian adolescents, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI
• Palermo, Tia; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Balvin, Nikola and Kajula, Lusajo, Examining determinants of gender attitudes: evidence among Tanzanian adolescents, BMC Women's Health, 20, 2020, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Chester Howarth, Gill Main, Deprivation and intra-family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Mode, Journal of Marriage and Family, 84, (1), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Jennifer Symonds, Dympna Devine, Júlia Mikolai, Susan Harkness, Seaneen Sloan and Gabriela Martinez Sainz , Learning in a Pandemic: Primary School children's Emotional Engagement with Remote Schooling during the spring 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown in Ireland, Child Indicators Research , 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Bea Cantillon, Yekaterina Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa and Brian Nolan, Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries, Oxford , Oxford University Press, 2017Book, 2017
• Child Indicators Research, 11, 3, (2018), 707 - 860p, Yekaterina Chzhen, David Gordon and Sudhanshu Handa, [eds.]Journal, 2018
• Stefanie Sprong, Ryan Alberto Gibbons and Yekaterina Chzhen , Divergent trajectories: Three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 14, (1), 2023, p128 - 137Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Alina Cosma, Andras Kolto, Yekaterina Chzhen, Dorota Kleszczewska, Michal Kalman, Gina Martin, Measurement Invariance of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index: Evidence from 15 European Countries, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Ryan Gibbons, Stefanie Sprong, Yekaterina Chzhen, Growing Up in the Great Recession: The Effects of Three Dimensions of Economic Well-being on Child Behavioral Difficulties from Ages 3 to 17, Journal of Youth and Adolescence , 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Yekaterina Chzhen and Julia Leesch, Why does school socio-economic composition matter to adolescents" academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources, British Educational Research Journal , 2023, p1 - 21, p1-21Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Mengxuan Li and Yekaterina Chzhen, Home learning environment or parenting stress? Examining the links between poverty and child development in Ireland, European Societies, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Lucie Middlemiss, Carolyn Snell, Emily Morrison, Yekaterina Chzhen, Tania Carregha, Samanthi Theminimulle, Anne Owen, Gill Main and Kelli Kennedy, Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero, Journal of Social Policy and Society , 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Yekaterina Chzhen and Jonathan Bradshaw, The two-child limit and child poverty in the United Kingdom, International Journal of Social Welfare, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Lucie Middlemiss; Carolyn Snell; Tania Carregha; Samanthi Theminimulle; Emily Morrison; Yekaterina Chzhen; Kelli Kennedy; Anne Owen, Place-based and people-centred: Principles for a socially inclusive Net Zero transition, Geo: Geography and Environment, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Data and policies for halving poverty in all its forms in, editor(s)Gaby Umbach and Igor Tkalec , The Elgar Companion to Data and Indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026, [Lucia Ferrone, Yekaterina Chzhen and Alessandro Carraro]Book Chapter, 2026
• Mengxuan Li and Yekaterina Chzhen, Insecure maternal employment and children's behaviour difficulties: Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children, Social Science & Medicine, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Rooting Net Zero in social thinking in, editor(s)Carolyn Jane Snell, Lucie Middlemiss, Kelli Kennedy, Emily Morrison, Yekaterina Chzhen, Samanthi Theminimulle, Tania Carregha , Just climate futures, Policy Press, 2025, [Lucie Middlemiss, Yekaterina Chzhen, Carolyn Snell]Book Chapter, 2025

• Yekaterina Chzhen; Gwyther Rees; Anna Gromada, Are the world's richest countries family friendly? Policy in the OECD and EU, Florence, Unicef Office of Research - Innocenti, 2019Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Zlata Bruckauf and Emilia Toczydlowska, Sustainable Development Goal 1.2: Multidimensional child poverty in the European Union, Innocenti Working Paper , 2017-07, Florence , 2017Report
• Lisa Hjelm, Lucia Ferrone, Sudhanshu Handa and Yekaterina Chzhen, Comparing Approaches to the Measurement of Multidimensional Child Poverty, Innocenti Working Paper , 2016-19, Florence, 2016Report
• Lucia Ferrone and Yekaterina Chzhen, Child poverty in Armenia: National multiple overlapping deprivation analysis, Innocenti Working Paper, 2016-24, Florence, 2016Report
• Zlata Bruckauf and Yekaterina Chzhen, Education for all? Measuring inequality of educational outcomes among 15-year-olds across 39 industrialised countries, Innocenti Working Paper, 2016-08, 2016, 2016Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Zlata Bruckauf, Kwok Ng, Daria Pavlova, Torbjorn Torsheim, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Inequalities in adolescent health and life satisfaction: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study, Innocenti Working Paper, 2016-09, Florence, 2016Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Irene Moor, William Pickett, Emilia Toczydlowska, Gonneke Stevens, Family affluence and inequality in adolescent health and life satisfaction: Evidence from the HBSC study 2002-2014, Innocenti Working Paper, 2016-10, Florence, 2016Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Emilia Toczydlowska, Sudhanshu Handa, Child poverty dynamics and income mobility in Europe, Innocenti Working Paper, 2016-16, Florence, 2016Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen , Subjective impact of the economic crisis on households with children in 17 European countries, Innocenti Working Paper, 2014-9, Florence, 2014Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen , Child poverty and material deprivation in the European Union during the Great Recession, Florence, 2014Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen and Lucia Ferrone, Child poverty and deprivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: National multiple overlapping deprivation analysis (N-MODA), Innocenti Working Paper, 2015-02, Florence, 2015Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen , Young people's political attitudes: a cross-national comparison of public opinion surveys, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Background Paper, 2012/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/21, Paris, UNESCO, 2012Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen , Education and democratisation: tolerance of diversity, political engagement, and understanding of democracy, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Background Paper, 2014/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/03, Paris, UNESCO, 2014Report
• Gromada, Anna; Rees, Gwyther; Chzhen, Yekaterina, Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries, Florence: Italy, 2020Report
• Yekaterina Chzhen, Anna Gromada and Gwyther Rees, An unfair start: Inequality in children's education in rich countries, Florence , UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2018Report
• Julia Mikolai, Yekaterina Chzhen and Christine Garrington, Covid-19 and children's well-being, 2022Working Paper

• Title

  Educational inequalities among children in rich countries
  Summary

  This project focuses on educational inequalities in 41 of the world's richest countries, all of which are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and/or the European Union (EU). Using the most recent data available, it examines inequalities across childhood - from access to preschool to expectations of post-secondary education - and explores in depth the relationships between educational inequality and factors such as their parents' occupations, migration background, the child's gender and school characteristics. Main findings published in Innocenti Report Card 15 (2018).
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2017
  Date To

  2018
• Title

  The impact of tax credits on mothers' employment (UK)
  Summary

  Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC) were introduced in April 2003 to support families with children, reduce child poverty and make work pay for those on low incomes. These new credits are central to the Government's ambitious policy of reducing and eventually abolishing child poverty. This research investigated their impact on labour-market participation and the working hours of women with children. It also explored reasons for non-take-up of the tax credits among those eligible. The study used data from the three latest available rounds of interviews of the longitudinal Families and Children Study (FACS), 2002/03-2004/05. The methodology also has lessons for those interested in pinpointing the most appropriate way of modelling the impact of the new tax credits.
  Funding Agency

  Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  Date From

  2006
  Date To

  2007
• Title

  Generation Z
  Summary

  Current perspectives on adolescent mental health: within-individual, time trends and cross-national differences
  Funding Agency

  European Commission
  Date From

  2022
  Date To

  2024
• Title

  Consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for children in Ireland and the United Kingdom
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Arts & Social Sciences Benefaction Fund 2020/21
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2023
• Title

  Lessons from the pandemic: Socio-economic inequalities in children' education and mental health
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Entreprise Ireland
  Date From

  2022
  Date To

  2023
• Title

  Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in transition to net zero
  Summary

  This project proposes a programme of research and methodological innovation to understand the risks to, and vulnerabilities of, families and communities in the transition to a net zero carbon society; and to build a usable and dynamic framework that enables policy makers, local and national stakeholders to strategically plan for and manage transition in such a way that it mitigates and reduces inequalities, and places equitable family and community outcomes at its heart.
  Funding Agency

  Nuffield Foundation
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2022
• Title

  Sustainable Development Goals and child well-being in rich countries
  Summary

  The study focuses on child well-being in the context of sustainable development across 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It seeks to bring the SDG targets for children in high-income countries into meaningful operation (while staying true to the ambitions of the global agenda) and to establish a point of departure for reviewing the SDG framework in these contexts. It focuses on those goals and targets with most direct relevance to the well-being of children in high-income settings. Where appropriate, it adapts the agreed SDG indicator, the better to reflect the problems facing children in such countries. The results therefore highlight the new challenges set by the SDGs. Main findings published in Innocenti Report Card 14 (2017).
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2016
  Date To

  2017
• Title

  Evaluation of the Adult Learning Grant (UK)
  Summary

  Evaluation of the Adult Learning Grant.
  Funding Agency

  Department for Education and Skills; Learning and Skills Council (UK)
  Date From

  2005
  Date To

  2006
• Title

  LEARN: Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing iNequalities
  Summary

  LEARN will highlight short-, medium- and long-term patterns of inequalities with a view to supporting educational policymaking in being able to robustly address these inequalities with interventions which are evidence based. Using a case study approach in nine carefully selected countries which capture the diversity of Europe"s education systems, LEARN will map and collect existing data providing original analysis of a range of high-quality education focused longitudinal educational data sets across Europe. LEARN will identify interventions that compensate educational inequalities by providing a synthesis of existing work across Europe examining specific trends in educational inequalities and interventions intended to reduce them. LEARN will then go on to develop tools for policymakers related to the findings of longitudinal analysis which support them in the policy making process.
  Funding Agency

  European Commission
  Date From

  01/04/2024
  Date To

  31/03/2027
• Title

  Gender inequality in the labour market in the European Union
  Summary

  Despite significant increases in female labour market participation and educational achievement in the EU in recent decades, women still trail men in terms of employment rates, earnings and occupational attainment. This thesis is about the interplay between the characteristics of individuals associated with productivity, abour market returns to these characteristics, and country-level work/family reconciliation policies in influencing female employment and gender inequalities in the labour market in the enlarged EU. It explores variations in the ways EU member states support individuals in combining work and family life and the extent to which these policies promote gender equality in the labour market in terms of pay and occupational attainment. The approach of the thesis is quantitative and comparative, based on the secondary analysis of micro social datasets and comparable policy indicators, using advanced statistical techniques. It is also multi-disciplinary, drawing on the literature and methods from the fields of labour economics and comparative social policy. Results from the study suggest that the existing work-family reconciliation policies in the EU have not caught up sufficiently with the dramatic advances in women's labour market position. To various extents, they retain elements of the traditional male breadwinner model. Even in the Nordic countries, which rank highest on most measures of gender equity in work/family reconciliation policies, women tend to earn less than men, on average, and to work in a narrower range of occupations than their male counterparts. At the other extreme, Eastern-European and Mediterranean countries tend to have more traditional gender-role attitudes and a policy environment less compatible with the dual-earner/dual-carer model of the family. However, women who work, particularly those who work full-time, typically enjoy more equality with men in terms of their wages and occupational attainment.
  Funding Agency

  University of York
  Date From

  2007
  Date To

  2010
• Title

  Inequality in child child well-being in rich countries
  Summary

  This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' - the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle - and addresses the question 'how far behind are children being allowed to fall?' in income, education, health and life satisfaction. Main findings published in Innocenti Report Card 13 (2016).
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2015
  Date To

  2016
• Title

  Electoral behaviour in the United Kingdom
  Summary

  The project examines the importance of partisan preferences, government competency evaluations and economic perceptions in electoral behaviour in the United Kingdom during the period 1997-2010. Contrasting different theoretical models of vote choice, the study investigates the significance of leadership, economic problems and immigration for vote switching as well as the importance of objective economic conditions in partisan preferences and assessments of the economy. It uses longitudinal data from British election panel studies.
  Funding Agency

  University of Oxford
  Date From

  2011
  Date To

  2013
• Title

  Family-friendly policies in rich countries
  Summary

  Family-friendly policies matter because they help children to get a better start in life and help parents to find the right balance between their commitments at work and at home. Yet even some of the world's richest countries fail to offer comprehensive solutions to all families. The study focuses on two key policies: childcare leave for parents and early childhood education and care for preschool children. It reviews these policies in the 41 high- and middle-income countries that are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) or the European Union (EU), using the most recent comparable data on hand. The analysis includes national breastfeeding rates and policies as well as the quality of preschool education, where comparable indicators are available. The report "Are the world's richest countries family friendly?" was published on June 13, 2019
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2019
  Date To

  2019
• Title

  GenerationZ - current perspectives on adolescent mental health
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund 2023-25
  Date From

  2023
• Title

  Social inequalities, parental involvement and schools: Evidence from PISA 2018
  Summary

  This project investigates the roles of the home learning environment, children's and parents' behaviours and school characteristics in explaining the socio-economic status (SES) differences in educational performance of 15-year-old children in reading, mathematics and science across the OECD. The study analyses data from the 2018 round of the Progress in International Student Assessment (PISA).
  Funding Agency

  Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund
  Date From

  2020
  Date To

  2022
• Title
  Summary
• Title

  An Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (ICWBN) to study the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on children in Ireland and the United Kingdom
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
  Date From

  2021
  Date To

  2022
• Title

  Child well-being in rich countries
  Summary

  Comparative study of child well-being (education, health and life satisfaction) in 41 countries of the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. Key findings to be published in the forthcoming Innocenti Report Card 16 (2020)
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2018
  Date To

  2019
• Title

  Child well-being in rich countries: role of parenting, poverty and policy
  Summary

  This project will examine the links between exposure to poverty and children's education, health and life satisfaction in Ireland, Scotland and Australia during the period before, during and after the recent global economic crisis. Drawing on the two main theoretical approaches to explaining the impact of poverty on children, the study will draw on nationally representative longitudinal data from child cohort studies to address three overarching research questions. First, the study will examine to what extent the timing, duration and type of poverty throughout childhood explain variations in children's well-being. Second, it will clarify the key mechanisms through which household resources affect child outcomes, including parental behaviours, relationships and well-being as well as children's own actions. Third, it will account for the role of national economic conditions. The project will offer insights into what, how and when policies and interventions can be most effective in reducing poverty and mitigating its impacts.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity College Dublin
  Date From

  2020
  Date To

  2024
• Title

  Economic crisis and child poverty in rich countries
  Summary

  The 2008 financial crisis triggered the first contraction of the world economy in the post-war era. Global output shrank between 2008 and 2009 in what became known as the Great Recession. The nature, duration and severity of the economic downturn varied across countries and regions. Emerging evidence indicates that children are likely to have suffered disproportionately because of falling household incomes (e.g. due to job losses; benefit cuts) and reduced access to quality services. Although the long-term impact of the economic crisis on children's life chances cannot yet be assessed, the study explores the various ways in which children have been affected by the economic crisis and government responses to it in the OECD and European Union countries. Output: Innocenti Report Card 12, Unicef flagship report, published in 2014.
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2013
  Date To

  2014
• Title

  Scoping Review to inform the development of a potential new birth cohort for Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  DCEDIY/UCD
  Date From

  July 2021
  Date To

  March 2022
• Title

  Study on housing exclusion: welfare policies, housing provision and labour markets
  Summary

  The study aims to analyse the interactions between welfare regimes and housing systems. The first aim of the project is to establish the link between income poverty and housing outcomes, and the role that housing policy interventions play. The second aim of the project is to establish the link between employment status and housing outcomes, including whether the duration of unemployment or other forms of inactivity leads to worsening housing outcomes and whether the in-work poor experience different housing outcomes from the working poor. The third aim of the project is to establish whether housing systems assist or hinder employment, particularly for individuals seeking to enter the labour market. The fourth aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between welfare regimes and the scale and nature of homelessness, which is interpreted as being an extreme 'housing outcome'.
  Funding Agency

  European Commission
  Date From

  2009
  Date To

  2010
• Title

  Impact of the economic crisis and austerity on child poverty in rich countries
  Summary

  The 2008 financial crisis triggered the worst global recession since the Great Depression. Many OECD countries responded to the crisis by reducing social spending. Through 11 diverse country case studies (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States), this edited volume describes the evolution of child poverty and material well-being during the crisis, and links these outcomes with the responses by governments. The analysis underlines that countries with fragmented social protection systems were less able to protect the incomes of households with children at the time when unemployment soared. In contrast, countries with more comprehensive social protection cushioned the impact of the crisis on households with children, especially if they had implemented fiscal stimulus packages at the onset of the crisis. Although the macroeconomic 'shock' itself and the starting positions differed greatly across countries, while the responses by governments covered a very wide range of policy levers and varied with their circumstances, cuts in social spending and tax increases often played a major role in the impact that the crisis had on the living standards of families and children. Published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
  Funding Agency

  UNICEF
  Date From

  2015
  Date To

  2017

Other social sciences, Education, Sociology and related studies,

• International Master in Social Policy Analysis Full Scholarship (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 2004
• Visiting Scholar (Columbia University) 2004
• Open Society Foundations graduate full scholarship (Central European University) 2003
• University of York Teaching Studentship and Overseas Research Students Award 2007
• Open Society Foundations undergraduate full scholarship (American University in Bulgaria) 1999

• Nuffield College Associate Membership 2015
• European Association for Population Studies
• Children's Research Network 2021
• Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network
• International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility
• Nuffield College Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowship 2013

• Management board member, Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC) 2023-2024
• Co-chair and founding member of the Interdisciplinary Child Wellbeing Network (ICWBN) 2021-2024
• Member of International Advisory Board for the COORDINATE (COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe) H2020 project. 2021-2025
• Member of the Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) Research Advisory Committee, SVP Ireland 2022-2024
• Co-chair of the organising committee for the 2022 European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference. 2020-2022
• Member of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) Child and Adolescent Development Working Group 2023-2024
• Member of the Scientific and Impact Advisory Board of "Children First: Nordic policies and children's well-being" (University of Turku project, funded by NordForsk) 2023-2027
• Member of an Expert Working Group of the national Creating Our Future campaign 2021-2022