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Overview

Mike Brewer is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields including general health professions, economics and econometrics, accounting, gender studies, and political science and international relations.

Their recent papers cover topics related to social policy, welfare, and economic impacts of public health crises. Notable publications include:

  • The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes (2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy)
  • Does more free childcare help parents work more? (2021, Labour Economics)
  • Did the UK Policy Response to COVID-19 Protect Household Incomes? (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009-2017 (2021, The Journal of Economic Inequality)
  • Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The main topics covered in their work involve employment and welfare studies, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, gender, labor, and family dynamics, social policy and reform studies, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, and work-family balance challenges.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mike Brewer include:

  • Thang Dang
  • Emma Tominey
  • Nye Cominetti
  • Stephen P. Jenkins
  • Laura Gardiner

Their research is often published in several key venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Cell and Gene Therapy Insights, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Labour Economics, and The Journal of Economic Inequality.

Best Publications

  • An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: report of the National Equality Panel

    John Hills;Mike Brewer;Stephen Jenkins;Ruth Lister

  • An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: report of the National Equality Panel

    John Hills;Mike Brewer;Stephen P Jenkins;Ruth Lister

  • Did working families' tax credit work? The impact of in-work support on labour supply in Great Britain

    Mike Brewer;Alan Duncan;Andrew Shephard;María José Suárez

  • Means testing and tax rates on earnings

    Mike Brewer;Emmanuel Saez;Andrew Shephard

  • Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2008

    Mike Brewer;Alastair Muriel;David Phillips;Luke Sibieta

  • Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK

    Mike Brewer;Anita Ratcliffe;Sarah Smith

  • Poverty and inequality in Britain: 2006

    Mike Brewer;Alissa Goodman;Jonathan Shaw;Luke Sibieta

  • Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK

    Mike Brewer;Cormac O'Dea

  • Poverty and inequality in Britain: 2005

    Mike Brewer;Alissa Goodman;Jonathan Shaw;Andrew Shephard

  • The new tax credits

    Mike Brewer

  • Inference with difference-in-differences revisited

    Mike Brewer;Thomas F. Crossley;Robert Joyce

  • Evaluating the labour market impact of Working Families' Tax Credit using difference-in-differences

    Richard Blundell;Mike Brewer;Andrew Shephard

  • The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer;Laura Gardiner

  • Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off

    Mike Brewer;Ben Etheridge;Cormac O'Dea

  • Optimal income taxation of lone mothers: an empirical comparison of the UK and Germany

    Richard Blundell;Mike Brewer;Peter Haan;Andrew Shephard

  • Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labor Supply Adjustment

    Richard W. Blundell;Mike Brewer;Marco Francesconi

  • An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK

    John Hills;Mike Brewer;Stephen Jenkins;Ruth Lister

  • Eradicating Child Poverty in Britain: Welfare Reform and Children Since 1997

    Mike Brewer;Paul Gregg

  • Household spending in Britain: What can it teach us about poverty?

    Mike Brewer;Alissa Goodman;Andrew Leicester

  • Eradicating child poverty in Britain: welfare reform and children since 1997

    Mike Brewer;Paul Gregg

  • The Poverty Trade-off: Work incentives and income redistribution in Britain

    Stuart Adam;Mike Brewer;Andrew Shephard

  • Child and working-age poverty from 2010 to 2020

    Mike Brewer;James Browne;Robert Joyce

  • Child poverty in the UK since 1998-99: lessons from the past decade

    Mike Brewer;James Browne;Robert Joyce;Luke Sibieta

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Crossley
Thomas F. Crossley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Marco Francesconi
Marco Francesconi University of Essex
Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gregg
Paul Gregg University of Bath
Stephen Machin
Stephen Machin London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science
Holly Sutherland
Holly Sutherland University of Essex
Joachim Winter
Joachim Winter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michaela Benzeval
Michaela Benzeval University of Essex

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