🚨 Our research on the income penalty of informal care was cited in Parliamentary debate by MP @wendychambld.bsky.social (thank you 🙏)
Work by our own @dvaldenegro.bsky.social & @crahal.com with @mariapetrillo.bsky.social & co-authors from @centreforcare.bsky.social — here’s what we found 🧵1/6
30.05.2025 14:18 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Yesterday at the Parliamentary debate on Carer’s Leave MP @wendychambld.bsky.social mentioned our work on the income loss caregivers face as a results of providing unpaid care
@dvaldenegro.bsky.social @crahal.com
Working paper available here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10314
15.05.2025 16:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Centre for Care team and invited guests at UK Parliament
We're hosting a Policy Breakfast today with @wendychambld.bsky.social, we will discuss support for working carers to balance caring responsibilities with paid employment, including the evidence in support of paid carer’s leave. #unpaidcarers @sheffielduni.bsky.social
19.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Here's @mariapetrillo.bsky.social presenting her research looking at the financial penalty that Carers face, and why supporting #unpaidcarers is so important.
@wendychambld.bsky.social
19.03.2025 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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28.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now on arXiv! We design a new two-stage Individual Synthetic Control algorithm to cleanly identify causal estimates of the “caring penalty.” High-intensity unpaid carers face ~45% personal losses; households lose ~12%. 🏠📉
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10314
Blog: shorturl.at/IVQ6M
10.12.2024 18:03 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Text: Centre for Care
New report:
Kinship carers struggling to cope despite £4.3 billion value they add to society.
Our new report published today in collaboration with
Kinship estimates the economic contribution made by #kinshipcarers at £4.3 billion per year.
Unlike foster carers, most kinship carers do not receive financial support from the government.
read the report here: t.co/96BLu9Enck
12.02.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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