Research in Public Policy issue 9

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At a time of rising unemployment, there are growing concerns about the long-term impact of being out of work on people's lives. Research by Lindsey Macmillan examines the possibility of an even great threat: that the children of today's jobless might be in more danger of being without work themselves.

Following the intergenerational theme, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan explore the relationships between family income and education for cohorts of children born between the late 1950s and the early 1990s and ask how strongly are children's educational outcomes influences by their parents' incomes.

This bulletin features the following articles:

• Public Service reform: CMPO's renewed research agenda - Simon Burgess -
• Fathers and sons: can worklessness be transmitted across generations? - Lindsey Macmillan
• Opportunity for all? Family income and education in the next generation - Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan
• Skills: another intergenerational story - Anna Vignoles
• Do teachers matter? - Simon Burgess
• Faith schools in England: the impact on standards and segregation - Rebecca Allen and Anna Vignoles
• Do targets produce better health care? - Carol Propper
• Does naming and shaming work? More evidence on performance management regimes and hospital waiting times - Gwyn Bevan
• Older and heavier: the role of socio-economic status in weight gain in adulthood - Charles Baum and Christopher Ruhm