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TARKI’s featured research project, titled Children in school: Well-being and beyond has reached an important milestone. The research aims to investigate children’s subjective well-being in their home-, school- and locality environment; it targets pupils in public schools aged 8, 10 and 12. The research is part of the project International Survey of Children’s Wellbeing (ISCWeB), connected to its 3rd wave. Fieldwork has been carried out in the spring of 2019; in 75 schools 1032 / 1043 / 1001 pupils aged 8 / 10 / 12, respectively participated in the survey based on the international questionnaire. The analysis started after the dataset has been finalized and controlled in the fall of 2019.

In its present status, IPOLIS, the Integrated Poverty and Living Conditions Indicator System, contains data on children, young people and older people. As an undergoing work, it is now being extended to include disabled persons and migrants (including people with migration background, too). A short note written by András Gábos on the related work to upgrade the visualization tool and the web interface has been published recently. 

The main objective of the report is to descriptively analyse child poverty and the relationship between parental background and material living conditions among children in the EU, while also capturing trajectories in the period of and following the Great Recession. The findings show that there is a considerable difference in the evolution of poverty and material living conditions of children within EU member states depending on what poverty concept and what measure is applied to monitor these trends. The paper was edited by our colleague,  András Gábos. He also contributed to the paper among others. 
 

The aim of this report is to map the gaps in data sets and research infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe and to analyse the main obstacles and challenges that underpin these gaps. Also, two case studies with a focus on gaps in data on vulnerable groups in Hungary and working conditions in Poland are presented in the paper. Our colleague, András Gábos is a co-author of the report. 
 

The EUROSHIP project has successfully launched at the end of February 2020 in a kick-off meeting. During the meeting, the participants had the opportunity to get to know each other and discuss the work to be carried out in the EUROSHIP project and to agree on the next steps in the implementation of the project. During the two days, European labour and civil society organisations and researchers engaged in lively discussions about the challenges ahead of the EU and the Member States in closing gaps in European social citizenship.  

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2020 
Information on applications: 30 June 2020

When: 10-11 September 2020 
Where: Stockholm, Sweden 

Experimental and quasi-experimental research designs have become more popular in social policy research, following the general trend in microeconomics and sociology of advocating social experiments as the main tool for studying causal effects. The strengths of a well-defined experiment are undeniable. Nonetheless, limitations also exist in terms of scalability, generalisability, inherent heterogeneity, the complexity of social policy programs, and the political and ethical reality. 

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020
Information on approval applications: 25 April 2020

Call for applicants is open
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2020
Information on applications: 3 April 2020

When: 06-08 May 2020
Where: Antwerp, Belgium

Tárki appears on seven lists of the annual report published by the University of Pennsylvania. In almost every category Tárki appears was ranked higher than last year.

Tárki is the only Hungarian organization on the following lists:

The paper analyses the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty in Hungary. The authors find that the increase in child poverty in the first phase of the crisis (2007–10) was driven by labour market trends, while the (weakened, but still functioning) automatic stabilizers reduced the magnitude of these effects. By contrast, in the second phase (2010–13), labour market processes started to improve, though the shift towards a regressive social policy regime contributed to increased poverty rates via the reduced poverty reduction impacts of cash benefits.