We now have more details about our symposium at Transforming Care Conference this month in Helsinki! Follow this link and please share! centreforcare.ac.uk/updates/2025... @mariapetrillo.bsky.social @j-zhang.bsky.social

🚨 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

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

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

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

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

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