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Stephen McKay
Researcher at University of Lincoln
Publications - 101
Citations - 2330
Stephen McKay is an academic researcher from University of Lincoln. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social security & Child support. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 95 publications receiving 2107 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen McKay include University of Bristol & University of Birmingham.
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Levels of Financial Capability in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new way of looking at and measuring financial literacy, and found that at least half of the UK population needs reminding that it is dangerous to live for the day and make no provision for changes in circumstance, unexpected expenditure, or retirement.
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Valuing the social? The nature and controversies of measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the nature and role of social return on investment (SROI) as used in the United Kingdom for impact assessment of such organisations, including the quantification of benefits, the valuing of volunteering and the ways in which judgement and discretion are exercised.
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Poverty or preference: what do ‘consensual deprivation indicators’ really mean?
TL;DR: This paper used data from two British surveys in 1999 and found that families who cannot afford two or more "necessities" invariably have a number of "non-necessities", often many, and different social groups are more likely to say the absence of a "necessity" is due to choice.
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.
Matthew J. Salganik,Ian Lundberg,Alexander T. Kindel,Caitlin Ahearn,Khaled AlGhoneim,Abdullah Almaatouq,Drew Altschul,Jennie E. Brand,Nicole Bohme Carnegie,Ryan James Compton,Debanjan Datta,Thomas Davidson,Anna Filippova,Connor Gilroy,Brian J. Goode,Eaman Jahani,Ridhi Kashyap,Antje Kirchner,Stephen McKay,Allison C. Morgan,Alex Pentland,Kivan Polimis,Louis Raes,Daniel E Rigobon,Claudia V. Roberts,Diana Stanescu,Yoshihiko Suhara,Adaner Usmani,Erik H. Wang,Muna Adem,Abdulla Alhajri,Bedoor K. AlShebli,Redwane Amin,Ryan Amos,Lisa P. Argyle,Livia Baer-Bositis,Moritz Büchi,Bo-Ryehn Chung,William Eggert,Gregory Faletto,Zhilin Fan,Jeremy Freese,Tejomay Gadgil,Josh Gagné,Yue Gao,Andrew Halpern-Manners,Sonia P Hashim,Sonia Hausen,Guanhua He,Kimberly Higuera,Bernie Hogan,Ilana M. Horwitz,Lisa M Hummel,Naman Jain,Kun Jin,David Jurgens,Patrick Kaminski,Areg Karapetyan,Areg Karapetyan,E H Kim,Ben Leizman,Naijia Liu,Malte Möser,Andrew E Mack,Mayank Mahajan,Noah Mandell,Helge Marahrens,Diana Mercado-Garcia,Viola Mocz,Katariina Mueller-Gastell,Ahmed Musse,Qiankun Niu,William Nowak,Hamidreza Omidvar,Andrew Or,Karen Ouyang,Katy M. Pinto,Ethan Porter,Kristin E. Porter,Crystal Qian,Tamkinat Rauf,Anahit Sargsyan,Thomas Schaffner,Landon Schnabel,Bryan Schonfeld,Ben Sender,Jonathan D Tang,Emma Tsurkov,Austin van Loon,Onur Varol,Onur Varol,Xiafei Wang,Zhi Wang,Julia Wang,Flora Wang,Samantha Weissman,Kirstie Whitaker,Kirstie Whitaker,Maria Wolters,Wei Lee Woon,James M. Wu,Catherine Wu,Kengran Yang,Jingwen Yin,Bingyu Zhao,Chenyun Zhu,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Barbara E. Engelhardt,Moritz Hardt,Dean Knox,Karen Levy,Arvind Narayanan,Brandon M. Stewart,Duncan J. Watts,Sara McLanahan +114 more
TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.