LifeSim Adulthood
A microsimulation model that can extrapolate long-term economic, social and health outcomes from young adulthood through to death and can be linked to LifeSim Childhood.
The combined LifeSim platform can be used to estimate the life-course impacts of tackling different childhood disadvantages at different ages and to extrapolate the life-course fiscal cost savings, benefits and inequality impacts of specific policy effects during childhood.
Outputs
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Skarda, Asaria, and Cookson (2021), International Journal of Microsimulation. LifeSim: A Lifecourse Dynamic Microsimulation Model of the Millennium Birth Cohort in England.
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Skarda, Asaria and Cookson (2022). Social Science and Medicine. Evaluating childhood policy impacts on lifetime health, wellbeing and inequality: Lifecourse distributional economic evaluation. Supplementary Material.
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Skarda et al. (2020). Health Economics. Quality Adjusted Life Years Based on Health and Consumption: A Summary Wellbeing Measure for Cross-Sectoral Economic Evaluation.
- Frijters, P., Bellet, C. and Krekel, C. (2017) Micro-macro simulations for wellbeing (PDF
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Funding: The basic development work was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (SRF-2013-06-015) from 2017 to 2018, the Wellcome Trust (Grant No. 205427/Z/16/Z) from 2017 to 2021, the Prevention Research Programme from 2019 to 2021 (ActEarly Programme, MR/S037527/1). Updates were funded via the UKRI "Long-Term Modelling Tools for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research" (Grant No. MMR/X002837/1, 2023 to 2026).