Research
SimPaths underpins a growing body of methodological and applied work across life course analysis, income support, care, and health inequalities.
This page highlights the core reference paper first, then points to a short selection of related outputs built with or around the model.
Reference paper
SimPaths: an open-source microsimulation model for life course analysis
Use this as the primary citation for the model and as the best high-level introduction to the SimPaths framework, scope, and design choices.
Further references
Welfare effects of social care policies
→A recent working paper using the model to examine social care policy effects through a life course lens.
The life course effects of care
→Explores how caring responsibilities shape outcomes over time and illustrates the kind of policy questions SimPaths can support.
Attenuation and reinforcement mechanisms over the life course
→An example of SimPaths informing broader theoretical questions about cumulative dynamics across the life course.
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: a microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis
→A policy-focused application linking tax-benefit reform scenarios to mental health outcomes during a period of acute economic disruption.
Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study
→Shows how the model can be used to examine distributional health effects of ambitious income-support policies.