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New study finds link between poor housing and ill health through analysis of blood samples
New research led Dr Amy Clair, of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, found high levels of stress and inflammatory marker (CRP) linked to housing type and tenure
Depression links with social media twice as high among girls
Dr Cara Booker co-authors new study finding 40% of girls and 25% of boys had experience of online harassment or cyberbullying and 40% of girls compared to 28% of boys said their sleep was often disrupted
Updated release of our tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD
New release includes tax-benefit policies up to 2018 for all 28 EU countries
Opening the black box: towards a transparent and widely-used tax-benefit model for the UK
New project funded by the Nuffield Foundation and led by Professor Mike Brewer will facilitate the analysis of policy options in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland & England separately as well as the UK as a whole
New data released from Understanding Society
Our latest data release features eight waves of Understanding Society data, plus 18 waves of harmonised British Household Panel Survey data, following the lives of the inhabitants of thousands of UK households in our huge panel study
Maintaining links with your cultural heritage is good for your health
New study by Professor Michaela Benzeval, Dr Alita Nandi and Dr Renee Luthra unpicks the paradox of why immigrants’ life expectancy decreases as they become more immersed in their new country
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
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Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers
Kompal Sinha, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, et al.
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Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers
Understanding Society
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IntCount: a Stata command for estimating count data models from interval data
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Understanding data linkage consent in longitudinal surveys
Annette Jäckle, Kelsey Beninger, Jonathan Burton, et al.
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 10: results from methodological experiments
Tarek Al Baghal, Caroline Bryson, Hayley Fisher, et al.
