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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 60 in total

  1. Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys

    Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Sciences
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Research
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification

  2. Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK

    Felix R. FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  3. Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Arts
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Mobility

  4. Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

    Min Zhang and Yaojun Li

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Sociology Of Households

  5. Young people's labour market transitions: the role of early experiences

    Richard Dorsett and Paolo Lucchino

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Life Course Analysis

  6. Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012

    Nitzan Peri-Rotem and Jacqueline Scott

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Childbearing: Fertility

  7. Do private school girls marry rich?

    Francis Green, Golo Henseke, Samantha Parsons, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Education
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Social Mobility

  8. Do ‘his’ education and class matter? The changing effect of the husband on women's labour‐market transitions in Italy and Britain

    Cristina Solera

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Sociology
    4. Social Stratification

  9. Why does women’s education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Diederik Boertien and Juho Harkonen

    1. Education
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution

  10. Dynastic inequality compared: multigenerational mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

    Guido Neidhöfer and Maximilian Stockhausen

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility

  11. Can personality explain the educational gradient in divorce? Evidence from a nationally representative panel survey

    Diederik Boertien, Christian von Scheve, and Mona Park

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  12. Household labour supply and the marriage market in the UK, 1991-2008

    Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet, and Jean-Marc Robin

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Wages And Earnings

  13. Education and civic engagement: a comparative study of the benefits of post-compulsory education in England and Germany

    Emma Salter, Angelika Kuemmerling, Rod Bond, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Social Capital
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  14. The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

    Eleni Karagiannaki

    1. Education
    2. Households
    3. Savings And Assets

  15. Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: the role of structure, agency and context

    Ingrid Schoon and Mark Lyons-Amos

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Higher Education

  16. Who delays childbearing? The associations between time to first birth, personality traits and education

    Lara Patrício Tavares

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  17. Examining sibling configuration effects on young people's educational aspiration and attainment

    Feifei Bu

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  18. Educational aspirations and attitudes over the business cycle

    Mark P. Taylor and Tina Rampino

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Social Attitudes

  19. Sorting for schools: housing, education and inequality

    Jane Gingrich and Ben Ansell

    1. Education
    2. Social Stratification
    3. Housing Market

  20. Education, social attitudes and social participation among adults in Britain

    Lindsay Paterson

    1. Education
    2. Societies
    3. Social Capital
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Higher Education

  21. Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: does more schooling reduce earnings risk?

    Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem, and Joop Hartog

    1. Education
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings

  22. Discount rates and the education gradient in mammography in the UK

    Anikó Bíró

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Education
    4. Health

  23. The effect of parental employment on child schooling

    John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households

  24. Common genes or exogenous shock? Disentangling the causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's schooling efforts

    Signe Hald Andersen

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Unemployment

  25. Does the effect of job loss on psychological distress differ by educational level?

    Jornt J. Mandemakers and Christiaan W. S. Monden

    1. Education
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being

  26. The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour: evidence from a natural experiment in England

    Nils Braakmann

    1. Education
    2. Health

  27. Unemployment in early career in the UK: a trap or a stepping stone?

    Paul Schmelzer

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment

  28. The educational gradient of childbearing within cohabitation in Europe

    Brienna Perelli-Harris, Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Michaela Kreyenfeld, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Childbearing: Fertility

  29. Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

    Alison L. Booth and Hiau Joo Kee

    1. Education
    2. Childbearing: Fertility

  30. Changes in the returns to schooling 1991-2002: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

    Seamus McGuinness and Jessica Bennett

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market

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