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BHPS publications

We maintain a database of publications which use BHPS data (journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers/proceedings, official publications, working papers, dissertations) and it is important that we keep it up to date.

If you have any recent publications which use the BHPS, and which are not already included in the database, please contact the publications@understandingsociety.ac.uk.

Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 273 in total

  1. Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom

    Senhu Wang, Adam Coutts, Brendan Burchell, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Training: Labour Market
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  2. No gain in pain: psychological well-being, participation, and wages in the BHPS

    Elena Lagomarsino and Alessandro Spiganti

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  3. Understanding Society at 10 years

    Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Research
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Surveys
    10. Sociology
    11. Biology
    12. Genetics
    13. Covid 19

  4. Ageing and cohort trajectories in mental ill-health: an exploration using multilevel models

    Lucy Prior, Kelvyn Jones, and David Manley

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  5. Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: evidence from the UK from 1991-2017

    Heather Brown

    1. Politics
    2. Lone Parents
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Public Policy
    7. Government
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Well Being
    10. Health
    11. Life Course Analysis
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Social Mobility

  6. Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study

    Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Nunzia Nappo

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health

  7. Longitudinal evidence for reciprocal effects between life satisfaction and job satisfaction

    Piotr Białowolski and Dorota Weziak-Białowolska

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  8. Later retirement, job strain, and health: evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

    Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser, and Mauricio Avendano

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Life Course Analysis

  9. The effect of health on social capital; a longitudinal observation study of the UK

    Paul Downward, Simona Rasciute, and Harish Kumar

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Networks
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  10. Does volunteering make us happier, or are happier people more likely to volunteer? Addressing the problem of reverse causality when estimating the wellbeing impacts of volunteering

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, Will Watt, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Behaviour

  11. Nurse effects on measurement error in household biosocial surveys

    Alexandru Cernat and Joseph W. Sakshaug

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  12. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Biology

  13. Underemployment and psychological distress: propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

    Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly, and Liam Delaney

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  14. Investigating the relationship between formal and informal care: an application using panel data for people living together

    Sean Urwin, Yiu-Shing Lau, and Thomas Mason

    1. Time Use
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving

  15. Does participation in voluntary organizations protect against risky alcohol and tobacco use? Findings from the UK panel data

    Maria K. Pavlova, Matthias Lühr, and Maike Luhmann

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Networks
    3. Social Capital
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Behaviour

  16. Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in Great Britain

    Patrick Präg and Lindsay Richards

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility
    5. Biology

  17. Are doctors getting the balance right? Treatment for depression in England, 1983 to 2017

    John Simister

    1. Medicine
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Surveys

  18. The authors reply

    Amanda Hughes, Yanchun Bao, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  19. Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data

    Amy Clair and Amanda Hughes

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Housing Market
    4. Biology

  20. Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health

    Daniel Kopasker, Catia Montagna, and Keith A. Bender

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  21. Socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration across the lifecourse

    Amanda Hughes, Melissa Smart, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  22. Leveraging DNA-methylation quantitative-trait loci to characterize the relationship between methylomic variation, gene expression, and complex traits

    Eilis Hannon, Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Research
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  23. Parametric models for biomarkers based on flexible size distributions

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Biology

  24. Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in Great Britain

    Patrick Präg and Lindsay Richards

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility
    5. Biology

  25. Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders

    Mari E. K. Niemi, Hilary C. Martin, Daniel L. Rice, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Child Development
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  26. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  27. Smile or die: can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

    Martin Binder and Guido Buenstorf

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  28. The impact of long-term care on primary care doctor consultations for people over 75 years

    Julien Forder, Katerina Gousia, and Eirini-Christina Saloniki

    1. Older People
    2. Medicine
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Health

  29. The impact of public smoking bans on well-being externalities: evidence from a policy experiment

    Miaoqing Yang and Eugenio Zucchelli

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Law And Legislation
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  30. Place and preference effects on the association between mental health and internal migration within Great Britain

    Sam Wilding, David Martin, and Graham Moon

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Migration
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

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