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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 116 in total

  1. Model-based clustering of time-dependent categorical sequences with application to the analysis of major life event patterns

    Yingying Zhang, Volodymyr Melnykov, and Xuwen Zhu

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Life Course Analysis

  2. The changing association between homeownership and the transition to parenthood

    Valentina Tocchioni, Ann Berrington, Daniele Vignoli, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Housing Market

  3. When is the grass greener on the other side? A longitudinal study of the joint effect of occupational mobility and personality on the honeymoon-hangover experience during job change

    Ying Zhou, Chia-Huei Wu, Min Zou, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Stratification

  4. Does divorce change your personality? Examining the effect of divorce occurrence on the Big Five personality traits using panel surveys from three countries

    Sascha Spikic, Dimitri Mortelmans, and Inge Pasteels

    1. Psychology
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Life Course Analysis

  5. Wages, experience, and training of women over the life cycle

    Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, David Goll, et al.

    1. Human Capital
    2. Training: Labour Market
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Childbearing: Fertility
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Taxation
    9. Life Course Analysis

  6. The Comparative Panel File (CPF): harmonized household panel surveys from seven countries

    Konrad Turek, Matthijs Kalmijn, and Thomas Leopold

    1. Computing
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Surveys

  7. Random effects dynamic panel models for unequally spaced multivariate categorical repeated measures: an application to child-parent exchanges of support

    Fiona Steele and Emily Grundy

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Social Networks
    3. Demography
    4. Households
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Surveys

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Neither an optimist nor a pessimist be: mistaken expectations lower well-being

    David de Meza and Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology

  12. Health, subjective financial situation and well-being: a longitudinal observational study

    Paul Downward, Simona Rasciute, and Harish Kumar

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

  13. 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

  14. The long-term costs of family trajectories: women’s later-life employment and earnings across Europe

    Joanne S. Muller, Nicole Hiekel, and Aart C. Liefbroer

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis

  15. Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015)

    Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Life Course Analysis

  16. 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

  17. Provider or father? British men’s work hours and work hour preferences after the birth of a child

    Stefanie Hoherz and Mark L. Bryan

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Life Course Analysis

  18. 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

  19. Big Data to support sustainable urban energy planning: the EvoEnergy project

    Moulay Larbi Chalal, Benachir Medjdoub, Nacer Bezai, et al.

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Statistical Analysis
    3. Geography
    4. Science And Technology
    5. Town Planning
    6. Demography
    7. Households
    8. Family Formation And Dissolution
    9. Life Course Analysis
    10. Surveys
    11. Social Stratification

  20. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

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

  21. Longitudinal surveys - unique opportunities and unique methodological challenges

    Peter Lynn, Mick Couper, and Nicole Watson

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Research
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Surveys

  22. Contributions of path-dependency and social capital drivers to housing tenure transitions in Britain

    Oluwadamilola Aguda

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Households
    4. Social Capital
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Housing Market
    7. Social Behaviour

  23. The change and stability of NEO scores over six-years: a British study and a short review

    Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Life Course Analysis

  24. 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

  25. Tracing the gender gap in political interest over the life span: a panel analysis

    Marta Fraile and Irene Sánchez-Vítores

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Social Behaviour

  26. Housework, gender role attitudes, and couples' fertility intentions: reconsidering men's roles in gender theories of family change

    Barbara S. Okun and Liat Raz-Yurovich

    1. Social Change
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology Of Households

  27. Returns to work after retirement: a prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom

    Loretta G. Platts, Laurie M. Corna, Diana Worts, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Life Course Analysis

  28. Moving on and moving out: the implications of socio-spatial mobility for union stability

    Marina Shapira, Vernon Gayle, and Elspeth Graham

    1. Geography
    2. Demography
    3. Migration
    4. Labour Market
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Sociology Of Households

  29. The restorative effect of work after unemployment: an intraindividual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment

    Ying Zhou, Min Zou, Stephen A. Woods, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis

  30. The authors reply

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

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

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