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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. The authors reply

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

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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

    Sait Bayrakdar, Rory Coulter, Philipp Lersch, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Households
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Housing Market

  24. The Big Five personality traits and partisanship in England

    Toke Aidt and Christopher Rauh

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Psychology
    4. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    5. Life Course Analysis

  25. Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

    Alina Pelikh and Hill Kulu

    1. Geography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Life Course Analysis

  26. 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

  27. Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales

    Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu

    1. Households
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Housing Market

  28. Social patterning in grip strength and in its association with age; a cross sectional analysis using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)

    Caroline Carney and Michaela Benzeval

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

  29. 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

  30. Occupational and educational inequalities in exit from employment at older ages: evidence from seven prospective cohorts

    Ewan Carr, Maria Fleischmann, Marcel Goldberg, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification

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