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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 286 in total

  1. 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

  2. People do not adapt. New analyses of the dynamic effects of own and reference income on life satisfaction

    Caspar Kaiser

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Well Being

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Do unions cause job dissatisfaction? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the United Kingdom

    Ioulia Bessa, Andy Charlwood, and Danat Valizade

    1. Pensions
    2. Psychology
    3. Sociology Of Labour
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being

  8. 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

  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. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. ‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes: subjective versus revealed preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  14. Happiness and voting: evidence from four decades of elections in Europe

    George Ward

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Public Policy
    5. Government
    6. Well Being
    7. Finance

  15. Older people and Social Quality – what difference does income make?

    Liam Foster, Mark Tomlinson, and Alan Walker

    1. Older People
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Poverty
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Well Being

  16. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  17. Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis

    Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Social Psychology

  18. Gender-specific effects of commuting and relocation on a couple's social life

    Natascha Nisic and Stefanie Kley

    1. Social Networks
    2. Demography
    3. Migration
    4. Well Being
    5. Commuting

  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. 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

  21. 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

  22. Distributional consequences of technological change: worker-level evidence

    Thomas Kurer and Aina Gallego

    1. Politics
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being

  23. Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data

    Amy Clair and Amanda Hughes

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

  24. 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

  25. Will a shrink make you richer? Gender differences in the effects of psychotherapy on labour efficiency

    Guido Cozzi, Silvia Galli, and Noemi Mantovan

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being

  26. 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

  27. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

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

  28. 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

  29. Paradox lost: the disappearing female job satisfaction premium

    Colin P. Green, John S. Heywood, Parvinder Kler, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  30. 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

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