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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 43 in total

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Does repeated measurement improve income data quality?

    Paul Fisher

    1. Economics
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Income Dynamics

  5. Separation, divorce, and housing tenure: a cross-country comparison

    Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Sergi Vidal, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Housing Market

  6. The economic benefits of volunteering and social class

    John Wilson, Noemi Mantovan, and Robert Sauer

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Stratification

  7. Family, place and the intergenerational transmission of union membership

    Alex Bryson and Rhys Davies

    1. Area Effects
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Sociology Of Households

  8. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

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

  9. Is there a fatherhood wage premium? A reassessment in societies with strong male-breadwinner legacies

    Gabriele Mari

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Sociology Of Households

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Post-conflict area-based regeneration policy in deprived urban neighbourhoods

    Gretta Mohan, Alberto Longo, and Frank Kee

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Urban Economy
    5. Religion
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Welfare Benefits
    9. Government

  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. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  15. Assessing the relationships between young adults’ travel and use of the internet over time

    Guoqiang Wu, Jinhyun Hong, and Piyushimita Thakuriah

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Psychology
    4. Young People
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Travel
    7. Social Behaviour

  16. Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain

    Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu

    1. Households
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Housing Market

  17. 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

  18. Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes

    Tak Wing Chan

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

  19. A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991–2017

    Muzhi Zhou and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Labour Market
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Sociology Of Households

  20. Modeling within-household associations in household panel studies

    Fiona Steele, Paul Clarke, and Jouni Kuha

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Households
    3. Surveys

  21. The British low-wage sector and the employment prospects of the unemployed

    Alexander Plum

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Unemployment
    4. Wages And Earnings

  22. Monetary policy and the gender pay gap: evidence from UK households

    Nicholas Apergis, Tasawar Hayat, and Nasser A. Kadasah

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Finance
    6. Economic Policy

  23. 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

  24. Stepping-stone or dead end: to what extent does part-time employment enable progression out of low pay for male and female employees in the UK?

    Madeline Nightingale

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Social Policy

  25. 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

  26. Domestic divisions of work and couple dissolution in the UK

    Iñigo Fernández Iturrate and Marta Domínguez-Folgueras

    1. Time Use
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Social Behaviour
    5. Sociology Of Households

  27. Assessing the robustness of sisVIVE in a Mendelian randomization study to estimate the causal effect of body mass index on income using multiple SNPs from Understanding Society

    Yanchun Bao, Paul Clarke, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Income Dynamics
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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