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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 838 in total

  1. The sad truth about happiness scales: empirical results

    Timothy N. Bond and Kevin Lang

    1. Research
    2. Well Being

  2. The mommy effect: do women anticipate the employment effects of motherhood

    Ilyana Kuziemko, Jessica Pan, Jenny Shen, et al.

    1. Human Capital
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Caregiving

  3. Tremors but no youthquake: measuring changes in the age and turnout gradients at the 2015 and 2017 British General Elections

    Christopher Prosser, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Demography
    4. Young People

  4. The ‘mighty girl’ effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender roles?

    Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font, and Julia Philipp

    1. Life Course Analysis
    2. Social Attitudes
    3. Sociology Of Households
    4. Social Psychology

  5. The long-run effects of wage replacement and job protection: evidence from two maternity leave reforms in Great Britain

    Jenna Stearns

  6. The gender pay gap in the UK: children and experience in work

    Monica Costa Dias, Robert Joyce, and Francesca Parodi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Life Course Analysis

  7. Wage progression and the gender wage gap: the causal impact of hours of work

    Monica Costa Dias, Robert Joyce, and Francesca Parodi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Life Course Analysis

  8. Why does unemployment lead to divorce? Male-breadwinner norms and divorce risk in 30 countries

    Pilar Goñalons-Pons and Markus Gangl

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Sociology
    5. Sociology Of Households

  9. Partnership history and completed family sizes in Great Britain: a preliminary, empirical, exploration of characteristics and associations

    John C. Haskey

    1. Demography
    2. Households
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis

  10. The long term evolution of inequality of opportunity

    Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, and Vito Peragine

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Structure
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  11. A tiger by the tail: estimating the UK mortgage market vulnerabilities from loan-level data

    Chiranjit Chakraborty, Mariana Gimpelewicz, and Arzu Uluc

    1. Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Finance
    5. Housing Market

  12. Trade, technology, and prosperity: an account of evidence from a labor-market perspective

    Marc-Andreas Muendler

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Research
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. International Economic Relations

  13. Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK

    Felix FitzRoy and Michael Nolan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  14. 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

  15. Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment: the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns

    Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  16. Early childhood health shocks and adult wellbeing: evidence from wartime Britain

    Jeffrey C. Schiman, Robert Kaestner, and Anthony T. LoSasso

    1. Child Development
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis

  17. Who moves up the social ladder in the UK?

    Glenna F. Nightingale, David McCollum, and Annemarie Ernsten

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility

  18. Financial hardship and saving behaviour: Bayesian analysis of British panel data

    Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, Bhuvanesh Pareek, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Household Economics
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Finance

  19. Transfer taxes and household mobility: distortion on the housing or labor market?

    Christian A.L. Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen

    1. Migration
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Taxation
    6. Housing Market

  20. The dynamics of party support for New Labour, 1991-2008

    Daniel Stegmueller, Anja Neundorf, and Thomas J. Scotto

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour

  21. Does compulsory education really increase life satisfaction?

    Andrew E. Clark and SeEun Jung

    1. Education
    2. Well Being

  22. Does education improve financial outcomes? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain

    Daniel Gray, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro

    1. Education
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Household Economics
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Finance

  23. Can clean air make you happy? Examining the effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on life satisfaction

    Sarah J. Knight and Peter Howley

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Science And Technology
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  24. Asymmetries in earnings, employment and wage risk in Great Britain

    Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Spyridon Lazarakis, and James Malley

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Higher Education

  25. The income-health gradient: evidence from self-reported health and biomarkers using longitudinal data on income

    Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Medicine
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  26. Youth social citizenship and class inequalities in transitions to adulthood in the UK

    Ann Berrington, Adriana Duta, and Paul Wakeling

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Higher Education

  27. Social mobility and the wellbeing of individuals

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Capital
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Social Mobility

  28. Diversity and neighbourhood satisfaction

    Monica Langella and Alan Manning

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Crime And Justice
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Well Being
    6. Societies
    7. Social Capital
    8. Social Behaviour
    9. Social Psychology

  29. The dynamic effects of retirement on well-being

    Dusanee Kesavayuth, Robert E. Rosenman, and Vasileios Zikos

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Labour Market
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  30. 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

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