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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Do ‘his’ education and class matter? The changing effect of the husband on women's labour‐market transitions in Italy and Britain

    Cristina Solera

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Sociology
    4. Social Stratification

  6. Why does women’s education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Diederik Boertien and Juho Harkonen

    1. Education
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution

  7. Dynastic inequality compared: multigenerational mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

    Guido Neidhöfer and Maximilian Stockhausen

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Can personality explain the educational gradient in divorce? Evidence from a nationally representative panel survey

    Diederik Boertien, Christian von Scheve, and Mona Park

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  12. Do grandparents matter? Three-generational social mobility in Britain

    Min Zhang

    1. Education
    2. Social Stratification
    3. Social Mobility

  13. Household labour supply and the marriage market in the UK, 1991-2008

    Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet, and Jean-Marc Robin

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Wages And Earnings

  14. Education and civic engagement: a comparative study of the benefits of post-compulsory education in England and Germany

    Emma Salter, Angelika Kuemmerling, Rod Bond, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Social Capital
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  15. Does compulsory education really increase life satisfaction?

    Andrew E. Clark and SeEun Jung

    1. Education
    2. Well Being

  16. Young people's development and the Great Recession: uncertain transitions and precarious futures

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being
    7. Life Course Analysis

  17. Employment and family transitions: trends before and after the Great Recession

    Mark Lyons-Amos and Ingrid Schoon

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis

  18. The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

    Eleni Karagiannaki

    1. Education
    2. Households
    3. Savings And Assets

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: the role of structure, agency and context

    Ingrid Schoon and Mark Lyons-Amos

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Higher Education

  22. Education: commentary

    David Laws

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Unemployment
    7. Public Policy
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Ethnic Groups

  23. School-to-work transitions: recognising diversity and inequality

    Ingrid Schoon and Mark Lyons-Amos

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

  24. Faster home broadband but how does it affect education attainment?

    Benjamin Faber, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner, and Felix Weinhardt

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Geography
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Public Policy

  25. Who delays childbearing? The associations between time to first birth, personality traits and education

    Lara Patrício Tavares

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  26. Dynastic inequality compared: multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany

    Guido Neidhöfer and Maximilian Stockhausen

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility

  27. Finding your routes: non-graduate pathways in the UK's labour market

    Conor D'Arcy and David Finch

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Public Policy
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Social Mobility

  28. Examining sibling configuration effects on young people's educational aspiration and attainment

    Feifei Bu

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  29. CSI 15: the uneven distribution and decline of social capital in Britain

    Lindsay Richards and Anthony Heath

    1. Social Networks
    2. Education
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Societies
    5. Social Capital

  30. Examining youth educational and occupational aspirations: sibling configuration and family background -PhD thesis-

    Feifei Bu

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Higher Education
    5. Social Psychology

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