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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 106 in total

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Giving behaviours and social cohesion: how people who 'give' make better communities

    Lorna Zischka

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  5. World happiness report 2019

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    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Government
    4. Well Being
    5. Societies
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health

  6. Broadband Internet and social capital

    Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Geography
    3. Social Change
    4. Social Capital
    5. Arts
    6. Social Behaviour

  7. Work and volunteering: longitudinal relationships between work‐related experiences and volunteering behaviour

    Daniela Lup and E. Booth Jonathan

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Social Capital

  8. Continuity and change in voluntary action: patterns, trends and understandings

    Rose Lindsey, John Mohan, Elizabeth Metcalfe, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Societies
    3. Social Capital
    4. Social Behaviour

  9. Social mobility and the well-being 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

  10. Enhancing democracy: can civic engagement foster political participation?

    Martin Binder

    1. Politics
    2. Social Capital
    3. Social Behaviour

  11. Social participation and self-rated psychological health: a longitudinal study on BHPS

    Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Nunzia Nappo

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Social Capital
    4. Health
    5. Social Behaviour

  12. 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

  13. Social capital in the UK: May 2017

    Katrina Morrison

    1. Social Networks
    2. Societies
    3. Social Capital
    4. Social Behaviour

  14. Social capital in the UK: May 2017

    Katrina Morrison

    1. Social Networks
    2. Societies
    3. Social Capital
    4. Social Behaviour

  15. 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

  16. The 2005 London terror attacks: an investigation of changes in psychological wellbeing and social capital pre- and post-attacks (2003-07) - a UK panel study

    Giuseppe N. Giordano and Martin Lindström

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Psychology

  17. 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

  18. Changes in social capital and cigarette smoking behaviour over time: a population-based panel study of temporal relationships

    Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Psychology

  19. Unemployment is bad for health: so what's the role for social policy?

    Daniel Sage

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health

  20. Household finances and social interaction: Bayesian analysis of household panel data

    Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, and Karl Taylor

    1. Social Networks
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour

  21. The company you keep: personality and friendship characteristics

    Michael Laakasuo, Anna Rotkirch, Venla Berg, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Capital
    3. Social Behaviour
    4. Social Psychology

  22. Association of volunteering with mental well-being: a lifecourse analysis of a national population-based longitudinal study in the UK

    Faiza Tabassum, John Mohan, and Peter Smith

    1. Well Being
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Behaviour

  23. The childhood origins of social mobility: socio-economic inequalities and changing opportunities

    L. Richards, E. Garratt, A.F. Heath, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Networks
    3. Young People
    4. Child Development
    5. Social Capital
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Mobility

  24. The link between ‘giving’ behaviours and a healthy social environment -PhD thesis-

    Lorna Zischka

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  25. The state of social capital in Britain: a policy briefing from Understanding Society

    Raj Patel

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Societies
    7. Social Capital
    8. Health
    9. Sport
    10. Arts
    11. Social Behaviour

  26. The education effect: higher educational qualifications are robustly associated with beneficial personal and socio-political outcomes

    Matthew J. Easterbrook, Toon Kuppens, and Antony S. R. Manstead

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Social Attitudes
    7. Higher Education

  27. Measuring National Well-being: life in the UK: 2016

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    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Government
    4. Well Being
    5. Societies
    6. Social Capital

  28. The 2008 financial crisis: changes in social capital and its association with psychological wellbeing in the United Kingdom – a panel study

    Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology

  29. Longer lives, stronger families? The changing nature of intergenerational support

    Nigel Keohane

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Social Change
    4. Social Capital
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Caregiving

  30. Does ethnic diversity have a negative effect on attitudes towards the community? A longitudinal analysis of the causal claims within the ethnic diversity and social cohesion debate

    James Laurence and Lee Bentley

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Societies
    5. Social Capital
    6. Social Attitudes
    7. Sociology
    8. Social Behaviour

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