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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 41 in total

  1. Does active commuting improve psychological wellbeing? Longitudinal evidence from eighteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey

    Adam Martin, Yevgeniy Goryakin, and Marc Suhrcke

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Commuting
    4. Travel

  2. What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

    1. Young People
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Psychology

  3. How's life at home? New evidence on marriage and the set point for happiness

    Shawn Grover and John F. Helliwell

    1. Family Formation And Dissolution
    2. Well Being
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Sociology

  4. The relationship between well-being and commuting re-visited: does the choice of methodology matter?

    Andy Dickerson, Arne Risa Hole, and Luke Munford

    1. Research
    2. Well Being
    3. Commuting

  5. Need to know. Transitions in and out of caring: the information challenge

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    1. Households
    2. Public Policy
    3. Well Being
    4. Caregiving

  6. Happiness: before and after the kids

    Mikko Myrskylä and Rachel Margolis

    1. Childbearing: Fertility
    2. Well Being
    3. Life Course Analysis

  7. Measuring National Well-being - exploring the well-being of children in the UK, 2014

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    1. Young People
    2. Government
    3. Well Being

  8. On the causal effect of religion on life satisfaction using a propensity score matching technique

    Roberto Zotti, Nino Speziale, and Cristian Barra

    1. Religion
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Behaviour

  9. Day-of-the-week effects in subjective well-being: does selectivity matter?

    Semih Tumen and Tugba Zeydanli

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being

  10. Measuring National Well-being - exploring the well-being of children in the UK, 2014

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    1. Young People
    2. Government
    3. Well Being

  11. Dual careers, time-use and satisfaction levels: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

    Daniel Wheatley and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Time Use
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  12. Partnership dissolution: how does it affect income, employment and well-being?

    Mike Brewer and Alita Nandi

    1. Living Standards
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Well Being

  13. Maternal working hours and the well-being of adolescent children

    Silvia Mendolia

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being

  14. Travel-to-work and subjective well-being: a study of UK dual career households

    Daniel Wheatley

    1. Time Use
    2. Well Being
    3. Commuting
    4. Travel

  15. The association between green space and mental health varies across the lifecourse. A longitudinal study

    Thomas Astell-Burt, Richard Mitchell, and Terry Hartig

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Area Effects
    3. Urban Sociology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  16. Fast-food consumption and body weight. Evidence from the UK

    L. Pieroni and L. Salmasi

    1. Living Standards
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  17. Adaptation to externally driven change: the impact of political change on job satisfaction in the public sector

    Vurain Tabvuma, Hong T. M. Bui, and Fabian Homberg

    1. Politics
    2. Labour Market
    3. Organizations And Firms
    4. Well Being

  18. Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being: a quantile approach

    Martin Binder and Alex Coad

    1. Unemployment
    2. Well Being

  19. Do long journeys to work have adverse effects on mental health?

    Zhiqiang Feng and Paul Boyle

    1. Labour Market
    2. Well Being
    3. Transport

  20. The impact of husband’s job loss on partners’ mental health

    Silvia Mendolia

    1. Unemployment
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Well Being

  21. Relationship between well-being and recycling rates: evidence from life satisfaction approach in Britain

    Eleftherios Giovanis

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Well Being
    3. Surveys

  22. Economic crisis, work-life balance and class

    Tracey Warren

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Stratification

  23. Stability of happiness: theories and evidence on whether happiness can change

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Social Behaviour

  24. National panel studies show substantial minorities recording long term change in life satisfaction: implications for set-point theory

    Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Gert G. Wagner

    1. Research
    2. Well Being
    3. Surveys

  25. Essays on poverty and wellbeing -PhD thesis-

    Sian Elizabeth Marie O'Hare

    1. Poverty
    2. Well Being

  26. Social networks and residential mobility in later life: the effects of moving on social network supportive capacity amongst older people in the UK -PhD thesis-

    Marcus Green

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Housing Market

  27. Driving my life away? Essays examining the impact of commuting on income and well-being -PhD thesis-

    Luke Aaron Munford

    1. Wages And Earnings
    2. Well Being
    3. Social Capital
    4. Commuting

  28. Behavioural aspects of self-employment dynamics -PhD thesis-

    Afees Olanrewaju Yusuf

    1. Psychology
    2. Organizations And Firms
    3. Well Being

  29. Socioeconomic position as a common cause for smoking, drinking, and psychiatric distress over the transition to adulthood -PhD thesis-

    Michael J. Green

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Social Stratification

  30. Mapping family change – how families evolve

    Nick Buck

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Change
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Psychology

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