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Displaying all 29 Publications

  1. No gain in pain: psychological well-being, participation, and wages in the BHPS

    Elena Lagomarsino and Alessandro Spiganti

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  2. Men lose life satisfaction with fewer hours in employment: mothers do not profit from longer employment - evidence from eight panels

    Martin Schröder

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Sociology Of Households

  3. Specific symptoms of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in predicting persistence of psychological distress: data from two prospective cohort studies

    Markus Jokela, Regina García Velázquez, Kaisla Komulainen, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Psychiatry
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Surveys

  4. An intergenerational audit for the UK 2020

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Social Change
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Debt: Indebtedness
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Housing Market
    15. Social Behaviour
    16. Covid 19

  5. Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom

    Senhu Wang, Adam Coutts, Brendan Burchell, et al.

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

  6. Covid generation: UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels'

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Social Change
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Debt: Indebtedness
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Housing Market
    15. Social Behaviour
    16. Covid 19

  7. People do not adapt. New analyses of the dynamic effects of own and reference income on life satisfaction

    Caspar Kaiser

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Well Being

  8. Predicting the end of the pandemic: optimism vs pessimism. How does optimism and pessimism influence your well-being?

    David de Meza and Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology
    8. Covid 19

  9. Later retirement, job strain, and health: evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

    Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser, and Mauricio Avendano

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Life Course Analysis

  10. 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

  11. Has monetary policy made you happier?

    Philip Bunn, Andrew G. Haldane, and Alice Pugh

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Finance
    5. Economic Policy

  12. Ageing and cohort trajectories in mental ill-health: an exploration using multilevel models

    Lucy Prior, Kelvyn Jones, and David Manley

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  13. Neither an optimist nor a pessimist be: mistaken expectations lower well-being

    David de Meza and Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology

  14. Health, subjective financial situation and well-being: a longitudinal observational study

    Paul Downward, Simona Rasciute, and Harish Kumar

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Finance

  15. Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: evidence from the UK from 1991-2017

    Heather Brown

    1. Politics
    2. Lone Parents
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Public Policy
    7. Government
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Well Being
    10. Health
    11. Life Course Analysis
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Social Mobility

  16. Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study

    Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Nunzia Nappo

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

  17. Longitudinal evidence for reciprocal effects between life satisfaction and job satisfaction

    Piotr Białowolski and Dorota Weziak-Białowolska

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  18. The effect of health on the labour force outcome among working age individuals in the UK -PhD thesis-

    Farzaneh Hemmati Torabi

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Genetics

  19. Do unions cause job dissatisfaction? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the United Kingdom

    Ioulia Bessa, Andy Charlwood, and Danat Valizade

    1. Pensions
    2. Psychology
    3. Sociology Of Labour
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being

  20. 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

  21. The effect of health on social capital; a longitudinal observation study of the UK

    Paul Downward, Simona Rasciute, and Harish Kumar

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Networks
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  22. Does volunteering make us happier, or are happier people more likely to volunteer? Addressing the problem of reverse causality when estimating the wellbeing impacts of volunteering

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, Will Watt, et al.

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

  23. Underemployment and psychological distress: propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

    Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly, and Liam Delaney

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  24. Insights 2019-20: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Social Inclusion
    5. Migration
    6. Social Change
    7. Labour Market
    8. Households
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Surveys
    15. Sociology Of Households
    16. Race Relations
    17. Social Mobility

  25. Foreword: capturing the complexity of the UK

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Geography
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Social Change
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Surveys
    12. Sociology Of Households
    13. Social Mobility

  26. Unemployment affects different groups' health and weight in different ways

    Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  27. Commentary: creating opportunities for people who move – and those who want to stay

    Andrew Carter

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Migration
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Commuting

  28. Moving home and mental health

    Sam Wilding, David Martin, and Graham Moon

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Migration
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  29. ‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes: subjective versus revealed preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

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