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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 192 in total

  1. Mental distress among young adults in Great Britain: long‑term trends and early changes during the COVID‑19 pandemic

    T. Gagné, I. Schoon, A. McMunn, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Covid 19

  2. Make up or break up? Partnership transitions among young adults in England and Wales

    Alina Pelikh, Júlia Mikolai, and Hill Kulu

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  3. Sources and methods for public service productivity estimates

    Sara Zella

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Older People
    3. Statistical Analysis
    4. Psychology
    5. Young People
    6. Education
    7. Child Development
    8. Economics
    9. Public Policy
    10. Well Being
    11. Health

  4. Why millennials aren’t moving in together as a trial marriage

    Alina Pelikh, Júlia Mikolai, and Hill Kulu

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  5. People born in 80s not likely to marry their first cohabiting partner

    Alina Pelikh, Júlia Mikolai, and Hill Kulu

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  6. People born in the 80s not likely to marry their first cohabiting partner

    Alina Pelikh, Júlia Mikolai, and Hill Kulu

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  7. People born in the 80s not likely to marry their first cohabiting partner

    Alina Pelikh, Júlia Mikolai, and Hill Kulu

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  8. Nonpolitical versus political participation: longitudinal associations with mental health and social well‑being in different age groups

    Matthias Lühr, Maria K. Pavlova, and Maike Luhmann

    1. Politics
    2. Social Groups
    3. Older People
    4. Psychology
    5. Young People
    6. Well Being
    7. Social Capital
    8. Health
    9. Life Course Analysis
    10. Social Behaviour

  9. Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: the role of partner, family and friends

    Patrick Rouxel, Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Young People
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Behaviour
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Psychology
    9. Biology

  10. Estimating the late-life effects of social and emotional skills in childhood using midlife mediators

    Alex J. Turner, Eleonora Fichera, and Matt Sutton

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Young People
    4. Child Development
    5. Labour Market
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis

  11. The changing impact of family background on political engagement during adolescence and early adulthood

    Jan Germen Janmaat and Bryony Hoskins

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Psychology

  12. A multiple cohort study of the gender gradient of life satisfaction during adolescence: longitudinal evidence from Great Britain

    Georgios Marios Chrysanthou

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

  13. Investigating the association between youth unemployment and mental health later in life -PhD thesis-

    Liam Wright

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis

  14. Neighbourhood effects, social capital and young adults’ homeownership outcomes in the United Kingdom

    Damilola Aguda and Chris Leishman

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Households
    4. Social Capital
    5. Housing Market

  15. Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys

    Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Sciences
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Research
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification

  16. Improved methods for total public service productivity: total, UK, 2018

    Rhys Humphries and Sara Zella

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Psychology
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health

  17. GCSE results: the hidden but enduring effects of parental social class

    Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Sciences
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Research
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification

  18. Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation

    Ann Berrington

    1. Demography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Ethnic Groups

  19. 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

  20. Assessing the relationships between young adults’ travel and use of the internet over time

    Guoqiang Wu, Jinhyun Hong, and Piyushimita Thakuriah

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Psychology
    4. Young People
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Travel
    7. Social Behaviour

  21. Tackling intergenerational unfairness. Report of session 2017–19. Ordered to be printed 26 March 2019 and published 25 April 2019

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Economics

  22. 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

  23. Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (EYI0055) [House of Commons Science and Technology Committee: Evidence-based early years intervention]

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Life Course Analysis

  24. UK second generation young adults’ expectations for living together, marriage and parenthood

    Ann Berrington

    1. Demography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Ethnic Groups

  25. Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

    Sait Bayrakdar, Rory Coulter, Philipp Lersch, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Households
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Housing Market

  26. The good childhood report 2018

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    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being

  27. 2018 IF index: how does the wellbeing of today's twentysomethings compare to previous cohorts?

    David Kingman

    1. Social Change
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis

  28. Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

    Alina Pelikh and Hill Kulu

    1. Geography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Life Course Analysis

  29. 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

  30. 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

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