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Helping inform Government’s new breakfast schemes in schools

New study will examine how existing schemes improve health, behaviour, attendance and attainment

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Accumulation of perceived discrimination over time and likelihood of probable mental health problems in UK adults: a longitudinal cohort study

Journal Article - January 15, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Demography
5. Well Being
6. Social Stratification
7. Social Psychology
8. Crime And Justice

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Judging the Paper by Its Cover: Affiliation Bias in Conference Admissions

Connections predict career success across many occupations. In academia, conference participation is essential to build and maintain a professional network, thus contributing to academic success. In this paper, we experimentally test whether and how academic affiliation affects conference acceptance. We run a stratified matched pair field experiment leveraging the reviewing...

Presented by: Dr Luca Favero (ISER, University of Essex)

Venue: 2N2.4.16

Publication

Art for health’s sake or health for art’s sake: disentangling the bidirectional relationships between arts engagement and mental health

Journal Article - November 1, 2024

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Arts

Publication

Understanding young caring in the UK pre- and post-COVID-19: prevalence, correlates, and insights from three UK longitudinal surveys

Journal Article - November 1, 2024

1. Households
2. Older People
3. Life Course Analysis
4. Health
5. Covid-19
6. Social Stratification
7. Young People
8. Disability
9. Caregiving

Publication

Parallel processing modeling in longitudinal designs: an example predicting trajectories of distress and life satisfaction

Journal Article - November 1, 2024

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

Publication

Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Wages And Earnings
4. Childbearing: Fertility
5. Labour Economics

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Mothers’ parenting behaviours, strain, enjoyment and subsequent childbearing

Journal Article - October 31, 2024

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Childbearing: Fertility
4. Social Stratification
5. Social Behaviour
6. Sociology Of Households
7. Sociology

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Our policy evidence in new House of Lords plan to fix obesity and diet-related disease

Our research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that free school meals reduce children’s obesity rates

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The green skills gap – recommendations for the future of hydropower sector in the UK

New report from our MiSoC Policy Fellow, working alongside academics to investigate the evidence of a skills gap in the hydropower sector

Publication

COVID-19 labor market protection and support for the welfare state: job retention versus job loss in four European countries

Journal Article - October 25, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Social Attitudes
3. Health
4. Covid-19
5. Welfare Benefits
6. Economics
7. Public Policy
8. Unemployment
9. Public Opinion

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Religious engagement and antibody response to the COVID-19 vaccine

Journal Article - October 1, 2024

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Covid-19
4. Social Networks
5. Biology
6. Social Groups
7. Religion
8. Social Psychology

Publication

Downward occupational mobility and job satisfaction: when does it hurt less?

Journal Article - October 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Area Effects
5. Regional Economics
6. Unemployment
7. Well Being
8. Geography

Publication

Increasing diversity, precarity and prolonged periods of education in the transition from school to work in Britain

Journal Article - October 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Unemployment
4. Education
5. Social Change
6. Social Stratification
7. Young People
8. Higher Education

Publication

Dividing housework between partners: individual preferences and social norms

Research Paper, CESifo Working Papers, 11413 - October 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Social Attitudes
4. Household Economics
5. Economics
6. Demography
7. Wages And Earnings
8. Time Use
9. Ethnic Groups
10. Sociology Of Households
11. Sociology

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Dividing housework between partners: individual preferences and social norms

Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17370 - October 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Social Attitudes
4. Household Economics
5. Economics
6. Demography
7. Wages And Earnings
8. Time Use
9. Ethnic Groups
10. Sociology Of Households
11. Sociology

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Perfectly adequate?: Revisiting pensions adequacy 20 years after the Pensions Commission

Report - October 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Income Dynamics
3. Older People
4. Pensions
5. Taxation
6. Economics
7. Public Policy
8. Wages And Earnings
9. Savings And Assets
10. Living Standards

Publication

Does local area social mobility affect political alienation?

Journal Article - October 11, 2024

1. Psychology
2. Social Attitudes
3. Area Effects
4. Geography
5. Social Stratification
6. Politics
7. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
8. Social Mobility
9. International Economic Relations
10. Sociology

Publication

The life course effects of care

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA7/24 - October 3, 2024 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Microsimulation
3. Older People
4. Life Course Analysis
5. Poverty
6. Economics
7. Demography
8. Savings And Assets
9. Child Development
10. Disability
11. Caregiving

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Lies, Damned Lies and Surveys: Professor Peter Lynn at Cafe Scientifique

Presented by: Professor Peter Lynn

Venue: The Minories, High Street, Colchester, Essex