Domestic outsourcing and multitasking: how much do they really contribute?

[…] tasks. Using UK 2000/2001 time-use data (N = 4196 couples), we find domestic outsourcing is related to having dependent children and to partners’ resources, but has little impact on the total domestic/caring workload of either partner. Nor can outsourcing account for the reduction in women’s unpaid labor with increasing economic resources. Wives spend more […]

OP62 How do adiposity trajectories vary by birth cohort and parental social class? Evidence from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study -conference paper abstract-

[…] women. The main difference between WHtR and BMI was that increases in WHtR accelerated with age whilst increases in BMI slowed with age. Conclusion Increases in adiposity for younger cohorts across all socioeconomic groups dwarf any socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity. This highlights the damaging impact for the whole population of living in an obesogenic environment.

Relationship between wealth and age trajectories of walking speed among older adults: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

[…] showed continuing gaps in physical functioning by wealth, even among people with the same health, psychosocial, and demographic conditions. As wealth reflects both past and current socioeconomic status, the implications of our findings are that reducing socioeconomic inequalities at all stages of the life course may have a positive impact on functioning in old age.

Regional differences in mortgage demand and mortgage instrument choice in the UK

[…] a variable rate mortgage is more likely to occur in areas with lower incomes and affordability rates, such as Northern England, Scotland and Wales. Since variable rate mortgages are more sensitive to income and monetary policy shocks, the disproportional distribution of variable contracts within the mortgage sector may have a differential impact on the regions.

Associations between APOE and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol genotypes and cognitive and physical capability: the HALCyon programme

[…] with physical capability measures. The findings from our large investigation of middle-aged to older adults in the general population suggest that effects of APOE on cognitive capability are at most modest and are domain- and age-specific, while APOE has little influence on physical capability. In addition, other LDL-C-related genotypes have little impact on these traits.