Search Results for: impact
Broadband Internet and social capital
We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s […]
The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the United Kingdom: an update
Air pollution and individuals’ mental wellbeing in the adult population in United Kingdom: a spatial-temporal longitudinal study and the moderating effect of ethnicity
[…] both LSOAs and local-authority levels. Decomposing air pollution into spatial-temporal (between-within) effects showed significant between, but not within effects; thus, residing in more polluted local-authorities/LSOAs have higher impact on poor mental well-being than the air pollution variation across time within each geographical area. Analysis by ethnicity revealed higher odds of poor mental well-being with […]
Socioeconomic risks of food insecurity during the Covid‑19 pandemic in the UK: findings from the Understanding Society Covid Survey
[…] insecurity measure used. Experiencing Covid-19 symptoms explained less than 5% of the likelihood of being food insecure for single parents but approximately 30% of not having access to healthy and nutritious food for young people. Conclusion: Policies providing additional financial support may help to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on food insecurity in the UK.
The impact of migration background, ethnicity and social network dispersion on air and car travel in the UK
Gender differences in sleep disruption during COVID-19: cross-sectional analyses from two UK nationally representative surveys
The effects of Uber diffusion on the mental health of drivers
While the spread of digital technologies and the growth of associated atypical forms of work are attracting increasing attention, little is known about the impact of these new forms of work on psychological well-being. This paper examines the effect of Uber diffusion on the mental health of drivers, taking advantage of the rollout of […]
Nest leaver or home stayer? Sibling influence on parental home leaving in the United Kingdom
[…] investigated the extent to which an event of a sibling leaving is associated with one’s decision to leave the parental home and how demographic sibling characteristics may impact on the association. We also tested whether the number of siblings who left the parental home first is related to one’s timing of leaving. Using data […]
Mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L: a survey experiment on the validity of multi-instrument data
[…] it in individual interviews from the UK Understanding Society household panel. We find that sequencing of the two versions of EQ-5D within an interview has a significant impact not only on the resulting data but also on the estimated mapping models. We illustrate the non-negligible effects in two real-world cost-effectiveness examples and discuss the […]