[…] (1) to identify reasons for the high rates of change in long-term illness/disability status, (2) to investigate whether the use of the initial filter question has significant impact on measured disability, and (3) to test question versions that would produce more stable measures. Initial results suggest that long-term health problems are not well defined. […]

[…] women’s probabilities of labour market entry and exit; and we explore how far these can be accounted for by a) human capital and demographic characteristics, b) the impact of relevant events (partnership and children), and c) differences in gender-role attitudes and religiosity. We find that, adjusting for all these factors, Indian and Caribbean women […]

[…] weight will partly reflect genuine growth/shrinkage or weight gain/loss, respectively. But given this will have been less pronounced for height than for weight, it seems likely that the eight biosocial characteristics associated with the difference (between self-reported and measured variables) in both height and weight are those with the greatest potential impact on reporting accuracy.

[…] violence and child mortality, but has yet to present evidence of a causal relationship. In this paper we use an instrumental variable approach to analyse the causal impact of domestic violence against the mother on child mortality in the Indian context. Domestic violence is instrumented with the real price of gold at the month […]

[…] update one’s skills throughout working life. This presentation will i) look at trends in engagement with learning activities in later life in England and ii) explore the impact of socio-economic and work-related factors on access to and engagement with learning activities in the UK. Methods: The data are drawn from 2 nationally representative longitudinal […]