[…] with poor health from unemployment into work are likely to be ineffective; follows the same group of people over time, to build a three-dimensional picture of the link between health and movement in and out of work over time, and;finds that qualifications can mitigate the impact of poor health but they cannot overcome them altogether.

We evaluate the impact of parental education and household income on 10 to 15 year olds’ aspirations for higher education. OLS estimates reveal no maternal education effects but positive paternal education and household income effects. IV estimates of the model, which simultaneously account for endogeneity in parental education and household income, find no significant effects of household income […]

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of cash social benefits on work incentives at the bottom of the income distribution and among selected model family types in Lithuania. The analysis of the work incentives in Lithuania is carried out for the period of 2005-2013 based on a combination of measures […]

[…] the major components of non-response in longitudinal surveys. I use randomised experiments to evaluate fieldwork interventions designed to reduce non-response and prior wave data to evaluate the impact of fieldwork interventions on non-response bias. I use data from large-scale, high quality datasets: the UK Millennium Cohort Study and the Innovation Panel of Understanding Society, […]

[…] person to act for the good or bad of others independently of her social environment. The combination of these factors drives prosocial behaviours like giving to positively impact the wider social environment and the prosocial inclinations of others. The altered social environment then feeds back to the prosocial motivation of the individual. This response […]

[…] be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area characteristics and detailed differences in qualifications. We show that university quality has a little impact while resources measured by parental background and the characteristics of the local area are more important for the labour market outcomes of ethnic minority graduates than […]

[…] the difference among men ; Differences in employment rates between Pakistani and Bangladeshi and white British people have been decreasing over time. The recession had a negative impact on employment for all workers with the exception of Pakistani men and women and Bangladeshi women ; Pakistani and Bangladeshi people are more likely than any […]