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Free school meals, diet quality and food insecurity in secondary school students: protocol for a multiple-methods study – the CANTEEN study
[…] of the current means-tested FSM policy in UK secondary schools on diet and food insecurity outcomes, understand what factors are associated with uptake and test the potential impact of any proposed policy change. Secondary schools (n=32) in both Northern Ireland and the Midlands region of the UK are being recruited into the study. Data […]
Does the ‘right to request’ flexible work policy influence men’s and women’s uptake of flexible working and well-being: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
[…] ‘right to request’ flexible working policy has been gradually extended and, by 2014, extended to cover all workers with at least 26 weeks of continuous employment. The impact of these policy changes is unclear. This research aims to assess the effects of the 2014 policy reform on the uptake of flexible working and its […]
Revaluation and reform of council tax in Scotland: design considerations and potential impacts
This report considers the design and impact of potential reforms to Scotland’s council tax system.
Caring is not always sharing: a scoping review exploring how COVID-19 containment measures have impacted unpaid care work and mental health among women and men in Europe
[…] may have exacerbated existing gender inequalities in both unpaid care work and adverse mental health outcomes. This scoping review provides an overview of recent evidence on the impact of COVID-19 containment measures on unpaid care work and mental health for subgroups of caregivers at the intersection of gender and other social differences (e.g., ethnicity, […]
The gendered division of housework in times of Covid-19: the role of essential worker status and work location
[…] dual-earner opposite-sex couples. In addition, as essential work was often, but not always done on-site, we use the time availability perspective to formulate hypotheses on how the impact of being assigned the essential work status interacts with remote-work. We investigate these research questions in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands using household longitudinal panel […]
The dynamic interplay between mental health difficulties and the family environment in early adolescence
How different mixed-mode data collection approaches impact response rates and provision of biomeasure samples
[…] with in an alternate mode. The outcomes of interest are both (i) response to the survey, and (ii) take-up and completion of the biomeasure sample collection. The impact of the experimental design is tested on both outcomes, utilizing intention-to-treat analysis (that is, by allocated design). To account for the importance of channel of communication […]
Expanding benefits: the impact of a Universal Free School Meal policy on non-cognitive skills
School-based policies may influence children’s non-cognitive development, a strong predictor of future life outcomes. This article investigates the short-run impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal Policy on children’s non-cognitive skills relying on a sample of children aged five from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). To identify the causal effect of the […]
How loneliness relates to health, wellbeing, quality of life, and healthcare resource utilisation and costs across multiple age groups in the UK
Increasing evidence of its detrimental impact has brought loneliness to the forefront of public health in recent years. Loneliness has been recognised as a cross-cutting theme for Healthy Ageing by the World Health Organisation and there is increasing need to better understand its wide-ranging health, wellbeing, and economic impacts across the wider population. This […]