Purpose: Using survey datasets, the purpose of this work explores the impact of economic freedom on the gender pay gap in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis combines Economic Freedom of the World data with the Understanding Society (USoc) Microdata series. Findings: The results document that economic freedom positively affects the gender pay gap. When […]

‘Multiple insecurity’ is insecurity in more than one important dimension of life, such as money, work, housing, food, health or care. This research explored the prevalence and impact of multiple insecurities, through literature, analysis of a data from Understanding Society over 2009/10-2022/23, and interviews with people experiencing multiple insecurities. Rates of multiple insecurity fell […]

[…] Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). Key findings are: 1) follow-ups are still required to maximise response rates and dataset sizes, though impacts have declined over time; 2) the impact of follow-ups on representativeness (how well datasets resemble study populations) has declined over the period 2012- 2018, with web and web plus CAPI datasets from later […]

[…] Simulations were run 1,000 times to generate 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs). Sensitivity analyses relaxed SimPaths assumptions about reduced employment resulting from Full/Full+ UBI. Partial UBI had little impact on poverty, employment, or mental health. Full UBI scenarios practically eradicated poverty but decreased employment (for Full+ from 78.9% to 74.1% ). Full+ UBI increased absolute […]

[…] marriage no longer affect women’s and men’s time spent on housework differently. However, motherhood continues to reduce women’s paid work time substantially, and the extent of this impact has remained unchanged over the previous three decades. Partnership and parenthood have resulted in minor changes to men’s paid work and unpaid work time; the extent […]

[…] tax credits into a single payment for low-income households. Despite extensive reports of hardship associated with the introduction of UC, no previous studies have comprehensively evaluated its impact on mental health. Because payments are targeted at low-income households, impacts on mental health will have important consequences for health inequalities. Methods and analysis: We will […]

[…] tax credits into a single payment for low-income households. Despite extensive reports of hardship associated with the introduction of UC, no previous studies have comprehensively evaluated its impact on mental health. Because payments are targeted at low-income households, impacts on mental health will have important consequences for health inequalities. Methods and analysis: We will […]

This report presents an analysis of panel attrition in Understanding Society. The analysis delves into the impact of dropouts on the sample profile of the General Population Sample (GPS), the Ethnic Minority Boost (EMB) and the Immigration and Ethnic Minority Boost (IEMB). In addition, we provide some indicators of the performance of the longitudinal […]

We study the impact of work from home (WFH) on subjective well-being during the Covid period, where self-selection of individuals into telework is ruled out, at least part of the time, by stay-at-home orders. We use a difference-in-differences approach with individual fixed effects and identify the specific impact of switching to telecommuting, separately from […]