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Did social capital protect mental health from social mixing restrictions and spatial immobility during the COVID-19 pandemic? A longitudinal analysis of individual- and contextual-level local social capital
This study investigates whether local social capital (neighbor networks and norms of trust/reciprocity) buffered the impact of mixing/mobility restrictions on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on two nationally representative panel surveys: the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) Mainstage survey (n = 31,805 person-observations) and UKHLS COVID-19 survey (n = 22,933 person-observations), a subsample of the […]
Conflicting economic policies and mental health: evidence from the UK national living wage and benefits freeze
[…] Sant’Anna (2021) DID estimator to evaluate the heterogeneous policy effects, and we found that NLW leads to positive improvements in mental health. Also, we find the negative impact of the benefits freeze policy constricts the NLW effects. Our result is robust to the sensitivity analysis of the parallel trend assumption and the comparison group […]
The impact of remote work on mobilities in the UK
Does frequency or diversity of leisure activity matter more for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity
Longer working hours and maternal mental health: a comparison of single vs. partnered mothers
[…] work requirements both in the UK and in other developed countries. Little is known how increasing working hours may have affected their mental health. We investigate the impact of increasing working hours on mental health of single mothers, and compare this relationship to that for partnered mothers. We used 13 waves of the UKHLS […]
Text messages to incentivise response in a web-first sequential mixed-mode survey
[…] emails and letters was supplemented with text messages. Effects of the text messages on survey response and fieldwork efforts were assessed. In addition, we also investigated the impact of SMS on the device selected to complete the survey, time to response, and sample balance. The results show a weak effect of the SMS reminders […]
Women’s job market outcomes around live and non-live births
[…] employment probabilities and shortened work hours. Conversely, women who face non-live births initially experience a temporary income and wage drop, which recovers, indicating a less enduring economic impact. This recovery suggests that the adverse labor market consequences of pregnancy loss, while immediate and significant, do not persist in the long term as they do […]
Youth nonresponse in panel surveys: investigating the impact of life events
Persistent poverty in Scotland 2010-2023
[…] children, working-age adults and pensioners living in persistent poverty in Scotland. The estimates are used to monitor progress in reducing poverty. The latest persistent poverty estimates relate to the period between January 2009 and December 2023. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had a small impact on data collection, see the Data source section for more information.