Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex – written evidence (UKH0026) [House of Lords. Built Environment Committee. Meeting the UK’s housing demand inquiry]

[…] Social Research Council and supported by a number of government departments and devolved administrations. In April 2020, we began a regular new survey to look at the impact of Covid-19 on the UK population. Research using our data has shown: 1) Home ownership levels have fallen, but buying a home is strongly influenced by […]

Genome-wide association study of long COVID

[…] suggesting a broader role for lung function in the pathophysiology of Long COVID. While we identify COVID-19 severity as a causal risk factor for Long COVID, the impact of the genetic risk factor located in the FOXP4 locus could not be solely explained by its association to severe COVID-19. Our findings further support the […]

Living standards and inequality

We examine recent trends in households’ living standards, with a particular focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21 and 2021–22.

Educational aspirations and attitudes over the business cycle

[…] component of the British Household Panel Survey to examine how educational attitudes and aspirations among 11-15 year olds vary across the business cycle. We find that the impact of the local unemployment rate on children’s attitudes and aspirations varies significantly with parental education level and parental attitudes to education – children from highly educated […]

Retirement, personality, and well-being

This study investigates how two sources of individual heterogeneity—personality and gender— impact the well-being effects of retirement. Using data on older men and women from the British Household Panel Survey and its continuation, Understanding Society, we estimate the causal effect of retirement on satisfaction with overall life and domains of life in the presence […]