[…] union which was dissolved when analysing partnership formation after the breakdown of a union. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of repartnering by examining the impact of previous children and relationship histories on the timing and rate of repartnering. We compare the UK and Australia, two countries with similar policy and legislative […]

[…] a weak but significant association between interviewer departures from standard interviewing practice and the occurrence of respondent cognition problems regardless of question type. Dependent interviewing did, however, impact the survey interaction itself. We found that dependent interviewing questions were nearly 6.5 times more likely to be interrupted by respondents than regular survey questions. We […]

[…] discrete-time multinomial logistic hazard models to simultaneously model entry into marriage and cohabitation. Initially, results suggest that the route of entry into lone motherhood has a strong impact on the choice of new union type; those who entered through the dissolution of a marriage are more likely to form a marriage than those entering […]

This paper investigates the effect of asset price fluctuations and labour market conditions on retirement behaviour to gauge the likely impact of the current recession on retirement plans. A number of papers use asset price fluctuations to estimate wealth effects in retirement behaviour in the US. But in contrast to other wealth shocks, asset […]

[…] Children and Child Commissioners established in every country in the UK. It might be expected that all this activity on behalf of children might have had an impact on what children say about their lives. The evidence from this analysis suggests that there has been an improvement in the average level of happiness of […]

This paper examines the residential mobility into and out of deprived areas of women with children using longitudinal survey data from the period 1991 to 2007. The results show that residential mobility is selective according to demographic criteria, human and financial resources and the characteristics of the wider area in which families live. Single mothers […]

This paper examines the coexistent impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different occupational groups and across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and multi-factors of production economy and […]

[…] US. We depart from the current empirical literature in three main directions. First, we use a multi-country approach. Second, we complement the standard analysis of the causal impact of years of schooling on BMI with one relying on a broader measure of education, i.e. individual standardized cognitive tests, and show that the current focus […]

[…] random effects models with different transitions as the dependent variable, we find strong evidence for activation and persuasion effects in all three countries. Furthermore, we study the impact of political awareness on activation and persuasion, relying on theories on memory based and on-line information processing. Mostly in line with expectations, we find that highly […]