[…] of IP2, the experiments carried and the preliminary findings from early analysis of the data. The main design features of Understanding Society are outlined and the design and conduct of IP2 described. The results of methodological experiments carried at IP2 are reported and the impact of IP2 on the design of the main survey reviewed.

[…] importance in Britain and other industrialized countries during the last decades. This paper examines the relationship between unionization and unpaid overtime in Britain. We suggest that the impact of union status on the amount of unpaid overtime will depend on the nature of the firm and the sector in which it operates. Analysis of […]

[…] Sex differences were small for sibling bullying and contrary to previous evidence, not found for school bullying. Family and sibling type had some but only a small impact on sibling or school bullying. While prevalence of sibling bullying was  high across adolescence, school bullying reduced from 10-15 years of age. Contrary to some previous […]

[…] health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our […]

[…] barriers to claiming, when unaccompanied by concurrent raised monetary rewards. A final chapter studies participation in disability benefits in terms of targeting timing of receipt and of impact on later financial wellbeing.  Using seventeen waves of British Household Panel Survey data, it analyses the extent to which receipt is responsive to changes in disability […]

[…] a statistical model of crime and drug-taking behaviour by people aged 10-19 observed over a four-year period 2003-6 we show that, even if cannabis has no causal impact on the risk of initiation into other drugs, conventional statistical methods tend to show a spurious positive effect of cannabis. Our conclusion is that many research […]

[…] managerial and professional occupations. Meanwhile, housework burdens women with up to fourteen hours of additional work per week. Preferences for shorter hours remain greater among women, reflecting the impact of household time on paid work. The evidence presented in this paper suggests that the distribution of household labor renders dual career households less than egalitarian.