[…] the major components of non-response in longitudinal surveys. I use randomised experiments to evaluate fieldwork interventions designed to reduce non-response and prior wave data to evaluate the impact of fieldwork interventions on non-response bias. I use data from large-scale, high quality datasets: the UK Millennium Cohort Study and the Innovation Panel of Understanding Society, […]

[…] person to act for the good or bad of others independently of her social environment. The combination of these factors drives prosocial behaviours like giving to positively impact the wider social environment and the prosocial inclinations of others. The altered social environment then feeds back to the prosocial motivation of the individual. This response […]

[…] be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area characteristics and detailed differences in qualifications. We show that university quality has a little impact while resources measured by parental background and the characteristics of the local area are more important for the labour market outcomes of ethnic minority graduates than […]

[…] the difference among men ; Differences in employment rates between Pakistani and Bangladeshi and white British people have been decreasing over time. The recession had a negative impact on employment for all workers with the exception of Pakistani men and women and Bangladeshi women ; Pakistani and Bangladeshi people are more likely than any […]

[…] stroke, or heart attack. Results, obtained through a combination of coarsened exact and propensity score matching, show acute health shocks significantly reduce participation, with younger workers displaying stronger labour market attachment. The impact on older, more educated, women suggests an important role for preferences, financial constraints, and intra-household division of labour determining labour supply decisions.

There is a wide variety of evidence to show that children who live in poverty are exposed to a range of risks that can have a serious impact on their mental health, including debt, poor housing, and low income. Our research found that only 1 in 10 mental health trusts see children in poverty […]

[…] that has only recently received attention in the study of policy measures aimed at supporting families with young children in their work-family life balance is its distributive impact. Are these measures used by poor and rich families alike, or is there a ‘Matthew effect’ at play, in the sense that poor families are underrepresented […]