[…] a new partner. Multiple annual observations on most re-partnered fathers in our sample allow us to use ‘within-father’ variation over time in partners’ incomes to identify the impact of individual partners’ incomes on child support payments. In other words, we can allow for unobserved persistent influences on child support payments, including the father’s ex-partner’s […]

[…] and facilitate the role of interviewers. However, evidence for each of these claims is inconclusive if not non-existent. This paper has four aims. First, we evaluate the impact of DI on interviewers and their survey role, such as the ease of administering DI questions, how DI affects interview flow, awkwardness of question wording, DI […]

[…] years. Many social scientists are arguing that the time is right for policymakers to extend their traditional focus on material well-being and economic development to include the impact policies have on how people think and feel about their lives. This has led to numerous studies investigating the impact of economic and social factors on […]

[…] recession for the living standards of British households. This article aims to contribute to the live debate about the current recession in the UK by analysing the impact of the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s on nonemployment patterns among people in the main range of working ages and the possible consequences if […]

[…] anecdotal accounts and common sense rather than being driven by sound empirical evidence. Such decisions, however, may have strong implications as they are likely to have an impact on consent rates and bias. This paper investigates the impact of survey design features (i. e., type of question and position of the consent question) on […]

This paper investigates the impact of entry into parenthood on gender role attitudes. Considering a sample of British men and women in their childbearing age (taken from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society), we measure gender equality beliefs on four attitudinal statements consistent with the literature, rated on a five-point scale. Firstly, […]

[…] having been raised in such households, has received particular attention in the UK. Previous research shows that having been raised in a workless household has a negative impact on a series of outcomes, such as higher probabilities of being NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) or spending longer periods out of work. However, […]

[…] (IB), UK welfare reforms have sought to reduce sickness benefit claimant numbers and increase employment among this group. However, there is little objective evidence regarding the health impact of transitions to employed or unemployed status for sickness benefit claimants, or the health impact of transitions from IB to ESA. Treatment and control groups were […]

[…] force affect the labour market behaviour of the following generation. Unlike women’s own mothers, the attitudes and behaviours of mothers-in-law are not expected to have any direct impact on the attitudes of their daughters-in-law that developed during the childhood. However, mothers’ behaviour may influence the next generation of women, independently of its impact on […]

[…] understand what drives this decision, and in particular how it relates to households’ financial competence. Existing household-level studies of the equity withdrawal decision have focused on the impact of consumption-smoothing and financial efficiency motives. This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Understanding Society survey to analyse the impact of […]