Search Results for: impact

Does volunteering make us happier, or are happier people more likely to volunteer? Addressing the problem of reverse causality when estimating the wellbeing impacts of volunteering

[…] date this research has had limited success in accounting for the factors that are likely to drive self-selection into volunteering by ‘happier’ people. To better isolate the impact that volunteering has on people’s wellbeing, we explore nationally representative UK household datasets with an extensive longitudinal component, to run panel analysis which controls for the […]

Quantifying the mental health and economic impacts of prospective Universal Basic Income schemes among young people in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study

[…] support basic needs—has been proposed as a policy to increase the size and security of household incomes and promote mental health. We aimed to quantify its long-term impact on mental health among young people in England. Methods: We produced a discrete-time dynamic stochastic microsimulation that models a close-to-reality open cohort of synthetic individuals (2010–2030) […]

Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex. ST0007 [House of Commons. Education Committee. Screen time: impacts on education and wellbeing inquiry]

[…] their life, after their parent or carer has given permission for them to complete it. We have identified research which uses Understanding Society data and is relevant to the committee’s question: What is the current understanding of how screen time can support or impact children’s wellbeing and mental health, including the use of social media?

Simulating the consequences of adaptive survey design in two household panel studies

[…] provide a response, or a combination of these components. Both individual- and household-level targeting are considered. We assess the extent to which these adjustments to fieldwork efforts impact the response rates, sample representativity, and cost. We find that if the follow-up fieldwork effort were reduced by 25 percent the least detrimental strategy is where […]

Chronic illness and subjective well-being of family members -conference paper abstract-

[…] coupled with an absence of negative feelings. Little is known about levels of well-being in the context of adaptation to chronic illness. This paper will explore the impact of chronic illness on the well-being of family members. Methods Data come from wave 1 of Understanding Society, a new longitudinal UK-representative household panel survey. Subjective […]

‘Relabelling’ of individual retirement pension in Finland: application and behavioural responses using Finnish register data.

Using rich Finnish population level registers, we examine the impact of fusing a flexible early retirement pathway with a more stringent pathway, without changing eligibility conditions, socalled ‘relabelling’, on individual application behaviour. Our findings show that among affected cohorts the likelihood of applying for (successfully claiming) disability-related early retirement declined by 1.8 (1.5) percentage […]