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Schooling, Skills and Sanctions: Exploring our new evidence on how school policies work with policy experts

Our MiSoC roundtable discussion event with policy experts in child development, school behaviour interventions and young offending

Publication

Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy

Journal Article - September 3, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Arts

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New series of lunch-time webinars introducing key topic areas in Understanding Society data

Five free webinars this autumn to introduce our linked data; employment data; family, households and children data; income, wealth and housing data; and ethnicity and immigration data

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Workplace violence and fear of violence: an assessment of prevalence across industrial sectors and its mental health effects

Journal Article - September 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Well Being
6. Organizations And Firms
7. Sociology Of Labour
8. Social Psychology
9. Crime And Justice

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Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement

Journal Article - August 21, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Social Attitudes
4. Young People
5. Child Development
6. Politics
7. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
8. Sociology Of Households
9. Social Psychology

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Mapping life satisfaction over the first years of cohabitation among former singles living alone in UK and Germany

Journal Article - August 18, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Family Formation And Dissolution
5. Well Being
6. Social Change
7. Sociology Of Households
8. Social Psychology

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Labour market expectations and occupational choice: evidence from teaching

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Economics
3. Wages And Earnings
4. Education
5. Labour Economics
6. Sociology Of Labour

Publication

Measuring resilience to chronic pain in population surveys using hair cortisol

Journal Article - August 15, 2025

1. Older People
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Surveys
4. Survey Methodology
5. Psychology
6. Health
7. Well Being
8. Biology
9. Medicine

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Time since separation, repartnering, and homeownership in England and Wales, and Germany

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Family Formation And Dissolution
3. Housing Market

Publication

Understanding the characteristics of unpaid carers living in financial hardship: risks and vulnerabilities

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Poverty
2. Finance
3. Caregiving
4. Unpaid Work

Publication

Factors associated with the identification and well-being of hidden and confirmed carers: a dyad analysis

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Households
2. Older People
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Well Being
6. Disability
7. Caregiving

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Cohort differences in the lifetime parenthood gender pay gap in the UK: an accelerated cohort‑sequential growth curve approach

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Demography
4. Wages And Earnings
5. Childbearing: Fertility
6. Education
7. Social Change
8. Higher Education
9. Human Capital

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Asymmetry and spillover effects in the relationship between stock markets and mental health: an alternative approach

Journal Article - August 1, 2025

1. Households
2. Income Dynamics
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Economics
6. Finance
7. Savings And Assets
8. Well Being
9. Sociology Of Households
10. Social Psychology

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Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland English residents: a pooled cross-sectional analysis of adult UKHLS respondents

Journal Article - September 1, 2025

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Poverty
4. Demography
5. Area Effects
6. Well Being
7. Geography
8. Young People

Publication

Machine learning regionalisation of input data for microsimulation models: An application of a hybrid GBM / IPF method to build a tax-benefit model for the Essex region in the UK

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA9/25 - August 11, 2025 - download  

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SimPathsIT: A life course microsimulation framework for Italy

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA8/25 - August 1, 2025 - download  

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Eliciting the marginal propensity to consume in surveys

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-15 - July 29, 2025 - download  

1. Income Dynamics
2. Surveys
3. Survey Methodology
4. Psychology
5. Economics

Publication

Racial representation among academics and students’ academic and labor market outcomes

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Education
3. Higher Education
4. Ethnic Groups

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Apply now for new Policy Fellowships to research policy questions alongside MiSoC experts

Policy areas include obesity and nutrition, remote work, new skills and changing nature of jobs, immigration, ethnic minorities and access to family justice, wage inequality, benefits and taxes.

Publication

Low Pay Britain 2025: where next for the Government’s employment reforms?

Report - July 3, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Poverty
3. Economics
4. Public Policy
5. Wages And Earnings
6. Labour Economics
7. Law And Legislation
8. Economic Policy