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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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.

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Coastal disadvantage and youth mental health: emerging evidence from England

Report - July 1, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Poverty
5. Demography
6. Area Effects
7. Well Being
8. Geography
9. Social Stratification
10. Young People

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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

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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health

Report - July 1, 2025

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Social Change
5. Young People

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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health

Report - July 1, 2025

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Social Change
5. Young People

Publication

Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health – technical report

Report - July 1, 2025

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Social Change
5. Young People

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ISER at European Survey Research Association Conference 2025

The ISER research team are presenting 12 new studies at this year’s ESRA Conference at the University of Utrecht

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How do survey respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage?

Journal Article - July 9, 2025

1. Survey Methodology
2. Psychology
3. Taxation

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Getting consent to survey in new ways: evidence from experiments about questions by text message in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-14 - July 8, 2025 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology
4. Information And Communication Technologies