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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland
  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Claire Cameron
  5. Sam Whewall
    6. , et al
Journal Article - June 26, 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

Nonresponse in address-based surveys
  1. Carla Xena
  2. Olena Kaminska
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-13 - June 19, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Area Effects
  5. Geography

Fieldwork outcomes at recruitment wave for Understanding Society’s second general population sample (GPS2)
  1. Joel Williams
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-08 - June 18, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Poverty
  5. Area Effects
  6. Living Standards
  7. Geography

Commuting and gender differences in job opportunities
  1. Silvia Avram
Journal Article - March 14, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Commuting
  3. Travel
  4. Demography
  5. Area Effects
  6. Regional Economics
  7. Wages And Earnings
  8. Geography
  9. Sociology

Estimating population mental health effects of the rollout of Universal Credit: difference-in-differences analyses using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, 2009 – 2019
  1. Maria Marimpi
  2. Benjamin Barr
  3. Andy Baxter
  4. Samuel Hugh-Jones
  5. David Taylor-Robinson
    6. , et al
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA3/25 - February 22, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Poverty
  6. Welfare Benefits
  7. Public Policy
  8. Area Effects
  9. Unemployment
  10. Well Being
  11. Geography

The importance of host country human capital for the labour market integration of different migrant groups in Europe
  1. Wouter Zwysen
  2. Neli Demireva
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-01 - January 7, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Area Effects
  3. Geography
  4. Migration
  5. Human Capital

Universal free school meals and children’s bodyweight. Impacts by age and duration of exposure
  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
  1. Health
  2. Public Policy
  3. Area Effects
  4. Living Standards
  5. Education
  6. Geography
  7. Child Development

Cross-sectional association between area deprivation and biological ageing: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study -conference paper abstract-
  1. Wen Wang
  2. Yanchun Bao
  3. Steven Haworth
  4. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - November 15, 2024
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Health
  3. Poverty
  4. Demography
  5. Area Effects
  6. Biology
  7. Geography

Mind vs matter: economic and psychologic determinants of take-up rates of social benefits in the UK
  1. Melchior Vella
  2. Matteo Richiardi
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA6/24 - September 5, 2024 - download  
  1. Microsimulation
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Surveys
  4. Psychology
  5. Welfare Benefits
  6. Economics
  7. Area Effects
  8. Geography

Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: an 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents.
  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Claire Cameron
  4. Rachel Benchekroun
  5. Sam Whewall
    6. , et al
Journal Article - May 1, 2024
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Area Effects
  6. Well Being
  7. Geography
  8. Young People

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