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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.

Mothers ‘take a pay cut’ if their firstborn is a daughter
  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
Media - June 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave. Sixth report of session 2024–25. [House of Commons. Women and Equalities Committee]
Parliamentary Paper, HC 502 - June 10, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Public Policy
  4. Government
  5. Childbearing: Fertility
  6. Sociology Of Households
  7. Caregiving

AI links early life risks to behavioral challenges at age five
  1. Xu Zong
  2. Yan Li
  3. Can Liu
  4. Edith Aguirre
Media - June 3, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Childbearing: Fertility
  4. Child Development

The daughter penalty
  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-03 - May 28, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Predicting children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties at age five using pregnancy and newborn risk factors: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
  1. Xu Zong
  2. Yan Li
  3. Can Liu
  4. Edith Aguirre
Journal Article - May 1, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Childbearing: Fertility
  4. Child Development

Written evidence from Dr Laura Fumagalli, Dr Greta Morando, Dr Sonkurt Sen [SPL0041] [House of Commons. Women and Equalities Committee. Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave inquiry]
  1. Laura Fumagalli
  2. Greta Morando
  3. Sonkurt Sen
Parliamentary Paper - February 12, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Income Dynamics
  4. Social Attitudes
  5. Household Economics
  6. Health
  7. Finance
  8. Childbearing: Fertility
  9. Education
  10. Child Development
  11. Sociology Of Households
  12. Caregiving

Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK
  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Childbearing: Fertility
  5. Labour Economics

Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers, children, and employers at the same time?
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Chiara Daniela Pronzato
Journal Article - March 1, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Childbearing: Fertility
  3. Child Development

Improving questionnaire content for parents and families living apart
  1. Kelly Reeve
  2. Michaela Benzeval
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2024-03 - February 7, 2024 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Lone Parents
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Surveys
  5. Survey Methodology
  6. Childbearing: Fertility
  7. Young People
  8. Child Development
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

Smoking in pregnancy triples risk of prem babies – UK study
  1. Alessandro Di Nallo
  2. Selin Koksal
Media - October 4, 2023
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Unemployment
  5. Childbearing: Fertility

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