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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

Data quality: wave 14 continuing and boost samples

  1. Michaela Benzeval
  2. Memory Mhembere
  3. John Payne
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-10 - June 19, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Demography

Wave 14 boost sample representativeness

  1. Jasmine Mitchell
  2. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  3. Peter Lynn
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-09 - June 19, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Demography
  4. Geography

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

Selectivity of digital trace data: the case of the UK COVID-19 contact tracing apps

  1. Jim Vine
  2. Jonathan Burton
  3. Mick P. Couper
  4. Annette Jäckle
  5. Daniel Horn
  6. , et al
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-07 - June 13, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Psychology
  4. Information And Communication Technologies
  5. Health
  6. Covid-19
  7. Demography
  8. Science And Technology

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

Annual report on trends in panel attrition in Understanding Society, 2025 edition

  1. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  2. Peter Lynn
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-01 - April 9, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Demography

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

More testosterone means higher pay – for some men

  1. Peter Eibich
  2. Ricky Kanabar
  3. Alexander Plum
Media - March 13, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Demography
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Biology
  6. Genetics

Returns to testosterone across men’s earnings distribution in the UK

  1. Peter Eibich
  2. Ricky Kanabar
  3. Alexander Plum
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-02 - February 14, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Demography
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Biology
  6. Genetics

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