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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

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

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

Social biological research: special issue contributions and next steps

  1. Naomi Priest
  2. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Surveys
  3. Health
  4. Biology
  5. Research
  6. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
  7. Genetics

Unstable pay: new estimates of earnings volatility in the UK

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Nye Cominetti
  3. Stephen P. Jenkins
Report - March 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Wages And Earnings

Sibling similarity in education and employment trajectories at ages 16–19 in the UK: the role of parental influence and individual experiences in early adolescence

  1. Alina Pelikh
  2. Morag Henderson
Journal Article - March 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Well Being
  7. Education
  8. Social Stratification
  9. Young People
  10. Child Development
  11. Sociology Of Households

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

Housing adaptations and older adults’ health trajectories by level of initial health: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

  1. Jiawei Wu
  2. Emily Grundy
Journal Article - February 1, 2025
  1. Older People
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Living Standards
  6. Well Being
  7. Housing Market
  8. Disability

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