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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 7580 in total

  1. DNA methylation signature of passive smoke exposure is less pronounced than active smoking: the Understanding Society study

    Paige M. Hulls, Frank de Vocht, Yanchun Bao, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Households
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  2. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael James Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. Effects of Tax-Benefit Policy Changes across the Income Distributions of the EU-28 countries: 2018-2019

    EUROMOD

  4. Understanding Society at 10 years

    Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Research
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Surveys
    10. Sociology
    11. Biology
    12. Genetics
    13. Covid 19

  5. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katrin Gasior, Tamara Premrov, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation

  6. Using biomarkers to predict healthcare costs: evidence from a UK household panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  7. Zero-hours contracts: flexibility or insecurity? Experimental evidence from a low income population

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings

  8. The Understanding Society Covid-19 study

    Annette Jäckle, Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Covid 19

  9. Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures

    Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, and Ronni Pavan

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Child Development

  10. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael J. Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  11. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context

    Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Households
    8. Living Standards
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Covid 19

  12. Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Poverty
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Household Economics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  13. Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  14. Unemployment rate: how many people are out of work?

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  15. Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

    Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, and Sara Riscado

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Poverty
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Microsimulation

  16. Estimating variation of Covid-19 'infection' in the population: results from Understanding Society's (UKHLS) first monthly covid-19 survey

    Richard Breen and John Ermisch

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Demography
    4. Health
    5. Covid 19

  17. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

  18. Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules

    Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  19. When does hate hurt the most? Generational differences in the association between ethnic and racial harassment, ethnic attachment, and mental health

    Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Migration
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Well Being
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Race Relations

  20. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

    Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  21. A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Taxation
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys

  22. How has the Covid-19 crisis impacted parents’ relationships with their children?

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  23. The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  24. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and pandemic related stressors among adults in the UK

    Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, Cara L. Booker, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  25. Weird but true: lockdown has made many families happier

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  26. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  27. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  28. Modelling the distributional impact of the Covid-19 Crisis in Ireland

    Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Public Policy
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Covid 19

  29. Welfare resilience in the first month of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo Fiorio

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  30. Measuring economic insecurity: a simulation approach

    Matteo Richiardi and Zhechun He

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Life Course Analysis

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