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  1. Single mothers’ income in twelve rich nations: differences in disadvantage across the distribution

    Susan Harkness

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  2. State Pension eligibility age and retirement behaviour: evidence from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study

    Adriaan Kalwij and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis

  3. In and out of unemployment - labour market transitions and the role of testosterone

    Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  4. Intergenerational wealth transmission in Great Britain

    Paul Gregg and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Households
    2. Savings And Assets

  5. Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice

    Oriol Bosch and Peter Lynn

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Debt: Indebtedness
    3. Surveys

  6. Peer groups, social support, and well-being: evidence from a large online maternity community

    Lingqing Jiang and Zhen Zhu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  7. Taking cover: human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance

    Paulino Font-Gilabert

    1. Insurance
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Poverty
    8. Health

  8. MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

    Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Savings And Assets
    6. Household Economics
    7. Health
    8. Finance
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  9. Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

    Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Lisa Spantig

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  10. Worker productivity during lockdown and working from home: evidence from self-reports

    Ben Etheridge, Yikai Wang, and Li Tang

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  11. Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings

  12. 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

  13. The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

    Ben Etheridge and Lisa Spantig

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Demography
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Covid 19

  14. The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress in the UK

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  15. Who benefits from host country skills? Evidence of heterogeneous labour market returns to host country skills by migrant motivation

    Wouter Zwysen and Neli Demireva

    1. Geography
    2. Human Capital
    3. Migration
    4. Labour Market
    5. Sociology

  16. What determines the capital share over the long run of history?

    Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino, and Daniel Waldenström

    1. Politics
    2. History
    3. Economics

  17. Biomarkers, disability and health care demand

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  18. Maternal investments in children: the role of expected effort and returns

    Sonia Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font-Gilabert, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  19. The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health outcomes and behaviours

    Sonia Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paul Fisher, et al.

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  20. Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales

    Gundi Knies, Patricia C. Melo, and Min Zhang

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Poverty
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Well Being

  21. Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

    Yuliya Kazakova

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Caregiving

  22. Market concentration, supply, quality and prices paid by local authorities in the English care home market

    Ferran Espuny Pujol, Ruth Hancock, Morten Hviid, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Economics
    3. Health

  23. The educational consequences of migration for women and men. Migrant and Europe-born Turkish origin people compared to non-migrants in Turkey

    Sait Bayrakdar and Ayse Guveli

    1. Migration
    2. Education
    3. Higher Education

  24. Regression with an imputed dependent variable

    Thomas F. Crossley, Peter Levell, and Stavros Poupakis

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Economics
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

  25. Top incomes in the UK: analysis of the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

    1. Demography
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Taxation
    6. Surveys

  26. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  27. Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil

    Sonia Bhalotra, Gabriel Facchini, Aline Menezes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health

  28. The efficiency and distributive effects of local taxes: evidence from Italian municipalities

    Enrico Rubolino

    1. Area Effects
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Taxation

  29. Baseline health and public healthcare costs five years on: a predictive analysis using biomarker data in a prospective household panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

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

  30. Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality

    Sonia Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Selma Walther

    1. Labour Market
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

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