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Current search: 'Well Being' and 'ISER Working Paper Series'

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Does postpartum depression affect employment?

    Maria Elena Komodromou

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  8. Does postpartum depression predict emotional and cognitive difficulties in 11 year olds?

    Maria Elena Komodromou

    1. Psychology
    2. Child Development
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  9. Income effects on children’s life satisfaction: longitudinal evidence for England

    Gundi Knies

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Household Economics
    5. Well Being

  10. Ethnic and racial harassment and mental health: identifying sources of resilience

    Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Religion
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Well Being
    7. Social Capital
    8. Health
    9. Social Stratification
    10. Social Behaviour
    11. Social Psychology
    12. Race Relations

  11. Non-standard work: what’s it worth? Comparing alternative measures of workers’ marginal willingness to pay

    Mark L. Bryan and Andrea Geraci

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being

  12. Retirement and cognitive abilities

    Alberto Tumino

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  13. Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing

    Mark L. Bryan and Alita Nandi

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  14. Back to Bentham: should we? Large-scale comparison of decision versus experienced utility for income-leisure preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  15. Partnership dissolution: how does it affect income, employment and well-being?

    Mike Brewer and Alita Nandi

    1. Living Standards
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Well Being

  16. Unfinished lives: the effect of domestic violence on neonatal & infant mortality

    Seetha Menon

    1. Child Development
    2. Well Being

  17. Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

    Gundi Knies, Alita Nandi, and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Ethnic Groups
    3. Well Being

  18. Where you go depends on where you come from: the influence of father’s employment status on young adult’s labour market experiences

    Wouter Zwysen

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Sociology Of Households

  19. Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK

    Gundi Knies

    1. Young People
    2. Well Being

  20. Impact of cultural diversity on wages and job satisfaction in England

    Simonetta Longhi

    1. Area Effects
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Well Being

  21. Financial capability, income and psychological wellbeing

    Mark P. Taylor, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Amanda Sacker

    1. Household Economics
    2. Well Being
    3. Finance

  22. Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples

     Man Yee Kan and Heather Laurie

    1. Savings And Assets
    2. Household Economics
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Well Being

  23. An experimental analysis of the impact of survey design on measures and models of subjective wellbeing

    Stephen Pudney

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Well Being

  24. Perception and retrospection: the dynamic consistency of responses to survey questions on wellbeing

    Stephen Pudney

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Well Being

  25. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! Survey design and the analysis of satisfaction

    Gabriella Conti and Stephen Pudney

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Well Being

  26. Does size matter? The influence of firm size on working conditions and job satisfaction

    Carlos Garcia-Serrano

    1. Labour Market
    2. Well Being

  27. Job satisfaction and family happiness: the part-time work puzzle

    Alison L. Booth and Jan C. van Ours

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Well Being

  28. Keeping up with the Schmidts: an empirical test of relative deprivation theory in the neighbourhood context

    Gundi Knies, Simon Burgess, and Carol Propper

    1. Area Effects
    2. Well Being

  29. The psychological costs of unsustainable housing commitments

    Mark P. Taylor, David J. Pevalin, and Jennifer Todd

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Housing Market

  30. Tell me why I don't like Mondays: investigating day of the week effects on job satisfaction and psychological well-being

    Mark P. Taylor

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

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