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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 42 in total

Current search: 'Young People' and 'Journal Article'

  1. Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

    Min Zhang and Yaojun Li

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Sociology Of Households

  2. Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

    Alina Pelikh and Hill Kulu

    1. Geography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Life Course Analysis

  3. Housing: an under-explored influence on children’s well-being and becoming

    Amy Clair

    1. Young People
    2. Child Development
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Housing Market

  4. Gender differences in the associations between age trends of social media interaction and well-being among 10-15 year olds in the UK

    Cara L. Booker, Yvonne J. Kelly, and Amanda Sacker

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Time Use
    5. Young People
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Social Behaviour

  5. Social media use and adolescent mental health: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Yvonne Kelly, Afshin Zilanawala, Cara L. Booker, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Young People
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  6. Causal effects of transitions to adult roles on early adult smoking and drinking: evidence from three cohorts

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Behaviour

  7. The relationship between socioeconomic status, family income, and measures of muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness in Colombian schoolchildren

    Gavin R. H. Sandercock, Felipe Lobelo, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health
    7. Sport
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Social Mobility

  8. Rare variant analysis of human and rodent obesity genes in individuals with severe childhood obesity

    Audrey E. Hendricks, Elena G. Bochukova, Gaëlle Marenne, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Young People
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  9. Parental and child time investments and the cognitive development of adolescents

    Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini, and Cheti Nicoletti

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Child Development
    4. Economics

  10. Adolescent smoking and tertiary education: opposing pathways linking socio-economic background to alcohol consumption

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  11. Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: a microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

    Daria Popova

    1. Young People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation

  12. Socioeconomic position and early adolescent smoking development: evidence from the British Youth Panel Survey (1994-2008)

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification

  13. The emergence of health inequalities in early adulthood: evidence on timing and mechanisms from a West of Scotland cohort

    Helen Sweeting, Michael Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification

  14. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  15. Patience, self-control and the demand for commitment: evidence from a large-scale field experiment

    Sule Alan and Seda Ertac

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development

  16. The effects of father’s worklessness on young adults in the UK

    Wouter Zwysen

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

  17. Media use, sports participation, and well-being in adolescence: cross-sectional findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, Yvonne J. Kelly, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Sport

  18. Educational aspirations and attitudes over the business cycle

    Mark P. Taylor and Tina Rampino

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Social Attitudes

  19. Nurse or mechanic? The role of parental socialization and children's personality in the formation of sex-typed occupational aspirations

    Javier G. Polavieja and Lucinda Platt

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Child Development

  20. Inter-generational concordance of smoking status between mothers and young people aged 10–15 in the UK

    K. McAloney, H. Graham, C. Law, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Health

  21. The role of smoking for social class inequalities in psychiatric distress across the youth-to-adult transition: a cross-cohort comparison -conference paper abstract-

    Michael Green, Alistair Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  22. Understanding alcohol consumption in a family content -conference paper abstract-

    Cara L. Booker

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Health

  23. Well-being in adolescence - an association with health-related behaviors: findings from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, Amanda Sacker, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  24. Differential effects of baseline drinking status: effects of an alcohol prevention program targeting students and/or parents (PAS) among weekly drinking students

    Ina M. Koning, Peter Lugtig, and Wilma A. M. Vollebergh

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Health

  25. Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK Youth

    Kareena McAloney, Hilary Graham, Catherine Law, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sport

  26. A systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people

    Naomi Priest, Yin Paradies, Brigid Trenerry, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Research
    3. Health
    4. Race Relations

  27. OP06 Opposing processes contingent on early smoking: a cross-cohort comparison of socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol use across the youth-to-adult transition

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Groups
    3. Young People
    4. Health

  28. Socioeconomic position and adolescent trajectories in smoking, drinking, and psychiatric distress

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  29. The effect of parental employment on child schooling

    John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households

  30. Neighbourhood deprivation and adolescent self-esteem: exploration of the ‘socio-economic equalisation in youth’ hypothesis in Britain and Canada

    James H. Fagg, Sarah E. Curtis, Steven Cummins, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being

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