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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.

Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 49 in total

Current search: 'Journal Article' and '2020'

  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. Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England

    Magda Borkowska and James Laurence

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Social Change
    8. Households
    9. Poverty
    10. Public Policy
    11. Ethnic Groups
    12. Well Being
    13. Societies
    14. Social Capital
    15. Health
    16. Life Course Analysis
    17. Social Attitudes
    18. Social Stratification
    19. Social Behaviour
    20. Social Psychology
    21. Covid 19

  3. The changing education distribution and income inequality in Great Britain

    Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Education
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Living Standards
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Is that still the same? Has that changed? On the accuracy of measuring change with dependent interviewing

    Annette Jäckle and Stephanie Eckman

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Generalization of classic question order effects across cultures

    Tobias H. Stark, Henning Silber, Jon A. Krosnick, et al.

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Sociology

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

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

  18. Studying health-related internet and mobile device use using web logs and smartphone records

    Ruben L. Bach and Alexander Wenz

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Demography
    3. Health
    4. Surveys
    5. Social Stratification

  19. How Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Jonathan Burton, Peter Lynn, and Michaela Benzeval

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

  20. A cross-national design to estimate effects of COVID-induced non-pharmacological interventions

    Dean Lillard

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Media
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Economics
    8. Public Policy
    9. Survey Methodology
    10. Research
    11. Health
    12. Surveys
    13. Covid 19

  21. Ethnic diversity in the UK: new opportunities and changing constraints

    Lucinda Platt and Alita Nandi

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Migration
    3. Research
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Surveys

  22. Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England

    Renee Reichl Luthra, Alita Nandi, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Groups
    3. Social Networks
    4. Migration
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour
    8. Race Relations

  23. A longitudinal analysis of ethnic unemployment differentials in the UK

    Simonetta Longhi

    1. Migration
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Ethnic Groups

  24. The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

    Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Migration
    4. Ethnic Groups

  25. Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

    A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, MengZhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  26. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  27. The effects of personalized feedback on participation and reporting in mobile app data collection

    Alexander Wenz, Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Survey Methodology

  28. Evaluating push-to-web methodology for mixed-mode surveys using address-based samples

    Peter Lynn

    1. Households
    2. Survey Methodology

  29. 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

  30. A glass ceiling on poverty reduction? An empirical investigation into the structural constraints on minimum income protections

    Bea Cantillon, Zachary Parolin, and Diego Collado

    1. Unemployment
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Social Policy

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