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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 62 in total

Current search: 'Journal Article' and '2020'

  1. The association between parity, CVD mortality and CVD risk factors among Norwegian women and men

    Øystein Kravdal, Aage Tverdal, and Emily Grundy

    1. Households
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis

  2. Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study

    Cara L. Booker, Leanne Andrews, Gillian Green, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving

  3. Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex

    Gemma L. Shireby, Jonathan P. Davies, Paul T. Francis, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  4. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-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

  5. But what about that nice house you own? The impact of asset tests in minimum income schemes in Europe: an empirical exploration

    Sarah Marchal, Sarah Kuypers, Ive Marx, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  6. Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michaela Benzeval, Kirsten Hainey, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Covid 19

  7. Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals

    Praveen Surendran, Elena V. Feofanova, Najim Lahrouchi, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  8. 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

  9. Work incentives at the extensive and intensive margin in Europe: the role of taxes, benefits and population characteristics

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Katrin Gasior, and Mattia Makovec

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  10. Academic and non-academic investments at university: the role of expectations, preferences and constraints

    Adeline Delavande, Emilia Del Bono, and Angus Holford

    1. Time Use
    2. Economics
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

    Annette Jäckle and Stephanie Eckman

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Surveys

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Generalization of classic question order effects across cultures

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

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Sociology

  19. Views on social media and its linkage to longitudinal data from two generations of a UK cohort study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

    Nina H. Di Cara, Andy Boyd, Alastair R. Tanner, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Young People
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

  20. 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

  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. The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU

    Salvador Barrios, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Is the secularization research programme progressing? Debate on Jörg Stolz’s article on secularization theories in the 21st century: ideas, evidence, and problems

    David Voas

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Religion
    3. Social Change
    4. Research

  26. 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

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

    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. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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