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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 72 in total

Current search: 'Journal Article' and '2020'

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  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. Random effects dynamic panel models for unequally spaced multivariate categorical repeated measures: an application to child-parent exchanges of support

    Fiona Steele and Emily Grundy

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Social Networks
    3. Demography
    4. Households
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Surveys

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Establishing reference intervals for triglyceride-containing lipoprotein subfraction metabolites measured using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in a UK population

    Roshni Joshi, Goya Wannamethee, Jorgen Engmann, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Health

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

    Annette Jäckle and Stephanie Eckman

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Generalization of classic question order effects across cultures

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

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Sociology

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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