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  1. A watershed moment for social policy and human rights? Where next for the UK post-COVID

    Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, and Bran Knowles

    1. Politics
    2. Law And Legislation
    3. Information And Communication Technologies
    4. Social Exclusion
    5. Social Inclusion
    6. Economics
    7. Poverty
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Government
    11. Well Being
    12. Societies
    13. Health
    14. Housing Market
    15. Covid 19

  2. Home carers' mental health worsened during lockdown

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  3. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  4. Community spirit in the age of Covid

    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

  5. Mental health of mothers more negatively affected by Covid school closures than fathers, research finds

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  6. 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

  7. Lockdown school closures hit mental health of mums but not dads, study claims

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  8. Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

    Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Caregiving

  9. Covid lockdown school closures ‘hit mothers’ mental health but left fathers unaffected’

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  10. Covid school closures damaged mothers’ mental health

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  11. School closures and parents’ mental health

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  12. Local pay and teacher retention in England

    Joshua Fullard and James Zuccollo

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Labour Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Covid 19

  13. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

    1. Households
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  14. Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers -PhD thesis-

    Paulino Font-Gilabert

    1. Insurance
    2. Human Capital
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Households
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Childbearing: Fertility
    9. Health

  15. Estimating the distributional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the remedial tax and benefit policies on poverty in Indonesia

    Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Health
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Covid 19

  16. School closures and children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  17. A microsimulation analysis of the distributional impact over the three waves of the COVID-19 crisis in Ireland

    Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa M. Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Covid 19

  18. Housing and health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in England

    Amy Clair and Adam Tinson

    1. Psychology
    2. Poverty
    3. Living Standards
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Housing Market
    8. Covid 19

  19. New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  20. Children will need further help with mental health despite return of schools, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  21. Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  22. Back to school: 'It's nice to see my friends'

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  23. Schools return in England: Boris Johnson hails first steps to freedom

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  24. School closures negatively affected children's mental health, research suggests

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  25. Are UK immigrants selected on education, skills, health and social networks?

    Renee Reichl Luthra and Lucinda Platt

    1. Social Networks
    2. Human Capital
    3. Migration
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Ethnic Groups
    8. Social Capital
    9. Health
    10. Social Stratification
    11. Higher Education

  26. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  27. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  28. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  29. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  30. The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: evidence from high quality panel data

    Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Fisher, and Hamish Low

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Health
    10. Economic Policy
    11. Covid 19

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