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Displaying Publications 31 - 60 of 238 in total

Current search: '2016'

  1. Ethnic and racial harassment and mental health: identifying sources of resilience

    Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Religion
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Well Being
    7. Social Capital
    8. Health
    9. Social Stratification
    10. Social Behaviour
    11. Social Psychology
    12. Race Relations

  2. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

  3. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

  4. Intended vs. unintended consequences of migration restriction policies: evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

    Mattia Makovec, Ririn Purnamasari, Matteo Sandi, et al.

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Human Capital
    3. Rural Economics
    4. Migration
    5. Labour Market
    6. Economics
    7. Poverty
    8. Living Standards
    9. Public Policy
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Household Economics
    12. International Economic Relations
    13. Race Relations

  5. Our boys need to be rescued, and it’ll take a new kind of role model

    Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister, et al.

  6. The CBI has been accused of "hypocrisy" over staff diversity by a centre-right think tank

    Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister, et al.

  7. CBI’s all-white leadership challenged on diversity call

    Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister, et al.

  8. Apparently women are more likely to cheat on guys who don’t do household chores

     Man Yee Kan and Heather Laurie

  9. Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria

    Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation

  10. Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

    Gundi Knies, Alita Nandi, and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Ethnic Groups
    3. Well Being

  11. Assessing cortisol from hair samples in a large observational cohort: the Whitehall II study

    Jessica G. Abell, Tobias Stalder, Jane E. Ferrie, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  12. Variations in cognitive abilities across the life course: cross-sectional evidence from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Elise Whitley, Ian J. Deary, Stuart J. Ritchie, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  13. The CIRCORT database: reference ranges and seasonal changes in diurnal salivary cortisol derived from a meta-dataset comprised of 15 field studies

    Robert Miller, Tobias Stalder, Marc Jarczok, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  14. Insights 2016: findings from the largest longitudinal study of UK households

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Social Change
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Research
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Surveys

  15. Introduction

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Politics
    2. Social Change
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Households
    6. Public Policy
    7. Research
    8. Societies
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Surveys

  16. Migration: how does selectivity affect the educational attainment of migrant's children?

    Nicole Martin

    1. Migration
    2. Education
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Higher Education

  17. Family instability throughout childhood: building a more detailed picture

    Mike Brewer, Alita Nandi, Seetha Menon, et al.

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Young People
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution
    5. Life Course Analysis

  18. Parents' health and children's help

    John Ermisch

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Social Networks
    4. Households
    5. Health
    6. Caregiving

  19. Bittersweet success? Glass ceilings for Britain’s ethnic minorities at the top of business and the professions

    Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister, et al.

    1. Management: Business
    2. Labour Market
    3. Ethnic Groups

  20. Devolution - a route to better policy making: case studies

    Raj Patel

    1. Politics
    2. Environmental Sociology
    3. Law And Legislation
    4. Area Effects
    5. Public Policy
    6. Government
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Taxation
    10. Commuting

  21. About the study: ten key features

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    1. Social Sciences
    2. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
    3. Households
    4. Research
    5. Surveys

  22. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Policy

  23. Mit der Höhe des Taschengelds: wie Eltern ihre Kinder besteuern

    Angus Holford

  24. Fieldwork experiments to boost web response

    Jonathan Burton

  25. Results for web/face-to-face linkage consent questions in the Innovation Panel

    Jonathan Burton

  26. Does repeated measurement improve income data quality?

    Paul Fisher

    1. Economics
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Income Dynamics

  27. Non-standard work: what’s it worth? Comparing alternative measures of workers’ marginal willingness to pay

    Mark L. Bryan and Andrea Geraci

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being

  28. Marriage after Trump: the 2016 race has turned the battle of the sexes into an all-out war

     Man Yee Kan and Anthony Heath

  29. Alternative measures to BMI: exploring income-related inequalities in adiposity in Great Britain

    Apostolos Davillas and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Income Dynamics
    2. Health
    3. Finance
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  30. How do biomarkers and genetics contribute to Understanding Society? -25th Anniversary editorial-

    Michaela Benzeval, Meena Kumari, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Research
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Surveys
    7. Biology
    8. Genetics

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