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  1. Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

    A. Kapilashrami, M. Otis, D. Omodara, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Covid 19

  2. 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

  3. Does more free childcare help parents work more?

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

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Caregiving

  4. Welfare within families beyond households: intergenerational exchanges of practical and financial support in the UK

    Tania Burchardt, Fiona Steele, Emily Grundy, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Geography
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Finance
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Sociology Of Households
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Mobility

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

  10. Briefing note COVID-19 Survey: the economic effects

    Thomas F. Crossley, Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Savings And Assets
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Household Economics
    11. Debt: Indebtedness
    12. Health
    13. Finance
    14. Caregiving
    15. Covid 19

  11. The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

    Ben Etheridge and Lisa Spantig

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Demography
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Caregiving
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Covid 19

  12. Single mothers and lowest paid hit hardest by loss of income in Covid-19 crisis

    Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, and Hamish Low

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Savings And Assets
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Household Economics
    11. Debt: Indebtedness
    12. Health
    13. Finance
    14. Caregiving
    15. Covid 19

  13. Maternal depression in rural Pakistan: the protective associations with cultural postpartum practices

    Katherine LeMasters, Nafeesa Andrabi, Ashley Hagaman, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Rural Sociology
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour
    8. Sociology Of Households
    9. Caregiving

  14. Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

    Yuliya Kazakova

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Caregiving

  15. What influences mothers’ decisions about returning to work after having a baby? Understanding the role of childcare in returning to employment – an Understanding Society and Coram Family and Childcare briefing

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    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Households
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Household Economics
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Sociology Of Households
    10. Caregiving

  16. What is shared care?

    Tina Haux and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Social Change
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Caregiving

  17. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  18. Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Tarani Chandola, Cara L. Booker, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Sociology Of Labour
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Biology

  19. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  20. Informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol: results from the Whitehall II cohort study

    Jesper Mortensen, Nadya Dich, Alice Jessie Clark, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Caregiving
    3. Biology

  21. Parental health limitations, caregiving and loneliness among women with widowed parents: longitudinal evidence from France

    Thijs van den Broek and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Caregiving

  22. Grandmothers' labor supply

    Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Caregiving

  23. Grandmothers' labor supply

    Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Caregiving

  24. Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers

    Mike Brewer and Sarah Cattan

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Caregiving

  25. The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

    Francesco Figari and Edlira Narazani

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Finance
    9. Caregiving

  26. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

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

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  27. Does free childcare help parents work?

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

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  28. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

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

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  29. Parents' health and children's help

    John Ermisch

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

  30. The distributive effects of work-family life policies in European welfare states

    Tine Hufkens, Gerlinde Verbist, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Caregiving

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