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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: health and caring

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  14. 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

  15. Britons with life-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  16. The health impact of the pandemic: NHS hospital treatments for long-term health conditions fall by over 60% in April

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  17. 60% of cancer patients miss treatment during first month of the pandemic

    Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, and Meena Kumari

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Caregiving
    8. Covid 19

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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