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  1. Taking cover: human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance

    Paulino Font-Gilabert

    1. Insurance
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Education
    5. Child Development
    6. Households
    7. Poverty
    8. Health

  2. Good neighbours? No, UK’s community spirit fell in summer Covid lockdown

    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

  3. 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

  4. Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

    Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Lisa Spantig

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  5. 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

  6. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context

    Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Households
    8. Living Standards
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Covid 19

  7. 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

  8. Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

    Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, and Sara Riscado

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Poverty
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Microsimulation

  9. 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

  10. A cross-national design to estimate effects of COVID-induced non-pharmacological interventions

    Dean Lillard

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Media
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Economics
    8. Public Policy
    9. Survey Methodology
    10. Research
    11. Health
    12. Surveys
    13. Covid 19

  11. When does hate hurt the most? Generational differences in the association between ethnic and racial harassment, ethnic attachment, and mental health

    Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Migration
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Well Being
    10. Social Psychology
    11. Race Relations

  12. Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

    Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, and Sara Riscado

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Poverty
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Welfare Benefits
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Microsimulation

  13. Who benefits from host country skills? Evidence of heterogeneous labour market returns to host country skills by migrant motivation

    Wouter Zwysen and Neli Demireva

    1. Geography
    2. Human Capital
    3. Migration
    4. Labour Market
    5. Sociology

  14. 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

  15. Insights 2019-20: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Social Inclusion
    5. Migration
    6. Social Change
    7. Labour Market
    8. Households
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Surveys
    15. Sociology Of Households
    16. Race Relations
    17. Social Mobility

  16. Foreword: capturing the complexity of the UK

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Geography
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Social Change
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Surveys
    12. Sociology Of Households
    13. Social Mobility

  17. Improving population and sub-group coverage: who is missing and what can be done about it?

    Magda Borkowska

    1. Geography
    2. Demography
    3. Survey Methodology

  18. 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

  19. The impact of minimum wage upratings on wage growth and the wage distribution. A report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

    Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Wages And Earnings

  20. Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: evidence from England

    Alexander Plum and Gundi Knies

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Wages And Earnings

  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. Migration versus immobility, and ties to parents

    John Ermisch and Clara H. Mulder

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Demography
    4. Migration
    5. Households
    6. Sociology
    7. Housing Market

  23. Broadband Internet and social capital

    Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Geography
    3. Social Change
    4. Social Capital
    5. Arts
    6. Social Behaviour

  24. Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

    Alina Pelikh and Hill Kulu

    1. Geography
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Households
    5. Life Course Analysis

  25. Neighborhood deprivation and biomarkers of health in Britain: the mediating role of the physical environment

    M. Pia Chaparro, Michaela Benzeval, Elizabeth Richardson, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  26. Coresidence with a child and happiness among older widows in Europe: does gender of the child matter?

    Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Well Being
    6. Sociology Of Households

  27. MINDMAP: establishing an integrated database infrastructure for research in ageing, mental well-being, and the urban environment

    Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Dany Doiron, Isabel Fortier, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Urban Sociology
    5. Geography
    6. Research
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Surveys

  28. Loneliness among Polish migrants in the Netherlands: the impact of presence and location of partners and offspring

    Thijs van den Broek and Emily Grundy

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Social Exclusion
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Well Being
    8. Sociology Of Households

  29. Geographical data

    Gundi Knies

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Surveys

  30. The social determinants of health: an empirical analysis of ethnic and spatial inequalities in health -PhD thesis-

    Natasha M. Crawford

    1. Geography
    2. Demography
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Biology

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