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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 101 in total

Current search: 'Older People'

  1. The relationship between cognitive decline and a genetic predictor of educational attainment

    Xuejie Ding, Nicola Barban, Felix C. Tropf, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Education
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Genetics

  2. How do participants understand and interpret questions about "retirement planning"?

    Lindsay Abbassian, Beth Dokal, Lucy Joyce, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Household Economics

  3. Intergenerational contacts and depressive symptoms among older parents in Eastern Europe

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Well Being
    5. Social Behaviour

  4. Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive capability at older ages: individual participant meta-analysis of five cohorts

    Michael Gardner, Stafford Lightman, Diana Kuh, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  5. Social support and trajectories of body mass index and waist to hip ratio from mid-adulthood to old age

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Meena Kumari, Rachel Batterham, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  6. 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

  7. Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study – Written evidence (IFP0021) [House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision]

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Economics
    5. Savings And Assets
    6. Taxation
    7. Housing Market

  8. Household debt and depressive symptoms among older adults in three continental European countries

    Aapo Hiilamo and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance

  9. Population priorities for successful aging: a randomized vignette experiment

    Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Frank Popham

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  10. Insights 2018-19: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Older People
    3. Social Change
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Surveys
    8. Sociology Of Households

  11. Drivers of poverty entry and persistence among older people in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  12. Fertility history and physical and mental health changes in European older adults

    Katherine Keenan and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  13. 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

  14. Retirement and socioeconomic differences in diurnal cortisol: longitudinal evidence from a cohort of British civil servants

    Tarani Chandola, Patrick Rouxel, Michael G. Marmot, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Biology

  15. Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  16. Socio-economic trajectories and cardiovascular disease mortality in older people: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    Silvia Stringhini, Paola Zaninotto, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification

  17. 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

  18. Associations of successful aging with socioeconomic position across the life-course: the West of Scotland Twenty-07 prospective cohort study

    Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Frank Popham

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification

  19. Changes in spending and labor supply in response to a Social Security benefit cut: evidence from stated choice

    Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  20. 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

  21. Causal effects of the timing of life-course events: age at retirement and subsequent health

    Nicola Barban, X. de Luna, E. Lundholm, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis

  22. In or out? Poverty dynamics among older individuals in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics

  23. Vitamin D and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomisation study

    Jane Maddock, Ang Zhou, Alana Cavadino, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Genetics

  24. 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

  25. The health benefits of a targeted cash transfer: the UK Winter Fuel Payment

    Thomas F. Crossley and Federico Zilio

    1. Older People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  26. Epigenetic profiles, ageing and social position

    Amanda Hughes

    1. Older People
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  27. Population ageing in Europe

    Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy

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

  28. Essays in labour economics: school leaving, unemployment and retirement -PhD thesis-

    Alberto Tumino

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  29. Essays in the microeconometric evaluation of public policies -PhD thesis-

    Federico Zilio

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Health
    8. Housing Market
    9. Biology

  30. Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe

    Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior, Eszter Zolyomi, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Policy

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