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  1. 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

  2. How has the Covid-19 crisis impacted parents’ relationships with their children?

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  3. Weird but true: lockdown has made many families happier

    Brienna Perelli-Harris and Sandra Walzenbach

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Covid 19

  4. Understanding families' lives across the lifecourse: the value of panel studies. Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Life Course Analysis
    2. Surveys
    3. Sociology Of Households

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Sociology Of Households

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Hebdomadal patterns of compensatory behaviour: weekday and weekend housework participation in Canada, 1986-2010

    Kamila Kolpashnikova and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Time Use
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Sociology Of Households

  11. A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991–2017

    Muzhi Zhou and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Labour Market
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Sociology Of Households

  12. Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood

    Øystein Kravdal and Emily Grundy

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Sociology Of Households

  13. Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

    Min Zhang and Yaojun Li

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Sociology Of Households

  14. 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

  15. The puzzle of high political partisanship among ethnic minority young people in Great Britain

    Nicole Martin and Jonathan Mellon

    1. Politics
    2. Social Groups
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Migration
    5. Young People
    6. Ethnic Groups
    7. Sociology Of Households

  16. Social politics: the importance of the family for naturalisation decisions of the 1.5 generation

    Thomas Soehl, Roger Waldinger, and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Migration
    2. Ethnic Groups
    3. Sociology Of Households

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. The impact of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States

    Dan Brown and Elisabetta De Cao

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Young People
    3. Unemployment
    4. Sociology Of Households

  21. Who is doing the housework in multicultural Britain?

     Man Yee Kan and Heather Laurie

    1. Ethnic Groups
    2. Sociology Of Households

  22. Does postpartum depression predict emotional and cognitive difficulties in 11 year olds?

    Maria Elena Komodromou

    1. Psychology
    2. Child Development
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  23. Do improved property rights decrease violence against women in India?

    S. Amaral

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Social Behaviour
    5. Sociology Of Households

  24. 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

  25. Housework share between partners: experimental evidence on gender-specific preferences

    Katrin Auspurg, Maria Iacovou, and Cheti Nicoletti

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households

  26. Explaining the persistence of Labour Party partisanship among young ethnic minorities

    Nicole Martin

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Young People
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Sociology Of Households

  27. Fertility expectations and residential mobility in Britain

    John Ermisch and Fiona Steele

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Housing Market
    6. Sociology Of Households

  28. A sociological analysis of associations between the family and well-being: roles, responsibilities, and relationships -PhD thesis-

    Debbie Hart

    1. Well Being
    2. Sociology Of Households
    3. Social Psychology

  29. British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption

    Paul Fisher

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Taxation
    4. Sociology Of Households

  30. Gender, ethnicity and household labour in married and cohabiting couples in the UK

     Man Yee Kan and Heather Laurie

    1. Ethnic Groups
    2. Sociology Of Households

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