No more midlife crisis? Young people now report the most distress
Media - August 30, 2025
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Anxious Gen Z reshape ‘illbeing’ curve
Media - August 28, 2025
The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age
Journal Article - August 27, 2025
Living standards and inequality
Report, IFS Report Series, R262 - July 15, 2023
Older UK workers who retired early in pandemic were ‘forced into poverty’
Media - July 7, 2023
Over-50s who retired at start of Covid much poorer, says IFS
Media - July 7, 2023
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022
Report, IFS Report Series, R215 - July 15, 2022
Benefit cuts since 2010 increased UK child poverty in run-up to pandemic, says IFS
Media - July 14, 2022
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2021
Report, IFS Report Series, R194 - July 15, 2021
Material living standards held up surprisingly well through the pandemic on average – but the self-employed, low-income working families, and people from ethnic minority groups suffered increased deprivation
Media - July 8, 2021
Fifth of the population experiencing persistently worse mental health over the course of the pandemic
Media - March 19, 2021
Mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic
Book Chapter, World happiness report 2021, No. 5 - March 15, 2021
The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the UK
Journal Article - September 15, 2020
COVID-19 and inequalities
Journal Article - June 15, 2020
The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, W20/16 - June 10, 2020
UK’s mental health takes 8% hit as a result of COVID-19, study suggests
Media - June 10, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak has ‘substantially’ worsened mental health – study
Media - June 10, 2020
Coronavirus: mental health of women and young hit hardest by pandemic
Media - June 10, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic hits mental health, especially of the young and of women, and widens inequalities
Media - June 10, 2020