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Consideration of environmental factors in reflections on car purchases: attitudinal, behavioural and sociodemographic predictors among a large UK sample
Samuel Chng, Mathew P. White, Charles Abraham, Stephen Skippon
Sexual identity and wellbeing: a distributional analysis
Samuel Mann, David Blackaby, Nigel O’Leary
Cognitive ability as a moderator of the association between social disadvantage and psychological distress: evidence from a population-based sample
Stable traits but unstable measures? Identifying panel effects in self-reflective survey questions
The health effects of Sure Start
Sarah Cattan, Gabriella Conti, Christine Farquharson, Rita Ginja
The moderating effect of childhood disadvantage on the associations between smoking and occupational exposure and lung function; a cross sectional analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)
Caroline Carney, Michaela Benzeval
The disutility of commuting? The effect of gender and local labor markets
Nikita Jacob, Luke Munford, Nigel Rice, Jennifer Roberts
Socioeconomic status and the structure of the self-concept
Matthew J. Easterbrook, Toon Kuppens, Antony S. R. Manstead
Parental responses to information about school quality: evidence from linked survey and administrative data
Ellen Greaves, Iftikhar Hussain, Birgitta Rabe, Imran Rasul
Examining the link between flexible working arrangement bundles and employee work effort
Argyro Avgoustaki, Ioulia Bessa
Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis
Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, Zhongmin Wu
Early-life inequalities and biological ageing: a multisystem Biological Health Score approach in Understanding Society
Maryam Karimi, Raphaële Castagné, Cyrille Delpierre, Gaëlle Albertus, Eloïse Berger
The dynamics of income inequality: the case of China in a comparative perspective
Tak Wing Chan, John Ermisch, Rob Gruijters
Exploring changes in active travel uptake and cessation across the lifespan: longitudinal evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey
Chance Taylor Pistoll, Steven Cummins
Returns to work after retirement: a prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom
Loretta G. Platts, Laurie M. Corna, Diana Worts, Peggy McDonough, Debora Price
Biology and being green: the effect of prenatal testosterone exposure on pro-environmental consumption behaviour
Baseline health and public healthcare costs five years on: a predictive analysis using biomarker data in a prospective household panel
Apostolos Davillas, Stephen Pudney
Charitable behaviour and political ideology: evidence for the UK
Information, expectations and transition to higher education: final report
Adeline Delavande, Laura Fumagalli
Intergenerational social mobility and allostatic load in Great Britain
Patrick Präg, Lindsay Richards
The authors reply
Amanda Hughes, Yanchun Bao, Melissa Smart, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, Eilis Hannon
Does the higher education expansion in the UK reduce the returns to education? A comparison of returning-from-work versus fresh out-of-school graduates
Does repeated measurement improve income data quality?
Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society
The adult skills gap: is falling investment in UK adults stalling social mobility?
Daria Luchinskaya, Peter Dickinson