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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
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 disutility of commuting? The effect of gender and local labor markets
Nikita Jacob, Luke Munford, Nigel Rice, Jennifer Roberts
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
The dynamics of income inequality: the case of China in a comparative perspective
Tak Wing Chan, John Ermisch, Rob Gruijters
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
Proportion of children living with at least one parent reporting emotional distress. Details, methodology and supporting information
Data tables: children living with parents in emotional distress, 2019 update
Statistical commentary: children living with parents in emotional distress, 2019 update
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
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?
Can cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital
Distributional consequences of technological change: worker-level evidence
The dynamics and determinants of bullying victimisation
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015)
A longitudinal analysis of ethnic unemployment differentials in the UK
Mental health and the response to financial incentives: evidence from a survey incentives experiment
Claryn S.J. Kung, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields