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Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences
Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, S. Fleur W. Meddens, Robbee Wedow
The health toll on ‘sandwich generation’ of carers
Great Britain. Office for National Statistics Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
People caring for older and younger relatives at higher risk of mental illness
Great Britain. Office for National Statistics Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
Overstretched 'sandwich carers' trying to help parents and children
Great Britain. Office for National Statistics Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci
A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, MengZhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, Daniel R. Barnes, Gauri Datta
Written evidence from Understanding Society the UK Household Longitudinal Study (WSN0051) [Work and Pensions Select Committee. Welfare safety net inquiry]
Life satisfaction and the UK citizenship process: do tests and ceremonies enhance immigrants’ lives?
House of the rising son (or daughter): the impact of parental wealth on their children’s homeownership
Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit take-up rates 2016-17
The prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: a longitudinal analysis
Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra
The bedroom tax
Stephen Gibbons, Maria Sanchez-Vidal, Olmo Silva
Smoking among adults with and without disabilities in the UK
Relative density of away from home food establishments and food spend for 24,047 households in England: a cross-sectional study
Tarra L. Penney, Thomas Burgoine, Pablo Monsivais
The UK citizenship process: political integration or marginalization?
Why 2017 may have witnessed a Youthquake after all
Patrick Sturgis, Will Jennings
Exome chip meta-analysis fine maps causal variants and elucidates the genetic architecture of rare coding variants in smoking and alcohol use
David M. Brazel, Yu Jiang, Jordan M. Hughey, Valérie Turcot, Xiaowei Zhan
Want your own home? Have wealthy parents
Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals
Victoria Garfield, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Caroline Dale, Melissa Smart, Yanchun Bao
Flexible working and unpaid overtime in the UK: the role of gender, parental and occupational status
Heejung Chung, Mariska van der Horst
Ethnic disparities in neighbourhood selection: understanding the role of income
Rory Coulter, William A.V. Clark
Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015)
Expectations for family transitions in young adulthood among the UK second generation
Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England
Renee Reichl Luthra, Alita Nandi, Michaela Benzeval