Publications
Job satisfaction among public sector health employees: Gender, sexual identity and ethnicity (with Mumford, Einarsdóttir, Lockyer, Sayli and Smith). Forthcoming. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 28, (1).
The interplay between child temperament and parenting influences on internalising and externalising difficulties of children: A systematic review of the literature (with Brunsden, Sideli and Trotta). 2025. Current Social Sciences, 3, e2772316X352406. 10.2174/012772316X352406250312083201
Predicting children's emotional and behavioral difficulties at age five using pregnancy and newborn risk factors: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (with Zong, Li and Liu). 2025. Journal of Affective Disorders, 385, 119334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.04.167
Parental gender attitudes and children's mental health: Evidence from the UK household longitudinal study (with Benzeval and Murray). 2024. Social Science & Medicine, 344, 116632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116632
A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study: introduction (with Benzeval and Crossley). 2023. Fiscal Studies, 44, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12355
Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data (with Benzeval and Kumari). 2023. Fiscal Studies, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12354
Domestic violence and women´s earnings in Mexico. 2022. Estudios Económicos, 38(1), 143-165. https://doi.org/10.24201/ee.v38i1.438
The (non) impact of education on marital dissolution. 2022. Review of Economic Analysis, 14(4), 503-523. https://doi.org/10.15353/rea.v14i1.1803
Do changes in divorce legislation have an impact on divorce rates? The case of unilateral divorce in Mexico. 2019. Latin American Economic Review, 28(9). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40503-019-0071-7
Working papers
Pay gaps in the National Health Service: Gender and sexuality (with Mumford, Einarsdóttir, Lockyer, Sayli and Smith). R&R PLOS One. Previous version IZA Discussion Paper No. 14482, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3874354
Mental health in adolescence: What have we learned from the Understanding Society Youth Survey? (with Murray, Booker, Hoxha and Benzeval). Submitted to Journal of Adolescent Health. Available upon request.
On the sharing of sexual identity in the workplace (with Mumford, Einarsdóttir, Lockyer, Sayli and Smith). Submitted to Work, Employment and Society. Available upon request.
Parental psychological distress and early regulatory problems: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (with Benzeval and Bilgin). Submitted to Early Human Development. Previous version available at Open Science Framework: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kdysn
Early childhood socio-emotional skills and life satisfaction in early and late adolescence (with Benzeval and Booker). Available upon request.
The Role of Early-Life Conditions on the Development of Children’s Adaptive Behaviour Skills (with Martínez-Jiménez). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5506978
Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 16: results from methodological experiments and new data (with Vine, Al Baghal, Benzeval, Burton, Butler, Chung, Couper, Coutrot, Delaney, Fowler, Jäckle, Kumari, Lieutaud, Mansfield, Mitchell, Parutis, Payne, Popli, Przybylski, Raj, Ratcliffe, Soetevent, Spiers, van den Berg, Voorintholt and Wang). 2024. Understanding Society Working Paper Series No. 2024-11, Colchester: University of Essex. 10.5526/USOCIETY-2024-011
Work in progress
Child’s fluid intelligence and parental education: The mediating role of children’s mental health (with Cavazos)
Early work, early risks? Adolescent employment and health-risk behaviours in the UK (with Suárez-Martínez)
Child temperament and parenting influences in early childhood (with Brunsden, Sideli and Trotta)
Enhancing access to pregnancy and early childhood data
Understanding Society collects rich longitudinal information on social, economic and behavioural factors. This makes it a unique resource for research on pregnancy and early childhood. We follow families annually, capturing information before and after children are born, as well as detailed data on the entire household. All children living in the household become study participants, allowing researchers to examine siblings using harmonised measures. From age 10 onwards, we collect data directly from children themselves, with even more added as they enter adulthood.
Since 2023, we have released the PEACH file annually, a consolidated dataset that brings together the most relevant pregnancy and early childhood information in one place, significantly strengthening usability and data quality.
The PEACH datafile is available free of charge to researchers through the UK Data Service: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9075#!/details