Publications
Parental gender attitudes and children's mental health: Evidence from the UK household longitudinal study. 2024. Social Science & Medicine, 344, 116632 (with Michaela Benzeval and Aja Murray) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116632
A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study: introduction. 2023. Fiscal Studies, 44, 1–24 (with Michaela Benzeval and Thomas F. Crossley) https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12355
Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data. 2023. Fiscal Studies, 00, 1–17 (with Michaela Benzeval and Meena Kumari) 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
Discussion Papers and Work in Progress
Breastfeeding and child adaptive behaviour (with Mario Martinez-Jimenez)
Pay gaps in the National Health Service: The puzzle of observability and disclosure (with Karen Mumford, Anna Einarsdottir, Melisa Sayli and Benjamin Smith), IZA Discussion Paper, 14882, June 2021 https://ftp.iza.org/dp14482.pdf
Current work
Understanding Society collects information on a wide range of social, economic and behavioural factors. Our data represents a unique opportunity to conduct novel research on pregnancy and early childhood as we collect annual information from before and after children are born and on the whole family, providing family context on children growing up. In addition, all children in the household are Understanding Society participants, having the same information on siblings; and at age 10 we start collecting data directly from children and even more when they are adults. We have been improving users’ access to key valuable information on pregnancy and early childhood. Our aim is to boost opportunities for researchers interested in child development topics to easily engage with our data. We have released a new file, the PEACH file, where most of the relevant information is provided together in one place, strengthening its quality.
The PEACH datafile is now available for researchers through the UK Data Service: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9075#!/details