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Institute for Social and Economic Research

The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time. ISER is a department of the University of Essex and is core-funded by the University and the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ISER also carries out research for other agencies, including UK and other national government departments, the EU and commercial organisations.

Research Papers

Inequality in pupils’ educational attainment: How much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter? (August 2010)  More+

Who delays childbearing? The relationship between fertility, education and personal traits (June 2010)  More+

Causal effects of parents' education on children's education (May 2010)  More+

Family, friends and personal communities; changing models-in-the-mind (April 2010)  More+

The rising share of non-marital births: is it only compositional effects? (August 2009)  More+

Staying together for the sake of the home? House price shocks and partnership dissolution in the UK (November 2008)  More+

Do Strong Family Ties Inhibit Trust? (November 2008)  More+

Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation (July 2008)  More+

Unemployment and partnership dissolution (July 2008)  More+

Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes: The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education and Poverty (May 2008)  More+

Why educated mothers don't make educated children: a statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling (March 2008)  More+

Marital splits and income changes over the longer term (February 2008)  More+

Does housework lower wages and why? Evidence for Britain (January 2008)  More+

Assisted reproductive technologies in a model of fertility choice (January 2008)  More+

Clash of career and family: fertility decisions after job displacement (December 2007)  More+

Return to work after childbirth: does parental leave matter in Europe? (November 2007)  More+

Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle (September 2007)  More+

Can Anyone Be “The” One? Field Evidence on Dating Behavior (September 2007)  More+

Older Couples' Labour Market Reactions to Family Disruptions (April 2007)  More+

Intra-household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments (November 2006)  More+

The impact of institutions on motherhood and work (November 2006)  More+

Child support and non-resident fathers' contact with their children (October 2006)  More+

Socio-economic differences in postponement and recuperation of fertility in Italy: Results from a multi-spell random effect model (September 2006)  More+

Working women, men's home time and lowest-low fertility (May 2006)  More+

Fairness in the Family: Implications for parent-adult child interactions (April 2006)  More+

Measuring housework participation: The gap between "stylised" questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates (April 2006)  More+

The impact of internal migration on married couples' earning in Britain, with a comparison to the United States (March 2006)  More+

Work orientation and wives' employment careers: an evaluation of Hakim's preference theory (December 2005)  More+

Is there a glass ceiling over Europe? An exploration of asymmetries in the gender pay gap across the wages distribution (November 2005)  More+

Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: Evidence for Germany (November 2005)  More+

Education and the timing of births: Evidence from a natural experiment in Italy (October 2005)  More+

Differences in delaying motherhood across European countries: Empirical evidence from the ECHP (May 2005)  More+

Marriage and wages (February 2005)  More+

The gender gap in private pensions (December 2004)  More+

Lost jobs, broken marriages (September 2004)  More+

Parent and adult-child interactions: Empirical evidence from Britain (March 2004)  More+

And in the evening she's a singer with the band: Second jobs - plight or pleasure? (March 2004)  More+

Mental health, teenage motherhood, and age at first birth among British women in the 1990s (November 2003)  More+

Does a 'teen-birth' have longer-term impacts on the mother? Suggestive evidence from the British Household Panel Study (November 2003)  More+

Outcomes in childhood and adulthood by mother's age at birth: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study (October 2003)  More+

Who has a child as a teenager? (October 2003)  More+

Early motherhood and disadvantage: A comparison between ethnic groups (October 2003)  More+

Does a 'teen-birth' have longer-term impacts on the mother? Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study (October 2003)  More+

An economic model of child custody (August 2003)  More+

Women's employment around birth of the first child in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan (July 2003)  More+

Are young Europeans less likely to live with a partner as their educational attainment level increases? (April 2003)  More+

Personal communities: Not simply families of 'fate' or 'choice' (March 2003)  More+

Time, through the lifecourse, in the family (February 2003)  More+

Single mothers (December 2002)  More+

An evaluation of the childhood family structure measures from the sixth wave of the British Household Panel Survey (November 2002)  More+

The material returns to partnership: The effects of educational matching on labour market outcomes and gender equality (November 2002)  More+

The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment (October 2002)  More+

The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment: Evidence from Germany (October 2002)  More+

Trying again: Repartnering after dissolution of a union (October 2002)  More+

Human capital, marriage and regression (September 2002)  More+

Intergenerational mobility and Assortative mating in Britain (March 2002)  More+

Fertility and female labour supply (October 2001)  More+

Leaving home in the European Union (October 2001)  More+

Family composition and children's educational outcomes (June 2001)  More+

Family formation in multi-cultural Britain: Three patterns of diversity (November 2000)  More+

Personal relationships and marriage expectations: Evidence from the 1998 British Household Panel Study (September 2000)  More+

The impact of cohabitation and divorce on partners' labour force participation: Comparing Britain with Flanders (July 2000)  More+

Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study (July 2000)  More+

Who marries whom in Great Britain? (May 2000)  More+

 

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