Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
by Chris Garrington New research from the Equal Lives project suggests initiatives to support disadvantaged families should focus on supporting job success rather than on marriage guidance. Government programmes which have targeted individual families to support relationship stability may Continue Reading …
New Equal Lives study finds we did become a little bit more egalitarian during Lockdown 1 but many women ended up doing more than their fair share again once restrictions eased. The research led by Equal Lives PI Professor Susan Continue Reading …
New paper from Equal Lives’ Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang shows place more important than time in unstable family and working lives Across Europe the stability of people’s working and family lives largely stayed the same from generation to Continue Reading …
Equal Lives researchers Zafer Büyükkeçeci and Thomas Leopold have published new research on the family formation influence that siblings have on each other. This study looked at whether getting married, having children or getting divorced is likely to influence a sibling Continue Reading …
Newly-published research from Equal Lives’ Zafer Büyükkeçeci examines different country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic The research used the COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs survey to look at the anxiety levels and behaviour responses of nearly 100,000 people in 54 countries Continue Reading …
Equal Lives research uses new method to see whether employment life-courses converge after reunification in the former East Germany and West Germany. Assessing and analysing the different paths that groups of people follow in life and comparing these in a Continue Reading …
Equal Lives researchers Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang publish new research showing links between motherhood and wage penalties. New research (open access) published by the Equal Lives team in the Journal of Marriage and Family adds further weight to Continue Reading …
New research published in Demography shows that when an individual has a baby can be directly linked to the fertility decisions not only of their closest family and colleagues, but of wider networks. Continue Reading …
Episode 1 of our Equal Lives Series of the DIAL Podcast discusses research from Marika Jalovaara and Anette Fasang on Family Life Courses, Gender and Mid-Life earnings. Continue Reading …
Research by Akleksi Karhula and colleagues using Finnish data shows that measures of social mobility that concentrate on final outcomes are at risk of underestimating the association between social origin and destination. Continue Reading …