Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
Equal Lives research looking at how couples working at home shared housework chores during and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has been featured on The Conversation. The research, by Aleja Rodriguez Sanchez, Anette Fasang and Susan Harkness showed that whilst Continue Reading …
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 …
In Episode 5 of Series 2 of our podcast, we talk to Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez from the University of Berlin and Susan Harkness from the University of Bristol about research from the DIAL funded Equal Lives project on the gendered 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 …
Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness has produced a blog for the Economics Observatory about widening inequality between men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic. In it she explains that while men and women’s employment has suffered, mothers have been hit Continue Reading …
Research from the Equal Lives project has shown that family lives have become more complex in the Nordic countries. It also shows a moderate increase in employment instability among the youngest generations across most countries. It is a common perception Continue Reading …
New DIAL Working Paper from Equal Lives shows Jewish Israeli women have access to more advantaged lives than their Palestinian counterparts New Equal Lives research examining the work and family life courses of young Jewish and Palestinian Israeli women shows Continue Reading …
New blog on how COVID19 could impact on gender equality progress Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness joined forces with a group of economists to write about how Covid-19 crisis presents a potentially major setback for gender equality in a blog Continue Reading …
In a new DIAL Working Paper, Equal Lives researchers Zachary Van Winkle and Thomas Leopold examine the poverty risk for women up to six years following divorce in relation to the number of children in the household in the year of divorce. Continue Reading …