Childlessness and the male life course: factors influencing parenthood, psychological well-being and marital satisfaction in the UK -PhD thesis-
Thesis/Degree/Other Honours - August 10, 2025
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Paternity leave, mental health and wellbeing for new parents: evidence from a national survey in the UK
Journal Article - June 15, 2025
Mothers ‘take a pay cut’ if their firstborn is a daughter
Media - June 15, 2025
Is workplace flexibility penalised? The gendered consequences of working from home for the wages of parents and childless employees in the UK
Journal Article - June 12, 2025
AI links early life risks to behavioral challenges at age five
Media - June 3, 2025
Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
Mothers’ parenting behaviours, strain, enjoyment and subsequent childbearing
Journal Article - October 31, 2024
Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births?
Journal Article - September 26, 2024
Childbearing under different family policy schemes
Journal Article - September 18, 2024
Re-considering re-partnering: new insights about gender and sexuality in the study of second union formation
Journal Article - September 15, 2024
Do longer job hours matter for maternal mental health? A longitudinal analysis of single versus partnered mothers
Journal Article - September 5, 2024
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: a multistate approach in comparative research
Journal Article - August 1, 2024
Scottish Child Payment and the labour market
Parliamentary Paper - July 15, 2024
What pushes unpaid carers into poverty?
Report - July 12, 2024
Fathers taking leave: evaluating the impact of shared parental leave in the UK
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17076 - June 1, 2024
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Combining individual- and population-level data to develop a Bayesian parity-specific fertility projection model
Journal Article - March 15, 2024
Fertility postponement, economic uncertainty, and the increasing income prerequisites of parenthood
Journal Article - March 13, 2024
School choice and neighborhood sorting: equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 16805 - February 15, 2024
Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: a linked-lives perspective
Journal Article - February 12, 2024
Minimum Income Standard for non-resident parents with some responsibilities for children
Report - February 8, 2024
Improving questionnaire content for parents and families living apart
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2024-03 - February 7, 2024
Home-based work and childbearing
Journal Article - February 6, 2024
COVID-19 lockdowns and working women’s mental health: does motherhood and size of workplace matter? A comparative analysis using understanding society
Journal Article - January 15, 2024
Mothers are more likely to work worse jobs—while fathers thrive in careers
Media - January 12, 2024
Mothers are more likely to work worse jobs – while fathers thrive in careers
Media - January 10, 2024
Education, health indicators and fertility outcomes: a longitudinal analysis of couples in Britain
Journal Article - January 1, 2024
The intergenerational transmission of family dissolution: how it varies by social class origin and birth cohort
Journal Article - December 15, 2023
The gendered impacts of partnership and parenthood on paid work and unpaid work time in Great Britain, 1992–2019
Journal Article - December 15, 2023
Parents’ life satisfaction prior to and following preterm birth
Journal Article - December 1, 2023
Parenthood and job quality: is there a motherhood penalty in the UK?
Journal Article - November 15, 2023