Destination as a process: Sibling similarity in early socioeconomic trajectories

January 17, 2020
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…siblings. There was a strong similarity in the early socioeconomic paths particularly of same-sex siblings, more so for brothers than sisters. Similarities were strongest among the least ad-vantaged (where it…

Should Germany have built a new wall? Macroeconomic lessons from the 2015-18 refugee wave

April 14, 2021
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…positive because the new arrivals – who tended to be young – would continue to work and make contributions to the welfare system for decades to come, the study concluded….

Family size and economic wellbeing following divorce: The United States in comparative perspective

April 14, 2021
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…immediately following divorce compared to childless women, however contrary to expectations, mothers with many children are more likely to recover economically in the following six years. Despite some country differences,…

The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes

April 14, 2021
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…covered 113,000 people in 79,000 families. Children’s grades, and their transitions into secondary and post-school education at 18 were measured, and parental unemployment was found to have a negative effect…

Sibling influence on family formation: A study of social interaction effects on fertility, marriage, and divorce 

February 15, 2021
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This study looked at whether getting married, having children or getting divorced is likely to influence a sibling to do the same. The analysis on more than 4,000 individuals living…

Physical Activity, Mental Health, and Well‐Being in Very Pre‐Term and Term Born Adolescents: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐Analysis of Two Accelerometry Studies

February 22, 2021
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…well‐being, better self‐perception/body image, and were happier at school. Differences between preterm and term-born children, however, were small. The researchers made use of data from 2 longitudinal studies of children…

Students’ behavioural responses to a fallback option – Evidence from introducing interim degrees in German schools

March 18, 2020
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…the reform reduced the number who downgraded to lower-level educational tracks and also increased the number successfully completing higher-level tracks. The research uses data collected in 2010 from the National…

Application of the EU-SILC 2011 data module “intergenerational transmission of disadvantage” to robust analysis of inequality of opportunity

February 6, 2020
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…of European countries. Raw data are from 2011 roaster of EU-SILC, cross-sectional sample of module “intergenerational transmission of disadvantage”. This article reports descriptive statistics of the using sample. It also…

Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

April 7, 2021
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…attainment (n = 1,131,881) and cognitive test performance (n = 257,841) to estimate SNP associations with educational attainment variation that is independent of cognitive ability. We identified 157 genome-wide-significant loci…

Mental health outcomes of adults born very preterm or with very low birth weight: A systematic review

April 7, 2021
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…childhood onset disorders. Participants (≥18 years, born>1970) included VP/VLBW individuals with controls born at term(≥37+0 weeks) or with normal birth weight(NBW; ≥2500g). Thirteen studies were included. Studies consistently showed an…

Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course (DIAL) is a multi-disciplinary research programme consisting of thirteen European projects. The projects examine the sources, structures and consequences of inequalities in contemporary societies. The programme is funded by NORFACE for the period 2017–2021.

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