UCL Social Research Institute

As conversations in government about regulating screen time for children increase, it's essential to be aware of the best evidence on its consequences.
@dominicpkelly.bsky.social (CLS) wrote this policy summary on young children's attention + screens, see here: econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

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Low-achieving students from elite high schools 'overmatch' at uni: they are more likely to go to elite university courses than predicted by their grades. New working paper by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

We are all in for women's empowerment through education with @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social ⚽📓

Yay! Another output from our Posthuman digital intimacies project!!! This is our Women and Video Games block! Plz do check it out!

🧠 Gen Z is not okay. Mental despair among U.S. young people is higher now than it used to be at its traditional midlife peak. This shift is driven by women, and young people in paid work.

Full paper by ‪@alexbryson.bsky.social‬ and @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @nber: www.nber.org/papers/w34071

📢 New in Review of Economics of the Household!
@adameczanna.bsky.social, Anna Lovász & @suncicavujic.bsky.social show that first-in-family female graduates are more likely to remain childless than other grads & non-grads.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#BCS70 #FiF #GenderEcon #Fertility #HE

Cohort studies are vital to study a range of social science questions. The Age 62 wave of the 1958 National Child Development Study by @clscohorts.bsky.social‬ is now available! Find out more: bit.ly/4lIwpJa

Gen Z’s turn away from dating doesn’t necessarily reflect a lack of desire for connection, but perhaps a heightened sense of vulnerability related to larger trends in mental ill-health and social, economic and political insecurity.

New piece from @ktwamley.bsky.social for @theconversation.com

New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog from Claire Crawford shows biggest drops in take-up of early ed amongst disadv 2-yr-olds occurred in areas where it looks like demand for working families entitlement may be high, so overlapping entitlement may not explain whole fall

Read more: tinyurl.com/y65tt3zr

Members revealed for white working-class kids inquiry Trust heads, union leaders and two former education secretaries to lead group investigating issue

The panel members for the Independent Inquiry into White Working-Class Educational Outcomes has been announced today, including @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social

The Inquiry will looks to better understand persistent disadvantage in WWC education outcomes
schoolsweek.co.uk/members-reve...

Bottom 10% of GCSE retakers missing out on subject success A decade of GCSE resits and curriculum reforms saw England’s young adults surging up global skills rankings

New op-ed from PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social.

Analysing PIAAC data, they show big improvements in literacy and numeracy for young adults between 2012 and 2023 but this is not evenly distributed, with less progress for the lowest performers

@feweek.bsky.social

feweek.co.uk/bottom-10-pe...

Job-to-job transitions have fallen as the bite of the UK's minimum wage has risen. Download our new paper free through #OpenAccess here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social @wagedynamics.bsky.social

homer simpson is standing in a grassy field ALT: homer simpson is standing in a grassy field

That moment that you realise you’re following on from @pengzell.bsky.social on the SRI social media rota

@alexbryson.bsky.social @gabriconti.bsky.social @profalices.bsky.social

Article titled, "The consequences of early menopause and menopause symptoms for labour market participation"

See also related research by several of our researchers published in Social Science & Medicine doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Our @ktwamley.bsky.social has worked with the Department of Work and Pensions to shine light on an under-researched issue: experiences of menopause in the workplace

I love maths and Lucy

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Once more, our research proves that rigorous research and great clickbait aren’t mutually exclusive.

Writing this paper with John Jerrim and Phil Parker got me started on a whole journey about gender differences in over-/underconfidence.

Great thread by Nikki, our head of quantitative social science, about her fascinating work on overconfidence

We smell an upcoming departmental beef in the name-the-survey-bear competition

Can confirm! Glad you're not going far, @aksoyundan.bsky.social

Goodbye to a real one. @aksoyundan.bsky.social mentored, collaborated, and somehow made difference-in-difference estimators funny. We’ll miss all three.

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When we say global reach, we mean it. Including Brisbane. Especially Brisbane.

Thanks @sriucl.bsky.social! We do our best...

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I don’t want revenge. I just want answers. And maybe soft departmental reinstatement. And also revenge.