#understandingsociety — Public Fediverse posts

A new paper by CPC members Athina Vlachantoni, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar, Spela Mocnik and Yuanyuan Yin uses #UnderstandingSociety data to assess the importance of #ethnicity and #gender, alongside other #demographic, #health, #socioeconomic and subjective #wellbeing factors, in explaining whether people save for #retirement through a private #pension or other #savings and #investments, finding persistent ethnic & gender gaps.

Read the article in the Journal of #SocialPolicy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/ethnic-and-gender-gaps-in-private-pension-participation-in-the-uk/F521C2FBAE57CB1C12E149EC677D1B09

New #UnderstandingSociety blog post by CPC-CG members Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu at the University of St Andrews explores how #children of #immigrants from culturally similar countries have similar #partnership, #fertility, and #employment trajectories to n#atives – and how #familyfriendly #policies could help to erode #conservative #genderroles https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2026/04/13/diversity-disadvantage/

🗞️ CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (Department of #Gerontology at University of #Southampton) recently wrote an article examining why white British #families are more likely to depend on #grandparents for #childcare, drawing on findings from #UnderstandingSociety data.

Head to section 5 of the latest #ChangingPopulations magazine to read the article: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link&loc=play

#family #demography #ageing #workingparents #childcarecosts

📑 CPC-CG members Dr Valentina Di Iasio, Professor Corrado Giulietti and Professor Jackie Wahba OBE (#Economics at the University of #Southampton) discuss their analysis of #UnderstandingSociety data examining the uneven social consequences of #Brexit in the UK and how it affected the #mentalhealth of #ethnicminority #youth ⤵️

https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-did-brexit-affect-the-mental-health-of-ethnic-minority-youth

#EUreferendum #europeanUnion #youngpeople #socialsciences #deprivation #demography

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 It's the final two days of #GlobalIntergenerationalWeek 2025

Help us mark it by joining us TODAY at 1pm (UK time) in an online #workshop to hear the latest UK #family research from Mapineq, and explore how we can create conditions for starting and sustaining #familylife in the UK - with members of #Mapineq, #ConnectingGenerations, #UnderstandingSociety and #RelationshipsGlasgow #GIW25

Register: https://population-europe.eu/events/welcoming-regions-creating-conditions-starting-and-sustaining-family-life

📗New CPC-CG Policy Briefing on informal #caregiving.

Highlights disparities across age, gender and cohorts due to #demographic, #economic, and social changes.

Offers insights for policymakers on fairer support and resources for those providing #care.

▶️https://www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/PB78_Social_care_provision_in_Great_Britain.pdf

#socialsciences #ageing #caring #demography #economics #worklife #flexibleworking #gerontology #UnderstandingSociety

📙#Fertility #projections are vital for anticipating demand for #maternity, #childcare & other services 🫄👨‍👦

The innovative #Bayesian model reported in this new journal article by Joanne Ellison, Ann Berrington, Eren Dodd, and Jonathan Forster, incorporates individual-level #UnderstandingSociety #data to generate plausible #forecasts by individual-level variables - including #educational #qualification - despite their absence in the #populationlevel data. Read more 👇👇

https://academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jrsssc/qlad095/7343209?login=true