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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 3d

Focusing on the 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study we find not flourishing is highest among women and the young. We emphasise the importance of accounting for survey mode when examining wellbeing and illbeing. www.nber.org/papers/w3432... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social

Not Flourishing

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 7d

Patrick Neuss will be presenting at our QSS-CLS seminar on 22 October @sriucl.bsky.social Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Labour market tightness and union activity

Join this event to hear Patrick Nuess explore the effect of changes in aggregate labour market tightness on union membership, union elections, and strikes.

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 13d

Labour market prospects are key to understanding the North-South divide in young Europeans' life satisfaction. Find out more here: www.academia.edu/2997-9196/2/... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Life satisfaction in Western Europe and the gradual vanishing of the U-shape in age - Academia.edu

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 27d

Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi and UTokyo) and I provide the first evidence on trade union effects on firm-level wages and productivity for developing countries using World Bank Enterprise Data. Download our new discussion paper here: www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Common/publi... @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · Sep 5

The middle-age misery "hump" has disappeared worldwide – why?

Research from @alexbryson.bsky.social with Dartmouth and @theifs.bsky.social suggests that increasing mental health challenges for young people are shifting the curve.
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Patrick Nüß @patricknuess.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks a lot for hosting @alexbryson.bsky.social!

Really looking forward to the exchange and to seeing some of my coauthors in person again. 😄

If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Higher wages reduce job separation rates but the effect weakens when taxes rise implying higher taxes reduce job search activity. Download our new paper free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Job search under changing labour taxes

Workers’ job mobility decisions are related to firms’ wage policies but also depend on tax schedules. Using Norwegian population-wide administrative l…

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Want a job in quantitative social science? We have two permanent lectureships in our Social Research Institute. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Sep 1

The rise in despair among the young means poor mental health is monotonously declining in age. This is the case in the USA, the UK and many countries around the world. Find out
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Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

The rapid rise in despair before the age of 45, and especially before the mid-20s, has fundamentally changed the lifecycle profile of despair.

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 27

The decline in mental health of the young in the last decade or so requires attention from governments around the world. Find out more here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social

The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age

Across many studies subjective well-being has followed a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being has followed a mirror-imaged hump-shape. Using...

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congratulations to Francesca Arduini for completing her economics PhD at @ucl.ac.uk. Lorraine Dearden and I had a great time supervising her. Find out more about her PhD and her new job at Somerville College here www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/people/m... @sriucl.bsky.social

Q&A with Francesca Arduini

Francesca has just completed her Economics PhD. She tells us about her work on game theory and her future work joining the University of Oxford as an Economics Fellow.

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been rising for the young in the USA and are strongly and significantly associated with poor mental health in adulthood. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @dannyblanchy.bsky.social

The consequences of abuse, neglect and cyber-bullying on the wellbeing of the young

We map changes in the mental health of young people in the United States. Then we run multivariate analyses to capture the independent correlation between young people’s mental health and difficulties...

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Marginal decisions on employment retention can substantially impact racial earnings gaps. Find out more here: www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Working on the use of genetic data in social sciences with birth cohort data? Then submit a paper to our workshop here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... @sriucl.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social

Using genetic data to address economic and social issues with birth cohort data

Join this one-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic and social issues with birth cohort data.

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 14

The wellbeing of the young has been declining in many Latin American countries, across surveys, and using various measures of wellbeing and mental health. Check out our #OpenAccess paper out today: link.springer.com/content/pdf/... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @undp.org

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Tim Morris @timtmorris.bsky.social · Aug 13

Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues.

We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Today is International Youth Day. So it's an important moment to think about rising despair among the young in the United States. Check out the latest evidence here: www.nber.org/papers/w34071 @sriucl.bsky.social @nber.org

Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States

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