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/
Diversity or disadvantage? Families and employment of immigrants’ children in the UK - Understanding Society

Children of immigrants from culturally similar countries have similar partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories to natives Children of immigrants from culturally similar countries have similar partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories to natives

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🗞️ 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

Welcoming Regions: Creating Conditions for Starting and Sustaining Family Life | Population Europe

📗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

Combining individual- and population-level data to develop a Bayesian parity-specific fertility projection model

Abstract. Fertility projections are vital to anticipate demand for maternity and childcare services, among other uses. Models typically use aggregate population

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