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Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute profiles.ucl.ac.uk/54820-alex-bryson

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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My new @iza.org paper finds conditioning on circumstances in childhood accounts for none of the raw gender wage gap among a cohort born in 1958, no matter what estimation technique you use to run the numbers docs.iza.org/dp18960.pdf @sriucl.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Come and join us for this BJIR special issue conference in memory of David Metcalf cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/... @sriucl.bsky.social @bjireditor.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social
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BJIR Conference in Memory of Professor Sir David Metcalf | Various speakers | Thursday Thursday, December 3, 2026 - Friday Friday, December 4, 2026 | CEP Event
An event from the CEP Public Events series organised by the CEP
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ESCoE researchers join major ADR UK initiative to expand economic data research - ESCoE
Six ESCoE Research Associates have been appointed to a new ADR UK Academic Lead team that will help transform the use of administrative data for economic research.
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a potentially very big moment for those wanting to understand the UK labour market. Thanks to ADR UK for funding us www.adruk.org/news-publica... @sriucl.bsky.social
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ADR UK funds Academic Lead team to drive economic data use for impactful research
ADR UK is delighted to announce funding for an ADR UK Academic Lead team focused on driving secure economic public-sector data use, working with the Departme...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fancy examining the gender wage gap with birth cohort data? These syntax set up files deposited at the UK Data Archive will help: reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/858749/ @sriucl.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social
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How Does the Gender Wage Gap Vary Over the Life Course and Across Cohorts: Stata Code, 1958-2013 - ReShare
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good luck to Kyle Jones at ONS and John Forth at City who will be presenting our paper from the new LEED data at this @nber.org conference next week www.nber.org/conferences/... @escoeorg.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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Innovations in Measuring Employment, Fall 2026
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out our new special issue of IR Berkeley on legitimaxy and employment relations. 5of 7 papers are Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468232x... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Special Issue on Legitimacy and Employment Relations: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society: Vol 65, No 4
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My new paper with @dannyblanchy.bsky.social in the Journal of Wellbeing Economics shows declining mental health among young American workers is driving changes in the age profile of wellbeing. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Our new @iza.org paper shows wellbeing rises and illbeing declines with age in Continental Europe in cross-sectional data and in plots of person fixed effects from panel data. docs.iza.org/dp18803.pdf @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @alan-piper.bsky.social Anthony Lepinteur @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In our new @bjireditor.bsky.social paper we show that the establishment is the dominant explanatory factor for non-pay job quality and as important as occupation in accounting for pay. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social @francisgreen1.bsky.social @bayesbschool.bsky.social
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The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Are you a personnel economist? Why not join us next spring in Tokyo for the 2027 COPE Conference. Submit your extended abstract now. Full details are here: personneleconomics.eu/cope2027/ @sriucl.bsky.social
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COPE 2027 – Colloquium on Personnel Economics
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our new paper tracks a steady deterioration in the mental ill-health in the UK since the late 1990s, especially among the young. There was a big uptick around the Great Recession, and again around 2012 with the arrival of smartphones onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Deteriorating Mental Well‐Being of the Young in the UK
Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental well-being among the working-age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but i...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Hope to see some colleagues and students at the Fair Work Agency/UCL conference on May 13/14. I'll be speaking about the role of trade unions on the second day @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How does trust and cooperation play out in labor relations? Check out this primer co-authored with Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman: docs.iza.org/dp18577.pdf @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How important is competition in driving productivity growth between union locals in the USA? Find out here in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Productivity dynamics among union locals in the United States
Using panel data on union locals in the United States we examine the dynamics of the union sector, investigating the impact of inter-union competition on locals' productivity and survival. We find lo...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How important is survey mode in understanding age patterns in subjective wellbeing and illbeing? Find out here: www.nber.org/papers/w35058 @sriucl.bsky.social @nber.org
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Wellbeing, Youth and Survey Mode: Comparisons across 23 Countries Using Three International Datasets
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Using new nationally-representative data where workers report their actual use of AI we examine the association between intensity of AI use and worker wellbeing in Finland. What do we find? Check out our new paper here: www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u... @sriucl.bsky.social rfberlin.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Maria Koumenta, Steve Machin and I are co-editing this Special Issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations in memory of Professor Sir David Metcalf CBE. Here is the call for papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as... @sriucl.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social @bjireditor.bsky.social
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Article in the March 2026 issue of the #journalofafricaneconomies 'Wellbeing of the Young in Africa' ✒David G Blanchflower & @alexbryson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jae/...
Article in the March 2026 issue of the #journalofafricaneconomies

'Wellbeing of the Young in Africa'
 ✒David G Blanchflower & Alex Bryson
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What does the first meta-analysis of the gender wage gap in the UK tell us? Check out our new Rockwool Foundation Discussion Paper here www.rfberlin.com/network-pape... @sriucl.bsky.social
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The Gender Wage Gap in Britain: A Meta-Analysis
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Personnel economists of the world unite at COPE this March at the annual conference in Rotterdam. Check out the programme here: personneleconomics.eu/wp-content/u... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Out now - IR Berkeley issue 2 in 2026. 4 of 7 papers are Open Access Check it out here: 9https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468232x/2026/65/2 @sriucl.bsky.social @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @wiley.com
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society: Vol 65, No 2
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Under this new @escoeorg.bsky.social project John Forth and I are working with ONS colleagues to construct the first comprehensive LEED spine for the UK www.escoe.ac.uk/projects/dev... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Developing a new Linked Employer Employee Dataset for the UK - ESCoE
This project will firmly establish the feasibility of developing a LEED data­set for the UK and outline practical steps for implementation.
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Worker wellbeing rises in age in 103 countries. Find out more here www.nber.org/papers/w3478... @nber.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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Well-being Increases in Age Among Workers: Evidence From 103 Countries
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Why is it that union membership density is rising in Japan? Find out here in our new Hitotsubashi Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Common/publi... @sriucl.bsky.social @hitotsubashiu.bsky.social
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UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE) @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society invites submissions to a special issue examining reasons for gender wage gaps around the world and policy responses to them. Extended abstracts due April 3. Learn more: irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
Industrial Relations Call for Papers. Special Issue on the gender wage gap. Extended abstracts are due April 3, 2026.
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Our new paper examines the productivity dynamics of union locals in the USA. We show inter-union competition is not effective in raising productivity and effects of creative destruction are weak. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The young report lower job quality than other workers in the USA potentially contributing to their declining mental health. But other factors (employment selection and changing work orientations) may be at play www.nber.org/papers/w34696 @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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Why is the Mental Health of the Youngest American Workers in Decline?
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Interested in the experiences of working from home versus at the workplace during and after COVID? Watch this @escoeorg.bsky.social webinar from @francescafolia1.bsky.social with discussion by me www.escoe.ac.uk/events/the-c... @sriucl.bsky.social
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The changing nature of work: What can we learn from time use diaries? - ESCoE
This webinar will present new ONS time diary data to examine remote work and its relationship to time use, well-being, and self-perceived productivity.
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Working on the gender wage gap? We have a new call for papers for a Special Issue of IR Berkeley. Check it out here: irle.berkeley.edu/publications... @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society – Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Call for Papers Special Issue on “The Gender Wage Gap” Notwithstanding a closure in the educational attainment gap between men and women in most countries, and
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Using UKHLS we show the changing age profile of mental ill-health is driven by rising mental ill-health among the young @sriucl.bsky.social
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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The U-shape of wellbeing – high when we’re young, then falling, and rising after middle age – was “among the most striking, persistent patterns in social science ... But this is no longer true” – new blog by @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @xiaoweixu.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social
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The disappearance of the hump shape in illbeing by age - Understanding Society
Lifetime happiness trend changes as youth mental health suffers. It’s long been established that happiness makes a U-shape over our lifetimes
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
In our new paper on Eastern Europe and Central Asia we find no decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people which characterizes Western Europe and English-speaking countries onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In our new @nberthe.bsky.social paper we illustrate the importance of accounting for survey mode in well-being research. Check it out here: www.nber.org/papers/w3459... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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An Evaluation of Biases in Wellbeing Estimates Using Interviewers Versus Online Data Collection in the Global Flourishing Study
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States
Between the early 1990s and 2015 the relationship between mental despair and age was hump-shaped in the United States: it rose in middle-age, then dec…
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Come join us @sriucl.bsky.social on December 12 for our workshop on the use of genetic data in birth cohorts to examine social and economic questions. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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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 · 14/11/2025
Sneak preview of IR Berkeley's first edition for 2026. Five Open Access papers on strikes, wage mark ups and downs, educational mismatch and discrimination in hiring @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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Not Flourishing
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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...
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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 · 26/09/2025
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
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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 · 12/09/2025
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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Patrick Nuess (Nüß) @patricknuess.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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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UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/aug/...
Close-up of a teen sitting on a ledge in jeans and a cardigan speaking to a therapist, who holds a clipboard and pen.
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Alex Bryson @alexbryson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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
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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 · 02/09/2025
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
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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 · 01/09/2025
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 More here: theconversation.com/lifetime-tre... @sriucl.bsky.social
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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 · 27/08/2025
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
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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 · 27/08/2025
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
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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 · 20/08/2025
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
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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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