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Parth Pandya

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Researcher @resolutionfoundation.org looking at intergenerational fairness, demography and pensions. PhD @migrantlife.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social.

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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How much do the triple lock changes save? Could be nothing, could be tens of billions is not normally a good answer to a question. But here I try to explain why it is the honest one. Moving off a policy with such volatility was essential either way. resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/why-nobody...
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Why nobody knows how much we’ll save from the triple lock announcement
Ruth Curtice and Parth Pandya consider the uncountable savings from the PM’s new policy
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/09/2026
The PM has announced that from April 2030 the State Pension will be uprated with a new 'smoothed' triple lock. What does that mean for the value of the State Pension and how does it differ from uprating with earnings or prices? RF research explains... www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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What a ratchet! • Resolution Foundation
The State Pension triple lock has delivered real gains for pensioners since its introduction in 2012. But the case for boosting pensioner incomes over and above others has now run out, while the case ...
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was also pretty stunned by the wording of this NBER abstract 🫠. As @rcobooth.bsky.social lays out very nicely, there are many important questions to be explored here, but language, especially around reproductive choices, matters. substack.com/home/post/p-... #econsky #demography
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On prospective grandparents
(a tiresome thing from the internet this weekend, and some new stories)
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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICYMI: We were at the #BSPS2026 Conference! 🎉 Our members presented and chaired sessions covering a range of topics, including residential mobility, fertility and reproductive health, and ethnic and health inequalities. A great few days of exchanging ideas and catching up with colleagues!
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Stephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Local Housing Allowance, the cap on housing support that helps 1.9 million low-income private renting families, has been frozen since April 2024. Rents haven't. The gap between rents and support hits a record this October. Our new spotlight shows why the Budget should end the freeze 🧵
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 15/09/2026
🚨 Substack latest: The triple lock is a symbol of a society that has stolen the young’s future David Willetts argues that it's time to end the triple lock ⬇️ buff.ly/vf9HrTV
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The triple lock is a symbol of a society that has stolen the young’s future
The baby boom should not be a bust for future generations
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Refreshing to see a business group come out and support specific cuts, not just ask for goodies. And of course I agree that moving off the triple lock in exchange for better support for young people would be right trade to make - www.britishchambers.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 12/08/2026
Solo working, not just screen time, has driven the surge in time young adults spend alone. buff.ly/v7pfxOa
Infographic panel stating 18–29‑year‑olds are spending more time alone, reporting diary data that young men spent six and a half waking hours a day alone in 2023 and young women spent an extra one and a half hours (about five hours total).Young adults feel lonelier than older adults: 14% said they felt lonely all the time—twice the rate of 60–69‑year‑olds—and young people in poor health spent three more hours a day alone in 2023 than in 2014–15.Infographic panel saying surging screen time is linked to increased loneliness — young people almost always online were 4 percentage points more likely to be lonely (16% vs. 12%), with a smartphone projecting a glowing network brain.Panel 4 of an infographic arguing working alone is increasingly important: paid work drove most of the rise in time spent alone, and work should be included in debates about young people’s wellbeing alongside screen time.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Time alone can be restorative, but young people are more likely to be alone & are lonelier. If we're serious about loneliness & well-being, work deserves to be in the conversation just as much as screens: www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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All by myself • Resolution Foundation
Time spent alone has risen up the public and political agenda, reflected in debates about the ‘relationship recession’, social media use and more working from home. [1]  But these underlying societal ...
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Young men saw the largest rise in solo work (1.5 more hours a day) & WFH accounts for most of it. Older people have offset their alone time far better than younger people. The over-60s now spend around an hour more on leisure with others compared to a quarter of an hour for 18-29-year-olds. (4/5)
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
But screens aren't the main driver of the recorded rise in time use data, solo working is. Across the standard 9-to-5, the share of people doing paid work alone rose from around 5% to between 12 and 15% (a near-tripling). (3/5)
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Screen time is the usual suspect for alone time & it is sharply age-skewed. 18-29-year-olds are 3x more likely than 60-69-year-olds to say they are almost always online & 18-29-year-olds who are almost always online are nearly four percentage points more likely to be lonely (16% vs 12%). (2/5)
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Young men (18-29) now spend more than two-fifths of their waking hours alone (roughly 6.5 hours a day, up 2 hours since 2014-15). We see the opposite at the other end of the age range. Women aged 60+ and men aged 70+ now spend 1 to 1.5 fewer hours alone. (1/5)
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💡I've published a spotlight today, in collaboration with @cpc-cg.bsky.social, on how time spent #alone has changed by #age over the last decade & what it means for #wellbeing. @resolutionfoundation.org Read here: www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... And a thread with some findings ⬇️
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All by myself • Resolution Foundation
Time spent alone has risen up the public and political agenda, reflected in debates about the ‘relationship recession’, social media use and more working from home. [1]  But these underlying societal ...
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New research from @resolutionfoundation.org and @cpc-cg.bsky.social examines how patterns of time spent alone have changed over the past decade 👇
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 12/08/2026
📢 New analysis published today 🚨 Solo working, not just screen time, has driven the surge in time young adults spend alone. Read 'All by myself', by @parthpandya.bsky.social, now ⤵️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa
Parth Pandya, Researcher at the Resolution Foundation, said: 
“Young adults are now spending more time alone than they did a decade ago, with men aged 18-29 in particular now alone for more than two-fifths of their waking hours.’’
“Screen time is the usual suspect in conversations about the rise in loneliness among young people, but time spent doing paid work by themselves was the biggest driver of rising hours spent alone, with working from home – a legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic – accounting for the majority of this. 
“If policy makers are serious about improving young people’s wellbeing, then work needs to be part of the debate as much as screen time.’’
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ChildLives @childlives.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢Interested to know more about socio-economic inequalities in children's experiences of family change across Europe? Read ChildLives Working Paper 1 here: tinyurl.com/y2fazfw4
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Amber Younis-Wood @amberyouniswood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Autumn Budget 2026 has just been announced for 28 October so it’s time to get technical about living standards. The two main measures of household income, RHDI and HBAI, can tell very different stories. The new @resolutionfoundation.org spotlight I’ve just published explains why. 🧵⤵️
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 24/07/2026
📢 New research published today Burnham Government will need new approach – and new money – to really ramp up affordable housebuilding. Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/mvyhrC0 ‎
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Hannah Aldridge, Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: 

Andy Burnham has put boosting affordable housing centre-stage and with 134,000 families in temporary accommodation in England and 1.3 million on the housing waiting list, this ambition is welcome and necessary.

The government will need to strike a balance between affordability for tenants and building at scale. By making careful use of the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, private developer contributions and the National Housing Bank, the new Government can boost the supply of social rent housing and build more affordable housing overall.

But building takes time. Close to one million low-income renters already face a shortfall between their rent and housing support, and that gap will hit a record high this autumn. The new Prime Minister should commit to relinking housing support with local rent levels in the upcoming Budget.
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ahead of Reeves delivering what most people assume will be her final Mansion House speech we’ve been looking at the data on how the economic picture has changed over the past two years. What is Reeves’ legacy?
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 08/07/2026
Britain’s regional income gaps have barely moved in thirty years. Disposable incomes in the highest income local area (Kensington and Chelsea) are, at £60,584, four-and-a-half times higher than the lowest (Leicester, at £13,398) ⤵️ buff.ly/I7DTRZo
Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, said:

“Britain has among the highest regional inequality of any advanced economy, and successive governments have tried and failed to reduce these income divides. The gap between rich places like Kensington and Chelsea and poor places like Leicester is just as high today as they were 30 years ago.

“There are bright spots. Employment and pay gaps have narrowed, and Manchester’s remarkable revival shows that decline is not destiny. But the UK’s major cities, once the powerhouses of national economic growth, continue to underperform.

“PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham has rightly put regional inequality at the top of his agenda. But turning ambition into reality will require investment in transport, housing and wider economic development on a scale that no recent political leader has come close to meeting. Unless that investment is taken seriously, the economic and political cost of Britain’s geographic divides will continue.”
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 06/07/2026
Have Gen Z got stuck at home? Our report last week looked closer at the stay-at-home generation⤵️ buff.ly/k30vVVD
Gen Z has become the stay at home generation, Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of people in their early 20s now remain ‘at home’, up 12 percentage points since 2011. Other forms of housing tenure have increasingly fallen out of reach. Private rent levels have not become relatively more expensive in the decade to 2022-2024 but the private rented sector is the most expensive and worst quality tenure, so young people today often opt to live with their parents than make financial sacrifices..access to home ownership is increasingly and unequally shaped by (parental) wealth. In 2018-20, 20-29-year-olds with the highest incomes were 6 percentage points more likely to have received an inheritance and or gift worth at least £1,000 than those with the lowest incomes.

Around one-third of first time buyers last year had parental help, up 20 percentage points than 20 years ago.The biggest barrier to home ownership are deposits, and our proposed Starter Deposit Scheme is designed to tackle this by providing a 5 per cent loan of the 25th percentile price of an entry-level home.
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Lalitha Try @lalithatry.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New substack from me and @parthpandya.bsky.social, in which we remind you all that we are in our 20s (and talk about what's going on with young peoples' living standards) resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/whether-or...
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Whether or not football ‘comes home,’ the Zoomers never left
Parth Pandya and Lalitha Try
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 03/07/2026
Are Gen Z outpacing Millenials on pay? Our report takes a look at how Gen Z and Millenials' living standards are faring⤵️ buff.ly/k30vVVD
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 02/07/2026
Are Gen Z outpacing Millenials on pay? Our report takes a look at how Gen Z and Millenials' living standards are faring⤵️ buff.ly/waqzH2c
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/07/2026
Have Gen Z got stuck at home? Our report last week looked closer at the stay-at-home generation⤵️ buff.ly/k30vVVD
Gen Z has become the stay at home generation, Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of people in their early 20s now remain ‘at home’, up 12 percentage points since 2011. Other forms of housing tenure have increasingly fallen out of reach. Private rent levels have not become relatively more expensive in the decade to 2022-2024 but the private rented sector is the most expensive and worst quality tenure, so young people today often opt to live with their parents than make financial sacrifices..access to home ownership is increasingly and unequally shaped by (parental) wealth. In 2018-20, 20-29-year-olds with the highest incomes were 6 percentage points more likely to have received an inheritance and or gift worth at least £1,000 than those with the lowest incomes.

Around one-third of first time buyers last year had parental help, up 20 percentage points than 20 years ago.The biggest barrier to home ownership are deposits, and our proposed Starter Deposit Scheme is designed to tackle this by providing a 5 per cent loan of the 25th percentile price of an entry-level home.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/07/2026
The Resolution Foundation is hiring! We are looking for an exceptional individual with a passion for improving living standards and the skills to lead a world-class research and policy organisation, to become a Director. Application pack available here ⤵️ buff.ly/xcFddMf
We're hiring - Director - To develop and deliver organisational strategy and lead 
research and policy programme
Apply by 08:59 on Friday 14 August 
£90,000 + dependent on experience
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/06/2026
Today PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham MP says he wants to raise living standards in every postcode of the UK. But what is the state of regional inequality and living standards across the country? Earlier RF research found a mixed picture – some important progress, some firmly entrenched gaps 🧵 👇
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Good to see Andy Burnham place the stagnant living standards of the last twenty years at the heart of his economic agenda today. But what are the chances of growth in every postcode, and what would it take to get there? A thread…
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Lots of jobs changing at the moment - but let's focus on the most important. I am recruiting for a new partner in crime. Take a look, and get in touch if you want to help us deliver higher living standards across the UK, with an incredible team. www.resolutionfoundation.org/director/
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Director • Resolution Foundation
The Resolution Foundation is seeking a new Director, to work closely with the Chief Executive to develop and deliver the overall strategy of the organisation; to drive the next phase of the Foundation...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/06/2026
With Andy Burnhnam looking ever more likely to be the next PM, what tough decisions lie ahead for him? Turns out the new trade-offs look a lot like the old trade-offs. @ruthcurtice.bsky.social breaks down the challenges – from living standards to public services – in 5 charts ⬇️ buff.ly/vTEZMib
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Dear Andy • Resolution Foundation
Morning all, I don’t know why major international football tournaments provoke upheaval on Downing Street, but there’s definitely a pattern emerging. So, we’ve got a special edition for you, laying…
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 25/06/2026
And that's a wrap! you can watch back our event - Home comforts: How do Gen Z’s living standards compare to previous cohorts? Speakers including @jeevunsandher.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/home-...
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Home comforts • Resolution Foundation
Whether the issue is wealth, work, rising student debt or dwindling chances of home ownership, it’s been well documented that Millennials have faced a more challenging living standards path than many ...
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Government also needs to go further on NEETs who aren’t sharing in income progress with better engagement & support, an FE boost & apprenticeship funding (doi.org/10.63492/cxo...). It also should look beyond youth minimum wage uprating & pause convergence to the adult minimum wage.
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Lost in transition • Resolution Foundation
This report investigates why the UK’s NEET rate has been rising since 2019, and why it has long been higher than in many other countries.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There is growing political pressure to help young people. Housing help would provide the quickest win, particularly housebuilding & LHA support. RF’s Starter Deposit Scheme (doi.org/10.63492/udg...) tackles the deposit barrier head on with a 5% loan of the price of an entry-level home.
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Credit where credit's due? • Resolution Foundation
Almost half of Britain’s 8.3 million potential first-time buyers earn enough for a mortgage on a starter home, but just 11 per cent have enough saved for a deposit. A targeted equity-loan scheme is th...
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Shifting to gloomy wealth, home ownership is in mostly persistent cohort decline. 27% born in 1991-95 owned at age 28, a 20pp fall over three decades. Meanwhile, real-terms wealth gaps between 20-somethings & 60-somethings grew by ~£320,000 between 2006-08 & 2020-22 (a 58% rise).
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
These income gains are driven by the labour market. Real hourly pay, driven by the minimum wage, has risen strongly for those in their 20s: up by 36%, 23% & 15% for the lowest paid at the 10th, 30th & median percentiles respectively between 2012 and 2025.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
However, the very youngest cohort (people born from 2001) are on a lower income trajectory at the benefit-unit level, clearly showing that income from other household members is boosting overall household income.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Switching to benefit-unit income (the young person, any co-resident partner & dependent children), progress is similar. For 20-26-year-olds born in 1996-2000, incomes are up by £3,700 (15%) than those born a decade ago.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
…which could be putting a positive gloss on young people’s economic situation. We have calculated that 50% of the apparent household income progress that 20-29-year-olds are enjoying comes from other members of the household.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It also affects how we interpret living standards. Using household disposable income, cohort progress looks restored (income after housing costs is a fifth higher for 20-26-year-olds born in 1996-2000 vs a decade ago). However, this assumes income is shared evenly…
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Living with parents isn’t necessarily a problem, but housing costs are the obvious reason it could be. Private renting is the most expensive housing tenure & the share of 20-24-year-olds in it fell by 5pp to 28% between 2012-2014 and 2022-2024.
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For today’s under-30s, it is increasingly normal to live at home with parents until deep into adulthood. 63% of 20-24-year-olds now remain ‘at home’ (12pp rise since 2011).
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Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We @lalithatry.bsky.social @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social @charliemccurdy.bsky.social @jamietg.bsky.social have published a report (funded by @cpc-cg.bsky.social) on today’s under-30s’ living standards & what policymakers should do. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... 👇 🧵with key findings.
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They’re coming home • Resolution Foundation
Given Britain’s resurgent ‘NEET’ problem, a rise of living with parents, and intensified political debate on the prospects of young people, this briefing note provides an assessment of the living stan...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 25/06/2026
📢 New research out today Gen Z have higher incomes than their millennial predecessors and are staying longer at the ‘Hotel of Mum and Dad’. Read the full report, funded by @cpc-cg.bsky.social 👇️ buff.ly/k30vVVD
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Lalitha Try, Economist at the Resolution Foundation, said:
‘’Gen Z are earning more in their early careers than their much-maligned millennial counterparts, giving them a living standards boost.’’
‘’But they are far more likely to still live with parents, with almost two-thirds of those aged 20 to 24 now calling Hotel Mum and Dad home. Impracticably high rents and house prices have driven this boom.’
“With around one-third of recent first-time buyers now receiving familial help, the Government should consider a targeted Starter Deposit Scheme to help those young people without access to the Bank of Mum and Dad onto the housing ladder.’’
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 24/06/2026
🚨 Event tomorrow: How do Gen Z’s living standards compare to previous cohorts? Join us to discuss the latest evidence on whether generation-on-generation living standards progress is back in 21st century Britain. Register here: buff.ly/9iulLBl
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Home comforts:  How do Gen Z’s living standards compare to previous cohorts?

Thursday 25 June 2026
9:30 am - 10:45 am
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Did the iPhone *really* cause the baby bust? A more skeptical reading of the new viral study from LCDS Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bsky.social jenndowd.substack.com/p/did-the-ip...? #demography #econsky #causalsky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
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Did the iPhone Cause the Baby Bust?
I'm not so convinced. An interesting new paper highlights the power and pitfalls of simple stories
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 17/06/2026
Did you see the BBC chart that said defence spending has fallen as welfare spending has risen? (see here: buff.ly/as6VFti) It didn't look quite right to us. Check out @ruthcurtice.bsky.social latest substack on how the defence versus welfare debate has been misrepresented➡️https://buff.ly/lc6ZVP4
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Defence versus welfare – the trade-off is being misrepresented
Ruth Curtice takes a closer look at the 'defence versus welfare spending' debate, and explains why it's important we have a clear picture of how we spent the peace dividend while it was around.
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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Would you like to do a #PhD on #family #complexity and #inequalities in #children’s lives in #Scotland'? New #BAME PhD Scholarships available @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. More info www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su... (current funded opportunities tab) and www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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Postgraduate research - School of Geography and Sustainable Development - University of St Andrews
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
💼 Job opportunities 3 x Research Fellows to work on @ukri.org ESRC-funded Connecting Generations projects, based @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social 📨 Apply by 29 June. More info: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/vacanci... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for research opportunities at the University of St Andrews. On the left, a close-up photograph shows a hand holding a pen and writing in a small notebook on a table. On the right, a blue panel features logos for the Centre for Population Change (CPC) and “Connecting Generations,” followed by text reading: “3 x Research Fellows in” with bullet points: “Community resilience and social coherence,” “Social and spatial mobility within and across generations,” and “Reproductive strategies, families and transitions to adulthood.” At the bottom, the text reads: “School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.”
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St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New publication ✍️ @parthpandya.bsky.social and colleagues use 40 years of data to show that later migrant generations are more likely to move and become homeowners than first-gen immigrants in England & Wales. Some groups, however, remain disadvantaged. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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